Joué-lès-Tours

Joué-lès-Tours
Joué-lès-Tours
	Commune
	The church in Joué-lès-Tours
	Coat of arms
	Location of Joué-lès-Tours
	Joué-lès-Tours Joué-lès-Tours
	Coordinates: 47°21′05″N 0°39′45″E / 47.3514°N 0.6625°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Joué-lès-Tours
Intercommunality	Tours Métropole Val de Loire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Frédéric Augis
Area 1	33.41 km2 (12.90 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2017)	37,893
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37122 /37300
Elevation	44–96 m (144–315 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Joué-lès-Tours (French pronunciation: [ʒwelɛtuʁ]) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,515	—
1800	1,777	+17.3%
1806	1,671	−6.0%
1821	1,700	+1.7%
1831	1,776	+4.5%
1836	1,769	−0.4%
1841	1,791	+1.2%
1846	1,780	−0.6%
1851	1,802	+1.2%
1856	1,845	+2.4%
1861	2,010	+8.9%
1866	2,043	+1.6%
1872	2,106	+3.1%
1876	2,302	+9.3%
1881	2,381	+3.4%
1886	2,470	+3.7%
1891	2,538	+2.8%
1896	2,462	−3.0%

Year	Pop.	±%
1901	2,466	+0.2%
1906	2,595	+5.2%
1911	2,730	+5.2%
1921	3,143	+15.1%
1926	3,440	+9.4%
1931	4,163	+21.0%
1936	4,704	+13.0%
1946	5,684	+20.8%
1954	6,446	+13.4%
1962	9,074	+40.8%
1968	17,826	+96.5%
1975	27,450	+54.0%
1982	34,704	+26.4%
1990	36,798	+6.0%
1999	36,517	−0.8%
2006	36,233	−0.8%
2009	36,000	−0.6%

Toponymy

The name of Joué-lès-Tours appears in its form "Gaudiacus" in the 6th Century. It corresponds to a toponymic type frequently found in Christian Gaule, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France), Jouy (center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy (Normandy/Picardy), Gaugeac, Jaujac (south). It is composed of the Christian name "Gaudius", meaning "fortunate", "blessed" (gaudia > joy, in Latin) and with the Gallo-Roman suffix -ACU, meaning "place of", "property of".

History

Joué-lès-Tours was the site of the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing.

Controversy

In February 2010 the mayor, Philippe Le Breton, added the word laïcité underneath the French national motto on the town hall's façade. The Muslim community of Joué-lès-Tours felt they were being "caricatured".

References

^ https://www.jouelestours.fr/joue-citoyen/organigramme-mairie/
^ "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

INSEE commune file
TF1 – Video on the inscription (in French)

External links

Official website (in French)

[1] ttps://www.jouelestours.fr/joue-citoyen/organigramme-mairie/

[2] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

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