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Encyclopedia Britannica



VERNON

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1033 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VERNON , a town of north-western France, in the department of Eure, 19 M. E.N.E. of Evreux by road. Pop. (1906) 7274. Vernon stands on the left bank of the Seine opposite the forest of Vernon, a stone
bridge
  uniting it to Vernonnet on the right bank, where there are important stone: quarries. The forest of Bizy lies to the
south
  of the town. Its church is an interesting building dating from the 12th to the 15th centuries, and there is a cylindrical keep built by
Henry
  I. of England. The port on the Seine carries on trade in stone and coal, and the town has workshops for the manufacture of army engineering material and manufactures benzine, aniline dyes, wooden shoes, liqueurs, &c.
Vernon in 1196 was ceded by its
count
  to Philip
Augustus
 , Richard I. resigning his suzerainty. The first Estates of Normandy were held at Vernon in 1452.


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