Editing Gisors

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{{Infobox French commune
|name               = Gisors
|commune status     = [[Communes of France|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
|mayor              = José Cerqueira<ref>{{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}}</ref>
|term               = 2022&ndash;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 [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Departments of France|French department]] of [[Eure]], [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]], France. It is located {{convert|62.9|km|mi|abbr=on}} northwest from the [[Kilometre Zero|centre of Paris]].

Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of [[Trie-Château]] and [[Trie-la-Ville]], form an [[urban unit|urban area]] of 13,915 inhabitants (2018).<ref>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=UU2020-00357 Comparateur de territoire], INSEE</ref> 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 (Epte)|Réveillon]].

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|align = none
|cols = 2
|percentages = pagr
|source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|15563|Gisors}}</ref> and INSEE (1968–2017)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-27284#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
|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 Paris-Saint-Lazare|Transilien]] suburban rail service from the Paris [[Gare Saint-Lazare|Saint-Lazare]] station, and of a [[TER Normandie]] local service to [[Serqueux station|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 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>

==See also==
*[[Communes of the Eure department]]

==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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[[Category:Communes of Eure]]