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Extract from the Noyon Travel Guides:
Further up the Oise, and a possible day-trip from Compigne, is
NOYON
, another of Picardy's cathedral towns. Its quiet provinciality belies a long, illustrious history, first as a Roman prefecture, then as seat of a bishopric from 531. Here, in 768, Charlemagne was crowned king of Neustria, largest of the Frankish kingdoms; in 987, Hugues Capet was crowned king of France; and, to cap it all, John Calvin was born here in 1509.
Rowing along the Oise on his
Inland Journey of 1876
, Robert Louis Stevenson stopped briefly at Noyon, which he described as "a stack of brown roofs at the best, where I b...
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