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2 unusual facts about Breteuil, Eure


Breteuil

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

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.


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.

Breteuil

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

Broglie

Broglie is a commune of the Eure département, in France

Buffet Crampon

In 2008 Buffet Crampon continues to pursue its strategy by the acquisition of the Leblanc clarinet factory in La Couture-Boussey, Département of Eure, Haute-Normandie in France.

Charles Mangin

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

Château de Beaumesnil

Château de Beaumesnil is a 17th-century Louis XIII baroque style château located in the commune of and close to the village of Beaumesnil in Eure department of Normandy in northern France.

Chateau de Leveville

The castle of Levéville or Levesville stands on a plateau above the city of Chartres in the Eure-et-Loir department.

Church of St Andrew, Old Cleeve

In the 12th century Robert FitzGerold gave the church to Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastic foundation in Eure.

Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg

Marie Therese married Prince Henri d'Orléans, second child and eldest son of Henri, Count of Paris and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, on 5 July 1957 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France.

European Grouping of Marketing Professionals

In France, its headquarters were based in Fleury-sur-Andelle, Eure, and it employed approximately 360 employees and 50,000 distributors in France.

Flacey

Flacey, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France

Foulbridge

Sir Ralph Eure's 'place' here is mentioned in 1537, and the manor, late the possession of the Hospitallers and in the tenure of Sir Ralph Eure, was in 1555–6 granted to the Archbishop of York, but no later mention of it has been found.

François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

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

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

Henri Gault

Henri Gault (Pacy-sur-Eure, 4 November 1929 - 9 July 2000) was a French food journalist.

Houssaye

La Houssaye, a commune in the Eure department in northern France.

Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps

Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps (born 24 March 1774 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir — died 8 May 1849 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist.

Josef Armberger

Josef Armberger's grave is located at the military cemetery Champigny in the department of Eure.

Karl Girardet

Unlike his friends and colleagues Maximilien de Meuron and Rodolphe Töpffer, he was not enchanted by the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, preferring instead to portray lakes, streams and marshes, notably the rivers Aar, Eure and Marne.

La Faloise

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

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.

Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet

His home was the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure.

Louis Joseph Marchand

Born into a middle-class family from the Eure-et-Loir department, in 1811 he became an Imperial servant.

Louis Marie Turreau

Louis Marie Turreau (4 July 1756, Évreux, Eure – 10 December 1816, Conches), also known as Turreau de Garambouville or Turreau de Linières, was a French general officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Manou

Manou, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in France

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.

Montainville

Montainville, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in France

Pascal Quignard

Pascal Quignard (born April 23, 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.

Peter Eure

Peter Eure or Evers (ca. 1549-1612), of London and Washingborough, Lincolnshire, was an English politician.

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.

Roger de Pitres

Roger's origins are confirmed in his territorial appellation, de Pitres; he was a Norman from Pîtres, Eure, canton of Pont-de-l'Arche.

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.

Sarah Monod

Pastor of Marsauceux in the commune of Mézières-en-Drouais, Eure, of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée and chaplain of the Diaconesses de Reuilly.

Stade Pacy-Ménilles

Stade Pacy-Ménilles is a multi-use stadium in Ménilles, near Pacy-sur-Eure, France.

Tancarville Bridge

The Tancarville Bridge (Pont de Tancarville in French) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Seine River and connects Tancarville (Seine-Maritime) and Marais-Vernier (Eure), near Le Havre.

William Eure, 1st Baron Eure

Ralph Eure defended Scarborough Castle against the Pilgrimage of Grace for 20 days in 1536 with a garrison comprising only his household servants.

William Palmes

Mary Eure, younger daughter and co-heiress of William Eure (d.1645) of Malton, 6th Baron Eure.

Xavier Oriach

Nevertheless, Oriach refused to return; when he did leave Paris in 1979 it was only to establish himself at Jouy-sur-Eure (Normandy), where he had gone regularly since his arrival in France.


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