Gisors

Gisors

City as seen from the castle terrasse

Coat of arms
Gisors

Coordinates: 49°16′52″N 1°46′38″E / 49.2811°N 1.7772°E / 49.2811; 1.7772Coordinates: 49°16′52″N 1°46′38″E / 49.2811°N 1.7772°E / 49.2811; 1.7772
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Eure
Arrondissement Les Andelys
Canton Gisors
Intercommunality Gisors-Epte-Lévrière
Government
  Mayor (2008–2014) Marcel Larmanou
Area1 16.67 km2 (6.44 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 11,681
  Density 700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 27284 / 27140
Elevation 47–142 m (154–466 ft)
(avg. 74 m or 243 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Gisors is a commune of Upper Normandy, France. It is located 62.9 km (39.1 mi) northwest from the centre 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 .

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 3,021    
1800 3,650+20.8%
1806 3,277−10.2%
1821 3,339+1.9%
1831 3,533+5.8%
1836 3,364−4.8%
1841 3,624+7.7%
1846 3,616−0.2%
1851 3,653+1.0%
1856 3,694+1.1%
1861 3,654−1.1%
1866 3,573−2.2%
1872 3,834+7.3%
1876 4,047+5.6%
1881 4,362+7.8%
1886 4,359−0.1%
1891 4,462+2.4%
1896 4,681+4.9%
1901 4,861+3.8%
1906 4,888+0.6%
1911 5,508+12.7%
1921 5,494−0.3%
1926 5,564+1.3%
1931 5,868+5.5%
1936 5,867−0.0%
1946 5,078−13.4%
1954 5,670+11.7%
1962 6,398+12.8%
1968 7,329+14.6%
1975 8,069+10.1%
1982 8,732+8.2%
1990 9,481+8.6%
1999 10,884+14.8%
2008 11,681+7.3%

Transport

The Gisors-Embranchement station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station.

Sights

See also

References

  1. 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 Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.
  2. Nicholas Vincent, "William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux", in: Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).
  3. 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.

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