Bresles

Bresles
Bresles
Location within Picardy region Bresles
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-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 (2012)2	4,341
• Density	210/km2 (540/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
Year	Pop.	±%
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%
2012	4,341	+2.9%

See also

• Communes of the Oise department

References

• INSEE commune file