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Noyon is a common department of the Oise, chief town of canton in the area Picardy, in France.

Its inhabitants is the Noyonnais . The name thrown is the Fond of delicacies ones of Boundary-line.

Geography

On the Oise river.
Connection between the side channel to the Oise, the channel of North and that of Saint-Quentin.
Before the creation of the departments, in 1789, Noyon is administratively attached to the Île-de-France.

Formerly, certain authors placed at Noyon, the Noviodunum Suessionum , capital of the tribe of the Suessions, where Jules César establishes his camp before turning to Bellovaques (the Guerre of Gaules, II, 12). But, this assumption was for a long time abandoned.
the town of Noviomagus was rested by the Romans. It belonged to the city of the Viromanduens. It was a small town which profited from its position near the valley of Oise.
At the Lower Empire, the city is protected by a fortification. It is the seat of a military command (prefecture of the lètes of Condren).
In 531, Saint Medard moves there the seat of évêché of the civitas Viromanduorum .
At the time mérovingienne, évêché of Boundary-line profits from its proximity with Soissons, which was one of the capitals of the frank kingdom and the close palates.
Born in the Limousin towards 588, the goldsmith Eloi became monetary of Clotaire II, then treasurer of Dagobert 1st before being elected bishop of Boundary-line (641). Founder of monasteries in Solignac and Paris, it accommodated holy Godeberthe like moniale with Noyon. He dies into 659/660.

Until the War One hundred Year old, the ecclesiastical county of Boundary-line has a strategic role between the royal field (the Ile de France), the grounds of the counts of Vermandois and the lords of Boves - Coucy.
In 1363, Noyon is transmitted like prerogative to the house of Burgundy and will remain component duchy until Charles Quint.
Traité Boundary-line of August 13rd 1516 enters and Charles Quint (France obtains the Milanese but gives up Naples). The emperor restores finally the duchy of Burgundy in France in 1544 with the treaty of Crépy-in-Laonnois.
the city is definitively sold in France after the Traité of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559.
In 1592 Henri IV took the city.

the city is taken as of September 1914 at the time of the German offensive passing by Belgium and folding back themselves on Paris.
Seven/Oct. 14, after the battles on the Marne and at the time of the race to the sea, the face is stabilized in the valley of Oise downstream from Noyon.
March 17: The German army reduced its face between Arras and Soissons and evacuates Noyon.
on March 26th, 1918, Noyon is again taken by the German forces (battles of Boundary-line of the 23 to the 25/03). The violent ones engagements in the vicinity (of the Mount-Renaud of the 26/03 to the 30/04) will involve his bombardment by the French in order to limit the German logistic capacities.
30 aôt 1918: Boundary-line will be definitively released at the time of the offensive of allied release of summer 18 party of the Matz the 10/08.

Be 40: Engagements along the Channel of North.
Release in Seven 45, by 3rd US army of George Patton after some retarding combat with the Mount-Renaud.

the Cathedral Notre-Dame: the Romance Cathédrale , in which Charlemagne then Hugues Capet had been crowned, was devastated by a fire in 1131. Of 1145 with 1235 was thus built one of the first large Gothic churches (primitive Gothic).
Library of the Chapter
Fountain of the Dolphin set up in 1771

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