Beauvais - Cathédrale de Saint-Pierre

2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Beauvais is a town and commune of northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Oise département. Population (1999): city: 57,355 (beauvaisiens); city and suburbs: 59,003; urban area (in French: aire urbaine): 100,733. It lies about 90 km north of Paris. Beauvais - History. Beauvais was known to the ...

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Main article: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais Its cathedral of St Pierre, in some respects the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, consists only of a transept and choir with apse and seven apse-chapels. The vaulting in the interior exceeds 150 ft. in height. The small Romanesque church of the 10th century known as the Basse Oeuvre occupies the site destined for the nave. Begun in 1247, under Bishop Guillaume de Grez, an extra 16 feet were added to the height, to make it the tallest cathedral in Eu ...

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Beauvais, Beauvais - History, Beauvais - Geography, Beauvais - Cathédrale de Saint-Pierre, Beauvais - Bishops of Beauvais, Beauvais - Other highlights, Beauvais - Economy

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Beauvais was known to the Romans as Caesaromagnus (though the post-Renaissance Latin rendering is Bellovacum) and took its present name from the Belgic tribe of the Bellovaci, whose capital it was. In the 9th century it became a countship, which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France from the twelfth century. 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 ...

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Main article: Bishop of Beauvais-Noyons-Senlis The early bishops of Beauvais are largely legendary, but a document records that the bishop who occupied the see from 632 to 660 was the thirteenth incumbent.[1] The see, near Paris and the centers of power, was a desirable one. The most famous bishops of Beauvais are Odo of Beauvais (860-881) involved in a battle of prerogatives that was a foretaste of the Investiture Controversy; Gui (1063-85), who founded the great Beauvais school of theology at St. Quentin of Beauvais; Pierre C ...

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