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Coordinates: 49°16′52″N 1°46′38″E / 49.2811111111°N 1.77722222222°E / 49.2811111111; 1.77722222222

Administration
Commune of Gisors
Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church as seen from the castle.
Location
Gisors
Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Les Andelys
Canton	Gisors
Intercommunality	Gisors-Epte-Lévrière
Mayor	Marcel Larmanou (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	47–142 m (150–470 ft) (avg. 74 m/240 ft)
Land area¹	16.67 km² (6.44 sq mi)
Population²	10,882 (1999 census)
- Density	653 /km² (1,690 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	27284/ 27140
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Gisors is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located 62.9 km (39.1 mi). (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.

1 Geography
2 Transport
3 Sites and monuments
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Geography

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

[edit] Transport

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

[edit] Sites 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Castle of Gisors.

Castle of Gisors

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

[edit] Notes

^ 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.

[edit] External links

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