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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The town possesses the remains of a castle, the <i><a href="/facts/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27Anet/BbshDfQR">Château d'Anet</a></i>, built in the middle of the 16th century by <a href="/facts/Henry_II_of_France/ceVVB9Ll">Henry II</a> for <a href="/facts/Diana_of_Poitiers/jhuLf3ts">Diana of Poitiers</a>. Near it is the plain of <a href="/facts/Ivry-la-Bataille/l8Sy5IIU">Ivry-la-Bataille</a>, where <a href="/facts/Henry_IV_of_France/IxnNMW0X">Henry IV</a> defeated the armies of the <a href="/facts/Catholic_League_(French)/SGtsk89P">Catholic League</a> in 1590.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="demographics">Demographics</h2> Historical population<table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Pop.</th><th>±% p.a.</th></tr><tr><th>1793 </th><td>1,475</td><td>— </td></tr><tr><th>1800 </th><td>1,557</td><td>+0.78%</td></tr><tr><th>1806 </th><td>1,486</td><td>−0.77%</td></tr><tr><th>1821 </th><td>1,322</td><td>−0.78%</td></tr><tr><th>1831 </th><td>1,416</td><td>+0.69%</td></tr><tr><th>1836 </th><td>1,422</td><td>+0.08%</td></tr><tr><th>1841 </th><td>1,409</td><td>−0.18%</td></tr><tr><th>1846 </th><td>1,401</td><td>−0.11%</td></tr><tr><th>1851 </th><td>1,400</td><td>−0.01%</td></tr><tr><th>1856 </th><td>1,344</td><td>−0.81%</td></tr><tr><th>1861 </th><td>1,406</td><td>+0.91%</td></tr><tr><th>1866 </th><td>1,418</td><td>+0.17%</td></tr><tr><th>1872 </th><td>1,447</td><td>+0.34%</td></tr><tr><th>1876 </th><td>1,465</td><td>+0.31%</td></tr><tr><th>1881 </th><td>1,447</td><td>−0.25%</td></tr><tr><th>1886 </th><td>1,466</td><td>+0.26%</td></tr><tr><th>1891 </th><td>1,431</td><td>−0.48%</td></tr><tr><th>1896 </th><td>1,395</td><td>−0.51%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Pop.</th><th>±% p.a.</th></tr><tr><th>1901 </th><td>1,316</td><td>−1.16%</td></tr><tr><th>1906 </th><td>1,372</td><td>+0.84%</td></tr><tr><th>1911 </th><td>1,395</td><td>+0.33%</td></tr><tr><th>1921 </th><td>1,256</td><td>−1.04%</td></tr><tr><th>1926 </th><td>1,239</td><td>−0.27%</td></tr><tr><th>1931 </th><td>1,252</td><td>+0.21%</td></tr><tr><th>1936 </th><td>1,235</td><td>−0.27%</td></tr><tr><th>1946 </th><td>1,294</td><td>+0.47%</td></tr><tr><th>1954 </th><td>1,215</td><td>−0.78%</td></tr><tr><th>1962 </th><td>1,341</td><td>+1.24%</td></tr><tr><th>1968 </th><td>1,464</td><td>+1.47%</td></tr><tr><th>1975 </th><td>1,700</td><td>+2.16%</td></tr><tr><th>1982 </th><td>2,297</td><td>+4.39%</td></tr><tr><th>1990 </th><td>2,696</td><td>+2.02%</td></tr><tr><th>1999 </th><td>2,651</td><td>−0.19%</td></tr><tr><th>2007 </th><td>2,626</td><td>−0.12%</td></tr><tr><th>2012 </th><td>2,673</td><td>+0.36%</td></tr><tr><th>2017 </th><td>2,733</td><td>+0.44%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Source: EHESS<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and INSEE (1968-2017)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="popular-culture">Popular culture</h2> <p>The opening scene of the <a href="/facts/James_Bond/FQQ7pp1y">James Bond</a> film <a href="/facts/Thunderball_(film)/WWezFFC6">"Thunderball"</a> was shot in Anet.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Communes_of_the_Eure-et-Loir_department/CAsJP983">Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department</a></li></ul> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anet. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 4. <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">/wiki/Public_domain</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Anet, EHESS (in French). <a href="http://cassini.ehess.fr/fr/html/fiche.php?select_resultat=789" target="_blank">http://cassini.ehess.fr/fr/html/fiche.php?select_resultat=789</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE <a href="https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-28007#ancre-POP_T1" target="_blank">https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-28007#ancre-POP_T1</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>[1] (in French) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150123023951/http://www.thunderblog.net/le-chateau-danet-scene-douverture-de-thunderball/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150123023951/http://www.thunderblog.net/le-chateau-danet-scene-douverture-de-thunderball/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>