1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EPERNON, a town of northern France in the department of Eure-et-Loir, at the confluence of the Drouette and the Guesle, 17 m. N.E. of Chartres by rail. Pop. (1906) 2370. It belonged originally to the counts of Montfort, who, in the nth century, built a castle here of which the ruins are still left, and granted a charter to the town. In the I3th century it became an independent lordship, which remained attached to the crown of Navarre till, in the i6th century, it was sold by King Henry (afterwards King Henry IV. of…
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