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Housing Units (2000): 6279
Land area (2000): 7.406921 sq. miles (19.183837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.199735 sq. miles (0.517312 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.606656 sq. miles (19.701149 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34160
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.903876 N, 85.757379 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49418
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Grandville
Wikipedia
Grandville may refer to:
- The pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803–1847), French caricaturist
- Grandville, Aube, a commune in France
- Grandville, Michigan, a city in the United States
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Grandville (comics), a 2009 series of graphic novels by Bryan Talbot
- Grandville (graphic novel)
Grandville is a Hugo Award nominated British graphic novel series written and drawn by Bryan Talbot. It is a mixture of the steampunk, alternative history and thriller genres. It is set in a world in which France won the Napoleonic Wars and invaded Britain, and in which the world is populated mostly by anthropomorphic animals. The main character is Detective Inspector Archibald "Archie" LeBrock of Scotland Yard, a British anthropomorphic badger.
The plot of the first book, entitled Grandville and published on 15 October 2009, sees LeBrock investigating a murder which leads him to visit "Grandville" ( Paris) in order to solve the crime, which itself leads him to uncover a political conspiracy. In the second volume, Grandville Mon Amour, published on 2 December 2010, LeBrock attempts to track down an escaped serial killer that he previously brought to justice. Grandville Bête Noire was published in 2012. The fourth volume, Grandville: Nöel, was published on 6 November 2014. A fifth volume, Grandville: Force Majeure, is planned.
Grandville is the first of a planned five-part British graphic novel series written and drawn by Bryan Talbot. Published on 15 October 2009, it is a mixture of the steampunk, alternative history and thriller genres. It is set in a world in which France won the Napoleonic Wars and invaded Britain, and in which the world is populated mostly by anthropomorphic animals. The book follows a British anthropomorphic badger, Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock of Scotland Yard, investigating a murder which leads him to visit Paris in order to solve the crime, which itself leads him to uncover a political conspiracy.
Usage examples of "grandville".
The rest of the Grandville family had returned home directly after the funeral.
Stephen Grandville will have to be called home to assume his responsibilities.
Stephen Grandville is to be Giles's guardian, Lady Weston, but I can assure you it was always Lord Weston's intention that the care of your son should remain with you.
Adam's wife did talk a bit, but she was an extremely good-hearted woman who had kept an open house for all the Grandville children when we were young.
John Grandville of Rudely," not Jack Grandville, poor relation of Weston.
He could be very charming when he wanted, and of course he had his full measure of the Grandville looks.
He knew the location of the Grandville Building, which was one of upper Manhattan's newest skyscrapers.
Fellows reasoned that the messengers, who were all uniformed delivery boys, had received the envelopes from some one on the street, and had been watched until they entered the Grandville Building.
He registered at the Metrolite Hotel, had breakfast, then set out for the office of Claude Fellows, the insurance broker in the Grandville Building.
It concluded with a kicker, an interview with Puerto Rican Senator Pauline Grandville: 'If the moon can simply ignore the feelings and desires of its terrestrial forebears, then that could call into question the entire matrix of Earth-Moon relations.
Marilyn Becker of Grandville, Michigan, discovered adult situations in the magazine her thirteen-year-old daughter was reading.