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Gisors

FieldValue
nameGisors
commune statusCommune
imageGisors-vue-generale.jpg
captionCity as seen from the castle terrasse
image coat of armsBlason ville fr Gisors (Eure).svg
arrondissementLes Andelys
cantonGisors
INSEE27284
postal code27140
mayorJosé Cerqueira
term2022–2026
intercommunalityVexin Normand
coordinates
elevation m74
elevation min m47
elevation max m142
area km216.67
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Gisors (Eure).svg

Gisors () is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France. It is located 62.9 km 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

|graph-pos = bottom |1793 |3021 |1800 |3650 |1806 |3277 |1821 |3339 |1831 |3533 |1836 |3364 |1841 |3624 |1846 |3616 |1851 |3653 |1856 |3694 |1861 |3654 |1866 |3573 |1872 |3834 |1876 |4047 |1881 |4362 |1886 |4359 |1891 |4462 |1896 |4681 |1901 |4861 |1906 |4888 |1911 |5508 |1921 |5494 |1926 |5564 |1931 |5868 |1936 |5867 |1946 |5078 |1954 |5670 |1962 |6398 |1968 |7329 |1975 |8069 |1982 |8732 |1990 |9481 |1999 |10882 |2007 |11677 |2012 |11283 |2017 |11537

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.{{cite book | author-link = John Richardson (art historian) Image:Chateau-de-Gisors.jpg|Motte and Castle Image:Gisors tour chateau.JPG|Castle of Gisors Image:Grosse tour Gisors001.jpg|The so-called Grosse Tour ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.

References

References

  1. (6 June 2023). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
  2. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=UU2020-00357 Comparateur de territoire], INSEE
  3. {{Cassini-Ehess. 15563. Gisors
  4. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-27284#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
  5. Bradford Smith, ''The Foundations of the West - Course Material'', [http://www.oglethorpe.edu/faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter8.htm Chapter 8 The Age of the Crusades - The Rise of France under Philip Augustus and of St. Louis] {{webarchive. link. (2008-06-12 Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.)
  6. Nicholas Vincent, "[http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/vincent.htm William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux] {{webarchive. link. (2012-02-10 ", in: ''Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association'' vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).)
  7. ''[http://www.bu.edu/english/levine/reims.htm A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel's Chronicle, a translation by Robert Levine of the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims, a thirteenth-century historical fiction] {{webarchive. link. (2008-05-16 '', Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.)
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