Provins

Provins

France
      town, Seine-et-Marne département, Île-de-France région, north-central France. It lies in an agricultural region east-southeast of Paris. The older part of the city, the Ville-Haute (Upper Town), stands on a hill and is partly surrounded by medieval walls (12th and 13th-century). The Upper Town is dominated by a 12th-century keep known as the Tour de César, built on the site of a Roman fort. The 12th-century Grange-aux-Dîmes (tithe barn) houses a small museum of medieval sculpture. The Ville-Basse (Lower Town), founded in the 9th century by monks fleeing from the Normans, lies in the valley below.

      In the 13th century Provins was one of the most important towns in France, with a population of 80,000 inhabitants. It was a prosperous wool centre, and its fairs were famous all over Europe. (The town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001 for the preservation of its architecture and general layout, which had been designed specifically to hold the fairs.) At the end of the 13th century, its privileges were abrogated, and it began to decline. The cultivation of the red rose, which was imported by a crusader, flourished at Provins; and when Edmund “Crouchback,” younger son of Henry III of England, was suzerain of the town in the 13th century, he made the flower the badge of the house of Lancaster (Lancaster, House of). It became famous in the Wars of the Roses, the 15th-century English dynastic struggle, as opposed to the white rose of the house of York.

      Provins is an administrative and service centre with a number of light industries. Pop. (1999) 11,667; (2005 est.) 11,600.

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