MFrance has its problems in the north. The country’s biggest commercial film success is still the 2008 comedy “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis”, which is about a postman who, to the horror of everyone, travels from near Marseille to a town in the far north of the country, which is almost in Belgium is located, is relocated.
The town of Guise is no different: the few tourists who end up in the area are mostly on their way to Saint Quentin, where the bones of the martyr Quintinus, who died in 285 AD, are kept. A cathedral had been built for him in the 13th century, which threatened to collapse several times over the centuries to come; In the early 16th century the tower was demolished to replace it with a magnificent twin-towered façade, a plan quickly abandoned due to lack of funds, leaving the beautiful cathedral towerless and oddly beheaded in the area stands. Tourists tend to just stop here, take a picture and, terrified, continue on to Lens, where the Louvre has a spectacular branch, or to Reims, which has champagne and a cathedral with two very magnificent towers.