Joué-lès-Tours

Joué-lès-Tours (French pronunciation: [ʒwe lɛ tuʁ] ⓘ, literally Joué near Tours) is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, central France.

[3] It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest.

It corresponds to a toponymic type frequently found in Christian Gaule, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France), Jouy (center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy (Normandy/Picardy), Gaugeac, Jaujac (south).

Joué-lès-Tours was the site of the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing.

In February 2010 the mayor, Philippe Le Breton, added the word laïcité underneath the French national motto on the town hall's façade.