Victor Hugo. Notre Dame Cathedral (№ 122638)

Every city of the middle ages, every city in France down to the reign of Louis XII had their asylum. These shelters among the flood of punitive measures and the barbaric court of justice, novodevich of the city, were a kind of Islands beyond the reach of human justice. Any boat tied to him the criminal was saved. In another suburb there was just as much shelters as gallows. It was the abuse of impunity near the abuse of executions - two evils seeking to neutralize each other. Royal palaces, princely osobnyaki, and the main temples had the right of asylum. To populate the city, all of it turned for a while in a place of refuge. So Louis XI in 1467 declared a sanctuary in Paris.