[1] Paris-Soissons-Laon-La Capelle-Belgium (N 6) The N 2 was initially defined in 1811 as route impériale 2, running from Paris all the way to Amsterdam via Brussels, Antwerp, Breda and Utrecht.

The territory north of the present border with Belgium was removed from France in the 1815 Congress of Vienna, and thus route 2 was truncated to that line.

The N 2 merges with the A 104 autoroute briefly as it passes south east of Charles de Gaulle Airport.

The road passes open country and war cemeteries to the town of Soissons on the river Aisne.

North of the town the countryside is more wooded the road passes the Monument des Crapouillots.