Until Sorbonne was built, place Maubert used to be one of the main stages of educational life in the city. When the student flow had changed its route, so did the function of the place. Here emerged different markets, like the Cigar-stump market.
“The merchants bring their stores of cigar-ends, picked up from the gutters with a spiked stick, in paper boxes. For these there are both wholesale and retail purchasers. The wholesale dealers buy up stumps at about a franc a pound, clean them, cut up the tobacco fine, and sell it in fancy packages as smuggled tobacco for three or four francs a pound, which is two francs below the price for Government tobacco of similar quality.”
At the square were also held public executions and many protestants have found their death here…
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