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A female competitor. Compiègne, ( kom'pe - ain ,) a town of France, dep. Oise, on the Oise, 35 m. from Beauvais. This place has a considerable historical importance. Its palace was built by Louis XV., after designs by Gabriel, and restored by Napoleon I. The parks and forests by which it is encompa ed cover 30,000 acres. The other chief buildings are the abbey of St. Corneille, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôtelde-Ville. Here Joan of Arc was, in 1430, made prisoner, and sold to the English; and here Napoleon I., in 1810, married the archduche of Austria. Pop . 12,882.