Country France Department Oise Population (2012) 4,341 Local time Friday 5:52 AM | Region Hauts-de-France Canton Nivillers Area 20.99 km² Arrondissement Beauvais | |
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Intercommunality Communes Rurales du Beauvaisis Weather 6°C, Wind SE at 11 km/h, 77% Humidity | ||
Bresles is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
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Map of 60510 Bresles, 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 obscure nineteenth century opera artist by the name of Levasseur as a significant native of Bresles, but does not mention the much more notorious French fascist leader Jacques Doriot.
References
Bresles Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA