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Soissons

Market town in the département of Aisne, in the Picardy region of northern France, 90 km/56 mi northeast of Paris; population (1999) 29,400, conurbation 45,300. The chief industry is metallurgy. In 486 the Frankish king Clovis declared the town the first French capital after defeating the Gallo-Romans here, ending their rule in France.

In 751 Pepin the Short was crowned in Soissons by St Boniface, having ousted the last of the Merovingian kings. The town square contains eight centuries of architecture. The Abbey of Saint Jean of the Vines and the church of Saint-Medard are of particular architectural interest.

Soissons has always been fortified as a barrier against invasion from the north and suffered great destruction in fighting around the town in the early part of World War I. Rebuilding followed in the 1920s.



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