Travel Guide Breteuil

In the north of the department, this small town of 4 300 inhabitants, head of canton, developed in medieval times around the castle of the Comte de Breteils and a Benedictine abbey. But, during the Hundred years'War, and then from the 1940 th to the 60% th century, the commune had several times of terrible destruction, caused in particular by the bombings of June (almost of the village was reduced to ashes). From the abbey there are only a few remains, the chapel of the abbot, dating from the late th century and the convent house reconstructed in the th century. It was transformed into the s into a convalescence house. The castle was dismantled in the th century. Near the old feudal motte, Octave Levasseur, a former aide-de-camp of Marshal Ney, built a beautiful bourgeois house in 1821 that will become the archaeological museum where most of the excavations carried out in the Gallo-Roman town of Vendeuil-Caply are exhibited.