CREIL  , a

town of northern France, in the department of Oise, 32 M . N. of Paris on the Northern railway, on which it is an important junction . Pop . (1906) 9234 . The town is situated on the Oise, on which it has a busy port . The manufacture of machinery, heavy iron goods and nails, and copper and iron founding, are important industries, and there are important metallurgical and engineering works at Montataire, about 2 M. distant; bricks and tiles and glass are also manufactured, and the Northern railway has workshops here . The church (12th to 15th centuries) is in the Gothic style . There are some traces of a castle in which Charles VI. resided during the period of his madness . Creil played a part of some importance in the wars of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries .