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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 architecture|Gothic]] and [[French Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] architecture. *A field near Gisors was the site of the [[Cutting of the elm]], a medieval diplomatic incident.<ref>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.</ref><ref>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).</ref><ref>''[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.</ref> *[[Château de Boisgeloup]], former home and atelier of [[Pablo Picasso]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> <gallery> 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. </gallery>
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