II.3.3.d. A HINTERLAND FOR CRIMINALS, NOBLES AND THE GARMENT DISTRICT

MENU: 2.3.3.d. Crime. Nobles. Garment district

ON THE NO-MAN'S LAND BEYOND THE 13TH-CENTURY RAMPART, A WALL AGAINST THE FEROCIOUS BANDS THAT THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR UNLEASHED

(BEGUN IN 1359; WAR, 1337-1453) 

Assassination of an English Knight, "Chronicles of English history"  toward 1450 / zoom 

   Paris in 1530 / zoom

With peace the Church dried up the swamp and established convents, while criminals came to avoid authorities.

That back country would be on the way to Versailles... .

In brief

• Poisons and black masses

• Crime that shook the Sun King's court 

• Nobles take over

• The garment district, offspring of the Boulevards and nobles 

• A once-seedy neighborhood and gentrification with character

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Poisons and black masses