Maison des Avocats
Renaissance courtyard of Tuscan arcades that once hosted a lawyers' guild and satirical trial farces.
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This guide to the Maison des Avocats in Lyon follows a rowdy fraternity of law clerks called the Basoche, who once staged mock trials in this courtyard, and their favorite script: a medieval farce about a swindling lawyer, a cloth merchant, and a shepherd hired to outwit his own defense. Look up at the three tiers of Tuscan-arched galleries added around fifteen sixteen, still ringing the courtyard where that joke once played out again and again.
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