Question: About Old Paris Metro Maps

David Kim asks, “I was wondering how valuable old Paris subway maps are, in general (if such a question can even be answered)? I am talking about the 1937 map of the Metro you had on your site a while back?” (He means this one.) He also asks, “Is there a web site on antique Paris Metro maps?” I didn’t know of any; a cursory Google search in both English and French came up with nothing. Is there an RATP specialist in the house?

Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 11:31 PM
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You will find on this site a good historic view on parisian transports prior to RATP ( http://www.navily.net/index.php

This one is also interesting (and partially in english).
http://www.amtuir.org/#

You have also information on the ratp site.
http://www.ratp.fr/ (go to “patrimoine”)

Thierry Rousselin | 03/14/2005 at 12:49 AM | #

This is indeed a map from 1937, and there is something in the map pointing out to this particular date : the purple-shaded areas along the Seine are in fact the exhibition areas of the 1937 world exhibition. (official name: “Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne 1937”)

I have found this site which shows reproductions from a guide book, with detailed maps of each sector:
http://pierrebonnard.online.fr/perso/eip01fr.htm#Maps01

This is how it looked like, from postcards:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aprobert/paris371.htm

Nicolas Jasson | 03/25/2005 at 7:14 PM | #

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