Bresles
Commune
An aerial view of Bresles
An aerial view of Bresles
Location of Bresles
Map
Bresles is located in France
Bresles
Bresles
Bresles is located in Hauts-de-France
Bresles
Bresles
Coordinates: 49°24′40″N 2°15′06″E / 49.4111°N 2.2517°E / 49.4111; 2.2517
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentOise
ArrondissementBeauvais
CantonMouy
IntercommunalityCA Beauvaisis
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Dominique Cordier[1]
Area
1
20.99 km2 (8.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
3,993
 • Density190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
60103 /60510
Elevation47–107 m (154–351 ft)
(avg. 63 m or 207 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bresles (French pronunciation: [bʁɛl]) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.[3]

Geography

Bresles is about 88 km (55 mi) north of Paris, and just under 15 km 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 a famous nineteenth century opera singer by the name of Nicolas Levasseur as a significant native of Bresles, but does not mention the much more notorious French fascist leader Jacques Doriot.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,320—    
1821 1,543+0.56%
1846 1,803+0.62%
1872 1,966+0.33%
1901 2,224+0.43%
1926 2,157−0.12%
1946 2,140−0.04%
1962 2,695+1.45%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 2,975+1.66%
1975 3,195+1.02%
1982 3,180−0.07%
1990 3,653+1.75%
1999 3,749+0.29%
2007 4,120+1.19%
2012 4,341+1.05%
2017 4,147−0.91%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ INSEE commune file
  4. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bresles, EHESS (in French).
  5. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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