Gisors () is a commune in the French department of Eure, Normandy, France. It is located northwest from the Kilometre Zero.
Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville, form an urban unit of 13,915 inhabitants (2018).[ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE] 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
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 station.
Sights
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Château de Gisors, built in the 11th century.
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The Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais parish church is an outstanding monument fusing Gothic and Renaissance architecture.
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A field near Gisors was the site of the Cutting of the elm, a medieval diplomatic incident.
[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.][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).][ 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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Château de Boisgeloup, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso.
See also
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Communes of the Eure department
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