Sorgues

Sorgues
Sorgues
	Commune
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Sorgues
	Sorgues Sorgues
	Coordinates: 44°00′33″N 4°52′23″E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Avignon
Canton	Sorgues
Intercommunality	Pays de Rhône et Ouvèze
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Alain Milon
Area 1	33.4 km2 (12.9 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	18,680
• Density	560/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	84129 /84700
Elevation	14–114 m (46–374 ft) ; (avg. 30 m or 98 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sorgues (Provençal: Sòrgas) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

It is also the name of a river running through the area. The Sorgues River is a tributary of the Rhone which begins at the Fontaine de Vaucluse.

Personalities

According to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque lived in Sorgues after being wounded during the First World War.[2]

gollark: The D stands for "distributed".

gollark: That is definitionally not "D"DOSing.

gollark: They may just have really awful flash which wears out stupidly fast, or bad wear-levelling.

gollark: I think they just want to load an installer entirely into memory, install to a disk (overwriting the installer), then boot into that.

gollark: There are some ultraminimal ones designed to run from memory and I think the void installer has it as a boot option.

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (26 April 2001), page 201

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