Bresles
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| Commune of Bresles | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 02° 15' 06" E |
| Latitude | 49° 24' 40" N |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Picardie |
| Department | Oise |
| Arrondissement | Beauvais |
| Canton | Nivillers |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes Rurales du Beauvaisis |
| Mayor | Jacques Trubert (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 47 m–107 m (avg. 63 m) |
| Land area¹ | 20.99 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
3,749 |
| - Density (1999) | 178/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 60103/ 60510 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Bresles is a small town (a little over 3700 inhabitants at the start of the 21st century) near Beauvais in the northern French department of the Oise, north west of Paris.
[edit] Geography
Bresles is about 88 km almost directly north of Paris, and just under 15 km almost directly east of Beauvais.
[edit] 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 19th 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.
