Bretigny

Bretigny, a village in the French department of Eure-et-Loir, 20 miles S. of Paris by rail. Here, in 1360, Edward III. concluded a peace with France, by which John II. of France was released from his captivity in England on agreeing to pay three million crowns for his ransom, whilst England renounced her pretensions to Normandy, Anjou, Maine, and Touraine, and was confirmed in possession of Gascony, Guienne, and several other parts in France, recently acquired by conquest.