Touques, Calvados

Touques (French pronunciation: [tuk] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is situated on the river Touques, 3 km southeast of the sea resort Deauville.

History

Eliezer (ben Solomon) of Touques was a French tosafist, who lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon".
On 1 August 1417 Henry V of England, landed there.
On 7 March 2021 Olivier Dassault crash landed on board a helicopter there.

Population

International relations

Touques is twinned with:

Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
Strathspey, Scotland

See also

Communes of the Calvados department

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

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