The place was frequented everyday by crowds of people: courtiers, scholars, aristocrats, merchants but also beggars and poor people that came to ask for charity.Jean-Pierre Brunterc’h, Archives de la France, tome 1 (Ve – XIe siècle), Paris, Fayard, , p. 243 Internal affairs were the task of officers such as butler, le seneschal, the chamberman.On the palace organization, refer to the description by Rheims Archbishop Hincmar, Lettre sur l’organisation du Palais, Paris, Paléo, 2002,
