the Magnifying glass is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center. It is a commune of the Regional natural park of the Pole.

Geography

The Magnifying glass is a commune of the department of the Eure and Loir, in the district of Nogent Rotrou. It is located in the Pole.

The railway line Paris - Mans crosses the Magnifying glass, it thus connecting by the train in Paris Montparnasse, Chartres and Mans.

History

June 17th, 1944, at the beginning of evening, the downtown area is bombarded wrongly by 7 allied bombers which miss the target envisaged, a German gasoline depot. The assessment is heavy: 73 people are killed, whose mayor and more than 100 are wounded, 92 buildings are destroyed, 83 became uninhabitable and approximately 250 are damaged. The Magnifying glass became the city more the disaster victim of the second world war of the department and will be decorated with the Military Cross on November 11th, 1948.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of the Magnifying glass in the center town

The Large Oak, at the exit of the city

Personalities related to the commune

Birth of Ferdinand Hédiard with the Magnifying glass, on February 9th, 1832. Later, Ferdinand is installed with the foot of the statue of Louis XIV on the Place of the Victories with Paris. By pushing its cart in the streets of Paris, it makes taste its tropical fruits with the intrigued passers by. In 1880 Ferdinand Hédiard elects residence with the 21, Place de la Madeleine, which became and is always the flagship d' Hédiard. The new “Counter of the colonies and Algeria” is a true exotic souk. In the middle of the flavors of the, of coffee, saffron and peppers mingled with those with pineapple and fresh mangos, saleswomen in West-Indian costume accommodate a crowd of Maharajahs and princes Arab. Source: http://www.hediard.fr/fre/univers/chronologie.asp

Twinning

• the Magnifying glass is twinned with:

, to see Site of the

commune See too

• Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

• the Magnifying glass on the site of the national geographical Institute
• the Magnifying glass on the site of INSEE
• the Magnifying glass on the site of Quid
• Localization of the Magnifying glass on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane of the Magnifying glass on Mapquest

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