Beaurains

Beaurains is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais (62) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Its inhabitants is called the beaurinois and beaurinoises.

Geography

History

Beaurains is a commune whose site goes back to good a long time. It is enough to realize it to simply follow the evolution of the successive names which the commune carried:

Vicus of bello ramo (inspired by the vicinity of a Forest)
Borough close to the wood whose oars (branches) are beautiful (or high)
Bellus ramus
Biaurain then…
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It is in addition necessary to consider the existence of Beaurains at the time Roman under another name: Bellirintum.

The first church beaurinoise was built in 674. The commune accommodated important maladrery S where one looked after in particular the Poète Jean Bodel.

In 1922 one discovered in the commune a Trésor dating from the Roman epoch (second tétrarchie, 305): the " treasure of Beaurains". A great part was wasted and the little which remainder is from now on with Arras.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

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