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 Surrealisme au service de la revolution by Breton, Buñuel, Char, Tzara, and Péret, and others. André Thirion introduced translated excerpts from Lenin's "Philosophical Notebooks" on Hegel. Illustrations include works by Giacometti, René Magritte, Ernst, Breton, Hugo, Dalí, and Tanguy. The issue opens with an ad for the next surrealist periodical "Minotaure". Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution (Surrealism in the service of the revolution) was a periodical issued by the Surrealist Group in Paris between 1930 and 1933. It was the successor of "La Révolution surréaliste" (published 1924–29) and preceded the primarily surrealist publication "Minotaure" (1933 to 1939).