Laon

American  

[lahn] / lɑ̃ /

noun

1. a town in and the capital of Aisne, in N France, E of Paris.

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Example Sentences

Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2019

At a stopover in Laon, a city of shimmering stone 300 feet above the plains of Picardy in France, I tried to fathom the power of miracles.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

The events are taking place in Soissons, Laon, Vauxaillon and Blerancourt. 011-33-323-397-217.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2018

Born in Laon, France, in 1637, he was a Jesuit by 20 and was explaining the Trinity in the New World by 30.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2015

The Bisayans call him Laon, which signifies “Time.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various