Laon
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Oct 15, 2026
Jim NolanHOST
There monks came, even from very far away, to seek an asylum, as it did, for example, those from St.
Jim NolanHOST
Vast in 887 at Beauvais and those from St. Quentin at Laon.
Jim NolanHOST
In the midst of the insecurity and the disorders which imparted so lugubrious a character to the second half of the ninth century, it therefore fell to the towns to fulfill a true mission of protection.
Jim NolanHOST
They were, in every sense of the word, the ramparts of a society invaded, under tribute, and terrorized.
John AllenHOST
So Lhurier wrote down Mallory and Emily's names and then asked for their contact information.
John AllenHOST
Later that day, Major Lhurier sat down with Véro's nephew, Mallory, at his home in Laon, a town 25 miles away from Chaumont.
John AllenHOST
In the next room over, Lhurier could hear Mallory's girlfriend, Emily, playing with her five-year-old son.
John AllenHOST
Lhurier asked Mallory to walk him through everything he did on March 14th, hoping that his story would potentially contradict Véro's.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
The Premonstratension Order was founded by Norbert, son of Heribert, Count of Gennep, in 1120.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
The first house was established near Laon, 75 miles northeast of Paris, on a spot foreshown by the Virgin Mary in a vision to Norbert.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
From the French Premontré and Latin Praemonstratum, the name of the order is derived.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
St. Norbert died in 1134 and was buried at Magdeburg, which bishopric he had held for 14 years.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
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Avis VenningNARRATOR
How the awful war between the bun-makers of Laon and Gargantua's country was begun.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
Read by Avis Venning.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
While Gargantua, studying day after day, was finding out that the tasks he had at first thought to be so hard were so easy that they became more a pastime than anything else, and while he was growing to be a skillful soldier and a most learned gentleman, his old father, King Grongussier, without his knowing it, had got into a terrible mess with certain bun-makers of Laon.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
This is how it happened.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
It was vintage time when the great purple grapes, bursting with their ripeness, were to be gathered and when the shepherds of Grongussier's kingdom used to watch the vines like hawks to prevent the starlings from pecking at the juicy clusters.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
This vintage time always made business for the bun-makers of Laon.
Avis VenningNARRATOR
Even when in the best of humor, however, they were always a peppery touch-me-if-you-dare sort of fellows.
Olly HaynesHOST
It's utter madness.
Olly HaynesHOST
The madness, the 15-year-old high school student who had his hand torn off after a grenade explosion in Laon, Maël, 16, who lost his right eye in Tours, a 14-year-old student hit point-blank in the face with a grenade launcher, a 17-year-old girl seriously injured in the eye, uh, with two facial fractures after a police charge in Clemenceau in Montpellier, a 16-year-old high student injured in the eye during a police operation in Argenteuil, a 17-year-old student allegedly had his held, um, held underwater, a student at Mozart High School in Le Blanc-Mesnil was allegedly struck by a police officer on a motorcycle, then beaten on the ground, a 14-year-old schoolgirl was grabbed violently by the neck by a police officer in front of, uh, his high school in Alençon." And he just continues and continues.
Olly HaynesHOST
These are all lots of the, um, instances that I've, uh, talked about, but he categorizes more and more.
Olly HaynesHOST
Anyway, this guy was filmed beating up protesters, and he thinks it's too much.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
The Premonstratensian Order was founded by Norbert, son of Heribert, Count of Gennep, in 1120.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
The first house was established near Laon, 75 miles northeast of Paris, on a spot foreshown by the Virgin Mary in a vision to Norbert.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
From the French Premontré and Latin Praemonstratum, the name of the order is derived.
Garth BurtonNARRATOR
St. Norbert died in 1134 and was buried at Magdeburg, which bishopric he had held for 14 years.