Charrière may refer to:

People

François Charrière François Charrière (1 September 1893 - 11 July 1976) was the Roman Catholic bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1945 to 1970. Biography François Charrière was born into a peasant family in the village of Cerniat on 1 September 1893. ...

(1893–1976), Swiss bishop of the Catholic Church *

Henri Charrière Henri Charrière (; 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted in 1931 as a murderer by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the novel '' Papillon'', a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a pena ...

(1906–1973), French murderer and author *

Isabelle de Charrière Isabelle de Charrière (20 October 174027 December 1805), known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and adameIsabelle de Charrière (married name) elsewhere, was a Dutch and ...

(1740–1805), Dutch-Swiss writer *

Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière (March 19, 1803 – April 28, 1876) was a Swiss-born French manufacturer of surgical instruments. Charrière was born in Cerniat, in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. He moved to Paris at age 13, and was ...

(1803–1876), Swiss-French surgical-instrument inventor

Other

* Prissé-la-Charrière, municipality in western France * Centre Sportif de la Charrière, sports stadium in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland * The ''Charrière'', alternate name for the unit ''French'' on the

French catheter scale The French scale, French gauge or Charrière system is commonly used to measure the size of a catheter. It is most often abbreviated as Fr, but can often be seen abbreviated as Fg, FR or F. It may also be abbreviated as CH or Ch (for Charrière, i ...

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