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Country
  
France

Department
  
Calvados

Intercommunality
  
Cœur Côte Fleurie

Area
  
8.13 km²

Arrondissement
  
Lisieux

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Trouville-sur-Mer

Population (2008)
  
4,033

Local time
  
Monday 8:37 PM

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Weather
  
12°C, Wind N at 6 km/h, 64% Humidity

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.

Contents

Map of Touques, France

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.

    • International relations

    Touques is twinned with:

  • Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
  • Strathspey, Scotland

    • References

    Touques, Calvados Wikipedia
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