Compiègne

(with 19 communes and part of Compiègne)

Compiègne-1

(with 16 communes and part of Compiègne)

Compiègne-2

665 - Saint was consecrated Bishop of York. Wilfrid refused to be consecrated in Northumbria at the hands of Anglo-Saxon bishops. Deusdedit, Archbishop of Canterbury, had died, and as there were no other bishops in Britain whom Wilfrid considered to have been validly consecrated, he travelled to Compiègne, to be consecrated by Agilbert, the Bishop of Paris.

Wilfrid

757 - Byzantine emperor sent to Compiègne a gift for Pepin the Short : France's first organ.

Constantine V

833 - (also known as King Louis I, the Debonair) was deposed in Compiègne.^[4]

Louis the Pious

February 888 - and king of the Franks was crowned in Compiègne.

Odo, Count of Paris

23 May 1430 - During the , Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians while attempting to free Compiègne. They then sold her to the English.^[5]

Hundred Years' War

1557 - , where Habsburg Spanish forces defeat a French army in the Italian War of 1551–1559

Battle of St. Quentin

1558 - The English occupy Compiegne

1624 - Compiègne gave its name to the , a treaty of alliance concluded by Cardinal Richelieu with the Dutch.^[4]

Treaty of Compiègne

1630 - 's attempts to displace Richelieu ultimately led to her exile to Compiègne, from where she escaped to Brussels in 1631.

Marie de' Medici

17 July 1794 - The are executed in Paris during the Reign of Terror.

Martyrs of Compiègne

1900 - The events for the 1900 Summer Olympics took place.^[6]

golf

11 November 1918 - The , agreed at Le Francport near Compiègne, ends fighting of World War I

Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)

22 June 1940 - Another was signed between Nazi Germany and the defeated France in Le Francport, near Compiègne, in the same place as in 1918, in the same railroad carriage, but with the seats swapped.

Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)

1941 - During the German occupation of France, the was established in Compiègne. A memorial of the camp, and another along the railway tracks, commemorate the tragedy.

Compiègne internment camp

1972 - Creation of the

University of Technology of Compiègne

1977 - The starting location of the bicycle race was changed from Paris to Compiègne.

Paris–Roubaix

- the castle itself, and museums of the Second French Empire and of motoring and tourism within its walls

Château de Compiègne

Musée Antoine Vivenel

Museum of historic figurines

Memorial of internment and deportation

(~1050 - ~1122), philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of Nominalism

Roscellinus

(1350–1420), theologian and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Pierre d'Ailly

(1848–1926), illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist

Albert Robida

(1880–1941), teacher in Latin literature, historian of ancient Rome, and epigrapher of Latin texts

Eugène Albertini

(1887–1966), Oboist, regarded as the founder of American oboe playing.

Marcel Tabuteau

(1899–1938), tennis player, international female sport star

Suzanne Lenglen

(1990–), pianist and composer who works in both the classical and jazz fields.

Lucas Debargue

The

Martyrs of Compiègne

Communes of the Oise department

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Martyrs of Compiegne

Monument aux morts (Oise)

Siege of Compiègne

Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps

(in French)

City council website

Le musée du château/The Château museum

Memorial to Nazi/French Internment Camp and Deportations During WW2

Steven Lehrer's Compiègne site

Universite de Technologie de Compiegne

Joan of Arc Captured At Compiegne

customized transport in compiègne

Concerts in Compiègne