Bresles

Bresles
Bresles

Coordinates: 49°24′40″N 2°15′06″E / 49.4111°N 2.2517°ECoordinates: 49°24′40″N 2°15′06″E / 49.4111°N 2.2517°E
Country France
Region Picardy
Department Oise
Arrondissement Beauvais
Canton Nivillers
Intercommunality Communes Rurales du Beauvaisis
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jacques Baize
Area1 20.99 km2 (8.10 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 4,218
 • Density 200/km2 (520/sq mi)
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.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

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 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.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 1,320—    
1800 1,470+11.4%
1806 1,524+3.7%
1821 1,543+1.2%
1831 1,726+11.9%
1836 1,813+5.0%
1841 1,824+0.6%
1846 1,803−1.2%
1851 1,908+5.8%
1856 2,040+6.9%
1861 1,937−5.0%
1866 1,939+0.1%
1872 1,966+1.4%
1876 2,021+2.8%
1881 2,129+5.3%
1886 1,956−8.1%
1891 2,199+12.4%
1896 2,269+3.2%
1901 2,224−2.0%
1906 2,067−7.1%
1911 2,280+10.3%
1921 2,139−6.2%
1926 2,157+0.8%
1931 2,146−0.5%
1936 2,225+3.7%
1946 2,140−3.8%
1954 2,348+9.7%
1962 2,695+14.8%
1968 2,975+10.4%
1975 3,195+7.4%
1982 3,180−0.5%
1990 3,653+14.9%
1999 3,748+2.6%
2006 4,059+8.3%
2009 4,218+3.9%

See also

References

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