Gisors

Gisors

French commune
nomcommune=Gisors
Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church as seen from the castle.
région=Haute-Normandie
département=Eure
arrondissement=Les Andelys
canton=Gisors
insee=27284
cp=27140
maire= Marcel Larmanou
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Gisors-Epte-Lévrière
longitude=1.77722222222
latitude=49.2811111111
alt moy=74
alt mini=47
alt maxi=142
hectares=1667
km²=16.67
sans=10,882
date-sans=1999 census
dens=653
date-dens=1999

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.

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.

Geography

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

Transport

Gisors is served by Gisors – Embranchement station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line and on regional rail lines.

ites 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. [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] Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.] [Nicholas Vincent, " [http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/vincent.htm William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux] ", in: "Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association" vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).] [" [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] ", Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.]

Notes

External links

* [http://wwww.montjoye.net/chateau_de_gisors The castle of Gisors ]
* [http://www.scholares.net/index.php?Gazetteer-Gisors Gazetteer Entry]


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