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Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
Commune in Hauts-de-France, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique (French pronunciation: [kusi l(ə) ʃɑto ofʁik]; Picard: Couchi-Catieu-Aufrike) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
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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.
Population
Personalities
- Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
- Samson of Coucy
- Louis-Xavier Gargan
- César de Vendôme, (born 7 June 1594)
- Ferdinand Stanislas Bigot (6 May 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.
- Enguerrand VII de Coucy
- Barbin Pierre Philibert (1819-1868) born in Coucy-le-Chateau, grandfather of the actor Rudolph Valentino.
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.
- The forest nearby Coucy is the place where the Paris Gun was located and first used in WWI.
See also
References
External links
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