Tourcoing

Tourcoing is a city in northern France on the Belgian fringe. It is assigned municipally as a collective inside the departement of Nord. Situated toward the north-upper east of Lille, neighboring Roubaix, Tourcoing is the gourmet specialist lieu of two cantons and the fourth biggest city in the French locale of Hauts-de-France positioned by populace with around 94,000 occupants. Together with the urban areas of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six different cooperatives, Tourcoing is a piece of four-city-focused metropolitan territory possessed by more than 1.1 million individuals: the Metropole Europeenne de Lille.

To a more noteworthy degree, Tourcoing has a place with an immense conurbation framed with the Belgian urban communities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which brought forth the primary European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille– Kortrijk– Tournai with a total of a little more than 2 million occupants. The city was the site of a noteworthy triumph for France amid the French Revolutionary Wars. Marshal Charles Pichegru and his officers Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau vanquished a consolidated power of British and Austrian troops in the Battle of Tourcoing on 29 Floreal II.