Torchefelon

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Torchefelon
Commune
Torchefelon in 1912
Location of Torchefelon
(2020–2026)		Bernard Badin^[1]
Area ¹	8.68 km² (3.35 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	822
• Density	95/km² (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	38508 /38690
Elevation	378–589 m (1,240–1,932 ft) (avg. 540 m or 1,770 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Torchefelon (French pronunciation: [tɔʁʃəfəlɔ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.^[3]

History

Torchefelon is in what was the ancient territory of the Allobroges, a group of Gallic tribes occupying the former Savoy, as well as the part of Dauphiné, located north of the river Isère.

The castle of Ponteray once stood in the town, but it was burned by Thibaud de Rougemont the Archbishop of Vienne and there are no remains.

The mayor is Bernard Badin, elected in 2020.^[1]

Climate

There is a kind of micro-climate, in the town of Torchefelon generally as a colder climate than the plain of Bourgoin. It is therefore not uncommon in winter to find snow in the sector of this town while the rest of Nord-Isère is devoid of it.

Hydrology

The commune is bordered in its eastern part by the Hien stream, a tributary of the Bourbre and with a length of 17.2 km4 and in the western part by the stream of the mills, with a length of 5 km.^[4]

Notable people

Guillaume Quérenet de La Combe (1731-1788), born in Torchefelon, colonel, engineer of the Royal Corps of Engineers, knight of the royal and military order of Saint-Louis. At the head of the engineers of the French expeditionary force, his work enabled the victory of Yorktown (September 28, 1781) and the capitulation of the British troops of Cornwallis, a decisive victory which will lead directly to the Treaty of Versailles (1783) and to American independence. In this capacity, he was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Former student (class of 1751) of the Royal Engineering School of Mézières.
Jean de Torchefelon, marshal of Dauphiné, fought at Agincourt. Famous for his disputes with the Archbishop of Vienne, Thibaud de Rougemont.^[5]

Places and monuments

The remains of the Château de Ponteray
The fortified house of La Murette, 16th century
The fortified house of Saint-Roch, 16th century
The fortified house of Saint-Georges-du-Mont, from the 15th century, property of the Querrenet family in the 18th century.^[6]
The village church.
The chapel of Saint-Georges de Montagnieu
The chapel of Saint-Roch
The remains of the old forge
The dauphinoise house of La Rougière

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	348	—
1975	311	−1.59%
1982	346	+1.54%
1990	390	+1.51%
1999	449	+1.58%
2009	603	+2.99%
2014	692	+2.79%
2020	821	+2.89%
Source: INSEE^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 1 February 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ 3
^ Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Thibaud de Rougemont.
^ Eric Tasset, Châteaux forts de l'Isère : Grenoble et le Nord de son arrondissement, Grenoble, éditions de Belledonne, 2005, 741 p. (ISBN 2-911148-66-5), p. 706.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE