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Tours
Tours, prefecture of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley, France; ancient Caesarodunum, city of Saint Martin and Louis XI. 139,259 inhabitants (2023), seat of Tours Métropole Val de Loire.
Trept
Trept, a commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (45°41'N 5°19'E), on the Isle Crémieu plateau; attested ancient place (BAtlas 17 E2), Roman limestone quarry, Oxfordian paleontology site, and active lime and cement quarry.
Troyes
Troyes, prefecture of the Aube in Grand Est, France, historic capital of Champagne. Gallo-Roman Augustobona; Champagne Fairs town; 16th-century half-timbered center; 19th-century hosiery capital; 62,088 inhabitants (2023).
Uzès
Uzès (Usès) is a Gard commune in Occitanie, southern France: Roman Ucetia, source of the 50 km aqueduct ending at the Pont du Gard, seat of the first duchy of France (1565), City of Art and History since 2008, 8,519 inhabitants in 2023.
Vannes
Vannes (Breton Gwened) is the prefecture of Morbihan in Brittany, France, founded as Gallo-Roman Darioritum. 55,790 inhabitants (2023), mayor David Robo, ducal Breton capital, half-timbered old town on the Gulf of Morbihan.
Varces-Allières-et-Risset
Varces-Allières-et-Risset (INSEE 38524) is an Isère commune south of Grenoble, formed 1 July 1955 by merging Allières-et-Risset with Varces; 8,542 inhabitants in 2023, member of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, between the Drac and Gresse rivers.
Vendres
Vendres, a commune in the Hérault department, Occitanie, France, on the Étang de Vendres, known for the Gallo-Roman villa "Temple de Vénus" with baths of about 80 AD, a circular fishpond tower, and a Roman aqueduct.
Vendresse
Vendresse, Ardennes commune (INSEE 08469) in Grand Est, France, about 20 km south of Charleville-Mézières; 479 inhabitants (2022). Known for the La Cassine château and Cordeliers convent (1571, 1579), the fortified 12th-century Saint-Martin church, and the les Longues Fauchées Iron Age site.
Ventavon
Ventavon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France, perched on a hilltop overlooking the Durance valley roughly midway between Gap and Sisteron.
Ver-lès-Chartres
Ver-lès-Chartres (INSEE 28403) is a rural commune in Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, 7 km south of Chartres in the Eure valley; 776 inhabitants (2023), part of Chartres Métropole, with the Cistercian Abbaye de l'Eau founded 1226 and mayor Max Van der Stichele.
Vercoiran
Vercoiran: a small commune of the Drôme, France, in the Baronnies near Buis-les-Baronnies, on the Ouvèze; known for the Sainte-Luce oppidum, a Gallo-Roman nymph altar, and a perched medieval village.
Verdun
Verdun (Meuse, Grand Est), French commune 55545 and sub-prefecture on the Meuse river; 16,890 inhabitants in 2023; site of the 1916 Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of World War I, with the Douaumont Ossuary and underground citadel.
Verneuil-en-Halatte
Verneuil-en-Halatte, Oise commune (INSEE 60670) between Senlis and Creil; 4,775 inhabitants in 2023; known for the Henri IV château ruins, the Bufosse Gallo-Roman villa, and the Alata technology park.
Versailles, Yvelines
Versailles (Yvelines), prefecture of the Yvelines department near Paris, royal seat from 1682, home of the Palace of Versailles; about 84,000 inhabitants, high incomes, costly housing, five rail stations, line 18 due 2030.
Vichy
Vichy, France: spa town in Allier on the River Allier, nicknamed reine des villes d'eaux, UNESCO-listed 2021 among the Great Spa Towns of Europe, and seat of the collaborationist Vichy regime 1940-1944; population 25,115.
Vierzon
Vierzon, commune and arrondissement seat in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the Yèvre and Cher rivers; industrial town famed for Société Française agricultural machinery and a major railway junction.
Villard-Notre-Dame
Villard-Notre-Dame, also historically Villard-Eymont, is a commune of Isère in the Oisans, perched above 1,500 m over Bourg-d'Oisans, with about 29 inhabitants, a medieval church, and the La Gardette gold and Le Pontet lead-silver mines.
Villebois
Villebois is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, east of Lyon, known for its fine white building limestone quarried from Roman times until 1970.
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Villefranche-sur-Mer (INSEE 06159) is a French Riviera commune in the Alpes-Maritimes near Nice, founded in 1295 by Charles II of Anjou, with a deep Mediterranean rade, the 1557 Citadelle Saint-Elme, and the Cocteau-decorated Chapelle Saint-Pierre; population 5,008 (2023).
Villers-sous-Ailly
Villers-sous-Ailly, a commune in the Somme (Hauts-de-France), France, INSEE code 80804; 167 inhabitants (2023); canton of Rue, arrondissement of Abbeville; known for a geometric Gallo-Roman villa found by aerial archaeology.
Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne, commune (INSEE 69266) in the Rhône, Métropole de Lyon, France; 163,684 inhabitants in 2023 on 14.5 km². Former Dauphiné town turned industrial suburb, known for the 1930s Gratte-Ciel district, the TNP theater, and ASVEL basketball.