The city is known for its famous cocos (white beans). But above all, Soissons is linked to the "Vase de Soissons" and to the question "Who broke the vase of Soissons?" which meant, for schoolchildren in the past, a punishment that would soon fall! The fact would go back to the Frankish king Clovis who asked one day for a certain "vase" to one of his soldiers, who rather than giving it to him, smashed it with an axe. A year later, reviewing his troops, King Clovis, recognizing the rebel, and on the pretext that his outfit was not very military, cut off his head with one blow, saying: "Remember the vase of Soissons!

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