Guise | |
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 Dungeon and basse court of the Château de Guise | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Guise | |
  Guise  Guise | |
| Coordinates: 49°54′03″N 3°37′42″E / 49.9008°N 3.6283°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Aisne |
| Arrondissement | Vervins |
| Canton | Guise |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Hugues Cochet[1] |
| Area 1 | 16.13 km2 (6.23 sq mi) |
| Population | 4,533 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (730/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 02361 /02120 |
| Elevation | 91–157 m (299–515 ft) (avg. 97 m or 318 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Guise (/ɡwiːz/ gweez, French pronunciation: [ɡɥiz]; Dutch: Wieze) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The city was the birthplace of the noble family of Guise, Dukes of Guise, who later became Princes of Joinville.
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Sights
The remains of the medieval castle of Guise, the seat of the Dukes of Guise, is within the commune.
Economy
Guise is the agricultural centre of the northern area of Aisne.
Miscellaneous
Guise was the birthplace of Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), a journalist and politician who played an important part in the French Revolution, and that of Jeanne Macherez who was a heroine during the World War I.
Over a period of 20 years, beginning about 1856, Jean-Baptiste Godin built the Familistery of Guise (the Social Palace), an industrial and communal residential complex that was a separate community within Guise. It expressed many of his ideas about developing social sympathy through improved housing and services for workers and their families, influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Charles Fourier. In 1880 Godin created a cooperative association by which the workers owned and managed the complex. This continued until 1968.
On the 29th of August 1914 the Battle of St. Quentin (1914) was fought in and around the town. A memorial in Guise celebrates this event.
See also
References
- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Guise, EHESS (in French).
- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
