Grenoble is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical province and lies where the
Remnants of the 3rd century AD Roman walls
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières
Grenoble plan-relief (1848)
Day of the Tiles, 1890 painting by Alexandre Debelle, (Musée de la Révolution française)
The Dauphiné, traditionally known in English as Dauphiny, is a former province in southeastern France during the Ancien régime, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day departments o