Gisors
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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.
Geography
Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy, at the confluence of the rivers Epte, Troesne and Réveillon.
Population
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Transport
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.
Sights
- 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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The so-called Grosse Tour ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.
