Eu

Eu, a town in the French department of Seine-Inférieure, on the Bresle, 2 miles from its mouth, and 21 NE. of Dieppe by rail. It is remarkable for its fine 13th-century Gothic church, and for the Château d'Eu (1578), a low building of red brick, with high, tent-shaped roofs of slate. The seat from 996 of the Counts of Eu, a collateral branch of the Norman ducal line, after various vicissitudes Eu was purchased by Mademoiselle de Montpensier in 1675, whose fanciful taste has perpetuated itself in the decoration of the château; eventually, in 1821, it came to Louis-Philippe, who expended large sums on the embellishment of the château and its park, and who here received Queen Victoria in 1843. In 1874 Viollet-le-Duc restored it for the Comte de Paris. Pop. 4748.