Event
The Expropriations and the Beginning of the Construction Site
Period
on
January 1, 1929
Location
Chambon Dam
Source
Association Freneytique, Chambon : dans l’ombre d’un géant – Wikidata
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Event narrative
The Dauphin plain was home to three villages: Le Chambon, attached to Mont-de-Lans, as well as Le Dauphin and Le Parizet, both attached to Mizoën. Until 1928, the various studies, calls for tenders, and contracts slowly took shape, while the inhabitants of the three villages were expropriated so that construction of the dam could begin in 1929. In the late 1920s, before the expropriations, twenty-two families lived on the plain. The procedures stretched from 1926 to 1931. These families mainly resettled in Oisans, with only four of them leaving the region. The inhabitants were able to return to their former houses until April 1935 to recover shutters, roof timbers, and materials before the reservoir was filled.