Dreux

Dreux, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure-et-Loir, on the Blaise, 27 miles NNW. of Chartres by rail. It lies at the foot of a hill crowned with the ruins of the castle of the Counts of Dreux. From among the ruins rises a beautiful chapel, erected by the mother of Louis-Philippe in 1816, to which were removed in 1876 the remains of the king and others of the Orleans line who had died in exile. The town-hall and the parish church are both good specimens of Gothic. Pop. 8811. Dreux is the ancient Durocassis. In 1562 the Constable Montmorency defeated the Huguenots here.