Gisors
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Commune of Gisors |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Haute-Normandie |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Les Andelys |
| Canton | Gisors (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Gisors-Epte-Lévrière |
| Mayor | Marcel Larmanou (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 47 m–142 m (avg. 74 m) |
| Land area¹ | 16.67 km² |
| Population² (1999 census) |
10,882 |
| - Density | 653/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 27284/ 27140 |
| 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: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Gisors is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located 62.9 km. (39.1 miles) northwest from the center of Paris (as the crow flies).
Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville, form an urban area of 12,669 inhabitants (1999 census). This urban area is a satellite town of Paris.
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[edit] Geography
Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy at the confluence of the Epte, Troesne and Réveillon rivers .
[edit] Transport
Gisors is served by Gisors – Embranchement station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line and on regional rail lines.
[edit] Sites and monuments
- 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.[1][2][3]
 Castle of Gisors. |
 Castle of Gisors |
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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 Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.
- ^ Nicholas Vincent, "William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux", 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, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.
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