Anet
Commune in Centre-Val de Loire, France
Anet (French pronunciation: [anɛt]) 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.
01History
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.
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03Popular culture
The opening scene of the James Bond film "Thunderball" was shot in Anet.
Sources and credits
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- Église Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte, Anet, Eure-et-Loir, France 2007.jpg by Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
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