Touques, Calvados Explained

Touques
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	CoA_fr_Touques.svg
Arrondissement:	Lisieux
Canton:	Honfleur-Deauville
Insee:	14699
Postal Code:	14800
Mayor:	Colette Nouvel-Rousselot^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Cœur Côte Fleurie
Coordinates:	49.3433°N 0.1028°W
Elevation M:	6
Elevation Min M:	2
Elevation Max M:	149
Area Km2:	8.13

Touques (in French pronounced as /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.

International relations

Touques is twinned with:

• Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
• Strathspey, Scotland

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.