 Better-quality wines arrived in the city between September through November from Champagne, Burgundy, and Orléans.The narrow medieval streets of Paris were extremely noisy, with crowds of people and animals moving along between three- and four-story-high houses.The chief form of advertising for the street merchants was shouting; one of the regulations of Paris listed in the "Livre des métiers" was that street merchants were forbidden to shout at customers being served by other street merchants or to criticize the goods sold by other merchants.