Paris 1911

A reproduction of the 1911 Baedeker guide for Paris — it’s small, and I’m not a fan of the interface, but it’s neat to see how much of the city has remained unchanged (I see a lot of familiar places). Via Plep.

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 at 12:57 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Paris

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Indeed the fabric of the city is all there, the differences with today are pretty marginal. One of the reasons is that Paris (the city, not the suburbs) was almost spared by bombings and was never “rebuilt”.
Another intersting fact is that the bulk of today’s métro network is there already, quite amazing if you consider that all the lines shown were built in 11 years only (1900-1911).
The most striking disappearance is that of the “Petite Ceinture”, the circular railway, where passenger traffic was halted as early as the mid-30s and ultimately fell victim of WWII with some sections damaged by bombings and never rebuilt. Mostly dismantled with right-of-way abandoned and overgrown today…

Nicolas Jasson | 05/18/2005 at 7:11 PM | #

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