Paris in the Middle Ages Paris in the Middle Ages 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. The Île de la Cité became the site of the royal palace and the new cathedral of Notre-Dame, begun in 1163. The Left Bank was occupied by important monasteries, including the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Abbey of St Genevieve. In the late 1100s, the
Le Cri de Paris pro-Dreyfus and anti-colonialist drawings by Hermann Paul and Ibels. The magazine was subject to frequent censorship. "Le Cri de Paris" ceased publication in 1940. Le Cri de Paris Le Cri de Paris is an illustrated French political magazine that was founded by Alexandre Natanson in 1897 and was at the beginning a supplement of "La Revue Blanche". "Le Cri de Paris" title means "The Paris Protest" in English, but it has in French two other meanings like "Paris Fashion" (as in « "le dernier cri" », "chic", etc.) and "cri" as in "cris de Paris", i.e. the street cries. This