a town of France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Oise, on the slope of a hill, 29 miles S.E. of Beauvais. It consists of an old town and three suburbs; and has narrow, crooked streets, lined with well-built houses. There are here an old castle, a small but stately cathedral, chiefly of the twelfth century, and some churches now used for other purposes. The manufactories consist of cotton mills, tanneries, printing-houses, &c. Many traces of Roman structures have been found here. Pop. (1856) 6172.