Touques, Calvados

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Touques

(2020–2026) Colette Nouvel-Rousselot^[1]Area

8.13 km² (3.14 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,802 • Density470/km² (1,200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14699 /14800

Elevation2–149 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.

Touques (French pronunciation: [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.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,587	—
1975	1,561	−0.24%
1982	2,237	+5.27%
1990	3,070	+4.04%
1999	3,500	+1.47%
2007	3,898	+1.36%
2012	3,920	+0.11%
2017	3,679	−1.26%
Source: INSEE^[3]

International relations

Touques is twinned with:

Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
Strathspey, Scotland

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE