Tourcoing
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Tourcoing
|native name = {{native name|pcd|Tourco}}
{{native name|vls|Terkoeje}}
|commune status = Commune
|image = Tourcoing hotel ville 3-4.JPG
|caption = Hôtel de Ville
|arrondissement = Lille
|canton = Tourcoing-1 and 2
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Tourcoing (Nord).svg
|image flag = Flag of Tourcoing.svg
|INSEE = 59599
|postal code = 59200
|mayor = Doriane Bécue{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=6 June 2023|language=fr}}
|term = 2020–2026
|party = DVC
|intercommunality = Métropole Européenne de Lille
|coordinates = {{coord|50.723907|3.161168|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 67
|elevation min m =
|elevation max m =
|area km2 = 15.19
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Tourcoing ({{IPA|fr|tuʁkwɛ̃|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-Jules78120-Tourcoing.wav}}; {{langx|nl|Toerkonje}} {{IPA|nl|tuːrˈkɔɲə|}}; {{langx|vls|Terkoeje}}; {{langx|pcd|Tourco}}) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/59599-tourcoing INSEE commune file] Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants.
Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes,{{cite journal |last=Lecluyse |first=Frédérick |date=December 16, 2016 |title=MEL : on prend les mêmes ou presque et on recommence |trans-title=MEL: let's take hardly the same ones and start over |language=fr |journal=Nord Éclair |volume=73 |issue=349, ROUBAIX & SES ALENTOURS |location=Roubaix, F |publisher=La Voix du Nord, S.A. |pages=4 |issn=1277-1422 |quote=Bois-Grenier, Le Maisnil, Fromelles, Aubers et Radinghem-en-Weppes. Soit 6000 habitants supplémentaires pour une MEL qui compte désormais 90 communes… }} Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the Métropole Européenne de Lille.{{cite web |last=Ezelin |first=Perrine |url=http://urbact.eu/sites/default/files/media/csi_europe_mel_lap_executive_summary.pdf |title=European Metropole of Lille Local Action Plan |publisher=CSI Europe URBACT |location=Edinburgh, UK |date=April 2, 2015 |page=3 |access-date=2015-07-22}}{{cite web |author=URBACT |url=http://urbact.eu/lille-0 |title=Lille |location=Edinburgh, UK |date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=2015-07-22}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lillemetropole.fr/sites/lmcu/mel/espace-presse/communiques-de-presse/les-vp-et-conseillers-metropolit.html |title=Métropole Européenne de Lille : les vice-présidents et conseillers métropolitains délégués élus |trans-title=European Metropolis of Lille : elected vice-presidents and metropolitan delegate-councilors |last=Neveu |first=Clarisse |date=December 15, 2016 |series=Communiqué de presse |publisher=Métropole Européenne de Lille |location=Lille, F |language=fr |website=MEL |access-date=2016-12-18 |quote=La fusion, effective au 1er janvier 2017, acte un élargissement historique du territoire de la Métropole Européenne de Lille, passant de 85 à 90 communes pour près d'1.2 million d'habitants.}} To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.{{cite web |last=Durand |first=Frédéric |url=http://www.euborderscapes.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Working_Papers/EUBORDERSCAPES_Working_Paper_11_Durand_F.pdf |title=Theoretical framework of the cross border space production the case of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai |publisher=EUBORDERSCAPES |location=Luxembourg, L |date=May 12, 2015 |page=18 |access-date=2015-07-22}}
History
The city was the site of a significant victory for France during the French Revolutionary Wars. Marshal Charles Pichegru and his generals Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau defeated a combined force of British and Austrian troops in the Battle of Tourcoing on 29 Floréal II (18 May 1794).{{Cite book |title=The French Revolution 1787–1799 |last=Soboul |first=Albert |year=1975 |publisher=Vintage |location=USA |isbn=0-394-71220-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/frenchrevolution00sobo/page/404 404] |url=https://archive.org/details/frenchrevolution00sobo/page/404 |url-access=registration }}
Population
{{Historical populations
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| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|38378|Tourcoing}} and INSEE (1968-2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-59599#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
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|1793 |12110
|1800 |11380
|1806 |11999
|1821 |14661
|1831 |17973
|1836 |19966
|1841 |22503
|1846 |26834
|1851 |27615
|1856 |29646
|1861 |33498
|1866 |38262
|1872 |43322
|1876 |48634
|1881 |51895
|1886 |58008
|1891 |65477
|1896 |73353
|1901 |79243
|1906 |81671
|1911 |82644
|1921 |78600
|1926 |81379
|1931 |81972
|1936 |78393
|1946 |76080
|1954 |83416
|1962 |89258
|1968 |98755
|1975 |102239
|1982 |96908
|1990 |93765
|1999 |93540
|2007 |92118
|2012 |92707
|2017 |97368
}}
Main sights
File:Tourcoing st christophe.JPG
- Church of St Christopher (15th-16th centuries), considered one of the most beautiful Neo-Gothic edifices of Nord. In stone and brickwork, it has an {{convert|80|m|0|abbr=off|adj=on}} high bell tower with more than 80 bells.
- Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the seventeenth century.
- Hôtel de Ville (1885), in Second Empire style.{{Base Mérimée|PA00107840}}
- Jardin botanique de Tourcoing, a botanical garden and arboretum.
Transport
The Tourcoing station is a railway station offering direct connections to Lille and Paris (high speed trains), Kortrijk, Ostend, Ghent and Antwerp. The town was formerly served by the Somain-Halluin Railway.
Notable people
- Yohan Cabaye, footballer
- Jean-Marc Degraeve, chess grandmaster
- Stéphane Denève, conductor
- Achille Desurmont, writer
- Brigitte Fossey, actress
- Anna Gomis, wrestler
- Henri Padou, water polo player and 1924 Olympic gold medallist
- Brigitte Lahaie, pornstar
- Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, bishop of Bourges, cardinal, cousin of
- Marcel Lefebvre, missionary priest and, later, archbishop, cousin of Joseph-Charles
- Mr. Sam, a popular deejay and producer running his own record label since 2008.
- Albert Roussel, composer
- Yves Devernay, organist
Guilbert de Lannoy (1545-{{Circa|1601}}) and his son Jean de Lannoy (1575-{{Circa|1605}}) were Protestants from Tourcoing who resettled in Leiden, Holland. Jean's son, Philip Delano ({{Circa|1603}} - {{Circa|1681-82}}; born Philipe de la Noye or Philipe de Lannoy), was an early emigrant to the Plymouth Colony and progenitor of the prominent Delano family, which counts among its descendants prominent figures in American history, including president Franklin Roosevelt.{{cite web|title=Pilgrim Village Families Sketch: Phillip Delano/De la Noye|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/pilgrim-families-phillip-delano/|website=American Ancestors|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|access-date=24 August 2014}}
Notable Startups
In 2013, Maxime Piquette and Charles De Potter founded iCreo, a digital audio company in Tourcoing. The company created RadioKing, a platform for internet radio, and Ausha, a platform for podcast hosting and marketing.{{cite web |title=3 Questions a Maxime Piquette |url=https://alternatif-mag.fr/2020/12/21/3-questions-a-maxime-piquette-ceo-co-fondateur-de-ausha/ |publisher=City of Roubaix}} It received support from regional funders, Nord France Amorquage and IRD Gestion.{{cite web |last1=Hamon-Beugin |first1=Valentin |title=Ausha, une start-up française à la conquête du marché des podcasts |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/ausha-une-start-up-francaise-a-la-conquete-du-marche-des-podcasts-20200703 |website=Economie |publisher=Le Figaro}} The company is now the platform for media outlets Le Figaro, Liberation, l'Équipe and AFP, as well as large corporations and independent content producers.{{cite web |last1=Tucker |first1=Charlotte |title=French startup Ausha raises €1.2 million to strengthen its podcast platform in France and Europe |url=https://www.eu-startups.com/2020/03/french-startup-ausha-raises-e1-2-million-to-strengthen-its-podcast-platform-in-france-and-europe/ |website=EU Startups |publisher=Menlo Media}}
International relations
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}
=Twin towns - sister cities=
Tourcoing is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Villes Amies|url=https://www.tourcoing.fr/Ma-ville/Visite-guidee-de-Tourcoing/Villes-amies|website=tourcoing.fr|publisher=Tourcoing|language=fr|access-date=2019-12-10}}
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- {{flagicon|ITA}} Biella, Italy
- {{flagicon|GER}} Bottrop, Germany
- {{flagicon|POL}} Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland
- {{flagicon|GER}} Mitte (Berlin), Germany
- {{flagicon|GER}} Mühlhausen, Germany
- {{flagicon|BLR}} Partyzanski (Minsk), Belarus
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=Other forms of cooperation=
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Tourcoing}}
- [http://www.ville-tourcoing.fr/ Tourcoing town council website] (in French)
- [http://www.tourcoing-volley.com/ Tourcoing Volley-Ball Lille Métropole] (Official website of the top team, in French)
- [http://www.antoniomucherino.it/en/photoalbum.php See pictures from Antonio Mucherino's web site]
{{European Metropolis Lille}}
{{Nord communes}}
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