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Compiègne: Encyclopedia - Compiègne

2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Compiègne is a commune in the Oise département of France, of which it is a sous-préfecture. The city is located along the Oise River. Its inhabitants are called Compiégnois. Compiègne - Administration. Compiègne is the chief town of 3 cantons Canton of Compiègne-Nord (with 5 communes)Including:

Compiègne - Administration

Compiègne - History

Compiègne - Historical population

Compiègne - Sights

Compiègne - Memorials at the site of the 1918 Armistice

Compiègne - Miscellaneous

Compiègne - Births

Compiègne - Twin towns

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Compiègne: Encyclopedia - Compiègne

Compiègne

² Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal).

Compiègne is a commune in the Oise département of France, of which it is a sous-préfecture. The city is located along the Oise River. Its inhabitants are called Compiégnois.

Compiègne - Administration

Compiègne is the chief town of 3 cantons

Canton of Compiègne-Nord (with 5 communes)
Canton of Compiègne-Sud-Est (southeast) (with 4 communes)
Canton of Compiègne-Sud-Ouest (southwest) (with 5 communes)

Compiègne - History

665 - Saint Wilfrid consecrated Bishop of York. February 888 - Odo, Count of Paris and king of the Franks was crowned in Compiègne. May 23, 1430 - During the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians while attempting to free Compiègne. They then sold her to the English. 1630 - Marie de' Medici's attempts to displace Richelieu ultimately led to her exile to Compiègne, from where she escaped to Brussels in 1631. November 11, 1918 - The fighting of WWI ended with an armistice agreed at Rethondes, near Compiègne. June 22, 1940 - Armistice between Nazi Germany and the defeated France in Rethondes, near Compiègne. It was signed in the same place as in 1918, in the same railroad carriage but with the seats swapped. 1968 - The starting location of the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race was changed from Paris to Compiègne. 2004 - The Communauté de Communes de la Région de Compiègne becomes a partner in a European Union INTERREG IIIb project called SAND (see link below)

Compiègne - Historical population

1882: 13,393
1990: 41,663 (municipal), 44,703 (total)
1999: 41,076 (municipal), 44,703 (total), 69,903 (agglomeration), urban (108,234)

Compiègne - Sights

Château de Compiègne
Compiègne Forest

Compiègne - Memorials at the site of the 1918 Armistice

Alsace-Lorraine Memorial: a depiction of a sword (representing the allies) stabbing a fallen eagle (representing Germany).
Marshal Foch's statue
Memorial tablet placed at the precise location of the cease-fire signing: reads (in french) HERE ON THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER 1918 SUCCUMBED THE CRIMINAL PRIDE OF THE GERMAN REICH. VANQUISHED BY THE FREE PEOPLES WHICH IT TRIED TO ENSLAVE. (This tablet was dismantled and taken to Germany in 1940. It was returned after World War 2).
Copy of the original train carriage where the cease-fire was signed (the original was destroyed in Germany at the end of World War 2).

Compiègne - Miscellaneous

Compiègne is the traditional start of the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race.

Compiègne - Births

Compiègne was the birthplace of:

Roscellinus (~1050 - ~1122), philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of Nominalism
Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420), theologian and cardinal of the Catholic Church
Albert Robida (1848-1926), illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist