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Vernouillet, Eure et Loir

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Country
  
Department
  
Intercommunality
  
Drouais

Area
  
12.11 km²

Arrondissement
  
Canton
  
Dreux-Sud

Population (2008)
  
11,794

Local time
  
Sunday 1:23 PM

Vernouillet, Eure-et-Loir

Weather
  
14°C, Wind N at 6 km/h, 66% Humidity

Vernouillet is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

Contents

Map of Vernouillet, France

It lies adjacent to the south side of the town of Dreux.

International relations

It is twinned with Cheddar in the United Kingdom as well as Felsberg in Germany.

Vernouillet Airport

Built prior to World War II as a civil airport, Vernouillet Airport was seized by the Germans in June 1940 during the Battle of France. They used it as a major Luftwaffe military airfield during the occupation. It was liberated by Allied ground forces about 21 August 1944 during the Northern France Campaign. It was then used by the United States Army Air Force Ninth Air Force as a combat Advanced Landing Ground. Declared operational on 26 August, the airfield was designated as "A-41", and was used by combat units until the end of the war. Afterward the airport was returned to civil control. The airport was closed after the war due to a conflict of airspace with the expanding Orly Airport near Paris, and is now a small grass airfield general aviation airport with no commercial traffic.

Personalities

  • Louis-Nicolas Robert, the inventor of the original Fourdrinier machine for production of continuous rolls of paper, was a resident. He is commemorated by a statue in front of the church. Also, the Collège de Louis-Nicolas Robert in the quartier des Grandes Vauvettes is named in his honour.
  • References

    Vernouillet, Eure-et-Loir Wikipedia


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