Evreux (ane. Mediolanum, or Ciritas Elm-rovicum), a city of Normandy, France. capital of the department of Eure, 55 m. W. by N. of Paris, in a pleasant valley on the Iton, which flows through the city in three branches; pop. in 18GG, 12,320. It is surrounded by gardens, vineyards, and highly cultivated fields. It is the seat of a bishop and of several courts and schools, has a botanical garden, a public library, a museum of antiquities, a large hospital, an insane asylum, and cotton and woollen mills, and is the centre of a large trade in groceries and grain. Among the notable buildings are the abbey church of St. Taurin, dating from the 7th, and the cathedral, from the 11th century. At a little distance from the town was the fine old chateau of Navarre, founded in the 14th century, which was the residence of Charles Edward Stuart from 1746 to 1748, and of the empress Josephine for some time after her divorce, and was destroyed in 1836.-The town was taken from the Romans by Clo-vis, and in 892 the Normans captured and sacked it. In 989 it became the capital of a county of its name erected in favor of a son of Richard I., duke of Normandy. It passed into the possession of England with the rest of Normandy, and the name of the Devereux, earls of Essex, was probably derived from it.

King John ceded it to Philip Augustus in 1200. In 1298 the county was given to Louis, son of Philip the Bold of France; and in 1328 his son Count Philip became by marriage king of Navarre. The county was confiscated from the son of the latter, Charles the Bold of Navarre, in 1378. In the vicinity, at Vieil Evreux, excavations have led to the discovery of the remains of a theatre, baths, etc, which are supposed to mark the site of Mediolanum; and many medals and household utensils found here have been deposited in the museum of Evreux.