Anet is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It lies 14 km north-northeast of Dreux between the rivers Eure and Vesgre, the latter flowing into the former some 4 km northeast of Anet town hall.
History
The town possesses the remains of a castle, the Château d'Anet, built in the middle of the 16th century by Henry II for Diana of Poitiers. Near it is the plain of Ivry-la-Bataille, where Henry IV defeated the armies of the Catholic League in 1590.1
Demographics
Historical population
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Popular culture
The opening scene of the James Bond film "Thunderball" was shot in Anet.4
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anet.References
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. /wiki/Public_domain ↩
Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Anet, EHESS (in French). http://cassini.ehess.fr/fr/html/fiche.php?select_resultat=789 ↩
Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-28007#ancre-POP_T1 ↩
[1] (in French) https://web.archive.org/web/20150123023951/http://www.thunderblog.net/le-chateau-danet-scene-douverture-de-thunderball/ ↩