SOISSONS In this pleasant town, one might have lingered indefi-nitely and not lacked entertainment. Soissons was called Augusta Suessionum under theearly Empire. The town has great notoriety among his-torians for the great number of sieges it has undergone,down to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870,…
Cities and towns · Cathedrals
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