Gisors

Gisors, a town in the French department of Eure, on the Epte, 43 miles NW. of Paris by rail. Its double-aisled church, whose choir dates from the 13th century, has a splendid flamboyant portal; and the octagonal doujon of the ruined castle was built by Henry I. of England. Here Richard I. defeated the French in 1198; his watchword, Dieu et mon Droit, has ever since been the motto of the royal arms of England. Pop. 3960.