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from? Who wrote it? When? Why?
2. Be an active reader: Underline, highlight, make notes,
etc.
3. Extract what is useful: Determine what you are using
text for and look for things to borrow, using direct
quotation, paraphrasing, or summary.
4. Cite: Learn to quickly and accurately cite texts you
borrow from.
Editor's Notes
Here a group travellers arrive at the gate of the Cité. This reminds us of the important role the city walls played in the social, economic, and political life of the period. On the Petit Pont, a physician inspects a urine specimen while receiving payment from a woman. The river played a vital role in the economic life of Paris. Here a wine merchant has arrived with his cargo. Regulations prohibited the unloading of cargo by anyone other than a citizen of Paris. In order to bypass this regulation, the wine merchant sells a cask from his boat while another Parisian samples the wine in an adjoining boat.
Saint-Innocent Cemetary, closed in 18th century, bones removed to catacombs, new Les Halles built.
