The holy district 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 Huns. At that time it was known as
Alaudanum or
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