The department of Eure-et-Loir (28) is a French Département. It sometimes is met written Eure-et-Loire , which is a misspelling because the Loir is an affluent of the the Sarthe while the the Loire is the well-known river.

History

detailed Article: History of Eure-et-Loir

The department was created with the French revolution, the March 4th 1790 pursuant to the law of the December 22nd 1789, to leave, mainly, of parts of old the provinces of the Orléanais (Beauce) and of the Maine (Perche), but also of the Île-de-France (Dreux).

Policy

detailed Article: Political of Eure-et-Loir

Department of tradition radical-Socialist, the Eure-et-Loir is dominated today by the line.

This last is beaten by Laure of Raudière (UMP), elected appointed in June 2007.
  • the centrists are especially present in the south of the department marked by the former president of the Center area and appointed, Maurice Dousset, of which one of the heirs is Philippe Vigier deputy and mayor Nouveau Center of Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse.
  • the Mouvement For France (MPF) is also present in the department with some mayors of rural communes and also of the city council men at Chartres. Bernadette Jouachim who is the local President third is associated with the mayor of Chartres.
  • both senators of Eure-et-Loir, Horned Gerard and Joel Billiards, are members of UMP.

  • List of the deputies of Eure-et-Loir

  • List of the senators d' Eure-et-Loir
  • List of the general advisers of Eure-et-Loir
  • List of the mayors of Eure-et-Loir
  • List of the prefects of Eure-et-Loir

Geography

detailed Article: Geography of Eure-et-Loir

The department of Eure-et-Loir belongs to the area Center. The department of the Eure-et-Loir extends to south-west from the Paris and its suburbs and includes/understands several plates of the Paris basin: in north, the Thimerais; in the east, the Beauce; in the south, the Dunois. In the west of the department, the relief rises and forms the hills of the Perche, contiguous at the same time to Normandy, Paris and the Paris region and the Pays of the Loire. The department in addition profited from the creation of the regional natural park of the Pole. The Eure and the Dormouse are the principal rivers of the department, Senonches and Dreux sheltering the most important forests. It is bordering on the departments of the Loir-et-Cher, of the Loiret, the the Essonne, the Yvelines, the the Eure, the Orne and the the Sarthe.

Climate

The department presents a climatic contrast between its part western and south-western, wet and of the woodlands (which belongs to the Pole) and its southern part and is, beauceronne, which belongs to the least sprinkled areas France, with High-Languedoc.

Economy

detailed Article: Saving in Eure-et-Loir

The Eure-et-Loir is an agricultural department of tradition (Beauce) but also points some in three economic dies:

  • the Cosmetic valley (Pole of competitiveness), which constitutes the first French pole of the industry of the beauty and the wellbeing (perfumes/cosmetic), with great names like Guerlain, Paco Rabanne, Lolita Lempicka, JC Castelbajac, Jean-Paul Gaultier…
  • the drug company , around Dreux and Polepharma , which gathers the companies of the sector like Leo Pharma, Ipsen, Novo Nordisk…
  • agribusiness industry , promoted by Agrodynamic (Pôle of rural excellence), with two important companies of the sector: Ebly in Châteaudun and Andros in Auneau.
  • industry of rubber and the plastics , through the pole of competitiveness Elastopole .

Demography

detailed Article: Demography of Eure-et-Loir

The inhabitants of Eure-et-Loir are the Eurélien () S .

Culture

detailed Article: Culture in Eure-et-Loir

Personalities

Tourism

detailed Article: Tourism in Eure-et-Loir

Others

---- Some media in Eure-et-Loir:
  • Web TV: eureetloir.tv, drouais.tv
  • Daily: The Republican Echo, the Republic of the Center
  • Weekly: Horizon (agricultural newspaper), the Republican Action, the Pole, the Echo of Husks
  • Local radios: Radio Intensity (Châteaudun), RTV (Dreux), Radio operator Large Sky.
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See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • General advice of Eure-et-Loir
  • Prefecture of Eure-et-Loir

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