Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Geography

Population

Personalities

• Henri Carette
• Moses ben Jacob of Coucy
• Xavier Gargan
• César de Vendôme,
• Ferdinand Stanislas Bigot, mayor of Coucy-le-Château in the 1870s
• François Pipelet de Leury,, director of the Royal Academic Surgery, doctor of the royal family, mayor of Coucy-le-Château for thirty years. Lieutenant of the first surgeon for the king.
• Enguerrand VII de Coucy

  Points of interests

• Ruins of the Château de Coucy. The modern town is squeezed into the space within the medieval walls.
• A medieval garden
• Domaine de la Grangère - landmark classified in 1931
• A church - rebuilt after World War I.
• The forest nearby Coucy is the place where the Paris Gun was located and first used in WWI.