Excerpt from Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du Xie au Xvie Siècle, Vol. 8Les ports antiques étaient munis de beaux quais, et, dans toutes les villes romaines élevées sur le bord des ¿euves, des quais réglaient leur cours. Nos villes du moyen âge laissent voir souvent encore des traces de quais, bien bâtis, en gros quartiers de pierre.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.