Noyon
Noyon
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Location of Noyon  | |
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| Coordinates: 49°34′54″N 2°59′59″E / 49.5817°N 2.9997°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Oise |
| Arrondissement | Compiègne |
| Canton | Noyon |
| Intercommunality | Pays Noyonnais |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–2026) | Sandrine Dauchelle[1] |
| Area 1 | 18 km2 (7 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 12,987 |
| • Density | 720/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 60471 /60400 |
| Elevation | 36–153 m (118–502 ft) (avg. 52 m or 171 ft) |
| Website | www |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Noyon (French pronunciation:
Geography
Noyon lies on the river
Oise Canal and the Canal du Nord pass through the commune. Noyon station
is served by regional trains to Creil, Saint-Quentin, Compiègne and Paris.
History
The
d'Anville noted that the distance must be in error, Amiens being further and Soissons closer than indicated.[4]
By the Middle Ages, the town's
Merovingians.) The bishop of Noyon was also bishop of Tournai from the seventh century until Tournai was raised to a separate diocese 1146.[6]
The
half-timbered construction
.
By the
Treaty of Noyon, signed on the 13 August 1516 between Francis I of France and emperor Charles V, France abandoned its claims to the Kingdom of Naples and received the Duchy of Milan in recompense. The treaty brought the War of the League of Cambrai— one stage of the Italian Wars
— to a close.
During
Italian war in 1557, most of Noyon would be burned,[11] in the midst of Philip II of Spain's invasion of Picardy,[12] before returning to their winter quarters in the Spanish Netherlands.[12]
Near the end of the sixteenth century the town fell under
Habsburg control, but Henry IV of France recaptured it. The Concordat of 1801 suppressed its bishopric. The town was occupied by the Germans during World War I and World War II
and on both occasions suffered heavy damage.
Population
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 11,603 | — |
| 1975 | 13,889 | +2.60% |
| 1982 | 14,041 | +0.16% |
| 1990 | 14,426 | +0.34% |
| 1999 | 14,471 | +0.03% |
| 2007 | 14,240 | −0.20% |
| 2012 | 13,658 | −0.83% |
| 2017 | 13,519 | −0.20% |
| Source: INSEE[13] | ||
Personalities
- Saint Acarius, bishop of Doornik and Noyon (d. 14 March 642)
- Pope Innocent VI, Bishop of Noyon, born Étienne Aubert, Papacy (1352 - 1362).
- Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel (1720 - 1794), priest, poet and historian.
- Calvinistmovement.
- Alain Danilet (1947 - 2012), born in Noyon, politician.
- Pierre Descaves (1924 - 2014), served during World War II, municipal councillor of Noyon from 1989 to 2001, politician.
- Saint Eligius (588 - 660), bishop of Noyon-Tournai after Acarius (d. 1 December 660)
- Guillaume d'Ercuis (1265 — 1314/15), archdeacon, almoner, canon of the cathedral of Noyon.
- Paschal de l'Estocart (1538 or 1539 – after 1587), born in Noyon, French Renaissance composer.
- archaeologist, first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights, completed schooling at Noyon.
- Louis-André de Grimaldi (1736 – 1804), last Peer of France as Count-Bishop of Noyon from 1777.
- François de Maucroix (1619 - 1708), born in Noyon, long-time friend of La Fontaine, poet and translator.
- Pierre Robert Olivétan (c. 1506 - 1538), born in Noyon, first to translate the Bible into the French language starting from the Hebrew and Greek texts.
- Baroque art.
- Medardus (456 – 545), was the Bishop of Vermandois who removed the seat of the diocese to Noyon.
- Bruno Roux (born 1963), French football player and manager
- Godeberta (c. 640 – c. 700), Frankish saint, resident in a small palace at Noyon, which included a chapel dedicated to Saint George.
- Jean de Bournonville (c. 1585 - 1632), composer and organist.
- Simon-Jérôme Bourlet de Vauxcelles, (1733 - 1802), journalist during the French Revolution, curator of the bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (1787).
- Robert Louis Stevenson as part of An Inland Voyage visited Noyon on 17 September 1876. He was greatly impressed with the cathedral stating it has "the happiest inspiration of mankind, a thing as specious as a statue at first glance, yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail…. I sat outside of my hotel and the sweet groaning thunder of the organ floated out of the church like a summons "[14]
International relations
Noyon is twinned with:
See also
- Communes of the Oise department
- Monument aux morts (Oise)
- Charlemagne
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Noviomagus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. pp. 449–450.
- ISBN 221302202X), p. 53
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. Tournai [Doornik] (Diocese); Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai.
- ^ Peter Lasko, Ars Sacra, 800-1200, (Yale University Press, 1994), 1.
- ^ Laon, Kim M. Magon, Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places, Vol. 2, ed. Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger, (Routledge, 1995), 397.
- ^ Karl Leyser, Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Carolingian and Ottonian Centuries, ed. Timothy Reuter, (Hambledon Press, 1994), 48 note110.
- ^ Dudo (Dean of St. Quentin), History of the Normans, transl. Eric Christiansen, (The Boydell Press, 1998), 184 note82.
- ^ George A. Rothrock, The Huguenots: A Biography of a Minority, (Nelson-Hall, Inc., 1979), 48.
- ^ a b A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. II, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 518.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ The Cathedrals of Northern France by Francis Miltoun, Published by T. Werner Laurie, London, 1894
- ^ "Hexham Town Twinning". Hexham Town Twinning. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ "The Noyon Hexham town twinning". danielle.esposito.pagesperso-orange.fr. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
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