- Bresles
French commune
nomcommune=Bresles
région=Picardie
département=Oise
arrondissement=Beauvais
canton=Nivillers
insee=60103
cp=60510
maire=Jacques Trubert
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes Rurales du Beauvaisis
longitude=2.25166666667
latitude=49.4111111111
alt moy=63 m
alt mini=47 m
alt maxi=107 m
hectares=2,099
km²=20.99
sans=3,749
date-sans=1999
dens=178
date-dens=1999Bresles is a small town (a little over 3700 inhabitants at the start of the twenty first century) near
Beauvais in the northern French department of theOise , north west ofParis .Geography
Bresles is about 88 km 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 .
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