Soissons: Street Scene, from Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium by C. Harrison Townsend, pre-WWI picture by T. S. Boys.
From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 194-197.
F late years the picturesque street of Boys’ sketch has in great measure been modernized and “improved,” while the Cathedral itself has undergone very vigorous restoration. The building, though one of the smallest of the churches of Northern France, is in its proportions one of the most charming of the district, and is in its detail very pure and severe. Its tower dates, as does the main structure, from the middle of the XIIIth century, and is in close imitation of those of Notre Dame, Paris, with which also its height closely corresponds.