MERIAN, C. - Laon.

A panoramic view of the ancien romanesque town of Laon in Picardie. Very well engraved with excellent detail.
The city contains many medieval buildings. The most important of these is the cathedral Notre-Dame of Laon, dating mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries. The chapter-house and the cloister contain beautiful specimens of the architecture of the beginning of the 13th century. The church of St Martin dates from the middle of the 12th century.
From Merian's Topographia Galliae. . . .