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==<FONT COLOR="#0000CC">'''HISTORY OF TROYES'''</FONT>==
Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as '''Augustobona Tricassium''', which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa which led north to [[Reims]] and south to Langres and eventually to Milan, other Roman routes from Troyes led to [[Poitiers]], Autun and [[Orléans]]. It was the ''civitas'' of the Tricasses, who had been separated by Augustus from the Senones. Of the Gallo-Roman city of the early Empire, some scattered remains have been found, but no public monuments, other than traces of an aqueduct. By the Late Empire the settlement was reduced in extent, and referred to as '''Tricassium''' or '''Tricassae''', the origin of French Troyes ("three"). 
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The city was the seat of a bishop from the fourth century — the legend of its bishop Lupus of Troyes, who saved the city from Attila by offering himself as hostage is hagiographic rather than historical though it was several centuries before it gained importance as a medieval centre of commerce.
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In the early cathedral on the present site, Louis the Stammerer in 878 received at Troyes the imperial crown from the hands of Pope John VIII. At the end of the ninth century, following depredations to the city by Normans, the Count of Champagne chose Troyes as their capital; it remained the capital of the Province of Champagne until the French Revolution. The Abbey of Saint-Loup developed a renowned library and scriptorium.  During the Middle Ages, it was an important trading town, and gave its name to troy weight. The Champagne fairs and the revival of long-distance trade and new extension of coinage and credit were the real engines that drove the medieval economy of Troyes. 
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In 1285, when Philip the Fair united Champagne to the Crown lands of France, the town kept a number of its traditional privileges. John the Fearles, Duke of Burgundy and ally of the English, aimed in 1417 at making Troyes the capital of France, and he came to an understanding with Isabeau of of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France, that a court, council, and parlement with comptroller's offices should be established at Troyes. It was at Troyes, then in the hands of the Burgundians, that on 21 May, 1420, the Treaty of Troyes was signed by which Henry V of England was betrothed to Catherine, daughter of Charles VI, and by terms of which he was to succeed Charles, to the detriment of the Dauphin. The high watermark of Plantagenet hegemony in France was reversed when the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII of France, and Joan of Arc recovered the town of Troyes in 1429. 
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The great fire of 1524 destroyed much of the medieval city, in spite of the city's numerous canals.
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'''''More informations about the History of Troyes on the [[wikipedia:Troyes]] !'''''