Saint Roch Cemetery () is the first municipal

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in the city of

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, France. It was blessed by the bishop of Grenoble

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on 19 August 1810.According to web site of Association Saint-Roch ! Vous avez dit cimetière ? It is the largest cemetery in the city with . Located on the rue du Souvenir, alongside the

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, in the district of Île Verte, it is the city's only intramural cemetery, currently containing 25,000 graves over an area of . The city has another cemetery, that of Grand Sablon, in the adjacent city of La Tronche. Among those buried here are political leaders, military personnel, scientists and artists. The most important tombs however are of manufacturers of gloves. The sculptors Victor Sappey, Henri Ding, Eustache Bernard, Aimé Charles Irvoy and Urbain Basset are also buried here. Many mayors of the city since the French Revolution are buried in this cemetery, from Joseph-Marie de Barral,

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in 1790, to Albert Michallon, mayor from 1959 to 1965, as are the painters Jules Flandrin and Jean Achard and Camille Teisseire, representative for

in the French

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. The most prestigious monument in the cemetery is the Saint Roch Chapel, built during the Bourbon Restoration in 1826 to replace the old chapel of the same name, built in the 15th century near a hospital for lepers.

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External links

Saint-Roch ! Vous avez dit cimetière ?

Saint Roch Cemetery on a web site for French cemeteries
{{Cemeteries in France Buildings and structures in Grenoble S S Tourist attractions in Grenoble Roman Catholic cemeteries in France Cemeteries established in the 1810s