Vif, Isère

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Vif

(2021–2026) Guy Genet^[1]Area

28.30 km² (10.93 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

8,584 • Density300/km² (790/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

38545 /38450

Elevation277–1,263 m (909–4,144 ft)
(avg. 312 m or 1,024 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vif (French pronunciation: [vif] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.^[3]

The town hosts the Champollion Museum, located in the former residence of the Champollion family.^[4] Closed for renovations, it reopened in June 2021.^[5]

Geography

Vif is situated in the Valley of Gresse, in the south of Grenoble, upon the north-east foothills of the Vercors. The town is crossed by the Gresse river (which come from Gresse-en-Vercors). Vif lies 16 km (10 mi) south of Grenoble, 65 km (40 mi) north-west of Gap and 65 km (40 mi) north-east of Valence.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,055	—
1800	2,021	−0.24%
1806	2,025	+0.03%
1821	2,257	+0.73%
1831	2,282	+0.11%
1836	2,362	+0.69%
1841	2,314	−0.41%
1846	2,426	+0.95%
1851	2,435	+0.07%
1856	2,353	−0.68%
1861	2,417	+0.54%
1866	2,043	−3.31%
1872	2,506	+3.46%
1876	2,925	+3.94%
1881	2,734	−1.34%
1886	2,821	+0.63%
1891	2,792	−0.21%
1896	2,617	−1.29%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	2,707	+0.68%
1906	2,589	−0.89%
1911	2,165	−3.51%
1921	2,007	−0.75%
1926	2,134	+1.23%
1931	2,080	−0.51%
1936	2,028	−0.51%
1946	2,071	+0.21%
1954	2,444	+2.09%
1962	3,057	+2.84%
1968	3,287	+1.22%
1975	3,593	+1.28%
1982	4,419	+3.00%
1990	5,788	+3.43%
1999	6,478	+1.26%
2007	8,050	+2.75%
2012	7,975	−0.19%
2017	8,532	+1.36%

Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[7]

Sights

Vif is the home of the Champollion Museum, settled in the former family house of Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac and his wife Zoé Berriat.
The city is the cradle of the French company Vicat, founded by Joseph Vicat (son of Louis Vicat). The first cement works was built in Genevrey-de-Vif in 1857.
The town has two churches: Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Vif and Saint-Marie du Genevrey, which is one of the oldest medieval churches in Grenoble métropole.
The actual town hall was an ancient monastery until 1792, then a silk mill managed by the Berriat family.

The "Line of Alps", a railway connecting Grenoble to Gap via the Alps, crosses the town territory on a 19th-century railway viaduct, the viaduct of Crozet (viaduc du Crozet).

Notable people

Charles Le Goux de La Berchère (1647-1719), bishop
Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778-1867), archaeologist, brother of Jean-François (Champollion le Jeune)
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), philologist and orientalist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglpyhs
François-Jean Rochas [fr] Frenchy (1843-1894), first settler of today's Oliver Lee Memorial State Park (New Mexico)
Yves de La Brière (1877-1941), French Jesuit born in Vif.

Twin towns – sister cities

Vif is twinned with:^[8]

Rivalta di Torino, Italy, since 1985

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Département de l'Isère (38), INSEE
^ Base Mérimée: Propriété "Les Champollion", Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
^ (in French) ledauphine.com, Dans trois ans, Vif aura son Musée Champollion.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vif, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Annuaire des villes jumelées | AFCCRE". Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2022.