English summary: Down the slopes of its plateau, the modern neighborhoods devoted to housing the majority of the inhabitants, communication, and trade of the city of Laon emerge. Their development has replaced former market gardening, yet this is not the city that we notice. Emerging from the gentle relief of the Paris Basin, the traveler is surprised by the medieval city, spared from the massive destruction of the 20th century, draped in its greenery and the petrified scarf of its ramparts from where no arrows point. Laon ...
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English summary: Down the slopes of its plateau, the modern neighborhoods devoted to housing the majority of the inhabitants, communication, and trade of the city of Laon emerge. Their development has replaced former market gardening, yet this is not the city that we notice. Emerging from the gentle relief of the Paris Basin, the traveler is surprised by the medieval city, spared from the massive destruction of the 20th century, draped in its greenery and the petrified scarf of its ramparts from where no arrows point. Laon is a city with a square front. The dense, fanciful yet harmonious network of its doors, houses and hotels runs between the witnesses and masters of its prestigious past, set like bookends at its ends: the ancient cathedral of Notre Dame, comparable to no other, the citadel and the abbey of Saint-Jean to the east, the abbey of Saint-Martin and the abbey of Saint-Vincent to the west and south always look out over the religious and royal city, the bustling town, and their airy confines. In this carefully delimited space, whoever takes the trouble to let themselves be led sees eight centuries of urban life and the art of building unfold before their eyes. French description: La ville de Laon a laisse glisser jusqu'au bas des pentes de son plateau les quertiers modernes devolus au logement de la majorite de ses habitants, aux voies de communication, et aux echanges. Le mouvement y a remplace les cultures maraicheres, mais ce n'est pas la la ville que l'on remarque. Emergence dans le relief si doux du Bassin Parisien, la brusque surprise nait de la cite medievale, epargnee par les destructions massives du XXe siecle, drapee dans ses pans de verdure et l'echarpe petrifiee de ses remparts d'ou ne pointe nulle fleche. Laon est une ville au front carre. Le reseau dense, fantaisiste mais harmonieux de ses portes, maisons et hotels, court entre les temoins et les maitres de son prestigieux passe, poses comme des serre-livres a ses extremites: l'ancienne cathedrale Notre Dame a nulle autre pareille, la citadelle et l'abbaye Saint-Jean a l'est, l'abbaye Saint-Martin et l'abbaye Saint-Vincent a l'ouest et au sud, veillent toujours, avec d'autres fonctions, sur la cite religieuse et royale, le bourg fourmillant, et leurs confins aeres. En cet espace soigneusement delimite, celui qui prend la peine de se laisser conduire voit se derouler devant ses yeux huit siecles de vie urbaine et d'art de bytir.
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