Tourcoing Explained

Tourcoing
Native Name:
Commune Status:Commune
Arrondissement:Lille
Canton:Tourcoing-1 and 2
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Tourcoing (Nord).svg
Image Flag:Flag of Tourcoing.svg
Insee:59599
Postal Code:59200
Mayor:Doriane Bécue[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Party:DVC
Intercommunality:Métropole Européenne de Lille
Coordinates:50.7239°N 3.1612°W
Elevation M:67
Area Km2:15.19

Tourcoing (in French tuʁkwɛ̃/; Dutch; Flemish: Toerkonje in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /tuːrˈkɔɲə/; Terkoeje; Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord.[2] Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants.

Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes,[3] Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the Métropole Européenne de Lille.[4] [5] [6] To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.[7]

History

The city was the site of a significant victory for France during the French Revolutionary Wars. Marshal Charles Pichegru and his generals Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau defeated a combined force of British and Austrian troops in the Battle of Tourcoing on 29 Floréal II (18 May 1794).[8]

Main sights

Transport

The Tourcoing station is a railway station offering direct connections to Lille and Paris (high speed trains), Kortrijk, Ostend, Ghent and Antwerp. The town was formerly served by the Somain-Halluin Railway.

Notable people

Guilbert de Lannoy (1545-) and his son Jean de Lannoy (1575-) were Protestants from Tourcoing who resettled in Leiden, Holland. Jean's son, Philip Delano (- ; born Philipe de la Noye or Philipe de Lannoy), was an early emigrant to the Plymouth Colony and progenitor of the prominent Delano family, which counts among its descendants prominent figures in American history, including president Franklin Roosevelt.[9]

Notable Startups

In 2013, Maxime Piquette and Charles De Potter founded iCreo, a digital audio company in Tourcoing. The company created RadioKing, a platform for internet radio, and Ausha, a platform for podcast hosting and marketing.[10] It received support from regional funders, Nord France Amorquage and IRD Gestion.[11] The company is now the platform for media outlets Le Figaro, Liberation, l'Équipe and AFP, as well as large corporations and independent content producers.[12]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France.

Twin towns - sister cities

Tourcoing is twinned with:[13]

Other forms of cooperation

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023. fr.
  2. https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/59599-tourcoing INSEE commune file
  3. Lecluyse . Frédérick . December 16, 2016 . MEL : on prend les mêmes ou presque et on recommence . MEL: let's take hardly the same ones and start over . fr . . 73 . 349, ROUBAIX & SES ALENTOURS . Roubaix, F . La Voix du Nord, S.A. . 4 . 1277-1422 . Bois-Grenier, Le Maisnil, Fromelles, Aubers et Radinghem-en-Weppes. Soit 6000 habitants supplémentaires pour une MEL qui compte désormais 90 communes… .
  4. Web site: Ezelin . Perrine . European Metropole of Lille Local Action Plan . CSI Europe URBACT . Edinburgh, UK . April 2, 2015 . 3 . 2015-07-22.
  5. Web site: URBACT . Lille . Edinburgh, UK . May 29, 2015 . 2015-07-22.
  6. Web site: Métropole Européenne de Lille : les vice-présidents et conseillers métropolitains délégués élus . European Metropolis of Lille : elected vice-presidents and metropolitan delegate-councilors . Neveu . Clarisse . December 15, 2016 . Communiqué de presse . Métropole Européenne de Lille . Lille, F . fr . MEL . 2016-12-18 . La fusion, effective au 1er janvier 2017, acte un élargissement historique du territoire de la Métropole Européenne de Lille, passant de 85 à 90 communes pour près d'1.2 million d'habitants..
  7. Web site: Durand . Frédéric . Theoretical framework of the cross border space production the case of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai . EUBORDERSCAPES . Luxembourg, L . May 12, 2015 . 18 . 2015-07-22.
  8. Book: Soboul, Albert . The French Revolution 1787–1799 . 1975 . Vintage . USA . 0-394-71220-X . 404 . registration .
  9. Web site: Pilgrim Village Families Sketch: Phillip Delano/De la Noye. American Ancestors. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 24 August 2014.
  10. Web site: 3 Questions a Maxime Piquette . City of Roubaix.
  11. Web site: Hamon-Beugin . Valentin . Ausha, une start-up française à la conquête du marché des podcasts . Economie . Le Figaro.
  12. Web site: Tucker . Charlotte . French startup Ausha raises €1.2 million to strengthen its podcast platform in France and Europe . EU Startups . Menlo Media.
  13. Web site: Villes Amies. tourcoing.fr. Tourcoing. fr. 2019-12-10.

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