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Year 1348 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1348th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 348th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 14th century, and the 9th and pre-final year of the 1340s decade.
In the 10th century Paris was a provincial cathedral city of little political or economic significance, but under the kings of the Capetian dynasty who ruled France between 987 and 1328, it developed into an important commercial and religious center and the seat of the royal administration of the country. [1]
The Paris Concilium was a 1348 document written at the request of King Philip VI of France by 49 medical members of the University of Paris.The authors of the document state that the cause of the plague was not something that could be grasped by humans and would never be known.
Paris in Motion is a photographic project about the city of Paris. It contains a series of three videos made only of photographs (more than 30,000 photos). It contains a series of three videos made only of photographs (more than 30,000 photos).
15 July – the Café de Paris opens at corner of the boulevard des Italiens and rue Taitbout. 1823 5 August – First stone laid for the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. 1824 25 August – First stone laid for the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. October – Opening of À la Belle Jardinière clothing store, ancestor of the modern department ...
Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] [b] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The siege of Paris of 1435-36 took place during the decisive Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. The resurgent forces of Charles VII of France , having reversed the tide of the conflict, set their sights on capturing the capital, Paris , which had been controlled by forces loyal to Henry VI of England since 1420.
The Kingdom of France had the largest population of Europe at the time, and the Black Death was a major catastrophe. The plague killed roughly 50,000 people in Paris, which made up about half of the city's population. [3] The Black Death in France was described by eyewitnesses, such as Louis Heyligen, Jean de Venette, and Gilles Li Muisis.