Note 103 — Chapter XI · FRANCIS I.—THE RENAISSANCE AT PARIS

Travellers to Paris in the days of King Francis had cause to remember gratefully that monarch’s solicitude, for a maximum of charges was fixed, and an order made that every hotel-keeper should affix his prices outside the door, that extortion might be avoided. Among other maxima, the price of a pair of sheets, to “sleep not more than five persons,” was to be five deniers (a penny).