Touques, Calvados

Touques
Coat of arms
Touques
Location within Lower Normandy region Touques
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Trouville-sur-Mer
Intercommunality	Cœur Côte Fleurie
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Colette Nouvel-Rousselot
Area1	8.13 km2 (3.14 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	4,033
• Density	500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	14699 / 14800
Elevation	2–149 m (6.6–488.8 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 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.

Touques is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie 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.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,469	—
1968	1,587	+8.0%
1975	1,561	−1.6%
1982	2,237	+43.3%
1990	3,070	+37.2%
1999	3,500	+14.0%
2006	3,848	+9.9%
2008	4,033	+4.8%

International relations

Touques is twinned with:

• Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
• Strathspey, Scotland

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official site