Joué-lès-Tours

This article is about the commune. For the football club, see Joué-lès-Tours FCT.

Joué-lès-Tours (French pronunciation: [ʒwe lɛ tuʁ] ^ⓘ, literally Joué near Tours) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, central France.^[3]

Joué-lès-Tours
Commune
The church in Joué-lès-Tours
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Joué-lès-Tours
Joué-lès-Tours Show map of France Joué-lès-Tours Show map of Centre-Val de Loire
Coordinates: 47°21′05″N 0°39′45″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Joué-lès-Tours
Intercommunality	Tours Métropole Val de Loire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Frédéric Augis[1]
Area 1	33.41 km2 (12.90 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	38,432
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Jocondien, Jocondienne
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37122 /37300
Elevation	44–96 m (144–315 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,515 —     1800 1,777 +2.30% 1806 1,671 −1.02% 1821 1,700 +0.11% 1831 1,776 +0.44% 1836 1,769 −0.08% 1841 1,791 +0.25% 1846 1,780 −0.12% 1851 1,802 +0.25% 1856 1,845 +0.47% 1861 2,010 +1.73% 1866 2,043 +0.33% 1872 2,106 +0.51% 1876 2,302 +2.25% 1881 2,381 +0.68% 1886 2,470 +0.74% 1891 2,538 +0.54% 1896 2,462 −0.61% 1901 2,466 +0.03%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 2,595 +1.02% 1911 2,730 +1.02% 1921 3,143 +1.42% 1926 3,440 +1.82% 1931 4,163 +3.89% 1936 4,704 +2.47% 1946 5,684 +1.91% 1954 6,446 +1.58% 1962 9,074 +4.37% 1968 17,826 +11.91% 1975 27,450 +6.36% 1982 34,704 +3.41% 1990 36,798 +0.74% 1999 36,517 −0.09% 2007 35,836 −0.24% 2012 37,196 +0.75% 2017 37,893 +0.37% 2020 38,750 +0.75%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Toponymy

The name of Joué-lès-Tours appears in its form "Gaudiacus" in the 6th Century. It corresponds to a toponymic type frequently found in Christian Gaule, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France), Jouy (center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy (Normandy/Picardy), Gaugeac, Jaujac (south). It is composed of the Christian name "Gaudius", meaning "fortunate", "blessed" (gaudia > joy, in Latin) and with the Gallo-Roman suffix -ACU, meaning "place of", "property of".

History

The Hôtel de Ville

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1976.^[6] Joué-lès-Tours was the site of the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing.^[7]

Controversy

In February 2010 the mayor, Philippe Le Breton, added the word laïcité underneath the French national motto on the town hall's façade.^[8]

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department
• 2014 Tours police station stabbing