. Twenty centuries of Paris . PARIS OF PHILIP THE FAIR 107 palace was enlarged by Philip the Bolds son,Philip the Fair, was accused of charging rentalfor the booths along the Galerie des Mercierswhich connected the Great Hall with the SainteChapelle and whose stalls were supposed to begiven rent free to tradespeople whose goodsmight be of interest to the folk who had daily-tasks at the palace. Nothing came of the ac-cusation, however, unless it may be thought tohave been punished in common with other finan-cial misdeeds of which Marigny was accused byPhilip the Fairs successor, QuarrelsomeLoui
. Twenty centuries of Paris . PARIS OF PHILIP THE FAIR 107 palace was enlarged by Philip the Bolds son,Philip the Fair, was accused of charging rentalfor the booths along the Galerie des Mercierswhich connected the Great Hall with the SainteChapelle and whose stalls were supposed to begiven rent free to tradespeople whose goodsmight be of interest to the folk who had daily-tasks at the palace. Nothing came of the ac-cusation, however, unless it may be thought tohave been punished in common with other finan-cial misdeeds of which Marigny was accused byPhilip the Fairs successor, QuarrelsomeLouis—le Hutin—, and for which he washanged on the Montfaucon gallows which he hadbuilt when he was Philips Coadjutor and In-spector. Guilty or not, de Marigny was set a poor ex-ample by his master, for Philip the Fair (1285-1314) was so consumed by avarice that he sparedneither friends, vassals, burgesses nor ecclesiasticsif by taxing them or dragging them into warfarehe might add to his treasures. His greed led himinto the
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