Touques, Calvados

Touques
Touques
	Commune
	The church in Touques
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Touques Location within Normandy region Touques
	Coordinates: 49°20′36″N 0°06′10″E / 49.3433°N 0.1028°ECoordinates: 49°20′36″N 0°06′10″E / 49.3433°N 0.1028°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
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)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
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 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.

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