Montfort-l'Amaury

Montfort-l'Amaury lies at the edge of the forest of Yveline, beneath a castle built on a hill overlooking the road between Beauvais and Chartres. The town took its name from Amaury, one of its early medieval lords, who gave it stone walls. Through marriage, the county passed to the dukes of Brittany in the fourteenth century.

The castle was dismantled during the Hundred Years' War. At the end of the fifteenth century Anne of Brittany, countess of Montfort and queen of France, had it restored and added a tower with a flamboyant Gothic doorway. She also enlarged the church of Saint-Pierre. Her patronage gave the little town new and handsome buildings that reflected its connection with the ducal house of Brittany.