Under severe pressure from First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte,[2] Pope Pius VII issued the bull "Qui Christi Domini vices" on 29 November 1801.

[4] The diocese of Grenoble is in possession of an almost complete account of the pastoral visits made between 1339 and 1970, a palæographical record perhaps unique of its kind in France.

A dam upstream, which held back the waters of a large lake suddenly gave way and loosed a deluge down the Drac river.

[12] The octogenarian Bishop Jean de Sassenage wrote a pastoral letter, giving many details and imploring the people of the diocese to come to the aid of the victims.

[14] On 30 March 1349, the childless Humbert II of Viennois, the last of the Dauphins, sold his territory to Charles, the eldest son of the Duke of Normandy.

[15] Humbert was named titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria by Pope Clement VI on 3 January 1351,[16] and was the consecrator of Bishop Rodolfe de Chissé of Grenoble on 23 February 1351.

[17] in the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), France and Savoy chose to support the Avignon Obedience and its pope, Robert of Geneva, who was related to both ruling families.

As Clement VII, he sought to lessen the civil discord which had enveloped Grenoble by transferring Bishop Rodolphe de Chissé (1350–1380) to the diocese of Tarentaise.

On 11 August of the same year, troops which were being transferred to Italy in aid of the duke of Mantua passed through the valley of Grenoble; they left behind a pestilence which decimated the population.

[24] The two sojourns at Grenoble in 1598 and 1600 by Pierre Coton, the Jesuit, later confessor to Henry IV of France, produced many conversions from Protestantism to the Catholic Church.

[25] In memory of this, François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, the Constable of France, himself a convert in 1622, supported the idea of a Jesuit college in the diocese of Grenoble.

Around 1673, however, Bishop Étienne Le Camus (1671–1707) became involved in a quarrel with Father Jean-Baptiste St. Just, S.J., the prefect of studies of the Jesuit college in Grenoble.

Le Camus then excommunicated Saint-Just, who appealed to the parliament, an action which brought severe condemnation from the Father General for referring an ecclesiastical matter to a civil court.

"[39] On 21 March 1763, after an investigation lasting eight months, the parliament of the Dauphiné ordered that the Jesuits cease instruction in philosophy, theology, and the humanities.

The legitimate bishop, Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans, was living in exile, having refused to swear an oath to the French constitution.

[44] Negotiations began immediately, and resulted in the Concordat of 1801 (July and August) with Pope Pius VII, which was highly favorable to Napoleon's interests.

The most notable monastic foundation of Dauphiné, contemporaneous with St. Hugh's regime, was the Carthusian Grand Chartreuse; it was founded in 1084 by Bruno of Cologne in a blind valley 20 mi (32 km) north of Grenoble.

[55] The Frères du Saint-Esprit, who during the Middle Ages were scattered broadcast through the Diocese of Grenoble, did much to inculcate among the people habits of mutual assistance.

[56] In March 1880, in an official report to the President of the French Republic, the Minister of Culture, Charles Lepère, announced that there were more than 500 illegal congregations with more than 22,000 men and women in them.

[57] President Jules Grévy immediately signed a decree dissolving the Society of Jesus and ordering them to vacate their establishments within three months.

[66] Natives of what constitutes the present Diocese of Grenoble include: Amatus the Anchorite (6th century), the founder of the Abbey of Remiremont;[67] and Peter, Archbishop of Tarantaise (1102–1174), a Cistercian, born at S. Maurice in the ancient Archdiocese of Vienne.