Histoire des Environs du Nouveau Paris

Beyond the capital to Saint-Cloud, Sèvres, Pontoise and the eastern suburbs, and further still to Chantilly, Compiègne, Font...

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Beyond the capital to Saint-Cloud, Sèvres, Pontoise and the eastern suburbs, and further still to Chantilly, Compiègne, Fontainebleau and Chartres, these maps chart the environs of Paris at a moment of change. Gustave Barba published Histoire des Environs du Nouveau Paris in 1860, just as the city itself was expanding into a new arrondissement structure. The sectional maps are linked by an assembly sheet, and railway and defensive details place each district in the geography of the period, recording the towns and woodland around Paris as they then stood.

Beyond the capital to Saint-Cloud, Sèvres, Pontoise and the eastern suburbs, and further still to Chantilly, Compiègne, Fontainebleau and Chartres, these maps chart the environs of Paris at a moment of change. Gustave Barba published Histoire des Environs du Nouveau Paris in 1860, just as the city itself was expanding into a new arrondissement structure. The sectional maps are linked by an assembly sheet, and railway and defensive details place each district in the geography of the period, recording the towns and woodland around Paris as they then stood.

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