parisiaci

Updated: May 16, 2025

The Yonne, the Marne, and the Oise, being rivers which join the Seine, suggested the idea of establishing a trading company by water, in order to facilitate, by those channels, the circulation of warlike stores and provisions. These merchants were called Nautae Parisiaci. The Romans also erected, near the left bank of the Seine, a magnificent palace and an aqueduct.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is

The Corporation of Nautæ Parisiaci, one of the most powerful of the guilds, among whose members were enrolled the chief citizens of Lutetia, who dedicated this altar to Jove, were the origin of the Commune or Civil Council of Paris, whose Provost was known as late as the fourteenth century as the Prévôt des Marchands d'Eau.

Thomas Okey - The Story of Paris