promenaient

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Quatre boeufs atteles, d'un pas tranquil et lent, Promenaient dans Paris le monarque indolent." Having seated themselves on the throne, they gave a public audience to the people, at the same time giving and receiving presents, which were called estrennes. Hence annual presents were afterwards termed etrennes, and this gave rise to the custom of making them.

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