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Timbered houses dominate in the centre of town; made of wood beams and cob (a mixture of compressed earth reinforced with straw), they burned very easily and quickly, as it happened during the great fire of 1524, which destroyed a large area of the city. Houses which were built after this date were separated by a stone wall, supposed to reduce the spread of flames (some examples on rue General Saussier and rue Emile Zola). One also notices a base of stones, bricks or flint, which enabled citizens to protect their houses from the floods; frequent because of the many canals that crossed Troyes in the middle ages. The corbellings on these houses comes from a tax on land which was calculated according to the ground area of each property...

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