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12 unusual facts about Dreux


Black propaganda

In Dreux, France, in 1982 the National Front distributed anonymous fake letters, supposedly from an Algerian living in France to a brother living in Algeria.

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.

Eddie London

Kenneth Edward "Eddie" London (born July 31, 1956 in Dreux, France) is a country music singer.

Hans Hermann Junge

The following year he died in combat as an SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in a low flying aircraft attack in Dreux, France.

Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria

: ∞ Princess Anne of Orléans on 12 May 1965 in Dreux, France

Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain

His sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, future Duchess of Orléans would move Jean Marie's body to the Royal Chapel, Dreux; Dreux is today the burial site of the Royal House of Orléans which descends from Marie Adélaïde and her husband, Philippe Égalité.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, Penthièvre transferred the nine caskets containing the remains of his parents, the comte and the comtesse de Toulouse, his wife, Maria Teresa d'Este, and six of their seven children, from the small medieval village church of Rambouillet, to the chapel of the Collégiale Saint-Étienne in Dreux.

Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Buried at the chapel at the Château de Rambouillet, he was later moved by his posthumous sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon (wife of the future Philippe Égalité) to the Chapelle royale de Dreux.

Maud of Normandy

After her death in 1006, Odo started a quarrel with his brother-in-law, Richard II of Normandy, over the dowry: part of the town Dreux.

King Robert II, who had married Odo's mother, imposed his arbitration on the contestants in 1007, leaving Odo in possession of Dreux.

Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme

He is buried in the Chapelle Royale de Saint Louis, in Dreux.

Princess Adélaïde of Orléans

She is buried in the Orléans family necropolis in the Chapelle Royale de Dreux.


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Antoine Godeau

Antoine Godeau (b. at Dreux, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April 1672) was a French bishop, poet and exegete.

Françoise de Dreux

Françoise de Dreux was married to a member of the Paris Parlement and cousin of two judges in the Poison Affair.

Georg-Peter Eder

Attacking Allied armour near Dreux on 17 August Eder shot down a Spitfire at low level; it crashed between two M4 Sherman tanks, destroying them.

Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé

Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé (1762-1829), succeeded his father Thomas as master of the ceremonies to Louis XVI in 1781.

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.

Lil' Fizz

Dreux Pierre Frédéric (born November 26, 1985), known as Lil' Fizz, is an American rapper and actor.

Marie, Countess of Eu

Marie of Lusignan or Marie I de Lusignan (born c. 1223 in Melle; died in Poitou, October 1, 1260; buried at the Abbey of Foucarmont), was the only child and daughter of Raoul II of Lusignan and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux.

Michel Poniatowski

Poniatowski approved in September 1983 the merger of the electoral list RPR-UDF with the far-right National Front (FN) party, headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, during the partial municipal election of Dreux.

Vernouillet Airport

However, the French government rejected the airfield at Dreux, citing the expansion of Orly Airport near Paris presenting a conflict with airspace traffic, and plans were in the works to expand Vernouillet into a commercial site.