As you will learn from this book, I have been in many lands, but nowhere have I seen a tower like that of Laon.

Detail: The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. Edited by Theodore Bowie. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1959 LCCN: 68-14615
Facsimile of the Sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort… published by M. Alfred Darcel from the MS. of M. J.B.A. Lassus… translated, edited and augmented… by the Rev. Robert Willis. London, John Henry and James Parker, 1859.
MS. 19093 French Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris [No. 1104 Library of Saint-Germain-des Prés until c. 1800]