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Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

in the Aisne

Aisne

Aisne is a department in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River.- History :Aisne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Île-de-France, Picardie, and Champagne.Most of the old...

department in Picardy

Picardy

This article is about the historical French province. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is a historical province of France, in the north of France...

in northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Its 1999 population for the commune was 995.

Geography

Coucy is located west of Laon

Laon

Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...

on the road between Tergnier

Tergnier

Tergnier is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-Population:...

(north) and Soissons

Soissons

Soissons is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France, located on the Aisne River, about northeast of Paris. It is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones...

(south) north-northeast of Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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The river Ailette

Ailette (river)

The Ailette is a long river in the Aisne département, eastern France. Its source is at Sainte-Croix. It flows generally west-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Oise into which it flows between Manicamp and Quierzy, northeast of Compiègne....

forms most of the commune's southern border.

Personalities

Henri Carette
Henri Carette
Henri Carette was a French counsellor-general.A member of the council general of Aisne for the canton of Coucy-le-Château. He married a grand-daughter of admiral Bouvet, a lecturer of Empress Eugenie, who had published two volumes with personal memories on the Tuileries in the Second French Empire....
Xavier Gargan
César de Vendôme, (b. June 7, 1594)
Ferdinand Stanislas Bigot, mayor from May 6, 1809–1890
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.

Points of interests

Ruins of the Château de Coucy
Château de Coucy
The Château de Coucy is a French castle in the commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, in the département of Aisne, built in the 13th century and renovated by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th...

. 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
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

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External links

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