Eure

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Eure
Department of France
Claude Monet's garden and water-lily pond in Giverny, near Yvelines, subject of a series of famous paintings.
Claude Monet's garden and water-lily pond in Giverny, near Yvelines, subject of a series of famous paintings.
Flag of Eure
Flag		 Coat of arms of Eure
Coat of arms
Location of Eure in France
Location of Eure in France
Country France
Region Normandy
Prefecture Évreux
Subprefectures Les Andelys
Bernay
Government
 • President of the Departmental Council Sébastien Lecornu[1] (LREM)
Area1
 • Total 6,040 km2 (2,330 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)[2]
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 • Rank 43rd
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Department number 27
Arrondissements 3
Cantons 23
Communes 585
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Eure (French pronunciation: ​[œʁ]) is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.[3]

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 province of Normandy. The name in fact is taken from the Eure river flowing mainly in this department.

After the allied victory at Waterloo, Eure was occupied by Prussian troops between June 1815 and November 1818.

In the wake of Louis-Napoléons December coup of 1851, Eure was one of the departments placed under a state of emergency in order to avert resistance to the post-republican régime. In the event fewer than 100 government opponents in Eure were arrested.[4]

Geography

Eure is part of the current region of Normandy and is surrounded by the departments of Seine-Maritime, Oise, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines, Eure-et-Loir, Orne, and Calvados. It also has a short coastline within the Atlantic Ocean across the Seine estuary.

The department is a largely wooded plateau intersected by the valleys of the river Seine and its tributaries. The altitude varies from sea level in the north to 248 metres above it in the south.

Principal towns

The most populous commune is Évreux, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants:[3]

Commune Population (2019)
Évreux 46,349
Vernon 23,727
Louviers 18,518
Val-de-Reuil 12,910
Gisors 11,696

Demographics

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1791 385,206 —    
1801 402,796 +0.45%
1806 421,344 +0.90%
1821 416,178 −0.08%
1831 424,248 +0.19%
1841 425,780 +0.04%
1851 415,777 −0.24%
1861 398,661 −0.42%
1872 377,874 −0.49%
1881 364,291 −0.41%
1891 349,471 −0.41%
1901 334,781 −0.43%
1911 323,651 −0.34%
1921 303,159 −0.65%
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1931 305,788 +0.09%
1936 303,829 −0.13%
1946 315,902 +0.39%
1954 332,514 +0.64%
1962 361,943 +1.07%
1968 383,385 +0.96%
1975 422,952 +1.41%
1982 462,323 +1.28%
1990 513,818 +1.33%
1999 541,054 +0.58%
2006 567,223 +0.68%
2011 588,111 +0.73%
2016 602,825 +0.50%
source:[5][6]

Politics

The President of the Departmental Council is Sébastien Lecornu of La République En Marche!.

Party seats
• Socialist Party 12
Union for a Popular Movement 11
• Miscellaneous Left 7
• French Communist Party 4
Miscellaneous Right 4
New Centre 3
• Left Radical Party 2

Presidential elections 2nd round

Election Winning Candidate Party % 2nd Place Candidate Party %
2022 Emmanuel Macron LREM 48.62 Marine Le Pen RN 51.38
2017[7] Emmanuel Macron LREM 54.35 Marine Le Pen FN 45.65
2012 Nicolas Sarkozy UMP 52.45 François Hollande PS 47.55
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy UMP 57.37 Ségolène Royal PS 42.63
2002[7] Jacques Chirac RPR 78.22 Jean-Marie Le Pen FN 21.78

Current National Assembly Representatives

Constituency Member[8] Party
Eure's 1st constituency Séverine Gipson La République En Marche!
Eure's 2nd constituency Fabien Gouttefarde La République En Marche!
Eure's 3rd constituency Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe La République En Marche!
Eure's 4th constituency Bruno Questel La République En Marche!
Eure's 5th constituency Claire O'Petit La République En Marche!

Tourism

The main tourist attraction is Giverny (4 km (2.49 mi) from Vernon) where Claude Monet's house and garden can be seen, as well as other places of interest (see external links, below).

The Abbey of Bec 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 from 1781 to 1783.

See also

References

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External links


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  4. ↑ Jacques Olivier Boudon, Les Bonaparte : regards sur la France impériale. La Documentation photographique, dossier 8073, janvier-février 2010, p. 11 (carte de Gilles Pécout)
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