What is a Paris porter?

Question: What is a Paris porter!?

Book of Reason, 1523, Nicolas Versoris:

"Since the rich fled, death was principally directed towards the poor so that only a few of the Paris porters and wage-earners, who had lived there in large numbers before the misfortune, left!."

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A land owner!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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