Beauce
Beauce is a natural region in northern France, located between the Seine and Loire rivers. 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.
It is the setting of Émile Zola's novel, 'La Terre' (The Earth).
Beauce (disambiguation)
Beauce can stand for:
- Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec. The regional county municipality seat is Saint-Georges.
- Saint-Georges, Sainte-Marie, and Beauceville are cities of Beauce.
- Beauce (electoral district) is a Canadian federal electoral district.
- Beauce (provincial electoral district) is a former Quebec provincial electoral district.
- Woodstock en Beauce is a music festival which tries to recreate the famous Woodstock Festival which is emblematic of the late 1960s hippie movement.
- See also Beauce French accent
Beauce (provincial electoral district)
Beauce was a former provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches and Estrie regions of Quebec, Canada. It elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec (earlier known as the Legislative Assembly of Quebec).
It was created for the 1867 election, and electoral districts of that name existed even earlier: see Beauce (Province of Canada) and Beauce (Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral districts were Beauce-Nord and Beauce-Sud.
