Visitors to medieval were left in no doubt that the city was in the grip of a venomous scourge.Its bedrooms, they were told, were infested with tiny black creatures, which at night would 'sit on the faces of those who slept' and 'sting them hard'.So grave was the situation that a 14th-century guidebook entitled Le Menagier de Paris, roughly translated as The Good Wife's Guide to the French capital, devoted two pages to the problem.
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