BRESLES

'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.

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Geography

History

Geography

Bresles is about 88 km almost directly north of Paris, and just under 15 km almost directly 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 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.