Edwards, George Wharton, 1859- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 154
rs, and now and again we sawcostumes and some headdresses on the peasant womenthat we had not seen elsewhere. An old traveler writing of Soissons said: At a smallinn, Des Trois Pucelles, I had a noble salmon, thatstill excites emotions in me when I think of it. I havenever met with its like since —… … 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,…
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