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Beaune-la-Rolande (French pronunciation: [bon la ʁɔlɑ̃d]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

History

Belltower of Saint-Martin church

On 28 November 1870 it was the site of a battle during the Franco-Prussian War, in which French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille was killed.

During World War II, it was the site of the Nazi Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp, a transit and deportation center for Jews closely associated with the Pithiviers internment camp. Eighteen thousand Jews were held at Beaune-la-Rolande; most of them were transported to Auschwitz where they were murdered.[3]

The Polish artist Zber was imprisoned there from 1941 to 1942,[4] and the composer Ralph Erwin died there.

Population

See also

References

  1. ^ “Municipales 2026. Publication des résultats au 1er tour” (in French). Ministère de l’Intérieur. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  2. ^ “Populations de référence 2023” (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  3. ^ Megargee, G.P.; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Indiana University Press.
  4. ^ Paris for Dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2007. pp. 220. ISBN 978-0-470-08584-4.
  5. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d’aujourd’hui: Commune data sheet Beaune-la-Rolande, EHESS (in French).
  6. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE