Houx is a commune of the Eure-et-Loir département in France, located 79 km from Paris and 20 km from Chartres. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Eure-et-Loir is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Chartres is a town and commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France It is located 96 km southwest of Paris