Text: It consists of two spans, straddling the Ile de la City, and was initially populated with street-singers, charlatans, prosetutes, pickpockets, and above all bouquinistes selling old books and pamphlets out of boxes.
Entailment: Bouquinistes used boxes to sell old books and pamphlets.
Contradiction: The two spans, straddling the Ile da la City are quite bare and have little activity.