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 Matin de Paris Le Matin de Paris Le Matin de Paris was a French daily newspaper, founded on 1 March 1977 by Claude Perdriel, and disappearing in 1987 ("dépôt de bilan" on 6 May). Its foundation is the subject of the documentary "Numéros zéro" by Raymond Depardon. Founded in 1977 by the chief executive of "Le Nouvel Observateur", "Le Matin de Paris" shared its director, capital, journalists and structures with Jean Daniel's weekly paper. These links were at first capitalistic in nature in which, by the bias of the SA "Le Nouvel Observateur du Monde" (with 2 million Francs) or by that of