Grandvilliers (Oise)
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | Oise | |
Arrondissement | Beauvais | |
Canton | Grandvilliers (main town) | |
Community association | Picardy Verte | |
Coordinates | 49 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 57 ′ E | |
height | 177-204 m | |
surface | 6.64 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,940 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 443 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 60210 | |
INSEE code | 60286 | |
Website | http://www.grandvilliers.fr | |
Saint-Gilles Church |
Grand Villiers is a French commune with 2,940 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Oise in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the arrondissement of Beauvais and is the capital of the canton of Grandvilliers .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 |
Residents | 2118 | 2350 | 2661 | 2690 | 2761 | 2895 | 3055 |
Attractions
- Church of Saint-Gilles, Monument historique (see also: List of Monuments historiques in Grandvilliers (Oise) )
- Saint-Jean chapel
Personalities
- Étienne-Nicolas de Calon (1726–1807), general, born in Grandvilliers
- François Louis Suleau (1757–1792), journalist and lawyer, born in Grandvilliers
- Antoine Delamarre (1765–1824), deputy, died in Grandvilliers
- Gaston Heuet (1892–1979), long distance runner, died in Grandvilliers.
Town twinning
- Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse (Rhineland-Palatinate, since 1983)
- Athy (Ireland, since 2004)
literature
- Louis Graves: Cantons de Formerie, Granvilliers et Marseille-en-Beauvaisis [Précis statistique sur le canton de Grandvilliers] , Volume 3 (1840, reprint 1991), ISBN 2877606074 , with map
- Ludovic Wargnier: Histoire générale du canton de Grandvilliers, Le livre d'Histoire-Lorisse , 1874 (reprint: ISBN 2-87760-174-9 )
- Abbé L. Meister: Epigraphie du Canton de Grandvilliers. Inscriptions antérieures au XIXe siècle , 1905
Web links
Commons : Grandvilliers - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Grandvilliers (Oise) at annuaire-mairie.fr (French)