Editing Isère (section)

== History ==

Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the [[French Revolution]] on 4 March 1790. It was established from the main part of the [[Provinces of France|former province]] of [[Dauphiné]].<ref name="BeachRines1912">{{cite book |author1=Frederick Converse Beach |author2=George Edwin Rines |title=The Americana: a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYJRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT741 |year=1912 |publisher=Scientific American compiling department |page=741}}</ref> Its area was reduced twice, in 1852 and again in 1967, on both occasions losing territory to the department of [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]].

[[File:Château de Vizille détail face.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Château de Vizille]], which was the seat of the [[Assembly of Vizille]] that followed the 1788 [[Day of the Tiles]] in Grenoble, now houses the [[Musée de la Révolution française]].]]

In 1852 in response to rapid urban development around the edge of [[Lyon]], the (hitherto Isère) communes of [[Bron]], [[Vaulx-en-Velin]], [[Vénissieux]] and [[Villeurbanne]] were transferred to [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Revue du Lyonnais |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ej0WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197 |year=1865 |publisher=L. Boitel |language=fr |page=197}}</ref> In 1967 the redrawing of local government borders led to the creation of the [[Urban Community of Lyon]] (more recently known simply as Greater Lyon or Grand Lyon). At that time intercommunal groupings of this nature were not permitted to straddle departmental frontiers, and accordingly 23 more Isère communes (along with six communes from [[Ain]]) found themselves transferred to Rhône. The affected Isère communes were [[Chaponnay]], [[Chassieu]], [[Communay]], [[Corbas]], [[Décines-Charpieu]], [[Feyzin]], [[Genas]], [[Jonage]], [[Jons]], [[Marennes, Rhône|Marennes]], [[Meyzieu]], [[Mions]], [[Pusignan]], [[Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure]], [[Saint-Laurent-de-Mure]], [[Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu]], [[Saint-Priest, Rhône|Saint-Priest]], [[Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon]], [[Sérézin-du-Rhône]], [[Simandres]], [[Solaize]], [[Ternay, Rhône|Ternay]] and [[Toussieu]].<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/jo/id/JORFTEXT000000880759 Loi n°67-1205 du 29 décembre 1967 modifiant les limites des départements de l'Ain, de l'Isère et du Rhône], ''[[Journal officiel de la République française]]'' n° 0303, 30 December 1967, p. 12980.</ref>

Most recently, on 1 April 1971, [[Colombier-Saugnieu]] was transferred to Rhône. Banners appeared in the commune's three little villages at the time proclaiming ''[[Dauphiné|Dauphinois]] toujours'' ("Always Dauphinois").