Martin compared King's Landing to medieval Paris or London.

The structure is perhaps the most outstanding example still extant of civic architecture in medieval Paris.

It was originally a banking center in medieval Paris, a trade dominated by Lombard merchants.

And you,' she said, 'while I'm wading through the stench and depravity and obscenity of medieval Paris, where are you?

The Gothic heart of medieval Paris, from which road distances in France are still measured, and where the ghost of Quasimodo lingers.

Historian Sidney Toy has described the Bastille as "one of the most powerful fortifications" of the period, and the most important fortification in late medieval Paris.

His doctoral thesis (1960) concerned the labour market in medieval Paris, including prostitution.

His postdoctoral thesis (1972) concerned underworld groups in medieval Paris.

His postdoctoral thesis was on prostitutes and outcasts in medieval Paris, a subject that he warmed to, he said, because it dealt with the weak and the poor.

It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was the heart of medieval Paris.