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24 unusual facts about Eure


Breteuil

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

Broglie

Broglie is a commune of the Eure département, in France

Camillien Houde

He is descended from the first Houde ancestor, Louis Houde, who came from Manou, Eure-et-Loir, France to Quebec in 1647.

Canal Winchester High School

The French city of Bernay, Eure had 19 students from their high school visit America.

Charles Isidore Douin

Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.

Château de Beaumesnil

The château, which is an official historical monument of France, is located on a 60 hectare estate to the north-east of the village of Beaumesnil, 140 km west of Paris and midway between the towns of Lisieux and Évreux.

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.

Flacey

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

Henri Gault

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

Josef Armberger

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

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.

Manou

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

Marie I, Countess of Boulogne

Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170.

Montainville

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

Ranulph de Mortimer

A year later, the revolt failed and the marches of Normandy, from Maine to the Evrecin, were in disorder.

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.

SAN Jodel D.150 Mascaret

In 1961, Jean Délémontez designed a two-seat light aircraft for the Société Aeronautique Normande (SAN) at Bernay in Normandy to replace his earlier Jodel D.11, which SAN (amongst other manufacturers) were building to meet a requirement for aircraft to equip flying clubs subsidised by the French government.

St Mary's Church, Chepstow

At the same time he established a nearby monastic cell, so as to collect rent from the lands within Gwent which he had granted to his home Priory of Cormeilles in Normandy.

Stade Pacy-Ménilles

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

Vernon family

The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th-century origins in Vernon, France.

Willibald Peter Prasthofer

After the war, he worked for the French government missile program in Vernon, Eure (1947-1955), as well as participating in missile testing in Saharan Africa.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.