Gisors
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Gisors
|commune status = Commune
|image = Gisors-vue-generale.jpg
|caption = City as seen from the castle terrasse
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Gisors (Eure).svg
|arrondissement = Les Andelys
|canton = Gisors
|INSEE = 27284
|postal code = 27140
|term = 2022–2026
|intercommunality = Vexin Normand
|coordinates = {{coord|49.2811|1.7772|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 74
|elevation min m = 47
|elevation max m = 142
|area km2 = 16.67
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Gisors ({{IPA|fr|ʒizɔʁ}}) is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France. It is located {{convert|62.9|km|mi|abbr=on}} 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).[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=UU2020-00357 Comparateur de territoire], INSEE 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
{{Historical populations
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|cols = 2
|percentages = pagr
|source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|15563|Gisors}} and INSEE (1968–2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-27284#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|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.
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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.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|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612192810/http://www.oglethorpe.edu/faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter8.htm |date=2008-06-12 }} Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.Nicholas Vincent, "[http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/vincent.htm William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210072215/http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/vincent.htm |date=2012-02-10 }}", in: Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).[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|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516063720/http://www.bu.edu/english/levine/reims.htm |date=2008-05-16 }}, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.
- Château de Boisgeloup, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso.{{cite book
| last = Richardson
| first = John
| author-link = John Richardson (art historian)
| title = Un Soir À Boisgeloup: L'Atelier De Pablo Picasso
| publisher = Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte
| year = 2012
| isbn = 9782805201936
}}
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.
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Gisors}}
- [http://www.ville-gisors.fr Official site]
- [http://www.scholares.net/index.php?Gazetteer-Gisors Gazetteer Entry]
- {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Gisors |short=x}}
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