Crépy

Crépy-en-Valois is a town on the Valois plain in the Oise department of northern France. It was founded in the tenth century by the count of Valois and served as capital of the Valois county and duchy. In the Middle Ages its markets profited from the Champagne fairs, which dealt in leather, cloth and spices. War with the English in the fourteenth century destroyed much of the town, and the monarchy later annexed the Valois lands.