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Beauvais: Encyclopedia - Beauvais
2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military perso...
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Beauvais: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauvais - History
Beauvais was known to the Romans as Caesaromagnus (though the post-Renaissance Latin rendering is Bellovacum) and took its present name f...
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Beauvais: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauvais - Cathédrale De Saint-pierre
Main article: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais
Its cathedral of St Pierre, in some respects the most daring achievement of Gothic arc...
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Beauvais: Encyclopedia Ii - Beauvais - Bishops Of Beauvais
Main article: Bishop of Beauvais-Noyons-Senlis
The early bishops of Beauvais are largely legendary, but a document records that the bisho...
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