Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

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.

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.

Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
Samson of Coucy
Louis-Xavier Gargan [fr]
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.

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.

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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