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[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]
Histoire de Paris
Les coches deau Leau est le plus ancien mode de transport, utilisé bien avant linvention de la roue. La corporation des nautes lègue dailleurs à la capitale son sceau et sa devise "Fluctuat nec mergitur"! Au Moyen Age déjà, la Seine représente la première voie commerciale de la France du Nord, et un "corbilliat", ou coche deau, assure la navette entre Paris et Corbeil. Sous linfluence de Colbert, soucieux de développer la batellerie en France, Louis XIV accorde en 1665 des lettres patentes qui fixent précisément les conditions de transport des passagers. Ils ne devaient pas être plus de 16, et "pour prévenir les difficultés et les querelles, les salaires des bachoteurs étaient réglés par le prévôt des Marchands et les Echevins, avec défense dexiger de plus forts droits, de jurer ni de blasphémer, dinsulter ni injurier par parole ou par voie de fait les bourgeois ou autres, soit sur les ports, soit dans les bachots..." En 1754, les galiotes reliaient quotidiennement le Pont Royal à Sèvres et Saint-Cloud, pour 5 sols par personne.
One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.
The sign describes the boats that operated as a means of transportation on the Seine in the 17th and 18th centuries
[An illustration of a ship, symbolizing the symbol of Paris]
History of Paris
Water coach Water is the oldest mode of transportation, used long before the invention of the wheel. The corporation of nautes also bequeaths to the capital its seal and its motto “Fluctuat nec mergitur”! (Fluctuates not sink) Already in the Middle Ages, the Seine represented the first commercial route in Northern France, and a "corbilliat", or water coach, provided the shuttle between Paris and Corbeil. Under the influence of Colbert, keen to develop the inland waterway industry in France, Louis XIV granted letters patent in 1665 which precisely set the conditions for passenger transport. There should not be more than 16, and "to prevent difficulties and quarrels, the salaries of the crammers were regulated by the Provost of Merchants and the Aldermen, with the prohibition of demanding greater rights, of swearing or blaspheming, to insult or insult by word or deed the bourgeois or others, either in the ports or in the docks..." In 1754, the galiotes connected the Pont Royal to Sèvres and Saint-Cloud daily, for 5 sols per person.