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96 unusual facts about Grenoble


1974 World Fencing Championships

The 1974 World Fencing Championships were held in Grenoble, France.

Arturia

Arturia is a software company located in Grenoble, France and founded in 1999 by Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both INPG-qualified engineers.

Assembly of Vizille

On 7 June 1788, riots broke out all over the town of Grenoble.

Aurel Guga

Sometime in October or November 1923, U Cluj got to play its first tournament abroad, at the invitation of the Grenoble municipality for the opening of their new stadium.

Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Bud Feltman

In 1968, Feltman coached the Canadian luge team for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Cameron O'Reilly

In October 1999, O'Reilly announced that he would leave his executive role at APN to pursue private business interests, and he did so in July 2000, moving to Grenoble in France.

Catalan Talgo

Instead of Grenoble the electrified tracks via Lyon were used, allowing the entire Geneva – Narbonne route section to be worked by an SNCF BB 9300 class locomotive.

CE Linux Forum

The European conference has always been co-hosted: in 2007 it was hosted with the Real-time Linux Workshop in Linz, Austria; in 2008 with the NLUUG in Ede, Netherlands; and in 2009 with Embedded Systems Week in Grenoble.

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble

With a total capacity of over 2,200 beds in 2011, it is the main hospital of Grenoble and Isère in France.

Charles Chanson

Born on 18 February 1902 in Grenoble, France, Charles Marie Ferreol Chanson was educated at Ecole Polytechnique (entrance: 1922).

Charles Elachi

Elachi received a bachelor's degree (1968) in physics from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France; a first master's degree

Classic rally

For example, Monte Carlo Rally had long sections running through the Chartreuse mountains between Chambéry and Grenoble before crossing the Rhone valley and continuing in what was often the deeply snowbound and ice covered Ardeche, all in the same night.

Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament

On July 20, 1834, Eymard was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grenoble, and in 1839, he joined the Marist Fathers.

Crocus Technology

The company's products originated in a Grenoble-based Spintec laboratory and its technology is licensed for stand-alone and embedded chip applications.

Crocus Technology was founded in Grenoble in 2006, based on research at the Spintec laboratory.

Dent de Crolles

It has a characteristic "tooth-like" profile which is well-known sight of the Isère Valley (Grésivaudan) seen from the Grenoble area.

Digesting Duck

A replica of Vaucanson's mechanical duck, created by Ian Huynh, was part of the collection of the (now defunct) Grenoble Automata Museum.

Du New Morning au Zénith

It was recorded between the 26 April 1994 and the 12 June 1994, first at the New Morning in Paris (the first 14 tracks of the first CD), then during the Rouge concert tour, at the Summum in Grenoble and at the ice rink of Malley in Lausanne.

Each in Our Own Thoughts

#The first of four pieces for strings composed in Grenoble, France in 1993.

École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble

The École nationale supérieure d'informatique et mathématiques appliquées, or Grenoble INP - Ensimag, is a prestigious French Grande École located in Grenoble, France.

École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble

The École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG, French for Superior National School of Electrician Engineers of Grenoble) is a centenary school in Grenoble, France.

In 2008, the school merged with the École nationale supérieure d'hydraulique et de mécanique de Grenoble (ENSHM, Superior National School of Hydraulics and Mechanics of Grenoble) to become a new school : the École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement (ENSE³, Superior National School of Energy, Water and Environment).

École nationale supérieure de physique, électronique et Matériaux

The École Nationale Supérieure de Physique, Électronique et Matériaux (Phelma) is a Grande École located in Grenoble, France.

Edmund Whitelocke

Subsequently he obtained a commission as captain of a troop of infantry from the governor of Provence (M. Desguieres), and was stationed successively at Marseilles and Grenoble; he saw some active service during the civil wars in France.

En Avant

On En Avant Richard explored his interest in language and culture, which developed during his studies of Medieval Literature at Grenoble in south-eastern France in the early 1970s.

Erik Schinegger

In 1967, as he was preparing for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, a medical test by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) determined that Schinegger was male, with internal male sex organs, and disqualified him.

Eupodophis

The fossil skeleton of Eupodophis was analyzed using synchrotron x-rays at the European synchrotron radiation facility in Grenoble, France.

European Spallation Source

Among special Danish competences is simulation of neutron scattering, since DTU Physics in Lyngby is the home of the McStas software collaboration (formerly Risø DTU), also comprising the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France and Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

F.D.C. Willard

On the 15th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in 1978 in Grenoble, Hetherington’s second author was exposed; Hetherington had signed his article with the paw prints of his co-authors and sent some copies to friends and colleagues.

Ferdinand Richard

From 1969 to 1973 he studied Medieval Literature and Law at Grenoble in south-eastern France, then attended a bass course at the Conservatoire Régional de Musique de Grenoble.

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte du Bouchage (born 1 April 1749, Grenoble – 12 April 1821), was an artillery general, politician, and French Minister of Marine in 1792 and 1815, and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1792.

Freiburg Charterhouse

It was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, in honour of the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoble, and was known as Sankt Johannisberg or St. Johannes des Täufers Berg ("St John's Mount" or the "Mount of St. John the Baptist").

French nobility

High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.

Gabi Bauer

Bauer studied politics, pedagogic and philosophy in Hamburg, Hannover, Grenoble and Kalamazoo.

Gabriel Ferry

The elder, Eugène Louis Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare (November 1809 Grenoble - 3 January 1852), wrote adventure novels.

Gnawa Diffusion

Gnawa Diffusion is an Algerian Gnawa music band based in Grenoble, France.

Grenoble Archaeological Museum

Grenoble Archaeological Museum is a museum located on the historic site of Saint-Laurent in Grenoble, between the river Isère and the hill of the Bastille.

Grenoble-Bastille Cable Car

The wiring and cabins were entrusted to Poma, and inaugurated under a year later in September 1976.

Hannah Dee

Before employment at Aberystwyth, she accepted a one year post doctorate position working in Grenoble (in the French alps).

Haroon Khan Sherwani

He also spent extensive time studying French at the University of Grenoble in France and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

Maier-Leibnitz was instrumental, along with Louis Néel, in bringing about the German-French project to construct a high-flux neutron source and found the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble in 1967, named in honor of the physicist Max von Laue and Paul Langevin.

Helene Weber

After several years teaching in Elberfeld she studied History, Philosophy and Romance Languages in Bonn and Grenoble.

Interlingual machine translation

During the 1970s, noteworthy research was done in Grenoble by researchers attempting to translate physics and mathematical texts from Russian to French, and in Texas a similar project (METAL) was ongoing for Russian to English.

ITASE

A 1990 meeting held in Grenoble, France, served as a site of discussion regarding national ice coring efforts and the possibility of international collaboration between the world’s top scientists.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Jacques Cujas

In 1573 King Charles IX of France appointed Cujas counsellor to the parlement of Grenoble, and in the following year a pension was bestowed on him by Henry III.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

Born near Opelousas, Louisiana, the son of Jacques Etienne Roman of Grenoble, France and Marie Louise Patin, Jacques Telesphore Roman and his family later moved to St. James Parish, Louisiana and engaged in the lucrative sugar trade.

Johan Jongkind

In 1878, Jongkind and his companion Joséphine Fesser moved to live in the small town of La Côte-Saint-André near Grenoble in the Isère département in the southeast of France where he died in 1891.

Klaus Hirche

Hirche also played for East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.

La Nativité du Seigneur

The work was written by the composer at the age of 27 years during the summer of 1935 while he was in residence at Grenoble near the French Alps.

Lacus Timoris

It was discovered in 1976 and its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union at a meeting in Grenoble.

Larry Pleau

Pleau was one of the top American hockey players in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing for Team USA at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble as well as the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Stockholm.

Louis Hippolyte Bouteille

He closed his shop in 1847 when he gained the post of Conservateur at Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble :fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble to the detriment of Albin Crépu (1799–1859).

Louis Hippolyte Bouteille (2 January 1804, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard - 19 August 1881, Grenoble ) was a French ornithologist

Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral

He was born at Grenoble and was educated for the priesthood at the seminary of St. Sulpice, in Paris, and after ordination was made secretary, then coadjutor, and in 1790, successor, to his uncle, the Bishop of Troyes.

Luciano Fonda

When the machine was assigned to Grenoble in 1985, he used the experience acquired in those years to develop, along with his collaborator Renzo Rosei, the idea of an Italian machine that would complement the European one.

Mamertus

Pope Leo I had regulated the boundaries of the ecclesiastical provinces of Arles and Vienne: under the latter he left the Dioceses of Valence, Tarentaise, Geneva and Grenoble, but all the other dioceses in this district were made subordinate to Arles.

Marcus Vulson de la Colombière

By all probability, until 1635 he was staying in Grenoble as he was a royal counselor in the Dauphiné parliament (conseiller du roi en la cour de parlement de Dauphiné).

Mark Gasnier

For his début with Stade Français on 26 September 2008, Gasnier played right wing and ran in for a try, finishing off a fine display of passing rugby by the Stade backs, against Bourgoin-Jallieu at the Stade des Alpes in Grenoble before getting injured.

Masreliez

The first member of the family to go, Jacques Adrien Masreliez (1717-1806) from Grenoble, traveled to Sweden in 1748 to decorate the chapel of the royal castle; the library of Louise Ulrique at Drottningholm, where the Swedish royal family lives today; the king's bedroom at Gripsholm; and the organs of the Uppsala Cathedral.

Mats Lusth

Lusth has also coached a number of teams including Alleghe Hockey in the Italian Serie A and the Brûleurs de Loups of Grenoble in the French Ligue Magnus.

Mihai Șora

From 1939 to 1948 he studied in Paris and Grenoble on a fellowship granted by the French government.

MkLinux

The effort was spearheaded by Brett Halle at Apple, and development was later split between two main people: Michael Burg on device drivers and distribution at Apple in Cupertino, California; and Nick Stephen on Mach porting and development at the OSF in Grenoble, France.

Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille

The Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille is a departmental museum on the French Revolution, located in the French town of Vizille, 15 kilometres to the south of Grenoble, on the route Napoléon.

New Zealand at the 1968 Winter Olympics

New Zealand had seven competitors (five men and two women) at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Nout Lequen

Nout Lequen, painter artist of Dutch descent, born in Paris in 1954, has her workshop close to Grenoble, France.

Novalesa Abbey

The founding monks are thought to have come from the Grenoble region.

Pat Rupp

In 1968, he was selected for his second Winter Olympics in Grenoble in France; the US team gained sixth place.

Paul Moskowitz

Moskowitz is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, received a Ph.D. in Physics from New York University, and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Grenoble, France, the University of Mainz, Germany, and the University of Colorado.

Persistent Systems

Persistent has facilities in three continents, with nine development centers in Europe (Grenoble), America and Asia.

Peter Julian Eymard

On 20 July 1834, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grenoble.

Pierre Isabelle

In 1999 he joined the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in Grenoble, France, where he managed the Content Analysis area until he joined the NRC in 2005.

Pierre Vigny

In 1886 Vigny joined the Second Regiment of French Artillery at Grenoble.

Program Evaluation and Review Technique

An example of this was for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble which applied PERT from 1965 until the opening of the 1968 Games.

Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems

POLES was initially developed in the early 1990s in the Institute of Energy Policy and Economics IEPE (now LEPII-CNRS) in Grenoble, France.

Quentin Garcia

Garcia spent two years playing in the Espoirs team of Grenoble before being promoted to Grenoble's Ligue Magnus team for season 2006.

Rammal Rammal

He achieved his doctorate in 1981 working at CNRS in Grenoble and continued working in France for most of his professional life.

Robert Makara

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he finished seventh in the Nordic combined event.

Savoyard dialect

Savoyard has been the subject of detailed study at the Centre de dialectologie of the Stendhal University, Grenoble, currently under the direction of Michel Contini.

Seichō Matsumoto

In 1987, he was invited by French mystery writers to talk about his sense of mystery at Grenoble.

Single rope technique

During World War II, such a team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France, which became the deepest explored cave in the world (-658m) at that time.

Sinsemilia

Sinsemilia, also known as Sinsé, is a reggae band that was formed in Grenoble, France in 1990.

SNCF Class X 72500

They operate longer distance TER services, particularly in the areas south and west of Paris, the Paris to Laon line, around Tours, Nantes, Toulouse, Lyon, Dijon, Nevers, Grenoble, Bordeaux and the South Coast of France.

Spin wave

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements can determine the dispersion curve for magnons just as they can for phonons. Important inelastic neutron scattering facilities are present at the ISIS neutron source in Oxfordshire, UK, the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, USA.

SPring-8

Together with the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France and PETRA at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, it is one of the four large (beam energy greater than 5 GeV) synchrotron radiation facilities in the world.

Stephen Mumford

Although the book was, in places, complete and filled with promise, there was much work to be done on the later chapters - Mumford reflects on a conversation between himself and Armstrong on the way to the Grenoble colloquium, mentioning Molnar's email stating the work was near finished, Armstrong replied: "it was near finished, in his mind".

Sylvain Locas

Locas returned, after nearly a decade away from the game, to play for Brûleurs de Loups based in Grenoble, France in the Ligue Magnus for two seasons.

Tore Supra

Tore Supra is a French tokamak that began operating after the discontinuation of TFR (Tokamak of Fontenay-aux-Roses) and of Petula (in Grenoble).

Tour Perret

Tour Perret (Grenoble), also called Tour d'Orientation, a 95 metre observation tower at Grenoble

Uwe Grodd

Grodd conducted the gala opening night of the Handel Festival in Halle in Germany of 2003 with "Le Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre" from Grenoble followed by a highly successful season of Händel's rediscovered opera, Imeneo in the Halle Opera House.

Valence–Moirans railway

It was built by the PLM and opened on 9 May 1864 to link Valence and Grenoble.

Valisere

Auguste Perrin founded leather glove manufacturer ‘Grand Perrin’ in 1860, and launched the Valisere line in Grenoble, France in 1913.

Vladimir Belussov

His best known successes were at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where he won a gold medal for the Soviet Union in the individual large hill event, and at the Holmenkollen ski festival, where he won the ski jumping competition twice (1968, 1970).

Wladimir Talanczuk

Throughout 1979 he was a member of the Polish National Hang Gliding Team and competed in the World Hang Gliding Championships at Grenoble, France, flying a Mars hang glider of his own design.

Wolfgang Plotka

Plotka also competed for East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, scoring one goal and one assist in seven games played.


1968 Winter Olympics medal table

In Grenoble, Romania won its first and so far only medal at the Winter Games, as Ion Panţuru and Nicolae Neagoe secured the bronze in bobsleigh's two-man event.

2005 French riots

In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire.

Allobroges

North-east of Vienne and north of Cularo (modern Grenoble), is a major healing sanctuary at the modern town of Aix-les-Bains.

Battle of Staffarda

While Catinat's army manoeuvred on the Piedmontese plain Marquis de Saint-Ruth took most of the exposed Duchy of Savoy, routing the Savoyard forces; only the great fortress of Montmélian, less than 60 km north of Grenoble, remained in ducal hands.

Blacklodge

They played their first live gig in Grenoble as openers for Impaled Nazarene.

Boris Stenin

Despite having studied the world's best speed skaters in recent years, Stenin still did not have extensive practical knowledge and after the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he went to work at an institute for Physical Education.

Casimir Pierre Périer

Born in Grenoble, he was the fourth son of a rich banker and manufacturer, Claude Perier (1742–1801), in whose house the estates of Dauphiné met in 1788.

Claudine Françoise Mignot

Claudine Françoise Mignot commonly called Marie (20 January 1624 – 30 November 1711), French adventuress, was born near Grenoble, at Meylan.

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

École nationale supérieure de physique, électronique et Matériaux

It is located on Grenoble Campus, which is outside of Grenoble in Saint-Martin-d'Hères.

Émile Gilioli

After the war, Gilioli settled in Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze near Grenoble, where he sculpted in his workshop.

Henri Bedimo

Bedimo was born in Douala, Cameroon and remains there until he emigrated for France when he was 15 in 1999 where he began his football career and the same year, he joined Grenoble as his first club in his professional football career.

Henri Blanc-Fontaine

Blanc-Fontaine was also the pupil of Jean Achard (he made a portrait of him which it kept in the Musée de Grenoble) and Auguste Ravier in Charlieu.

Jean-Pierre-André Amar

In 1790, Amar was elected vice-president of the Grenoble directory, and became a deputy to the National Convention for the département of Isère, and joined The Mountain, voting in favor of Louis XVI's execution during his trial.

Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes

Asked if he was, indeed, Vernet from Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, he replied "Certainly, but I'm a telegram postman in Grenoble and I have never set foot in the saltpans. I know another Vernet in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont and it's my uncle, a man of fifty years, a cultivater who has never left the land."

Peloursin

Ampelographers believe that Peloursin originated in the Isère department near Grenoble somewhere along the Vallée du Grésivaudan.

Prince Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont

He studied in Oxford and Grenoble, but since these studies do not appear to lead to anything, it was desirable to send him to the army.

Superlópez

Famous buildings and monuments in Barcelona are often portrayed in detail, as well as those in other cities of Catalonia (Camprodon), Europe (Andorra, Grenoble, Bulgaria) or Japan.