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Le « A » de « LAON » est stylisé et rappelle le logotype du département de l'Aisne dont la ville est la préfecture. Logo depuis 2016 Nouveau logo reprenant certains éléments du blason de la ville, et sa cathédrale.
Laon ou, na sua forma portuguesa, Lauduno [2] (em latim Laudunum) é uma cidade do departamento de Aisne, na França. A cidade apresenta várias construções medievais , a mais importante delas sendo a Notre-Dame de Laon, datando do século XII e XIII.
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Early history
The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. In the time of Julius Caesar there was a Gallic village named Bibrax where the Remis (inhabitants of the country round Reims) had to meet the onset of the confederated Belgae. Whatever may have been the precise locality of that battlefield, Laon was fortified by the Romans, and successively checked the invasions of the Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, Alans and...
Modern history
At the Revolution (1789) Laon permanently lost its rank as a bishopric. During the campaign of 1814, Napoleon tried in vain to dislodge Blücher and Bülow from it in the Battle of Laon. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, an engineer blew up the powder magazine of the citadel at the moment when the German troops were entering the town. Many people died; and the cathedral and the old episcopal palace were damaged. It surrendered to a German force on 9 September 1870. In the fall of 1914, d...
Located in the middle of Aisne, Laon borders (from the north, clockwise) with the municipalities of Aulnois-sous-Laon, Barenton-Bugny, Chambry, Athies-sous-Laon, Bruyères-et-Montbérault, Vorges, Presles-et-Thierny, Chivy-lès-Étouvelles, Clacy-et-Thierret, Molinchart, Cerny-lès-Bucy, and Besny-et-Loizy. It is 55 km (34 mi) from Reims, 131 km (81 mi)...
The city contains numerous medieval buildings, including the cathedral Notre-Dame of Laon, dating mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries. The chapter-house and the cloister contain specimens of early 13th-century architecture. The old episcopal palace, contiguous to the cathedral, is now used as a court-house. The front, flanked by turrets, is pie...
Laon railway stationoffers connections to Reims, Soissons and Paris. Until August 2016, the town had the only fully automated municipal cable car system in the world, called the Poma 2000. It linked the upper town (the historical centre, located on a plateau) with the lower town, had three stations and ran on rubber tyres. In contrast, the San Fran...
Laon was the birthplace of: 1. Bertrada of Laon (690–721 CE), mother of Charlemagne 2. Anselm of Laon (d. 1117), theologian 3. Father Jacques Marquette, (1636–1675), Jesuit missionary, Namesake of Marquette Universityalong with scores of other institutions and locales in the United States 4. Antoine (ca. 1598–1648), Louis (ca. 1600/1605-1648) and M...
Laon is featured in the book Pursuit of Passy by David Moore Crook.Laon is also featured in the book "A Pilgrimage to Eternity" by Timothy Egan.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Laon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 189–190.
A antiga diocese de Laon foi criada pelo arcebispo Remigius do Reims no final do século V. Presumivelmente, uma igreja primitiva foi erigida logo depois. Laon logo se tornou uma das principais cidades do Império Franco.
— Lalon Lalon's name as written, in a late 19th-century manuscript, by his disciple and scribe Bholai Shah, in unconventional Bengali orthography There are few reliable sources for the details of Lalon's early life as he was reticent in revealing his past. It is not known exactly when, where and how Lalon was born. Lalon had no formal education. Sunil Gangopadhyay related in his book "Moner ...
Laon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon) is a Roman Catholic church located in Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France. Built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it is one of the most important and stylistically unified examples of early Gothic architecture .
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