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7 unusual facts about Breteuil


Breteuil

Breteuil, Eure, in the Eure département ; alternavive name : Breteuil-sur-Iton

Breteuil, Oise, in the Oise département ; alternative name : Breteuil-sur-Noye

La Faloise

La Faloise was then in the hands of the Montmorency family, seigneurs of Breteuil.

Mareuil-Caubert

Built in the Romanesque style in the 12th and 16th century, the church was originally part of a priory under the abbey of Breteuil.

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester

However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Gael, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119.

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester

When the revolt of the younger Henry broke out in April 1173, Robert went to his castle at Breteuil in Normandy.

Rosalie Lamorlière

She was born on 19 March 1768, in Breteuil, France, to a shoemaker and his wife (who later died when Lamorlière was 12), and was one of seven siblings.


Adèle of Dreux

She married firstly Valéran III, Count of Breteuil, secondly Guy II, lord of Châtillon-sur-Marne, thirdly Jean I de Thorotte, and fourthly Raoul III de Nesle, count of Soissons.

Charles Mangin

(The other was of Edith Cavell.) In 1957 a new statue was erected on the nearby avenue de Breteuil.

François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (17 April 1686 – 7 January 1743, Issy) was a French nobleman.

Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

Breteuil's secret correspondence with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was recently discovered in an Austrian castle by British historian Professor Munro Price.


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