Clairoix

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

Geography

Located at the borders of Valois and the Picardy, the village is spread out with the foot of a hill culminating to 155 m of altitude: the Mount Ganelon. Peaceful a River: the Swallow. The line of Railroad Paris - Maubeuge crosses Clairoix as well as the Nationales 31 and 32.

History

See the work quoted in the " part; Références".

Administration

successive mayors of Clairoix

(between brackets: year of taking of)

Nicolas Etienne BOUCHARD (1792 or before)
Louis ROLLET (1795)
André LUISIN (1800)
Jean Antoine SWELLED (1808)
François Joseph HEMIN (1810)
Nicolas Laurent LEBEL (1826)
Jacques Robert BOVE (1830)
Pierre Antoine CANDELOT (1831)
Louis François GOGUET (1840)
Louis Joseph KNIGHT (1848)
Lucien BIENAIMÉ (1870)
Marie Aimery OF COMMINGES (1904)
Alfred BÉDIEZ (1919)
Edmond FOUNTAIN (1923)
Emile LECLÈRE (making function; 1938)
Albert JORRAND (1945)
Jean DESMAREST (1953)
Paul GILIBERT (1957)
Georges SÉZILLE (1961)
Julien BOURIN (1965)
Louis BAYART (1977)
Georges MATAGNE (1978)
Rene MARSIGNY (1980)
Laurent PORTEBOIS (2000)

Demography

Economy

The city shelters one of the two factories of Pneumatique S of the German group Continental AG.

Places and monuments

See the work quoted in the " part; Références".

Personalities related to the commune

Jeanne d' Arc, which would have spent one night of captivity to Clairoix, just after its catch in front of Compiegne
Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, artist illustrator, draftsman in particular of Bécassine
Herve de Tocqueville, father of Alexis de Tocqueville
Louis Duval-Arnould, appointed of Paris

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

Clairoix on the site of the national geographical Institute
Clairoix on the site of INSEE
Clairoix on the site of Quid
Localization of Clairoix on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Clairoix on Mapquest

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