Touques, Calvados

Touques
Touques
Commune
	The church in Touques
	Coat of arms
	Location of Touques
	Touques Touques
	Coordinates: 49°20′36″N 0°06′10″E / 49.3433°N 0.1028°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Intercommunality	Cœur Côte Fleurie
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Colette Nouvel-Rousselot
Area 1	8.13 km2 (3.14 sq mi)
Population (2021)	3,802
• Density	470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14699 /14800
Elevation	2–149 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 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.