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Beauvais archaic English: Beawayes, Beeway, Boway, is a city and commune in northern France. It serves as the capital of the Oise département, in the Picardy region. Beauvais is located approximately from Paris. The residents of the city are called Beauvaisiens.
The municipality ( commune) of Beauvais has a population of 54,289 , population estimate from the Insee, and ranks as the most populous city in the Oise department, and the third most-populous city in Picardy. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, the metropolitan area of Beauvais has a population of 103,885.
Beauvais is a city in Picardy, France.
Beauvais may also refer to:
- AS Beauvais Oise, French football club
- Arrondissement of Beauvais, arrondissement of France
- Beauvais (surname)
- Beauvais Lake (Alberta), lake in Alberta, Canada
Beauvais is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Armand Beauvais (1783–1843), American politician
- Denis Beauvais (born 1962), Canadian artist
- Garcelle Beauvais (born 1966), Haitian actress and model
- Laurent Beauvais (born 1952), French politician
- René Beauvais (1795–1837), Canadian carpenter and woodcarver
- Robert Beauvais (1911–1982), French writer and journalist
- William Beauvais (born 1956), Canadian classical guitarist and composer
Usage examples of "beauvais".
So, counting the days until Beauvais would return, he plunged into his work.
Bishop Wieber died of cancer late in 1964, the life of Gerald Beauvais was destined to change radically.
Gerry Beauvais again sank into a deep depression and was unable to get out of bed for days.
He set the glass on the floor and took Beauvais by the shoulders and rolled him around.
Clive got the car out and backed it down the drive, with Beauvais slumped low in the front seat.
He dug something out of his pocket and pushed past Beauvais, holding his hand close to the light.
You were out cold with your head in the canal, Beauvais was beside the road, also out cold, and the big fellow.
He climbed the steps of the little house where he had gone three nights ago while Dion Beauvais waited in the fog.
There was a distinct odor of him that time at the beach when Beauvais and his pal took me to the wall.
He knew, of course, that Beauvais was clean, so he was pretty sure we were leading him to the man in the kitchen.
He was close, a lot closer than Beauvais, and he heard me tell the young guy to call the cops.
For some distance from Beauvais, from Senlis, from Soissons, from Laon, they had caused the fields to lie fallow, and here and there shrubs and underwood were springing up over land once cultivated.
Jeanne was not at fault, and yet the Lord Bishop of Beauvais and the clerks of the university were shortly to bring home to her the gravity of the sacrilege of laying hands on an ecclesiastical hackney.
Burgundians, who were threatening his government of Beauvais and his city of Reims.
In any case he welcomed him willingly and kept him at Beauvais, supervising and interrogating him, ready to use him at an auspicious moment.