Eure

Eure (/ɜːr/ UR; French pronunciation: [œʁ]; Norman: Eure or Eûre) 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.

Eure
Department of France
Claude Monet's garden and water-lily pond in Giverny, near Yvelines, subject of a series of famous paintings
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Eure in France
Coordinates: 49°5′N 1°0′E / 49.083°N 1.000°E / 49.083; 1.000
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Prefecture	Évreux
Subprefectures	Les Andelys Bernay
Government
• President of the Departmental Council	Alexandre Rassaërt (DVD)
Area ^1
• Total	6,040 km^2 (2,330 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	601,305
• Rank	43rd
• Density	99.6/km^2 (258/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	FR-27
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 km^2

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-Napoléon's 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.

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. It is the only Normand department to border the region of Île-de-France.

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 (814 feet) 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:

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%
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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	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	Jacques Chirac	RPR	78.22	Jean-Marie Le Pen	FN	21.78

Current National Assembly Representatives

Constituency		Member	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 (2½ miles) 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.

• Évreux
• Château de Beaumesnil
• Château de Gisors
• Giverny: Claude Monet's house
• Les Andelys
• Louviers: Church of Notre-Dame de Louviers
• Château de Gaillon

See also

• Cantons of the Eure department
• Communes of the Eure department
• Arrondissements of the Eure department
• Château d'Harcourt
• Château de Gisors