An important time in Paris
Introduction
‘Çibdad is all that place that is closed from the walls’. The city of Paris is located in northern France, in the center of the Parisian basin. It is said that Paris was founded after the settlement of the Celtic tribe of the Parisii on the island of Cité, in the third century to.C. These Celts chose this island for their strategic and defensive advantages. There are really few historical remains of this first settlement, since it is not until 52 to. C. When it is known that territory falls to Julio César and settled on the left side of the river with the name of Lutetia. Representation of the first settlement by the Parisii, in the third century to. C.
Developing
Representation of the settlement of the Romans in the year 52 to. C. It is believed that Luctia extended more or less from the Sant-Germain boulevard to the Val-de-Grâce and from the street of Descartes to the Luxembourg garden. It was an orthogonal plane, with perpendicular streets, structuring around two main axes, the Maximus thist. Cardo and Decumanus got together in a place where the forum was built, which was the public space with commercial, financial, religious, administrative and economic functions, in addition to being the place where the Romans carried out their social life.
In these times there was already an aqueduct of 26 kilometers that supplied the city of Agua. The city of Luthacia was very Romanized, until in the year 280 it was destroyed by the barbarians. Later, in the third century D. C. The city was violently converted to Catholicism by San Denis and was baptized with the name of Paris in 360. The name is taken from the Parisii, Celtic tribe mentioned above. It is also known as the city of the lights by the fact that it was one of the first cities to have public lighting. In the ninth century, the city was taken by the Vikings.
Hugo Capeto was established as king of the Franks and founder of the Capetos dynasty. At this time, Paris had a set of main streets, with a route not very straight and that were baptized with names of Santos, such as Saint-Denis Street or Saint-Jacques;But outside these main streets, there were a kind of alleys with little maintenance adapted to the mobility needs of the people, hence that irregular layout. The city begins to grow little by little, and in 1190 a wall is created with a defensive purpose on both sides of the Sena River, under the reign of Felipe II Augusto, which will be extended by order of Carlos V in 1330.
It is at this time, under the reign of Felipe II Augusto, when the streets are paved, since before the ground was muddy. The streets are still very narrow, which generated traffic jams and accidents in many cases. The waste ended. To solve that problem, aqueducts and sources were built. However, many deaths occurred due to this hygiene problem. Representation of the city of Paris in 1180, where you can already appreciate the intention to build the mentioned wall.
Paris has an important role in the War of the Hundred Years that took place between 1337 and 1453 in which England and France met, since there were enough crimes. The creation of this wall, and the geographical situation, close to the Sena River makes it an easily defensible city of the attacks of enemies and also allows rich cereal and wine cargo shipments easily. This means that Paris accumulates functions of very diverse kinds, such as economic, religious, courtesans, intellectual and political. The island of Cité joined both shores with two bridges.
At this time, the first hospices are also created, which are public houses where those people who do not have the help or protection they need are welcomed;Houses for leprosy and other reception places also appear. Unfortunately, life expectancy was not very high, and as a result of the painful hygienic conditions, the probability of not surviving was very high. However, Paris had about 61 in 1328.000 homes where approximately 250 resided.000 people distributed over 415 hectares. It was a true shopping center.
conclusion
Although at first the different commercial activities were separated and in a single street you could find from a shoe store to a butcher shop, it is worth mentioning that at this time there is already a certain tendency to be grouped according to the trades. The unions appear, where the king usually set the sales prices, obviously all at the same value. In the mid -twelfth century, Bishop Maurice de Sully orders to build a temple that serves as a cathedral for the city. Thus the Notre Dame Cathedral began to be built. It is at this time when other important buildings such as the San Antonio Bastille or the Sainte-Chaley are built.
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