Name	Tours
Region	Centre
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Subdivisions entry	Canton
Subdivisions	7 cantons
Mayor	Jean Germain
Term	2008–2014
Latitude	47.393611
Longitude	0.689167
Elevation min m	44
Elevation max m	109
Area km2	34.36
Population	136942
Population date	2006
Insee	37261
Postal code	37000, 37100, 37200 }}

Tours () is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.

It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers) of its local spoken French, and for the famous Battle of Tours in 732. It is also the site of the Paris–Tours road bicycle race. Tours is the largest city in the Centre region of France, although it is not the regional capital, which resides in its second-largest city of Orléans. In 2006, the city itself had 142,000 inhabitants and the metropolitan area had 306,974.

History

In Gallic times the city was important as a crossing point of the Loire. Becoming part of the Roman Empire during the first century AD, the city was named "Caesarodunum" ("hill of Caesar"). The name evolved in the 4th century when the original Gallic name, Turones, became first "Civitas Turonum" then "Tours". It was at this time that the amphitheatre of Tours, one of the five largest in the Empire, was built. Tours became the metropolis of the Roman province of Lugdunum towards 380–388, dominating the Loire Valley, Maine and Brittany. One of the outstanding figures of the history of the city was Saint Martin, second bishop who shared his coat with a naked beggar in Amiens. This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

Middle Ages

In the 6th century Gregory of Tours, author of the ''Ten Books of History'', made his mark on the town by restoring the cathedral destroyed by a fire in 561. Saint Martin's monastery benefited from its inception, at the very start of the 6th century from patronage and support from the Frankish king, Clovis, which increased considerably the influence of the saint, the abbey and the city in Gaul. In the 9th century, Tours was at the heart of the Carolingian Rebirth, in particular because of Alcuin abbot of Marmoutier.

In 732 AD, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and a large army of Muslim horsemen from Al-Andalus advanced 500 km deep into France, and were stopped at Tours by Charles Martel and his infantry igniting the Battle of Tours. The outcome was defeat for the Muslims, preventing France from Islamic conquest. In 845, Tours repulsed the first attack of the Viking chief Hasting (Haesten). In 850, the Vikings settled at the mouths of the Seine and the Loire. Still led by Hasting, they went up the Loire again in 852 and sacked Angers, Tours and the abbey of Marmoutier.

During the Middle Ages, Tours consisted of two juxtaposed and competing centres. The "City" in the east, successor of the late Roman 'castrum', was composed of the archiepiscopal establishment (the cathedral and palace of the archbishops) and of the castle of Tours, seat of the authority of the Counts of Tours (later Counts of Anjou) and of the King of France. In the west, the "new city" structured around the Abbey of Saint Martin was freed from the control of the City during the 10th century (an enclosure was built towards 918) and became "Châteauneuf". This space, organized between Saint Martin and the Loire, became the economic centre of Tours. Between these two centres remained Varenne, vineyards and fields, little occupied except for the Abbaye Saint-Julien established on the banks of the Loire. The two centres were linked during the 14th century. Tours is a good example of a medieval double city.

Tours became the capital of the county of Tours or Touraine, territory bitterly disputed between the counts of Blois and Anjou – the latter were victorious in the 9th century. It was the capital of France at the time of Louis XI, who had settled in the castle of Montils (today the castle of Plessis in La Riche, western suburbs of Tours), Tours and Touraine remained until the 16th century a permanent residence of the kings and court. The rebirth gave Tours and Touraine many private mansions and castles, joined together to some extent under the generic name of the Chateaux of the Loire. It is also at the time of Louis XI that the silk industry was introduced – despite difficulties, the industry still survives to this day,

16th–18th centuries

Charles IX passed through the city at the time of his royal tour of France between 1564 and 1566, accompanied by the Court and various noblemen: his brother the Duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, the cardinals of Bourbon and Lorraine. At this time, the Catholics returned to power in Angers: the intendant assumed the right to nominate the aldermen. The Massacre of Saint-Barthelemy was not repeated at Tours. The Protestants were imprisoned by the aldermen – a measure which prevented their extermination. The permanent return of the Court to Paris and then Versailles marked the beginning of a slow but permanent decline. Guillaume the Metayer (1763–1798), known as Rochambeau, the well known counter-revolutionary chief of Mayenne, was shot there on Thermidor 8, year VI.

19th–20th centuries

However, it was the arrival of the railway in the 19th century which saved the city by making it an important nodal point. The main railway station is known as Tours-Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. At that time, Tours was expanding towards the south into a district known as the Prébendes. The importance of the city as a centre of communications contributed to its revival and, as the 20th century progressed, Tours became a dynamic conurbation, economically oriented towards the service sector.

First World War

The city was greatly affected by the First World War. A force of 25,000 American soldiers arrived in 1917, setting up textile factories for the manufacture of uniforms, repair shops for military equipment, munitions dumps, an army post office and an American military hospital at Augustins. Thus Tours became a garrison town with a resident general staff. The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920. Three American air force squadrons, including the 492nd, were based at the Parçay-Meslay airfield, their personnel playing an active part in the life of the city. Americans paraded at funerals and award ceremonies for the Croix de Guerre; they also took part in festivals and their YMCA organised shows for the troops. Some men married girls from Tours.

Inter-war years

In 1920, the city was host to the Congress of Tours, which saw the creation of the French Communist Party.

Second World War

Tours was also marked by the Second World War. In 1940, the city suffered massive destruction and for four years it was a city of military camps and fortifications. From 10–13 June 1940, Tours was the temporary seat of the French government before its move to Bordeaux. German incendiary bombs caused a huge fire which blazed out of control from 20–22 June and destroyed part of the city centre. Some architectural masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries were lost, as was the monumental entry to the city. The Wilson Bridge (known locally as the 'stone bridge'), carried a water main which supplied the city; the bridge was dynamited to slow the progress of the German advance. With the water main severed and unable to extinguish the inferno, the inhabitants had no option but to flee to safety. More heavy air raids devastated the area around the railway station in 1944 causing several hundred deaths.

Post-war developments

A plan for the rebuilding of the downtown area drawn up by the local architect Camille Lefèvre was adopted even before the end of the war. The plan was for 20 small quadrangular blocks of housing to be arranged around the main road (la rue Nationale), which was widened. This regular layout attempted to echo, yet simplify, the 18th century architecture. Pierre Patout succeeded Lefèvre as the architect in charge of rebuilding in 1945. At one time there was talk of demolishing the southern side of the rue Nationale in order to make it in keeping with the new development.

The recent history of Tours is marked by the personality of Jean Royer, who was Mayor for 36 years and helped to save the old town from demolition by establishing one of the first Conservation Areas. This example of conservation policy would later inspire the Malraux Law for the safeguarding of historic city centres. In the 1970s, Jean Royer also extended the city to the south by diverting the course of the River Cher to create the districts of Rives du Cher and des Fontaines; at the time, this was one of the largest urban developments in Europe. In 1970, the François-Rabelais university was founded; this is centred on the bank of the Loire in the downtown area, and not – as it was then the current practice – in a campus in the suburbs. The latter solution was also chosen by the twin university of Orleans. Royer's long term as Mayor was, however, not without controversy, as exemplified by the construction of the practical – but aesthetically unattractive – motorway which runs along the bed of a former canal just 1500 metres from the cathedral. Another bone of contention was the original Vinci Congress Centre by Jean Nouvel. This project incurred debts although it did, at least, make Tours one of France's principal conference centres.

Jean Germain became Mayor in 1995 and made debt reduction his priority. Ten years later, his economic management is regarded as much wiser than that of his predecessor, the financial standing of the city having returned to a stability. However, the achievements of Jean Germain are criticised by the municipal opposition for a lack of ambition: no large building projects comparable with those of Jean Royer have been instituted under his double mandate. This position is disputed by those in power, who affirm their policy of concentrating on the quality of life, as evidenced by urban restoration, the development of public transport and cultural activities.

Main sights

Tours Cathedral

The cathedral of Tours, dedicated to Saint Gatien, its canonized first bishop, was begun about 1170 to replace the cathedral that was burnt out in 1166, during the dispute between Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. The lowermost stages of the western towers (''illustration, above left'') belong to the 12th century, but the rest of the west end is in the profusely detailed Flamboyant Gothic of the 15th century, completed just as the Renaissance was affecting the patrons who planned the châteaux of Touraine. These towers were being constructed at the same time as, for example, the Château de Chenonceau.

When the 15th century illuminator Jean Fouquet was set the task of illuminating Josephus's ''Jewish Antiquities'', his depiction of Solomon's Temple was modeled after the nearly-complete cathedral of Tours. The atmosphere of the Gothic cathedral close permeates Honoré de Balzac's dark short novel of jealousy and provincial intrigues, ''Le Curé de Tours'' (''The Curate of Tours'') and his medieval story ''Maitre Cornélius'' opens within the cathedral itself.

Other points of interest

Jardin botanique de Tours, the municipal botanical garden

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours

Language

The inhabitants of Tours (''Les Tourangeaux'') are renowned for speaking the "purest" form of French in the entire country. The pronunciation of Touraine is traditionally regarded as the most standard pronunciation of the French language, supposedly devoid of any perceived accent (unlike that of most other regions of France, including Paris). Gregory of Tours wrote in the 6th century that some people in this area could still speak Gaulish.

City

The city of Tours has a population of 140,000 and is called "Le Jardin de la France" ("The Garden of France"). There are several parks located within the city. Tours is located between two rivers, the Loire to the north and the Cher to the south. The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate (called ''Ardoise'') roofs; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs.

Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called ''le Vieux Tours''. Unique to the Old City are its preserved half-timbered buildings and ''la Place Plumereau'', a square with busy pubs and restaurants, whose open-air tables fill the centre of the square. The Boulevard Beranger crosses the Rue Nationale at the Place Jean-Jaures and is the location of weekly markets and fairs.

Tours is famous for its many bridges crossing the river Loire. One of them, the Pont Wilson, collapsed in 1978, but was rebuilt just like it was before.

Near the cathedral, in the garden of the ancient Palais des Archevêques (now ''Musée des Beaux-Arts''), is a huge cedar tree planted by Napoleon. The garden also has in an alcove a stuffed elephant, Fritz. He escaped from the Barnum and Bailey circus during their stay in Tours in 1902. He went mad and had to be shot down, but the city paid to honor him, and he was stuffed as a result.

Tours is home to François Rabelais University, the site of one of the most important choral competitions, called ''Florilège Vocal de Tours'' International Choir Competition, and is a member city of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing.

Transport

Today, with its extensive rail (including TGV) and autoroute links to the rest of the country, Tours is a jumping off point for tourist visits to the Loire Valley and the royal chateaux.

Tours is on one of the main lines of the TGV. It is possible to travel to the west coast at Bordeaux in two and a half hours, to the Mediterranean coast via Avignon and from there to Spain and Barcelona, or to Lyon, Strasbourg and Lille. It takes less than one hour by train from Tours to Paris by TGV and one hour and a half to Charles de Gaulle airport. Tours has two main stations: the central station Gare de Tours and Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, which is just outside the center, and is the station which is used by trains that do not terminate in Tours.

Tours Loire Valley Airport connects the Loire Valley to London Stansted Airport and Dublin. These links are provided by the Irish airline Ryanair. National connections to Figari on Corsica, Porto and Marseille are also available during the summer.

Tours does not have a metro rail system, instead there is a bus service, the main central stop being ''Jean Jaures,'' which is next to the Hôtel de Ville, and ''rue Nationale'', the high street of Tours. A tram network is under construction; completion is expected in September 2013, and 21 Citadis trams have been ordered from Alstom design by French design agency RCP Design Global.

Catholics from Tours

Tours is a special place for Catholics who follow the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. It was in Tours in 1843 that a Carmelite nun, Sister Marie of St Peter reported a vision which started the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, in reparation for the many insults Christ suffered in His Passion. The ''Golden Arrow Prayer'' was first made public by her in Tours.

The Venerable Leo Dupont also known as The Holy Man of Tours lived in Tours at about the same time. In 1849 he started the nightly adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Tours, from where it spread within France. Upon hearing of Sister Marie of St Peter’s reported visions, he started to burn a vigil lamp continuously before a picture of the Holy Face of Jesus and helped spread the devotion within France. The devotion was eventually approved by Pope Pius XII in 1958 and he formally declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Roman Catholics. The Oratory of the Holy Face on Rue St. Etienne in Tours receives many pilgrims every year.

Tours has further Christian connotations in that the pivotal Battle of Tours in 732 is often considered the very first decisive victory over the invading Islamic forces, turning the tide against them. The battle also helped lay the foundations of the Carolingian Empire

Births

Tours was the birthplace of:

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), novelist

Berengarius of Tours (999–1088), theologian

Bernard of Tours (fl. 1147, d. before 1178), philosopher and poet

Yves Bonnefoy (born 1923), poet

Abraham Bosse (1604–1676), artist

Georges Courteline (1858–1929), dramatist and novelist

Emile Delahaye (1843–1905), automobile pioneer

Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754), dramatist

Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), painter

Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870), mathematician

Cedric Mpununu footballer

Josselin Ouanna tennis player

Laurent Petitguillaume (1960), radio and television host

Nâdiya (1973), singer

Harry Roselmack television presenter

Ludovic Roy footballer

Philippe de Trobriand (1816–1897), author, American military officer

Louise de la Vallière (1644–1710), courtesan

Zaz (born 1980), singer

Luc Ducalcon (born 1984), rugby union player

Maxime Sauvé (born 1990), professional hockey player

Twin towns

Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, since 1962 Segovia, Spain, since 1972 Parma, Italy, since 1976 Luoyang, People's Republic of China, since 1982 Springfield, USA, since 1984 Trois-Rivières, Canada, since 1987 Takamatsu, Japan, since 1988 Braşov, Romania, since 1990 Minneapolis, USA, since 1991

Gallery

Notes

See also

Bishop of Tours

University of Tours

Tours FC – a soccer club based in the town.

External links

Official website

Tours on French version of Wikipedia

Tours and its agglomeration on video (from www.toursmetropole.fr)

Architecture of Tours

François Rabelais University, Tours

Satellite picture by Google Maps

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name	Bill Burr
birth date	June 10, 1968
birth place	Canton, Massachusetts U.S.
medium	Stand-up
nationality	United States
active	May 1992 – present |
genre	Cringe humor, Black comedy, Blue comedy, Observational comedy
subject	Dating, Human sexuality, Race relations, Political correctness, Professional sports
influences	Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, George Carlin
website	billburr.com, MMpodcast
footnotes	}}

William "Bill" Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Life and career

Burr was born in Canton, Massachusetts. His father was a dentist, and Bill worked as a hygienist for a short time. He began stand-up at age 23 after attending Emerson College. In 1995, he moved to New York City and lived there for eight months. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked on a number of film and television projects. He returned to New York in 1999 and moved back to Los Angeles in 2008, where he currently resides.

He performs over three hundred shows annually, had two movies released in 2006, and has performed on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'', ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', and ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''. In early 2004, he appeared in two episodes of ''Chappelle's Show'', and in September 2005, his HBO ''One Night Stand'' special aired. Along with many other projects, Burr has also been a guest comedian on the Bob and Tom Show as well as on the ''Opie and Anthony Show'' on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed on the ''Comedy Central Presents'' show.

On December 16, 2006, Burr hosted a three-hour radio show on Opie and Anthony's XM radio channel program ''The Virus'' (channel 202) titled "''Uninformed'' with Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa" from 9pm-12am. The second ''Uninformed'' show aired February 10, 2007 from 9pm-12am, and the show has continued to run on an irregular schedule about once a month. Since Burr's move to Los Angeles, it has primarily been a pre-taped show, rather than live. The show's collection of free podcasts can be found at http://www.uninformedradio.com/

In September 2007, Burr signed with Colorado independent label What Are Records?. His debut album ''Emotionally Unavailable: Expanded Edition'' was released October 16, 2007. ''Emotionally Unavailable'' carries content previously available only in Burr’s stand-up shows. It features a completely unedited set with Burr covering topics from rednecks to inadvertent racism to relationship books to crazy people on the subway. The ''Expanded Edition'' augments that album with previously unreleased highlights from a different tour - the Houston stop of the ''I’m Rich Biatch Tour'' which Bill co-headlined with ''Chappelle's Show'' cast mates Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings. Much of the material from this tour later turned up on Burr’s HBO stand-up special.

As with other comics associated with ''The Opie & Anthony Show'', in 2008, Burr's voice was featured in the game ''Grand Theft Auto IV''. In the game, Bill plays Jason Michaels of the biker gang the The Lost MC in the mission "No Love Lost". In 2009, he reprised his role in the game's expansion pack ''The Lost and Damned''. He is a Boston Bruins fan and periodically blogs for NHL.com.

He admitted on Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Podcast that he is afraid of the ocean. Burr's most recent special is entitled "Let It Go" which premiered on Comedy Central on September 18, 2010 and was shot at the Fillmore in San Francisco, California. He is referred to by several in the industry as the "Comedian's Comedian". This was confirmed on the Jason Ellis show Dec 2010.

Burr's brother, Robert, is a selectman from Canton, Massachusetts and was briefly a candidate to fill the Massachusetts' vacant seat in the United States Senate after the death of Ted Kennedy in 2009.

He appeared in the movie "Date Night" as Detective Walsh.

Burr also mentioned on the June 6, 2011 edition of his popular Monday Morning Podcast that he will appear in season 4 of the hit show, "Breaking Bad".

Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast

Since May 2007, Bill Burr has recorded a weekly 1 hour podcast. In his podcast, which is notionally uploaded Monday mornings, Bill rants and rambles with cynical insights into the world of comedy, sports, relationships, religion, politics, customer service, and conspiracy theories. The podcast can be found at http://www.billburr.com/podcast/. theMMpodcast.com hosts all of Bill's Monday Morning Podcast content.

Burr also appears as a guest on other comedians' podcasts, such as Adam Carolla's podcast (June 16, 2010), The Joe Rogan Experience (June 16, 2010), WTF with Marc Maron (January 11, 2010), and Chris Hardwick's Nerdist podcast (June 29, 2010), where Burr wondered if anyone in the podcast audience was putting trivia about him on Wikipedia based on what he said, specifically whether people know he's terrified of the ocean because of the movie ''Jaws''. Burr was also the very first guest on the Tom Green podcast. On April 18, 2011 he guest hosted the Hollywood Babble-On podcast alongside Ralph Garman, taking the place of a sick Kevin Smith.

Discography

''Emotionally Unavailable: Expanded Edition'' (2007)

''Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?'' (2008)

''Bill Burr: Let It Go'' (2010)

References

External links

Official website

Uninformed Official Page on MySpace

Burr's home on What Are Records?

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name	Samantha Brown
birth name	Samantha Elizabeth Brown
birth date	March 31, 1969
birth place	Dallas, Texas, U.S.
height	5' 3"
weight	115 lbs.
spouse	Kevin O'Leary (2006-present)
occupation	TV personality, TV show host
website	}}

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1969) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including ''Girl Meets Hawaii'', ''Great Vacation Homes'', ''Great Hotels'', ''Passport to Europe'', ''Passport to Latin America'', ''Great Weekends'', ''Passport to China'', and ''Samantha Brown's Asia''. Ms. Brown is known for her perky disposition. She is currently a resident of Brooklyn, New York.

Personal life

Brown was born in Dallas, Texas. Her family soon moved to Derry, New Hampshire, where she grew up and graduated from Pinkerton Academy. She took 12 years of voice lessons, attended Chapman University, and transferred to Syracuse University to study musical theater. As stated in one of her episodes in Passport to Europe, she is of Scottish and German descent.

Professional work

Brown's early career included working in commercials, including playing the spokesperson "Wendy Wire" for a company called Century Cable. She is involved in the comedy sketch group "Mouth", based in New York, where she has lived for ten years. Brown has appeared in the ''HP Pavilion'' "Computer is Personal Again" commercials. Additionally, she is the spokesperson for ECCO shoes. Brown is also a spokesperson in a 2009 commercial for Cedar Point amusement park.

Travel host

In 1999 and 2000, the Travel Channel was looking for a travel host, and Brown was chosen after a series of auditions. In her role of host, she introduces viewers to vacation destinations and hotels in the United States and around the world, as well as showcasing restaurants and activities at those destinations. As a travel host, Brown travels 230 days out of the year and takes eight days to film an hour-long episode.

Since joining the network, Brown has hosted several series including ''Girl Meets Hawaii'', ''Great Vacation Homes'', ''Great Hotels'', ''Passport to Europe'', ''Passport to Great Weekends'', and ''Passport to Latin America''.

In addition to her regular shows, Brown has hosted several Travel Channel specials, such as the 2006 all-access special ''Great Cruises: Freedom of the Seas with Samantha Brown'' aboard the ''Freedom of the Seas'' cruise ship, the largest passenger ship in the world at the time of its launch. Prior to that, she hosted a 12-night Mediterranean Venice cruise aboard the ''Brilliance of the Seas'' cruise ship. The accompanying show was entitled ''Samantha Brown's First Cruise''. In 2007, she hosted a special entitled ''Passport to Green Getaways'', a travelogue to three eco-friendly destinations in North America.

In 2007, Brown had two shows in production. In April 2007, Discovery Networks announced that she would host a new series titled ''Passport to Great Weekends ... With Samantha Brown'' featuring Brown exploring 48-hour vacation locations in the US and abroad. In September 2007, she was in Beijing, filming ''Passport to China'', which aired in July 2008, just ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

In 2008, Brown debuted ''Passport to Great Weekends'', which showcased her in a more informal light as well as following her on more unique, off-the-beaten-path vacations. Episodes would follow the format of her arrival at a destination on a Friday afternoon and conclude with her leaving on Sunday evening. The second season's title was changed to Samantha Brown's Great Weekends and featured a new introduction, but mostly the same format.

On February 8, 2010, the Travel Channel presented "Samantha Brown's 10th Anniversary Special" to commemorate Brown's ten years as host.

On April 9, 2010, she made a special guest appearance on ''The Price Is Right'' to present a travel-themed showcase.

On July 12, 2010, her new series was released on the Travel Channel, "Samantha Brown's Asia"

References

External links

Travel Channel :: Samantha Brown

Samantha Brown at TV.com

Samantha Brown's Blog

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