Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
	Commune
	Ramparts
	Coat of arms
	Location of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
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	Coordinates: 49°31′13″N 3°19′21″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Laon
Canton	Vic-sur-Aisne
Government
• Mayor (2008–14)	Jean-Claude Dumont
Area 1	11.46 km2 (4.42 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	1,014
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	02217 /02380
Elevation	47–147 m (154–482 ft) ; (avg. 112 m or 367 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Its 1999 population for the commune was 995.

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.

Henri Carette
Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
Xavier Gargan
César de Vendôme, (b. June 7, 1594)
Ferdinand Stanislas Bigot (May 6, 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

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.

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