Gisors

Gisors ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France. It is located Template:Convert northwest from the centre of Paris.

Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville, form an urban area of 13,915 inhabitants (2018).<ref>Comparateur de territoire, INSEE</ref> This urban area is a satellite town of Paris.

GeographyEdit

Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy, at the confluence of the rivers Epte, Troesne and Réveillon.

The Gisors station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station, and of a TER Normandie local service to Serqueux.

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, a medieval diplomatic incident.<ref>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 Template:Webarchive Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.</ref><ref>Nicholas Vincent, "William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux Template:Webarchive", in: Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).</ref><ref>A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel's Chronicle, a translation by Robert Levine of the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims, a thirteenth-century historical fiction Template:Webarchive, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.</ref>
Château de Boisgeloup, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Motte and Castle
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Castle of Gisors
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The so-called Grosse Tour ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.