The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 140
:nificent roads formed by them in :dl their concpn r.-dprovinces had fallen. In towns, moreover, the streets, narrow, crooked, andwith no regular direction, were very frequently so many holes and quagmires.Philip Augustus I. had some of the streets of ]*aris paved. The princes andthe nobles who, as… … The ladies made use of them also, riding on a pillion behind the horseman,when not carried in litters. In the thirteenth century chariots reappeared; but the fashion did notlong prevail, for Philip the Fair discouraged them, in one of the clauses ofhis sumptuary ordinance of 1294, by declaring that…
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