Editing Eure (section)

== History ==
Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the [[French Revolution]] on 4 March 1790. It was created from part of the former [[provinces of France|province]] of [[Normandy]]. The name in fact is taken from the Eure river flowing mainly in this department.

After the allied victory at [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], Eure was occupied by [[Prussian army|Prussian troops]] between June 1815 and November 1818.

In the wake of [[Louis-Napoléon]]'s [[French coup of 1851|December coup]] of 1851, Eure was one of the departments placed under a [[:fr:État de siège (France)|state of emergency]] in order to avert resistance to the [[Second French Empire|post-republican]] régime.  In the event fewer than 100 government opponents in Eure were arrested.<ref>[[:fr:Jacques Olivier Boudon|Jacques Olivier Boudon]], ''Les Bonaparte : regards sur la France impériale''. La Documentation photographique, dossier 8073, janvier-février 2010, p. 11 (carte de [[Gilles Pécout]])</ref>