Editing Touques, Calvados

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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Touques
|commune status         = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image                  = Touques 1661.JPG
|caption                = The church in Touques
|image coat of arms     = CoA_fr_Touques.svg
|arrondissement         = Lisieux
|canton                 = Honfleur-Deauville
|INSEE                  = 14699
|postal code            = 14800
|mayor                  = David Muller<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=12 March 2025|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2024&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [[Communauté de communes Cœur Côte Fleurie|CC Cœur Côte Fleurie]]
|coordinates            = {{coord|49.3433|0.1028|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 6
|elevation min m        = 2
|elevation max m        = 149
|area km2               = 8.13
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Touques''' ({{IPA|fr|tuk|-|Fr-Paris--Touques.ogg}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]] [[Regions of France|region]] in northwestern [[France]]. It is situated on the river [[Touques (river)|Touques]], 3&nbsp;km southeast of the sea resort [[Deauville]].

==History==
* [[Eliezer of Touques|Eliezer (ben Solomon) of Touques]] was a French [[tosafist]], who lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of [[Samson of Sens]], [[Samuel of Évreux]], and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon". 
*On 1 August 1417 [[Henry V of England]], landed there.
*On 7 March 2021 [[Olivier Dassault]] crash landed on board a helicopter there.

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-14699#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |1587
|1975 |1561
|1982 |2237
|1990 |3070
|1999 |3500
|2007 |3898
|2012 |3920
|2017 |3679
}}

==International relations==
Touques is twinned with:
* [[Sankt Andreasberg]] (Germany)
* [[Strathspey, Scotland]]

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

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Touques}}
* [http://www.ville-touques.com/ Official site]

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[[Category:Communes of Calvados (department)]]
[[Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia]]


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