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Oise
Department of France

Oise is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called Oisiens (French: [wazjɛ̃]) or Isariens, after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 in 2019.

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History

Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Île-de-France and Picardy.

After the coalition victory at Waterloo, the department was occupied by British troops between June 1815 and November 1818.

In March 2021, local Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault was killed in a plane crash.2

Geography

Oise is part of the current region of Hauts-de-France and is situated 35 km north of Paris. It is surrounded by the departments of Somme, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Eure, and Seine-Maritime.

Principal towns

The most populous commune is Beauvais, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 13 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The 10 most populous communes are:3

CommunePopulation (2019)
Beauvais57,071
Compiègne40,615
Creil36,169
Nogent-sur-Oise20,780
Crépy-en-Valois14,788
Senlis14,760
Méru14,452
Montataire13,645
Noyon13,190
Pont-Sainte-Maxence12,602

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1801350,854—    
1821375,817+0.34%
1831397,725+0.57%
1841398,868+0.03%
1851403,857+0.12%
1861401,417−0.06%
1872396,804−0.11%
1881404,555+0.22%
1891401,835−0.07%
1901407,808+0.15%
1911411,028+0.08%
1921387,760−0.58%
1931407,432+0.50%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1936402,569−0.24%
1946396,724−0.15%
1954435,308+1.17%
1962481,289+1.26%
1968540,988+1.97%
1975606,320+1.64%
1982661,781+1.26%
1990725,603+1.16%
1999766,441+0.61%
2006792,975+0.49%
2011805,642+0.32%
2016823,542+0.44%
source:45

Politics

The president of the Departmental Council is Nadège Lefebvre, elected in 2017.

Presidential elections 2nd round

ElectionWinning CandidateParty%2nd Place CandidateParty%
2022Marine Le PenRN52.73Emmanuel MacronLREM47.27
20176Emmanuel MacronLREM53.28Marine Le PenFN46.72
2012Nicolas SarkozyUMP52.66François HollandePS47.34
2007Nicolas SarkozyUMP58.28Ségolène RoyalPS41.72
20027Jacques ChiracRPR74.93Jean-Marie Le PenFN25.07

Current National Assembly Representatives

ConstituencyMember8Party
Oise's 1st constituencyClaire Marais-BeuilNational Rally
Oise's 2nd constituencyPhilippe BallardNational Rally
Oise's 3rd constituencyAlexandre SabatouNational Rally
Oise's 4th constituencyÉric WoerthLa République En Marche!
Oise's 5th constituencyFrédéric-Pierre VosNational Rally
Oise's 6th constituencyMichel GuiniotNational Rally
Oise's 7th constituencyDavid MagnierNational Rally

Tourism

The major tourist attraction of the department is the Parc Astérix, which opened in 1989. Other interesting sites are Beauvais Cathedral, the Château de Pierrefonds, restored by Viollet-le-Duc, and the art collection of the Château de Chantilly, which is one of the largest outside Paris.

Twinned county

Oise is twinned with Bedfordshire in England. It is also twinned with the Indonesian regency of Karanganyar and the Chinese provinces of Shandong and Zhejiang.

One of the villages along the river Oise is Auvers-sur-Oise, famous for having been visited by several impressionist artists. This is where Vincent van Gogh spent his last 70 days and is his and his brother Theo's resting place.

See also

  • France portal

References

  1. Populations légales 2019: 60 Oise, INSEE https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep60.pdf ↩

  2. "French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash". BBC News. 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-03-08. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56313271 ↩

  3. Populations légales 2019: 60 Oise, INSEE https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep60.pdf ↩

  4. "Historique de l'Oise". Le SPLAF. http://splaf.free.fr/60his.html ↩

  5. "Évolution et structure de la population en 2016". INSEE. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4176909?geo=DEP-60 ↩

  6. l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Présidentielles". interieur.gouv.fr. http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Presidentielles ↩

  7. l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Présidentielles". interieur.gouv.fr. http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Presidentielles ↩

  8. Nationale, Assemblée. "Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français". Assemblée nationale. https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/ ↩