Breteuil (Oise)

Breteuil is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.

The inhabitants are called Brituliens or Breteuillois .

Breteuil - on Noye is not an official name.

Geography

Located at the north of the Oise in the valley of the Noye, on the Trunk road 1, halfway between Beauvais and Amiens, at a distance of approximately 105 km of Paris. The commune is served by a Gare located in a Hameau of the commune of Bacouël which took the name of Breteuil-Junction.

Breteuil is in the middle of various regional influences: the Picardy Plate, the Oise and the Amiénois (the city is very close to the departmental limit), the Beauvaisis.

Moreover, the Paris basin near increases each day and exerts an increasingly strong attraction, “tie” Breteuil towards the area of the Île-de-France (the Aéroport Charles de Gaulle is only to 87 km).

It should be noted that the Watershed attaches Breteuil and the valley of the Noye to the basin of the Somme and not to that of the Oise, whereas the city belongs to the Département of Oise.

History

The site of Breteuil was inhabited as of the end of the era Gallo-Roman.

The city developed at the time medieval E around its Château, set up by the Count of Breteuil, and the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Breteuil, created by the Bénédictin S about 1035, famous for its rich person Bibliothèque.

Breteuil knew several destruction and rebuildings historically. The castle itself was dismantled during the Fifteenth century. There remains about it only the feudal Motte, on which a middle-class house with the Dix-neuvième century was built. As for the Abbey, she did not survive the revolutionary period and only some ruins testify today to its existence.

Taking into account the offset situation of the Station of Breteuil-Junction, a small line was open to connect Breteuil to this station. The line, long, 6,88 km had an intermediate station with Tartigny. The station was destroyed during the bombardment of August 23rd, 1918, and was rebuilt by the building which always exists, but does not accommodate any more travellers.

Nowadays, the city appears made traditional but modern buildings, for the majority built in the Fifties. It is not a chance: the large borough had to suffer from the two great world wars of the twentieth century. Besides the city accepted the Military Cross 1914-1918 for the courage and the combativeness of its inhabitants. Thereafter, the successive bombardments of the Second world war reduced in ashes nearly two thirds of the locality.

Administration

Demography

Economic situation

Unemployment rate: approximately 16% (estimate 2005).

Average revenue by household: approximately 16.600 €/an.

Places and monuments

the church, old abbey church Sainte-Marie.

Principal equipment

watery Center Philippe Loisel, open on July 18th, 2007

Personalities related to the commune

Hippolyte Bayard, Photographer French which was born to with it in 1801. After the experiments of Jacques Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce, it improved the process of pulling of Henry Fox Talbot, and obtained first the positive direct ones on paper in 1839.

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