Beauvais

{{other uses}} {{redirect|Beauvaisis|the modern region|Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Beauvais |native name = {{native name|pcd|Bieuvais}} |commune status = Prefecture and commune |image = Beauvais Cathedral Exterior 1, Picardy, France - Diliff.jpg |caption = Beauvais Cathedral |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Beauvais (Oise).svg |arrondissement = Beauvais |canton = Beauvais-1 and 2 |INSEE = 60057 |postal code = 60000 |mayor = Franck Pia<ref name=pia/><ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=30 November 2023|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2022–2026 |intercommunality = CA Beauvaisis |coordinates = {{coord|49.4303|02.09520|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 67 |elevation min m = 57 |elevation max m = 170 |area km2 = 33.31 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Beauvais''' ({{IPAc-en|US|b|oʊ|ˈ|v|eɪ}} {{respell|boh|VAY}};<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Beauvais|access-date=29 July 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|fr|bovɛ|lang|fr-Paris--Beauvais.ogg}}; {{langx|pcd|Bieuvais}}) is a town and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, {{convert|75|km|mi|abbr=off}} north of Paris.

The commune of Beauvais has a population of 55,550 (2023),<ref name="pophist" /> making it the most populous town in the Oise department, and serves Paris through Paris Beauvais airport. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, the metropolitan area of Beauvais has a population of 128,020.

The region around Beauvais is called the Beauvaisis.

== History == Beauvais was known to the Romans by the Gallo-Roman name of ''Caesaromagus'' (''magos'' is Common Celtic for "field"). The post-Renaissance Latin rendering is ''Bellovacum'' from the Belgic tribe, the Bellovaci, whose capital it was. In the ninth century, it became a county (''comté''), which, in about 1013, passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France from the twelfth century.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Beauvais |volume=3 |page=599}} This cites V. Lhuillier, ''Choses du vieux Beauvais et du Beauvaisis'' (1896).</ref> At the coronations of kings, the Bishop of Beauvais wore the royal mantle and went, with the Bishop of Langres, to raise the king from his throne to present him to the people.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

''De Bello Gallico'' II 13 reports that as Julius Caesar was approaching a fortified town called Bratuspantium in the land of the Bellovaci, its inhabitants surrendered to him when he was about 5 Roman miles away. Its name is Gaulish for "place where judgements are made", from *''bratu-spantion''. Some say that Bratuspantium is Beauvais. Others theorise that it is Vendeuil-Caply or Bailleul sur Thérain.<ref>[http://encyclopedie.arbre-celtique.com/bratuspantium-3216.htm "Bratuspantium"], ''Encyclopédie de l'Arbre Celtique'' {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Xavier Delamarre, Noms de lieux celtiques de l'Europe Ancienne (Errance, 2012) p.86</ref>

From 1004 to 1037, the Count of Beauvais was Odo II, Count of Blois.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

In a charter dated 1056/1060, Eudo of Brittany granted land "in pago Belvacensi" (Beauvais, Picardy) to the Abbey of Angers Saint-Aubin (see Albinus of Angers).{{efn|Perhaps inherited through his father Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany from the latter's mother Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou, as she is known to have owned property there.}}

In 1346, the town had to defend itself against the English, who again besieged it in 1433. The siege that it endured in 1472 at the hands of the Duke of Burgundy was rendered famous by the heroism of the town's women, under the leadership of Jeanne Hachette, whose memory is still celebrated by a procession on 27 June (the feast of Sainte Angadrême), during which women take precedence over men.<ref name=EB1911/>

A significant hoard of coins from the High Middle Ages became known as the ''Beauvais Hoard'' because some of the English and European coins found with the lot were from the French abbey located in Beauvais. The hoard, which contained a variety of rare and extremely rare Anglo-Norman pennies, English and foreign coins, was reputed to have been found in or near Paris.<ref>[http://treasurehunting.tv/?p=101 Coin Hoard Article] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927102731/http://treasurehunting.tv/?p=101 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>Marshall Faintich. [http://www.symbolicmessengers.com/beauvais.htm The "Beauvais" Hoard], SymbolicMessengers.com website, 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2010.</ref>

Beauvais was extensively damaged during World War I, and again in World War II during the German advance on Paris in June 1940. Much of the older part of the city was all but destroyed, and the cathedral was badly damaged before being liberated by British forces on 30 August 1944.<ref>Hoemberg, Elisabeth, ''Thy People, My People'', J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1950, p. 63</ref>

Beauvais experienced significant rioting during the Nahel Merzouk protests in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-07-03 |title=Beauvais residents are bitter after riots: 'We fight to have businesses, and now it's all burned' |language=en |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/03/we-re-fighting-for-our-businesses-and-now-everything-s-burning-down-in-beauvais-residents-express-dismay-after-riots_6041774_7.html |access-date=2023-07-06}}</ref>

== Geography == Beauvais lies at the foot of wooded hills on the left bank of the Thérain at its confluence with the Avelon. Its ancient ramparts have been destroyed, and it is now surrounded by boulevards, outside of which run branches of the Thérain. In addition, there are spacious promenades in the north-east of the town.<ref name=EB1911/>

===Climate=== Beauvais experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature is 9.9 °C (1961–1990), and the sunlight annual average of 1669 hours (1991–2010). Hills Bray is provided for the precipitation of Beauvais. The precipitation is 669 mm on average per year (1981–2010), while it is 800 mm on average per year in Bray. However, the frequency of rainfall is high. The average number of days per year above the precipitation of 1 mm is 116 days or every third day. The fog is often present, it is estimated at 55 days a year. The department is affected by 41 days of average wind year, usually, it comes from the west to the south. ==Climate==

{{Weather box|width=auto |metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Beauvais (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1944–present) |Jan record high C = 15.6 |Feb record high C = 20.4 |Mar record high C = 24.8 |Apr record high C = 28.4 |May record high C = 31.2 |Jun record high C = 36.9 |Jul record high C = 41.6 |Aug record high C = 39.0 |Sep record high C = 34.8 |Oct record high C = 28.2 |Nov record high C = 20.2 |Dec record high C = 17.0 |Jan record low C = -19.7 |Feb record low C = -16.8 |Mar record low C = -12.1 |Apr record low C = -6.9 |May record low C = -2.4 |Jun record low C = 1.2 |Jul record low C = 3.6 |Aug record low C = 3.9 |Sep record low C = -0.5 |Oct record low C = -5.0 |Nov record low C = -10.9 |Dec record low C = -15.7 |Jan high C = 6.7 |Feb high C = 7.8 |Mar high C = 11.6 |Apr high C = 15.2 |May high C = 18.6 |Jun high C = 21.8 |Jul high C = 24.4 |Aug high C = 24.4 |Sep high C = 20.6 |Oct high C = 15.7 |Nov high C = 10.4 |Dec high C = 7.1 | year high C = 15.4 |Jan mean C = 4.1 |Feb mean C = 4.5 |Mar mean C = 7.3 |Apr mean C = 9.8 |May mean C = 13.2 |Jun mean C = 16.4 |Jul mean C = 18.6 |Aug mean C = 18.6 |Sep mean C = 15.4 |Oct mean C = 11.7 |Nov mean C = 7.4 |Dec mean C = 4.5 | year mean C = 11.0 |Jan low C = 1.4 |Feb low C = 1.2 |Mar low C = 3.0 |Apr low C = 4.4 |May low C = 7.9 |Jun low C = 11.0 |Jul low C = 12.8 |Aug low C = 12.9 |Sep low C = 10.1 |Oct low C = 7.6 |Nov low C = 4.3 |Dec low C = 1.8 | year low C = 6.5 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 53.8 |Feb precipitation mm = 44.9 |Mar precipitation mm = 45.8 |Apr precipitation mm = 44.5 |May precipitation mm = 60.6 |Jun precipitation mm = 53.0 |Jul precipitation mm = 54.0 |Aug precipitation mm = 57.8 |Sep precipitation mm = 48.5 |Oct precipitation mm = 58.1 |Nov precipitation mm = 58.4 |Dec precipitation mm = 76.1 |year precipitation mm = 655.5 |unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm | Jan precipitation days = 11.1 | Feb precipitation days = 9.7 | Mar precipitation days = 9.3 | Apr precipitation days = 9.0 | May precipitation days = 9.0 | Jun precipitation days = 8.5 | Jul precipitation days = 8.2 | Aug precipitation days = 8.2 | Sep precipitation days = 8.0 | Oct precipitation days = 10.1 | Nov precipitation days = 11.1 | Dec precipitation days = 12.7 | year precipitation days =114.9 |Jan snow days = 4.7 |Feb snow days = 4.1 |Mar snow days = 3.3 |Apr snow days = 1.0 |May snow days = 0.1 |Jun snow days = 0.0 |Jul snow days = 0.0 |Aug snow days = 0.0 |Sep snow days = 0.0 |Oct snow days = 0.0 |Nov snow days = 1.6 |Dec snow days = 3.0 |year snow days = 17.8 |Jan humidity = 89 |Feb humidity = 85 |Mar humidity = 82 |Apr humidity = 81 |May humidity = 76 |Jun humidity = 74 |Jul humidity = 74 |Aug humidity = 72 |Sep humidity = 81 |Oct humidity = 86 |Nov humidity = 88 |Dec humidity = 90 |year humidity = 81.5 |Jan sun = 59.5 |Feb sun = 78.5 |Mar sun = 127.2 |Apr sun = 178.8 |May sun = 203.3 |Jun sun = 208.9 |Jul sun = 219.8 |Aug sun = 208.1 |Sep sun = 163.8 |Oct sun = 112.2 |Nov sun = 67.6 |Dec sun = 54.6 |year sun = 1682.2 |source 1 = Meteociel<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.meteociel.fr/obs/clim/normales_records.php?code=60639001&normes=2020&normes2=0 |title=Normales et records pour Beauvais-Tille (60) |publisher=Meteociel |access-date=21 November 2024}}</ref> |source 2 = Infoclimat.fr (humidity, snowy days 1961–1990)<ref name=Infoclimat>{{cite web | url = http://www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie-07055-beauvais-tille.html | title = Normes et records 1961-1990: Beauvais-Tille (60) - altitude 89m | language = fr | publisher = Infoclimat | access-date = 12 January 2016}}</ref> }}

==Population==

The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Beauvais proper in its geography at the given years. The commune of Beauvais absorbed the former communes of Marissel, Saint-Just-des-Marais and Voisinlieu and part of Notre-Dame-du-Thil in 1943.<ref name=ehess/>

{{Historical populations | align = none | cols = 2 | percentages = pagr | source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|3332|Beauvais}}</ref> and INSEE (1968-2023)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8643952?geo=COM-60057#tableau-POPREF_G1 Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023], INSEE</ref> | graph-pos = bottom |1793 |12449 |1800 |12392 |1806 |13183 |1821 |12798 |1831 |12867 |1836 |13082 |1841 |13925 |1846 |14527 |1851 |14216 |1856 |14286 |1861 |15364 |1866 |13609 |1872 |13541 |1876 |16600 |1881 |17525 |1886 |18441 |1891 |19382 |1896 |19906 |1901 |20300 |1906 |20248 |1911 |19841 |1921 |19270 |1926 |19387 |1931 |18738 |1936 |18869 |1946 |23156 |1954 |26756 |1962 |33995 |1968 |46777 |1975 |54089 |1982 |52365 |1990 |54190 |1999 |55392 |2007 |55230 |2012 |54289 |2017 |56254 |2023 |55550 }}

== Sights ==

=== Cathedral === {{Main|Beauvais Cathedral}} thumb|Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

The city's cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter (''Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais''), in some respects, the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, consists only of a transept and quire with apse and seven apse-chapels. The vaulting in the interior exceeds 46 m or 150 feet in height.<ref name=EB1911/> The cathedral underwent a major repair and restoration process in 2008.

The small Romanesque church of the 10th century known as the ''Basse Oeuvre'' occupies the site destined for the nave; much of its east end was demolished to make room for the new cathedral.

Begun in 1247, under Bishop William of Grès (Guillaume de Grès, Guillaume de Grez), an extra {{convert|5|m|ft|abbr=off}} were added to the height, to make it the tallest cathedral in Europe: the work was interrupted in 1284 by the collapse of the vaulting of the choir, a disaster that produced a temporary failure of nerve among the masons working in Gothic style. The transept was built from 1500 to 1548. In 1573 the fall of a too-ambitious central tower stopped work again, after which little addition was made.<ref name=EB1911/>

Its façades, especially that on the south, exhibit all the richness of the late Gothic style. The carved wooden doors of both the north and the south portals are masterpieces respectively of Gothic and Renaissance workmanship. The church possesses an elaborate astronomical clock (1866) and tapestries of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries; but its chief artistic treasures are stained glass windows of the thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most beautiful of them from the hand of the Renaissance artist, Engrand Le Prince, a native of Beauvais. To him also due to some of the stained glass in St. Etienne, the second church of the town, and an interesting example of the transition stage between the Romanesque and Gothic styles.<ref name=EB1911/>

During the Middle Ages, on 14 January, the Feast of Asses was celebrated in the Beauvais Cathedral, in commemoration of the Flight into Egypt.

=== Other notable sites === [[File:Mairie de Beauvais.jpg|thumb|The Hôtel de Ville]] thumb|Bishop's palace In the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville and the old streets near the cathedral, several houses are dating from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The Hôtel de Ville, close to which stands the statue of Jeanne Hachette, was built in 1753.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://culture.beauvais.fr/acteur-culturel/ville-d-art-et-d-histoire/hotel-de-ville|title=Ville d'Art et d'Histoire: Hôtel de ville |publisher=Culture Beauvais |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220145333/http://culture.beauvais.fr/acteur-culturel/ville-d-art-et-d-histoire/hotel-de-ville|archive-date=20 December 2016}}</ref>

The episcopal palace, now housing the Musée départemental de l'Oise, was built in the 16th century, partly upon the Gallo-Roman fortifications.<ref name=EB1911/> The church of ''Saint-Étienne'' is a Romanesque-Gothic building (early 12th-late 16th centuries), including, in one of its transept's portals, a sculpture of the "Wheel of fortune".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1679&context=gvr|year=1989|title=A Wheel of Fortune? The North Rose at Saint-Etienne in Beauvais|first=J. David|last= McGee|publisher=Grand Valley State University|access-date=23 December 2024}}</ref>

== Transport ==

=== Rail transport === The railway station, Gare de Beauvais, opened in 1857 is currently served by several TER lines: * Beauvais – PersanBeaumont – Paris Gare du Nord * Beauvais – Creil * Beauvais – Abancourt – Le Tréport

=== Air transport === {{Main|Beauvais–Tillé Airport}} Beauvais–Tillé Airport, dating from the 1930s, lies in the north of the city, in Tillé. It is used as a gateway to Paris by several low-cost carriers. Traffic growth is significant: in 1997, 200,000 passengers used it annually, but by 2006, it was more than 1.8 million. Airport usage increased by 40% a year on average between 2001 and 2005. The airport is mainly used for passenger traffic (only 2 to 3 flights involve freight each month) and serves 48 destinations. The nearest major airport is Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is located {{convert|73|km|0|abbr=on}} to the south east of Beauvais. The airport provides more domestic and international destinations.

On 5 October 1930, the British airship R101 crashed just outside Beauvais on its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 of the 54 people on board.

=== Public transport === {{Main|Corolis}} Public transport in Beauvais is provided by {{lang|fr|Corolis}} (formerly ''The Urban Transport network of Beauvaisis'' {{langx|fr|Transports Urbains du Beauvaisis}} or {{lang|fr|TUB}}). The transit bus (commuter bus) network consists of 25 regular lines which serve Beauvais and its suburbs, including:

* 12 day lines ** 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 * 3 Sunday lines ** 11A 11B 11C * 3 summer lines ** 10 (divided into 3 sub lines) * 7 Demand responsive transport lines ** T1 T2 T3 T5 T6 T7 T8 * 3 shuttles ** ''Navette Aéroport'' ('''Airport Shuttle''') ''Navette Parking'' ('''Parking Shuttle''') ''Navette LaSalle'' ('''Polytechnic Institute of LaSalle Shuttle''')

=== Environmentally friendly transportation === To promote cleaner urban transportation and protect the environment, the city began to develop a "Green Plan" (''Plan vert''). Ultimately, the goal is to have a network of {{convert|20|km|0|abbr=on}} bicycle paths.

==Administration==

The mayor of Beauvais is Franck Pia, elected in September 2022. He succeeded Caroline Cayeux, who stepped down to become a deputy minister in the Borne government.<ref name=pia>{{cite news|url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/oise/beauvais/franck-pia-devient-maire-de-beauvais-apres-la-demission-de-caroline-cayeux-c-est-une-immense-fierte-2610648.html|title=Franck Pia devient maire de Beauvais après la démission de Caroline Cayeux : "c'est une immense fierté"|work=France 3|date=9 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref>

== Notable people == * Dominique Ansel, pastry chef and creator of the Cronut (b. 1978) * George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot, graphic designer (26 April 1863 – February 1938) * Guillaume Brenner, footballer (b. 10 February 1986) * Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais and judge of Joan of Arc (1371 – 18 December 1442) * Arnaud Démare, professional cyclist (b. 26 August 1991) * Fanny Dénoix, poet (1798–1879) * Pierre de Schryder, French resistance fighter (1913–1953) * Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer (20 February 1927 – 10 March 2018) * Charles Janet, engineer and biologist (1849 – 1932) * Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (28 June 1875 – 26 July 1941) * Jérôme Lempereur, footballer (b. 1973) * Clément Lenglet, footballer (b. 17 June 1995) * Pierre Louvet, historian, archivist and historiographer (1617 – 1684) * Anthony Mfa Mezui, footballer (b. 7 March 1991) * Milo of Nanteuil, bishop of Beauvais, builder of the Beauvais Cathedral (d. 1234) * Alberic of Ostia, bishop of Ostia and diplomat (1080 – 20 November 1148) * Mustapha Yatabare, footballer (b. 26 January 1986) * Sambou Yatabare, footballer (b. 2 March 1989)

== Economy == The industry of Beauvais comprises, besides the state manufacture of tapestry, which dates from 1664, the manufacture of various kinds of cotton and woollen goods, brushes, toys, boots and shoes, and bricks and tiles.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} Market-gardening flourishes in the vicinity and an extensive trade is carried on in grain and wine.

The town is the seat of a bishop, a prefect and a ''Court of Assizes''; it has ''Tribunals of First Instance'' and commerce, together with a Chamber of Commerce, a branch of the Bank of France, a higher ecclesiastical seminary, a ''lycée'' and training colleges.<ref name=EB1911/>

Amongst the major companies operating in the town are Nestle and Agco (Massey Ferguson). Also present since 1986 is RS Components, founded by Jerry Vaughan, and now operating from a purpose-built distribution centre to the east of the town

Beauvais also has a small airport, Beauvais Tillé, which is used by several low-cost carriers and charter airlines such as Ryanair as a terminal for nearby Paris, to which frequent shuttle buses run.

==Education== Beauvais has the following schools:

Public schools: *20 preschools: Four in Argentine, five in Centre-Ville, one in Marissel, one in Notre Dame du Thil, five in Saint-Jean, one in Saint Just des Marais, two in Saint Lucien, and one in Voisinlieu<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017133713/http://www.beauvais.fr/education-jeunesse/etablissements-scolaires/les-ecoles-maternelles.html Les écoles maternelles ]." Beauvais. 17 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 September 2016.</ref> *24 public elementary schools: Five in Argentine, six in Centre-Ville, two in Marissel, two in Notre Dame du Thil, five in Saint-Jean, one in Saint Just des Marais, two in Saint-Lucien, and one in Voisinlieu<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017133748/http://www.beauvais.fr/education-jeunesse/etablissements-scolaires/les-ecoles-elementaires.html Les écoles élémentaires ]." Beauvais. 17 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 September 2016.</ref> *Five junior high schools: Collège Henri Baumont, Collège Charles Fauqueux, Collège Jules Michelet, Collège Jean Baptiste Pellerin, and Collège George Sand<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017132956/http://www.beauvais.fr/education-jeunesse/etablissements-scolaires/les-colleges.html Les collèges ]." Beauvais. 17 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 September 2016.</ref> *Four general high schools: Lycée Félix Faure, Lycée Jeanne Hachette, Lycée Paul Langevin, and Lycée François Truffaut<ref name=HSlist>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017130828/http://www.beauvais.fr/education-jeunesse/etablissements-scolaires/les-lycees.html Lycées d'enseignement général]." Beauvais. 17 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 September 2016.</ref> *Four vocational high schools: Lycée Professionnel Paul Langevin, Lycée Professionnel Jean-Baptiste Corot, Lycée Professionnel Les Jacobins, and Lycée Agricole de l'Oise<ref name=HSlist/>

Private schools:<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017133032/http://www.beauvais.fr/education-jeunesse/etablissements-scolaires/etablissements-prives.html Etablissements privés]." Beauvais. 17 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 September 2016.</ref> *Institution du Saint-Espirit (elementary, junior high, high school, and technological high school) *Institution Notre-Dame (elementary and junior high school) *Elementary schools: École Saint-Paul and École Sainte-Bernadette *Lycée Saint-Vincent de Paul

== Sport == Beauvais is home to AS Beauvais Oise, a football club playing in the Championnat National ({{As of|2006|lc=y}}), which is supported by a fine percussion band.

==International relations== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}

Beauvais is twinned with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Villes Jumelées|url=http://www.comite-jumelage-beauvais.fr/category/villes/|website=comite-jumelage-beauvais.fr|publisher=Comité je Jumelage de Beauvais|language=fr|access-date=2019-11-12|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726165253/http://www.comite-jumelage-beauvais.fr/category/villes/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *{{flagicon|UK}} Maidstone, United Kingdom, since 1961 *{{flagicon|GER}} Witten, Germany, since 1975 *{{flagicon|POR}} Setúbal, Portugal, since 1982 *{{flagicon|ROU}} Dej, Romania, since 2003 *{{flagicon|POL}} Tczew, Poland, since 2003

==Notes == {{notelist}}

==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

== Bibliography == * Charles Delettre, ''Histoire du diocèse de Beauvais, depuis son établissement'', Volume 2, Harvard Library

== External links == {{Wikivoyage}} {{Commons category|Beauvais}} {{NIE Poster}} * [https://www.beauvais.fr/ Official website]

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