Eure ( ; ; or ) is a department in the

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, northwestern

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, named after the river

Eure Eure ( ; ; or ) is a department in the administrative region of Normandy, northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2021, Eure had a population of 598,934.prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin word, "''praefectura"'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain inter ...

Évreux Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy. History Antiquity In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century AD, was named '' Mediolanum Aulercorum'', "the central town ...

. In 2021, Eure had a population of 598,934.Populations légales 2019: 27 Eure
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History

Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from part of the former

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. The name in fact is taken from the Eure river flowing mainly in this department. After the allied victory at

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, Eure was occupied by Prussian troops between June 1815 and November 1818. In the wake of Louis-Napoléon's December coup of 1851, Eure was one of the departments placed under a

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in order to avert resistance to the post-republican régime. In the event fewer than 100 government opponents in Eure were arrested. Jacques Olivier Boudon, ''Les Bonaparte : regards sur la France impériale''. La Documentation photographique, dossier 8073, janvier-février 2010, p. 11 (carte de Gilles Pécout)

Geography

Eure is part of the current

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and is surrounded by the departments of

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inf� ...

Oise Oise ( ; ; ) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 in 2019.< ...

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.< ...

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Eure-et-Loir Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Orne Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.Calvados Calvados (, , ) is a brandy from Normandy in France, made from apples and/or pears. History In France Apple orchards and brewers are mentioned as far back as the 8th century by Charlemagne. The first known record of Norman distillation was ma ...

. It also has a short coastline within the

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across the

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estuary. It is the only Normand department to border the region of

Île-de-France The Île-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...

. The department is a largely wooded plateau intersected by the valleys of the river

and its tributaries. The altitude varies from

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in the north to 248 metres above it in the south.

Principal towns

The most populous commune is

, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants:

Demographics

Politics

The President of the Departmental Council is Sébastien Lecornu of

La République En Marche! Renaissance (RE) is a political party in France that is typically described as liberal and centrist or centre-right. The party was originally known as (EM) and later (, LREM, LaREM or REM), before adopting its current name in September 2022 ...

Presidential elections 2nd round

Current National Assembly Representatives

Tourism

The main tourist attraction is

Giverny Giverny () is a Communes of France, commune in the northern French Departments of France, department of Eure.Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

's house and garden can be seen, as well as other places of interest (see external links, below). The

Abbey of Bec Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure ''département'', in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay. It is located in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, and was ...

and the Château-Gaillard near Les Andelys are other important tourist attractions. The Château of Buisson de May was built by the royal architect

Jacques Denis Antoine Jacques Denis Antoine (6 August 1733, Paris - 24 August 1801) was a French architect, whose most notable masterwork is the Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris, Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris, which gained him entrance to the Académie royale d'architectur ...

from 1781 to 1783. File:Evreux beffroi.jpg, File:Chateau de Beaumesnil.jpg, File:Chateau-de-Gisors.jpg, File:Giverny - maison Claude Monet01.jpg, File:LES ANDELYS.jpg, File:Louviers eglise.jpg, File:Chateau gaillon.jpg,

References

External links

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Departmental Council website
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Prefecture website
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Eure Tourisme
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