Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 111
have seduced scholars by night into the tower,had them tied in sacks and flung into the Seine. If we may believeVillon, this was the queen— Qui commanda que BuridanFust jette en ung sac en Seine. Legend adds that the schoolman, made famous by his thesis, that if an asswere placed equidistant… … WALL OF PHILIPPE AUGUSTE,COUR DE ROUEN. PARIS UNDER PHILIP AUGUSTUS 6s Monnales. The passage of the Seine was blocked bychains, which were drawn at night from tower to towerand fixed on boats and piles. The wall was twenty yearsbuilding and was completed in 1211. It was eight feetthick, pierced by…
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