Gisors
Gisors (French pronunciation: [ʒizɔʁ]) is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France. It is located 62.9 km (39.1 mi) northwest from the centre of Paris.
Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville, form an urban area of 13,915 inhabitants (2018). This urban area is a satellite town of Paris.
Geography
Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy, at the confluence of the rivers Epte, Troesne and Réveillon.
Population
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Transport
The Gisors station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station, and of a TER Normandie local service to Serqueux.
Sights
- Château de Gisors, built in the 11th century.
- The Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais parish church is an outstanding monument fusing Gothic and Renaissance architecture.
- A field near Gisors was the site of the Cutting of the elm, a medieval diplomatic incident.
- Château de Boisgeloup, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso.
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Motte and Castle -
Castle of Gisors -
The so-called Grosse Tour ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gisors, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Bradford Smith, The Foundations of the West - Course Material, Chapter 8 The Age of the Crusades - The Rise of France under Philip Augustus and of St. Louis Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.
- ^ Nicholas Vincent, "William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine", in: Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).
- ^ A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel's Chronicle, a translation by Robert Levine of the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims, a thirteenth-century historical fiction Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.
- ^ Richardson, John (2012). Un Soir À Boisgeloup: L'Atelier De Pablo Picasso. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. ISBN 9782805201936.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gisors.
- Official site
- Gazetteer Entry
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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