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Le Dit des rues de Paris

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Le Dit des rues de Paris is a 554-verse poem written by Guillot de Paris, composed in octosyllabic rhyming couplets with an AABB rhyme scheme. It describes the streets of Paris between approximately 1280 and 1300. The poem covers 310 streets, organized into the city's three main districts at the time: the Rive Droite, known as the Outre-Grand-Pont or "la Ville"; the Rive Gauche, known as the Outre-Petit-Pont or "l'Université"; and the Cité district, located on the island and considered the cradle of Paris. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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