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| caption = Counterclockwise from top: Place Drouet-d'Erlon; arch in the [[Porte de Mars]]; [[Reims Cathedral]]
|population demonym = Rémois
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'''Reims''' ({{IPAc-en
Founded by the [[Gauls]], Reims became a major city in the [[Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|article=Reims|title=[[Petit Larousse|Nouveau petit Larousse]]|year=1971|page=1638}}</ref> Reims later played a prominent ceremonial role in [[history of France|French monarchical history]] as the traditional site of the coronation of the [[
Reims is recognized for the diversity of its heritage, ranging from [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] to [[Art Deco|Art-déco]]. [[Reims Cathedral]], the adjacent [[Palace of Tau]], and the [[Abbey of Saint-Remi]] were listed together as a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]] in 1991 because of their outstanding Romanesque and Gothic architecture and their historical importance to the French monarchy.<ref name = "unesco">{{cite web |url = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/601 |title = Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims |website = UNESCO World Heritage Centre |publisher = United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |access-date = 17 October 2021}}</ref> Reims also lies on the northern edge of the [[Champagne wine region]] and is linked to its production and export.
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[[File:Porte de Mars.jpg|thumb|left|[[Porte de Mars]], from the 3rd or 4th century<ref name=EB1911/>]]
Before the Roman conquest of northern [[Gaul]], Reims had served as the [[Remi]] tribe's capital, founded {{Circa|80 BC}}. In the course of [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[
{{cite book|title= An Historical Geography of France|author1= de Planhol, X.|author2= Claval, P.|date= 1994|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9780521322089|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C19glZh7zfoC|page= 47|access-date= 10 October 2014}}
</ref> Reims was first called {{lang|la|[[Durocortorum]]}}<ref>{{Cite book|author=Félix Gaffiot|author-link=Félix Gaffiot|title=[[Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français|Dictionnaire latin-français]]|year=1934|page=566}}</ref> in [[Latin]], which is hypothesized to derive from a [[
Christianity had become established in the city by 260, at which period Saint [[Sixtus of Reims]] founded the [[
[[File:St Remy Bishop of Rheims begging of Clovis the restitution of the Sacred Vase taken by the Franks in the Pillage of Soissons.png|thumb|left|[[Saint Remigius]], Bishop of Reims, begging [[Clovis I|Clovis]] of the restitution of the Sacred Vase taken by the Franks in the pillage of Soissons. From the manuscript of the ''History of the Emperors'' ([[
In 496—ten years after [[Clovis I|Clovis]], King of the Salian Franks, won his victory at [[Soissons]] (486)—[[Saint Remigius|Remigius]], the bishop of Reims, baptized him using the oil of the sacred phial–purportedly brought from heaven by a dove for the baptism of Clovis and subsequently preserved in the [[Abbey of Saint-Remi]].<ref name=EB1911/> For centuries the events at the crowning of Clovis I became a symbol used by the monarchy to claim the [[Divine right of kings|divine right]] to rule.
Meetings of [[Pope Stephen II]] (752–757) with [[
By the 10th century, Reims had become a centre of intellectual culture. Archbishop [[Adalberon, archbishop of Rheims|Adalberon]] (in office 969 to 988), seconded by the monk Gerbert (afterwards (from 999 to 1003) [[Pope Silvester II]]), founded schools which taught the classical "[[liberal arts]]". (Adalberon also played a leading role in the dynastic revolution which elevated the [[Capetian dynasty]] in the place of the [[Carolingian]]s.)<ref name=EB1911/>
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[[File:Ingres coronation charles vii.jpg|thumb|[[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]], ''[[Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII]]'', 1854 ([[Louvre]])]]
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During the [[French Wars of Religion]] the city sided with the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]] (1585), but submitted to King [[
The city was stricken with plague in 1635, and again in 1668, followed by an epidemic of typhus in 1693–1694.<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=Population|first=J.-M.|last=R.|title=Benoit R. — ''Vivre et mourir à Reims au Grand Siècle (1580-1720)'' [compte-rendu]|language=fr|year=2000|volume=55|issue=2|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/pop_0032-4663_2000_num_55_2_7132|pages=405–406|doi=10.2307/1535044|jstor=1535044}}</ref> The construction of the {{lang|fr|[[Hôtel de Ville, Reims|Hôtel de Ville]]|italic=no}} dates back to the same century.
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[[File:Aviatiker-Woche Reims 1909.jpg|thumb|left|A month after Blériot's crossing of the English Channel in a biplane, the aviation week in Reims (August 1909) caught special attention.]]
On 30 October 1908, [[Henri Farman]] made the first cross-country flight from [[
[[File:France, Reims and its cathedral, 1916.jpg|thumb|Reims in 1916]]
Hostilities in [[World War I]] greatly damaged the city. [[German Army (German Empire)|German]] bombardment and a subsequent fire in 1914 did severe damage to the cathedral.<ref name="smarthistory">{{
During [[World War II]], the city suffered additional damage. On the morning of 7 May 1945, at 2:41, General Eisenhower and the Allies received the [[unconditional surrender]] of the German [[Wehrmacht]] in Reims. General [[Alfred Jodl]], German Chief-of-Staff, signed the surrender at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ([[SHAEF]]) as the representative for German President [[Karl Dönitz]].
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[[Reims Cathedral]] is an example of [[French Gothic architecture]].
The [[Basilica of Saint-Remi]], founded in the 11th century "over the chapel of St. Christophe where [[
The Church of Saint-Jacques dates from the 13th to the 16th centuries. A few blocks from the cathedral, it stands {{as of | 2009 | lc = on}} in a neighbourhood of shopping and restaurants. The churches of Saint-Maurice (partly rebuilt in 1867), Saint-André,<ref name=EB1911/> and Saint-Thomas (erected from 1847 to 1853, under the patronage of [[Cardinal Gousset]], now buried within its walls<ref name=EB1911/>) also draw tourists.
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[[File:Reims - temple (13).JPG|thumb|A stained glass window of the [[Protestant Church of Reims]]|267x267px]]The [[Protestant Church of Reims]], built in 1921–1923 over designs by [[Charles Letrosne]], is an example of [[flamboyant]] neo-Gothic architecture.
The [[Hôtel de Ville, Reims|Hôtel de Ville]], erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a [[pediment]] with an equestrian statue of [[
[[Narcisse Brunette]] was the architect of the city for nearly 50 years in the 19th century. He designed the [[Reims Manège and Circus]], which "combines stone and brick in a fairly sober classical composition."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Architecture in France, 1800–1900|page=92|author1=Lemoine, Bertrand|author2=Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dVPAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|isbn=9780810940901}}</ref>
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[[File:Reims - musée de la Reddition (01).JPG|thumb|The Museum of the Surrender]]
The Museum of the Surrender is the building in which on 7 May 1945, [[
===Theaters===
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===Sports===
[[File:Circuit de Reims-Gueux - 002.jpg|thumb|left|[[Reims-Gueux]] circuit]]
Between 1925 and 1969, Reims hosted the ''[[Grand Prix de la Marne]]'' [[
{{As of | 2021}}, the football club ''[[Stade Reims]]'', based in the city, competed in the [[Ligue 1]], the highest tier of French football. ''Stade Reims'' became the outstanding team of France in the 1950s and early 1960s and reached the final of the [[European Cup of Champions]] twice in that era.
In October 2018, the city hosted the second [[Teqball]] World Cup.<ref>{{
The city has hosted the [[Reims Marathon]] since 1984.
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Those born in Reims include:
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* [[Adolphe d'Archiac]] (1802–1868), geologist and [[
* [[Jean Baudrillard]] (1929–2007), [[
* {{Interlanguage link multi|Olivier de Benoist|fr}} (born 1974), comedian
* [[Nicolas Bergier]] (1567–1623), scholar of [[Roman roads]]
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*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Florence]], Italy (1954)
*{{flagicon|COG}} [[Brazzaville]], Congo (1961)
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*{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Salzburg]], Austria (1964)
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Aachen]], Germany (1967)
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Kutná Hora]], Czech Republic (2008)
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Nagoya]], Japan (2018)
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.reims.fr/}} {{in lang|fr}}
* [http://www.reims-tourisme.com/ Tourist office website] – Official site for L'Office de Tourisme de Reims, {{in lang|en|fr}}
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