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Depart from the car park at Place Saint-Rémy, along the D91, shortly after the church when heading towards Soissons (sign with a map of the hikes).
Yellow and brown markings
The markings are clearly visible at intersections, but relatively rare elsewhere.
(S/E) Leaving the car park, go up to the left towards the church. When you reach it, turn right onto Chemin de la Porte aux Champs towards the cemetery. Then take thefirst right, Sente de la Pied Sente. Pass below the cemetery and, at the end of the tarmac road, continue along a path. Ignore a path branching off to the right and follow the path between gardens and fences.
(1) At the T-junction at the bottom of a very short descent, turn left. Enter a wood and climb steadily but regularly up a wide path. Come out onto a road, follow it to the left for about 50 metres and, in the dip of the bend, take a path on the right (take care when crossing). Climb slightly and, at the top, continue along the edge of the wood on your left. At the corner of the wood, turn right and follow a hedge on your left.
(2) At the next crossroads, turn left and walk along a wasteland on your left, then a hedge. At the T-junction, turn left and go downhill. At the next crossroads (bench), turn right twice and stay on the edge (do not enter the woods).
(3) At the crossroads with Chemin du Montil on the left, turn right (north-north-east) onto the path that runs between the fields. Walk briefly along a wood (barrier indicating private property). At the T-junction (former Confrécourt sugar factory in the distance opposite), turn left.
(4) At the fork about 150m further on, take the wide grassy path on the left that enters the woods. Go downhill and you will come to a hairpin bend (picnic table).
(5) Leave the main path, continue straight ahead past the picnic table, and you will soon see the entrance to the Carrières du Guésot (private property) on your right. Retrace your steps.
(5) Take the main path downhill (right-hand lane). Note two cave entrances on the left. Turn right with the path and ignore the paths on the left. Walk along the left-hand side of a meadow.
(6) At the corner of the meadow, turn left. At the next corner of the meadow, turn right. Walk along the edge of the woods on your left and the wasteland and then the poplar grove on your right. Continue across open ground (beautiful view) while making a wide turn to the left. Descend between two hedges and come out onto the D91.
(7) Cross the road (take care) and continue opposite on a path that soon turns left. The path gives way to tarmac; continue between the houses.
(8) At the crossroads (bridge over the Aisne on the right), follow Rue des Plâtriers opposite (information board about those shot in Fontenoy). After No. 5, leave the road and turn right onto Chemin de la Clairois (shaded paths). At the next intersection (green gate on the left), turn right. The path soon turns left and runs alongside a fenced-in meadow on the right.
(9) Cross Chemin du Parc on the left and continue straight ahead on a wide gravel path. At the next crossroads, go straight ahead on a narrow tarmac road and leave a football stadium on your left. Walk along the right-hand side of the ponds, which are unfortunately hidden behind a curtain of trees. At the next crossroads, go straight ahead on Chemin de la Queue du Ru and walk along the fenced ponds.
(10) Turn left onto the small road, head north and stay on the tarmac. Walk along the left-hand side of an unfenced pond (at last...). Continue along the road between the fields. At the first houses, just before the stop sign, leave the road, go straight on along a gravel path and pass a lime tree planted in 1989 as a Tree of Liberty on your right.
(11) Follow Rue de Soissons (D91) to the left. After about 200 metres, at the corner of No. 18 (Rue de la Tour on the left), take the lane on the right. Continue along the path and you will soon come to a crossroads that you took on the way there.
(1) Turn left uphill and follow the path between the gardens. Pass below the cemetery and turn left at the next crossroads. At the foot of the church, turn left and you will soon come to Place Saint-Rémy (S/E) on your right.
I'd like to do it again running, but it was fun. 
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