Beauvais, France

Beauvais is a town and commune and capital of the Oise department in northern France. It lies about 90 km north of Paris.
Beauvais was known to the Romans as Bratuspantium a Gaulish name and by the Gallo-Roman name of Caesaromagus. The post-Renaissance Latin rendering is Bellovacum from the Belgic tribe the Bellovaci, whose capital it was. In the ninth century it became a countship, which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who became peers of France from the twelfth century. At the coronations of kings the Bishop of Beauvais wore the royal mantle and went, with the Bishop of Langres, to raise the king from his throne to present him to the people.