Saint-Hilaire, Isère

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Coordinates: 45°18′37″N 5°53′16″E / 45.31028, 05.88778

Commune of Saint-Hilaire
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Le Touvet
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du plateau des petites roches
Mayor	Pierre Boisselier (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	647 m–2 060 m (avg. 1 000 m)
Land area¹	9 km²
Population² (1999)	1 248
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	38395/ 38660
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.

Saint-Hilaire (also known as Saint-Hilaire du Touvet) is a commune of the Isère département, in France. It is made up of the three smaller settlements of Saint-Hilaire, Les Margains and Les Gaudes, and its inhabitants are called the Saint-Hilairois (Saint-Hilairoises).^[1]

The commune is situated on the Plateau des Petites Roches, a natural balcony above the valley of the Isère River, on the east side of the Massif de la Chartreuse and overlooked by the peak of the Dent de Crolles.^[1]

Saint-Hilaire is linked to Montfort, situated on the road between Grenoble and Chambéry in the valley below, by the Funiculaire de Saint-Hilaire du Touvet. Until this was opened in 1924, the village was accessible only on foot, or by mule. The funicular was constructed principally to serve several sanatoria built at the same time to house tuberculosis patients.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Based on a translation of the article from the French Wikipedia.
2. ^ Funiculaire Saint Hilaire du Touvet - History. Funimag. Retrieved on February 15, 2007.