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Soissons is famous for its cocos (white beans). But above all, the town is linked to the Vase de Soissons and the question "Who broke the Vase de Soissons?" which, for schoolchildren of yesteryear, meant a punishment that was soon to fall! The story goes back to the Frankish king Clovis, who once asked one of his soldiers for a certain vase, but rather than give it to him, he smashed it with an axe. A year later, reviewing his troops, King Clovis, recognizing the rebel, and on the pretext that his attire was not very military, chopped off his head with one blow, pronouncing: "Remember the vase of Soissons!

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