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Coucy le Château Auffrique

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Aisne

Intercommunality
  
Val de l'Ailette

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:10 AM

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Arrondissement
  
Laon

Area
  
11.46 km²

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Canton
  
Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Weather
  
4°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 96% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Château de Coucy, Porte de Soissons, Église Saint‑Sauveur de Coucy

Coucy le ch teau auffrique


Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Its 1999 population for the commune was 995.

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Geography

Coucy is located west of Laon on the road between Tergnier (north) and Soissons (south) north-northeast of Paris.

The river Ailette forms most of the commune's southern border.

Personalities

  • Henri Carette
  • Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
  • Xavier Gargan
  • César de Vendôme, (b. June 7, 1594)
  • Ferdinand Stanislas Bigot (May 6, 1809–1890), mayor of Coucy-le-Château in the 1870s
  • François Pipelet de Leury, (1722–1809), director of the Royal Academic Surgery, doctor of the royal family, mayor of Coucy-le-Château for thirty years. Lieutenant of the first surgeon for the king.

    • Points of interests

  • Ruins of the Château de Coucy. The modern town is squeezed into the space within the medieval walls.
  • A medieval garden
  • Domaine de la Grangère (a green space for the garden of the governor's house at the time) - landmark classified in 1931
  • A church - rebuilt after World War I.

    • References

    Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique Wikipedia
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