Joué-lès-Tours (, literally ''Joué near Tours'') is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire

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in central France. It is the largest

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

Population

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

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, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France),

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(center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy ( Normandy/

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(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 On 20 December 2014, a man in Joué-lès-Tours near the city of Tours in central France entered a police station and attacked officers with a knife, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and injuring three before he was shot and killed. The attack was categoris ...

Controversy

In February 2010 the mayor, Philippe Le Breton, added the word '' laïcité'' underneath the French national motto on the town hall's façade.Video on the inscription

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(in French) The

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community of Joué-lès-Tours felt they were being "caricatured".

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