Rives, Isère

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Coordinates: 45°21′06″N 5°30′11″E / 45.3516666667, 5.50305555556

Administration
Commune of Rives A street in Rives
Location

Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère (Subprefecture)
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Rives
Intercommunality	Agglomeration community of Pays Voironnais
Mayor	Alain Dezempte
Statistics
Elevation	314 m–469 m
Land area^¹	10,93 km²
Population^² (1999)	5620
- Density	514/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	38337/ 38140
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Rives is a commune in the French département of Isère, in the région of Rhône-Alpes.

1 Access
2 History
3 Population
4 Places and Monuments
5 Town personalities
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Access

By road: By motorway (A48) or the Departemental Road, the D1085, between Lyon and Grenoble By train: The TER Lyon Perrache/Saint André le Gaz/Grenoble line. Rives station is a terminus for some TER suburban trains of the Grenoble Metro

[edit] History

[edit] Population

Population Growth
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
3902	4589	5007	5115	5403	5620
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] Places and Monuments

The church of Rives.

[edit] Town personalities

Napoleon Bonaparte spend a night here at Rives, on his return from Elba, in a building that is now a bank. A plaque commemorates the visit.
Luc Court, motor-car builder was born here in 1862.
Jérémy Clément, footballer of Paris Saint-Germain was originally from Rives.
Raphaël Poirée, biathlete was born here.