A French shell from the First World War was discovered this Saturday in Noyon, not far from a gas station. The commercial area was completely evacuated while waiting for the deminers.
“Noyon was crumbling under French shells, completely destroying the city center,” Jean-Yves Bonnard, local historian of the Great War, told our columns in 2020. A bombing on April 1, 1918, Easter Monday, also reduced the cathedral to ashes. The town, occupied by German army in the spring of 1918, suffered a deluge of shells fired by the French army.