Compiegne

Compiegne is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.
The inhabitants are called the Compiégnoises and Compiégnois .
During the French revolution the city was called Marat-on-Oise.

Geography

The town of Compiegne is located just downstream from the confluence of the rivers Oise and Aisne. It is to 65 km in the north of Paris.

It is limited to the west by Oise, in the east by the national forest of Compiegne, in north by Aisne, the south the limit with Cross-Saint-Ouen is conventional. The district of the station, although on Right Bank of Oise, is located in the Compiegne commune. Of this dimensioned, the remainder of the agglomeration is either with Margny-the-Compiegne or or with Venette (with the shopping mall).

Communes bordering

in the Canton of Compiegne-North :
: Clairoix, Choisy-with-Vat and Margny-the-Compiegne;
in the Canton of Compiegne-South-Is :
: Cross-Saint-Ouen, Saint-Jean-with-Wood and Old man-Mill;
in the Canton of Compiegne-South-West :
: Jaux and Venette.

History

At the time Gallo-Roman, Compiegne would be a point of passage on the Oise ( Isara ) connected to the network of minor roads at the border of the territories of Bellovaques (Beauvais) and of Suessions (Soissons). The ford was with the closed locality “it of the pinks”.

Compiegne was called Compendium , i.e. “shortened”.

With the current downtown area, the carried out excavations did not discover Gallo-Roman vestiges. One finds some villa in the surroundings, in particular with the site of the ford (surely military building).

Compiegne was associated with the crown of France as of the advent of the Mérovingiens.

Ragenfred beats in 715 the Austrasiens in the Forêt of Cooks, close to Compiegne.
Oath of vassalage in 757 of Tassilon III with Pip the Brief.
Treated of Compiegne, in 868, concedes the Cotentin, the Avranchin as well as the Channel Islands with Salaün, said Solomon .
the January 2nd 876, construction of the basilica Notre Dame, future Saint-Crow abbey by Charles II the Bald person on the model of Aachen.
Truce of Compiegne, in 884, between Carloman II of France and the Viking S.
1357: Charles Wise the joins together there the General states to restore the royal authority vis-a-vis carried out Etienne Marcel.
Capture of Jeanne d' Arc by Burgundian the May 23rd 1430 at the time of an exit on Right Bank of Oise.
1770 Louis XV and the dolphin accueillèrent there with the castle Marie-Antoinette at the time of her arrival in France.
the French revolution judge and guillotine the congregation of the sixteen Carmelite nuns of Compiegne, whose Georges Bernanos is inspired to write its part Dialog of the Carmelite nuns .
Napoleon III frequently remained with the castle at the time of its visits in forest.
Compiegne organizes the tests of golf of the Olympic Games of summer of 1900 on the ground of the Company of the sports of Compiegne.
In national forest of Compiegne, in a coach in the middle of a clearing near Rethondes, signature of the Armistice of the November 11th 1918 between the France and the Germany in the presence of the marshal Foch and of the general Weygand.
In same the coach as in 1918, signature the June 22nd 1940 of the armistice enters France represented by the French delegation sent by the marshal Pétain and Germany represented by Hitler.
During the Occupation, the Nazis will install a camp of transit and internment of June 1941 in August 1944 with Royallieu. The first train of political deportees leaves the Camp of Royallieu for that of Auschwitz, the July 6th 1942.

Blazon and currency

Its Armoiries is blasonnent: money to the lion of azure, armed and lampassé of mouths, fleurdelysé of gold of six parts and crowned of the same .

Its currency is: Governed and regno fidelissima (“Very faithful to the king and the kingdom”).

Administration

The town of Compiegne is a Sous-préfecture of the Oise, it is administratively divided in 3 cantons:

Canton of Compiegne-North (with 5 other communes)
Canton of Compiegne-South-Is (with 4 other communes)
Canton of Compiegne-South-West (with 5 other communes)

Twinnings

Demography

1990 :

Population without double accounts: 41.896
municipal Population: 41.663
Total population: 44.703

1999 :

Population without double accounts: 41.254
municipal Population: 41.076
Total population: 43.380

Population agglomeration: 69 903 inhabitants
Population urban surface: 108 234 inhabitants

Economy

Data: 2005

Constructions Mechanical S

Lajous Industry - 612 paid
Inergy - 510 paid

Data-processing
Chemistry

Aventis Pharma - 739 paid
Colgate Palmolive - 788 paid

Luxury

Bourjois/Chanel - 281 paid

Services

Samsic II - 288 paid
Sin and co.s - 253 paid

Appendix and training center of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Oise.

Personalities related to the city

Y were born

Roscelin of Compiegne, philosopher Scholastic, in 1050
Pierre d' Ailly, philosopher and theologist, in 1351
Pierre Coustant, philosopher, theologist and senior of the abbey of Saint-Germain of the Meadows, in 1654
Louis Mottet Nickel silver, general police chief of the Navy, person in charge of the office of the colonies, on January 5th, 1735, father of Agathe de Rambaud and brother of Benoit Mottet of the Fountain.
Benoit Mottet of the Fountain, appointed the Great East of France, ordnance officer of the French establishments of the the Indies, born in 1741 with the Castle from Compiegne.
Albert Robida, draftsman, lithographer, aquafortist, caricaturist and novelist, in 1848
Daniel Boulanger, writer, on January 24th, 1922

Y are buried

“Three kings and a dolphin” are buried there according to a plate on a wall of the old Saint-Crow abbey whose:

Clotaire I {{er}} known as the old man on December 11th, 561 (probably died in the commune bordering on Choisy-with-Vat where it had his palate)
Louis II known as the stammerer on April 10th, 879
Louis V says lazy the

The church, the burials and the abbey of Saint-Crow are profaned during the Revolution and are destroyed, as in the burials of the Cathédrale Saint-Denis.

Y died

the knight Louis de Jaucourt, philosopher, writer and encyclopedist, on February 3rd, 1779
Michel Ordener, soldier, in 1811
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, soldier, on November 15th, 1892

Y lived or passed there

Marie de Médicis, is sent to the Château of Compiegne by Louis XIII in 1630
Louis Dreux of Châtre, architect
in 1797, it is in Forêt of Compiegne that Eugene-François Vidocq makes his first escape bid
In the Années 1800, the Technical school settles in Compiegne in the castle; there remain then several Gadzarts like Alexandre Corréard, Lejeunes, Michel Ordener or Pierre-Joseph Meifred
, on several occasions, whose on March 27th, 1810 to meet there Marie-Louise of Austria for the first time
In 1813 Augustin Thierry, historian, teaches humanities in Compiegne
In 1814, it is of Compiegne that share Louis XVIII for his solemn entry in Paris
During the Second Empire, Napoleon III organizes the Séries of Compiegne, very appraisals by the court
Emile Waldteufel (Charles Emile Levy), type-setter responsible by Napoleon III with the organization with the Series for Compiegne, in the Années 1860
Georges Guynemer takes off Compiegne during the First World War, until its death on September 11th, 1917 with the top of Belgium
Between 1915 and 1918, Alexis Carrel organizes a system of ambulance to help the casualties on the battle field. Today repudiated for its theses eugenists, creation on the initiative of the mayor UMP Philippe Marini of a gone of the ambulance Carrel 1915-1918 after the débaptisage of a street Alexis Carrel has in 2003 created a local polemic which had some echoes at the national level.
In 1942, Robert Desnos, stopped by the Gestapo forwards by the Camp of Royallieu;
Youssef Seddik, philosopher and anthropologist, between 1966 and 1970
Guy Deniélou, naval officer, nuclear engineer and president-founder of the University of Technology of Compiegne (founded in 1972)
Babacar Gaye, soldier
Élodie Gossuin, Miss France 2001, Miss Europe 2002 and regional adviser on the list UDF - UMP since 2004, during its childhood
Bernard Stiegler, philosopher and professor, founds in 1993 with UTC an research unit devoted to “Knowledge, Technical Organizations and Systems”
Jacques Chirac, French president, Angela Merkel, German chancelière, and Vladimir Poutine, Russian president, on September 23rd, 2006 at the time of a top tri-nations for discussions abstract on Iran and the crossed economic interests and strategic of the three countries.

Y were crowned

Louis II known as the stammerer , in 877
Eudes I {{er}}, in 888
Louis V known as lazy the , on March 2nd 986
Louis VII known as the Innocent young person by II
Hugues II (death in 1026), in 1017, is associated with the throne of his/her father the king Robert II known as '' the piles ''

Architectural achievements

Angel-Jacques Gabriel then his pupil Louis Dreux of Châtre: the Castle of Compiegne. Old medieval castle, one finds nothing any more but one tower with ruined half and of the vestiges of rampart S.
Henri Sauvage: the villa Marcot (1908).

Inheritance

Civilian

Compiegne is classified Ville of Art and History.

Sport

the city has a racecourse: the Hippodrome of the Fitchet.

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