If you're heading south to Conches from Rouen, you follow first the River Eure, and then its tributary the Iton, passing through ÉVREUX , capital of the Eure département . It's hardly an exciting place, but an afternoon's wander in the vicinity of the cathedral - a minor classic with its Flamboyant exterior decoration and original fourteenth-century windows - and the ramparts alongside the Iton river bank is pleasant. ... [More]