Beauvais, capital of the dep. of Oise, in France, 34 in. SW. of Amiens, an ancient town, noted for its cathedral, its tapestry weaving, and the feat of Jeanne-Hachette and her female following when the town was besieged by Charles the Bold.
Population (circa 1900) given as 19,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Beauty and the Beast * BeauvaisLinks here from Chalmers
Arnulph
Aurigni, Gilles De
Baillet, Adrian
Baudelot, Charles Cæsar
Bosc, Claude Du
Boucher, Francis
Boulanger, Nicholas Anthony
Boyer, John Baptist Nicholas
Bremond, Francis De
Bus, Cæsar De
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