Troyes

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Commune of Troyes
Location
Coordinates	48°17′59″N, 04°04′45″E
Administration
Country	France
Région	Champagne-Ardenne
Département	Aube (préfecture)
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Chief town of 7 cantons
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération Troyenne
Mayor	François Baroin (2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹	13.20 km²
Population² (1999)	60,958
- Density (1999)	4,618/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	10387/ 10000
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Troyes^[1] is a town and commune, the préfecture (capital) of the northeastern Aube département in France and is located on the Seine river.

[edit] History

For the ecclesiastical history, see bishopric of Troyes

Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, and through the centuries gained great importance as a medieval centre of commerce.

Louis the Stammerer in 878 received at Troyes the imperial crown from the hands of Pope John VIII. At the end of the ninth century, the counts of Champagne chose Troyes as their capital. In 1285, when Philip the Fair united Champagne to the royal domain, the town kept a number of privileges. John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and ally of the English, aimed in 1417 at making Troyes the capital of France, and he came to an understanding with Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France, that a court, council, and parliament with comptroller's offices should be established at Troyes. It was at Troyes, then in the hands of the Burgundians, that on 21 May, 1420, the treaty was signed by which Henry V of England was betrothed to Catherine, daughter of Charles VI, and was to succeed him to the detriment of the dauphin. The dauphin, afterwards Charles VII, and Joan of Arc recovered the town of Troyes in 1429.

The 1420 Treaty of Troyes, which attempted to settle the Hundred Years' War, was signed here. During the Middle Ages, it was an important trading town, and gave its name to troy weight.

[edit] Economy

Troyes is home to the Lacoste company production headquarters, one of the most popular brands in the Western World.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Troyes is the home of association football club Troyes AC, or ESTAC. ESTAC are operating in the highest division of French football, the Ligue 1.

The city center of Troyes is arranged in the shape of a champagne cork.

[edit] Births

Troyes was the birthplace of:

• Patroclus of Troyes (3rd century), martyr
• Rashi (1040-1105), biblical and Talmudic commentator
• Hughes de Payens (1070-1136), Knight of the First Crusade and founder of the Knights Templar
• Pierre Pithou (1539-1596), Calvinist jurisconsult and scholar, co-editor of the "Satire Ménippée",
• Pierre Mignard (1610-1695), painter,
• François Girardon (1628-1715), sculptor
• Édouard Herriot (1872-1957), Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister of France.
• Jean-Marie Bigard, French humorist, writer and director

[edit] Twinning

• Alkmaar, Netherlands
• Chesterfield, UK
• Darmstadt, Germany

[edit] See also

• Count of Troyes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Troyes

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
• Troyes city council website (in French)
• Lacoste Official Website
• Pictures of Troyes
• Pictures of Troyes Cathedral: [1], [2], [3]

Préfectures of départements of France

Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) • Laon (Aisne) • Moulins (Allier • Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) • Gap (Hautes-Alpes) • Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) • Privas (Ardeche) • Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) • Foix (Ariège) • Troyes (Aube) • Carcassonne (Aude) • Rodez (Aveyron) • Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) • Caen (Calvados) • Aurillac (Cantal) • Angoulême (Charente) • La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) • Bourges (Cher) • Tulle (Corrèze) • Ajaccio (corse-du-Sud) • Bastia (Haute-Corse) • Dijon (Côte-d'Or) • Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) • Guéret (Creuse) • Périgueux (Dordogne) • Besançon (Doubs) • Valence (Drôme) • Évreux (Eure) • Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) • Quimper (Finistère) • Nîmes (Gard) • Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) • Auch (Gers) • Bordeaux (Gironde) • Montpellier (Hérault) • Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) • Châteauroux (Indre) • Tours (Indre-et-Loire) • Grenoble (Isère) • Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) • Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) • Blois (Loir-et-Cher) • Saint-Étienne (Loire) • Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) • Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) - Orléans (Loiret) • Cahors (Lot) • Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) • Mende (Lozère) • Angers (Maine-et-Loire) • Saint-Lô (Manche) • Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) • Chaumont (Haute-Marne) - Laval (Mayenne) • Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) • Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) • Vannes (Morbihan) • Metz (Moselle) • Nevers (Nièvre) • Lille (Nord) • Beauvais (Oise) • Alençon (Orne) • Calais (Pas-de-Calais) • Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) • Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) • Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) • Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) • Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) • Colmar (Haut-Rhin) • Lyon (Rhône) • Vesoul (Haute-Saône) • Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) • Le Mans (Sarthe) • Chambéry (Savoie) • Annecy (Haute-Savoie) • Paris (Paris) • Rouen (Seine-Maritime) • Melun (Seine-et-Marne) • Versailles (Yvelines) • Niort (Deux-Sèvres) • Amiens (Somme) • Albi (Tarn) • Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) • Toulon (Var) • Avignon (Vaucluse) • La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) • Poitiers (Vienne) • Limoges (Haute-Vienne) • Épinal (Vosges) • Auxerre (Yonne) • Belfort (Territoire de Belfort) - Évry (Essonne) - Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) • Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) • Créteil (Val-de-Marne) • Cergy (Val-d'Oise)

Overseas départements:
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)