Bresles
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Coordinates: 49°24′40″N 2°15′06″E / 49.4111°N 2.2517°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Oise |
Arrondissement | Beauvais |
Canton | Mouy |
Intercommunality | CA Beauvaisis |
Government | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Jacques Baize |
Area 1 | 20.99 km2 (8.10 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | 3,993 |
• Density | 190/km2 (490/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 60103 /60510 |
Elevation | 47–107 m (154–351 ft) (avg. 63 m or 207 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Bresles is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
It lies northwest of Paris.
Geography
Bresles is about 88 km (55 mi) north of Paris, and just under 15 km east of Beauvais.
History
Its existence is attested since 1262 and the chapel of St Peter and St Paul, dating from 1312, is all that is left of a fort founded in 1212. The web page created by the Oise department (see freeoise.free.fr) mentions an famous nineteenth century opera singer by the name of Nicolas Levasseur as a significant native of Bresles, but does not mention the much more notorious French fascist leader Jacques Doriot.
Population
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See also
References
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
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