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Romans-sur-Isère

Romans-sur-Isère (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɑ̃ syʁizɛːʁ]; Occitan: Rumans d'Isèra;[3] Old Occitan: Romans) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.

Romans-sur-Isère

France

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Drôme

Valence

Romans-sur-Isère and Bourg-de-Péage

CA Valence Romans Agglo

Marie-Hélène Thoraval[1]

33.08 km2 (12.77 sq mi)

32,911

990/km2 (2,600/sq mi)

UTC+01:00 (CET)

UTC+02:00 (CEST)

26281 /26100

122–291 m (400–955 ft)
(avg. 167 m or 548 ft)

Geography[edit]

Romans-sur-Isère is located on the Isère, 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Valence. There are more than 50,000 inhabitants in the urban area (if the neighboring town of Bourg-de-Péage is included). Romans is close to the Vercors.

Nuclear fuel manufacture (FBFC, ), Framatome subsidiary.

Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible

manufacture (including Robert Clergerie)

Shoe

Historian wrote Carnaval de Romans (1980) a microhistorical study, based on the only two surviving eyewitness accounts, of the 1580 massacre of about twenty artisans at the annual carnival in the town. He treats the massacre as a microcosm of the political, social and religious conflicts of rural society in the latter half of the 16th century in France.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

On 18 July 2017, the town was the end point for Stage Sixteen of the .

Tour De France

On 4 April 2020, two people were killed and five wounded in , in what the interior minister called a terrorist incident. Prosecutors said the suspect was a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lived in the town.[6]

a knife attack

Collegiate Church of Saint-Barnard

International Museum of Footwear

Tower of Jacquemart clock

(1773-1837), lover of Joséphine Bonaparte

Hippolyte Charles

shoe designer

Robert Clergerie

(1963-), former Formula One driver

Érik Comas

(1993-), cyclist

Pierre Latour

(1872-1928), former mayor and councilor who did much to develop the city

Jules Nadi

professional footballer

Baptiste Reynet

rugby player and national team coach

Philippe Saint-André

general of Irish Jacobite ancestry

Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally

Communes of the Drôme department

Parc naturel régional du Vercors

(in French)

Town council website

Communauté de communes du Pays de Romans website

New Uranium Leak Found in French Areva Factory

. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

"Romans"