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Map of Beauce, 1639
Beauce
Beauce (French pronunciation:
[bos]
ⓘ ) is a
natural region in northern
France , located between the rivers
Seine and
Loire . It now comprises the
Eure-et-Loir
département and parts of
Loiret ,
Essonne and
Loir-et-Cher .
The region shared the history of the
province of
Orléanais and the county of
Chartres , which is its only major city. Beauce is one of France's most productive agricultural areas.
The name derives from
Latin Belsia or Belsa , said by
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus to be a
Gaulish word meaning "grass plain, cultivated plain."
[1]
[2] It was formerly spelled La Beausse .
[3]
It is the setting of
Émile Zola 's novel La Terre (
The Earth ). The region also gives its name to the
Beauce region of
Quebec .
References
^ Austin, James F. (October 7, 2009).
New Spaces for French and Francophone Cinema . Yale University Press.
ISBN
9780300118223 – via Google Books.
^ Bloch, Marc (February 20, 2015).
The Ile-de-France (Routledge Revivals): The Country around Paris . Routledge.
ISBN
9781317517634 – via Google Books.
^
Holme, Randle .
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External links
Media related to
Beauce at Wikimedia Commons
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