Anet

For other uses, see Anet (disambiguation).

Anet
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Anet
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Coordinates: 48°51′26″N 1°26′21″E / 48.8572°N 1.4392°E / 48.8572; 1.4392
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Eure-et-Loir
Arrondissement	Dreux
Canton	Anet
Intercommunality	CA Pays de Dreux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Aliette Le Bihan[1]
Area ^1	7.85 km^2 (3.03 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[2]	2,721
• Density	347/km^2 (898/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	28007 /28260
Elevation	57–132 m (187–433 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Anet (French pronunciation: [anɛt]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. It lies 14 km north-northeast of Dreux between the rivers Eure and Vesgre, the latter flowing into the former some 4 km northeast of Anet town hall.

History

The town possesses the remains of a castle, the Château d'Anet, built in the middle of the 16th century by Henry II for Diana of Poitiers. Near it is the plain of Ivry-la-Bataille, where Henry IV defeated the armies of the Catholic League in 1590.^[3]

Demographics

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,475 —     1800 1,557 +0.78% 1806 1,486 −0.77% 1821 1,322 −0.78% 1831 1,416 +0.69% 1836 1,422 +0.08% 1841 1,409 −0.18% 1846 1,401 −0.11% 1851 1,400 −0.01% 1856 1,344 −0.81% 1861 1,406 +0.91% 1866 1,418 +0.17% 1872 1,447 +0.34% 1876 1,465 +0.31% 1881 1,447 −0.25% 1886 1,466 +0.26% 1891 1,431 −0.48% 1896 1,395 −0.51%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,316 −1.16% 1906 1,372 +0.84% 1911 1,395 +0.33% 1921 1,256 −1.04% 1926 1,239 −0.27% 1931 1,252 +0.21% 1936 1,235 −0.27% 1946 1,294 +0.47% 1954 1,215 −0.78% 1962 1,341 +1.24% 1968 1,464 +1.47% 1975 1,700 +2.16% 1982 2,297 +4.39% 1990 2,696 +2.02% 1999 2,651 −0.19% 2007 2,626 −0.12% 2012 2,673 +0.36% 2017 2,733 +0.44%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Popular culture

The opening scene of the James Bond film "Thunderball" was shot in Anet.^[6]

See also

• Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
3.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 4.
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Anet, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
6. [1] (in French)