Huitième plan de Paris divisé en ses vingts quartiers (1705) The French King Louis XIV had long had abandoned Paris as the traditional home of the monarch in favor of his father's hunting lodge a day's ride from the capital. This 1705 map of Paris is the last of a multi-volume publication Traité de la police (1707-1738) written by Paris Police Commissioner Nicolas de la Mare (1639-1723) where he also catalogued new police methods used to quell riots in the city. Even though historians have noted inaccuracies within the maps created for Traité de la police, this eight-map series shows the growth of Paris from the Roman era. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Carte des environs de Paris (1785) Completed prior to the French Revolution, this map shows the city limits of "Old Paris" as well as key features that would become encircled by Napoleon III in the next century. Look to the west of Paris to see the Bois de Boulogne that Baron Haussmann would expand and improve to create a public park for the capital akin to London's Hyde Park, which he greatly admired. At the bottom left corner, the town of Chartres boasts a cathedral that is the best example of medieval gothic architecture in Europe to this day. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Plan de la ville de Paris avec ses environs (1805) Austrian engarver Johann Spiegl created this map during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I. Clear detail of Paris, its fortifications, city walls and nearby woods. Note the École militaire is now within the walls of the city whereas it resided outside in the 1705 map. Relief shown by hachures, titles in German and French with place names in French. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Created during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I, this 1811 map crisply details "Old Paris" before the Emperor's nephew, Napoleon III would alter the landscape of city into the modern capital we know today. The Louvre north gallery is not completed yet and Île de La Cité remains crowded, especially in front of Cathedral of Nôtre Dame. / Courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Plan routier de la ville de Paris et des ses faubourgs (1823) Under the French Restoration (1814-1830), note the increase in size of the Halle aux Vins in 5th arrondiesment, just north of the Jardin du Roi which is now known as the Jardin des Plantes. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
This is one of the many maps published by the British based Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1826-1848) whose aim was to provide information to the working and middle classes. Here we have a detailed map of Paris representing the era of the July Monarchy (1830-1848). Constitutional monarch Louis-Philippe ruled during the 1832 cholera outbreak when Paris lost 20,000 out of 650,000 inhabitants within the capital. A second epidemic would hit France in 1849, just after the revolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Republic. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Nouveau plan de la ville de Paris (1854) Prior to the first 1855 Paris Univeral Exposition, Napoleon III attended the successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Motivated to show his capital city as the most modern in the world, the Emperor gave Baron Haussmann unprecendented authority to move ahead with the reconstruction of Paris during the Second Empire. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Paris instantané : plan à aiguille (1865) A detailed tourist guide and map in anticipation of the Paris Exposition universelle d'art et d'industrie de 1867. Here you can see many of the changes implemented by Napoleon III and Haussmann in time for the second exposition hosted by the Emperor to show off the modernization of his capital city. The Louvre galleries are completed and connect to the Tuileries Palace along the expaned rue de Rivoli with its covered pedestrain arcades, new modern hotel and department stores. The 1867 Exposition ran from April - November and the main site is featured next to the École Militaire. The Arc de Triomphe sits centered at Place de l'Étoile with its twelve spokes radiating outwards into the city. The Avenue des Champs-Élysées flows directly from the Arc de Triomphe with a clear line to Place de la Concorde, the Jardin des Tuileries and Napoleon III's home at the Tuileries Palace. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Nouveau Paris monumental : itinéraire pratique de l'étranger dans Paris (1787) Beautiful three-dimensional imagery for this practical itinerary guides visitors through Paris during the Third Republic. Although not drawn to scale, a birds-eye view highlights the legacy of Haussmann and Napoleon III to create more air and light throughout the capital city with broad streets to make key sites more accesible. / Image courtesty of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Paris et ses environs (1878) This map shows all twenty arrondisements (neighborhoods) of Paris in their spiral formation from the inner circle outwards, delineated by color. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Rue Tirechape renovated during the Rue de Rivoli construction, now Rue du Pont-Neuf that crosses Rivoli from the Seine straight to Les Halles, Photograph attributed to Charles Marville circa 1852-1853.
Rue de Rivoli at the time of the Pairs Exposition Universelle which ran from May to November of 1855. This street was the first project under Haussmann after appointed Prefect of the Seine by Emperor Napoleon III. With sweeping powers to implement construction plans, and only reporting directly to Napeleon himself, Haussmann was able to fund, demolish 800 houses and rebuild this major two mile artery running east-west across the capital city in a short amount of time at an estimated cost of 120 million francs. Photograph by Adolphe Braun (1811-1877).
The Emperor's Kiosk (1857) created by Gabriel Davioud as the first structure in the Bois de Boulogne which was a park gifted by Napoleon III to the city of Paris in 1852. Davioud was an important architect, who worked closely with Haussmann, designing all of the Parisian "street furniture" such as kiosks, lamps, benches, fences, monuments, the fountain at Place Saint-Michel and the Théâtre de la Ville, to name a few. This 1858 photograph is by Charles Marville, hired by Haussmann to document the city's transformation.
Boulevard Haussmann, circa 1870, photograph attributed to Charles Marville. Note the tree-lined boulevard, a hallmark of Haussmann's design. He planted over 600,000 trees throughout Paris and the city parks in less than two decades.
Rue de Rivoli in 1870, the covered arcades designed for pedestrians to comfortably walk through the city regardless of weather and access shopping, restaurants and hotels. The Jardin des Tuileries is to the left of the image with the Palais du Louvre gallery.
Paris Construction of Avenue de l'Opera by Charles Marville 1876. Note the workers lined across the buildings and rooftops. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Paris Construction of Avenue de l'Opera by Charles Marville 1876. Note the opera house in the distance and the demolition of the surrounding buildings. Haussmann estimated that over 350,000 people were displaced during his time as Prefect. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Parisian public urinals, seen here in an 1876 photograph by Charles Marville, helped cement its reputation as the most modern city in the world. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. / Text: Wikipedia
/ Image: Sakurako and William Fisher Collection
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. / Text: Wikipedia / Image: Sakurako and William Fisher Collection
Huitième plan de Paris divisé en ses vingts quartiers (1705) The French King Louis XIV had long had abandoned Paris as the traditional home of the monarch in favor of his father's hunting lodge a day's ride from the capital. This 1705 map of Paris is the last of a multi-volume publication Traité de la police (1707-1738) written by Paris Police Commissioner Nicolas de la Mare (1639-1723) where he also catalogued new police methods used to quell riots in the city. Even though historians have noted inaccuracies within the maps created for Traité de la police, this eight-map series shows the growth of Paris from the Roman era. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Carte des environs de Paris (1785) Completed prior to the French Revolution, this map shows the city limits of "Old Paris" as well as key features that would become encircled by Napoleon III in the next century. Look to the west of Paris to see the Bois de Boulogne that Baron Haussmann would expand and improve to create a public park for the capital akin to London's Hyde Park, which he greatly admired. At the bottom left corner, the town of Chartres boasts a cathedral that is the best example of medieval gothic architecture in Europe to this day. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Plan de la ville de Paris avec ses environs (1805) Austrian engarver Johann Spiegl created this map during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I. Clear detail of Paris, its fortifications, city walls and nearby woods. Note the École militaire is now within the walls of the city whereas it resided outside in the 1705 map. Relief shown by hachures, titles in German and French with place names in French. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Created during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I, this 1811 map crisply details "Old Paris" before the Emperor's nephew, Napoleon III would alter the landscape of city into the modern capital we know today. The Louvre north gallery is not completed yet and Île de La Cité remains crowded, especially in front of Cathedral of Nôtre Dame. / Courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Plan routier de la ville de Paris et des ses faubourgs (1823) Under the French Restoration (1814-1830), note the increase in size of the Halle aux Vins in 5th arrondiesment, just north of the Jardin du Roi which is now known as the Jardin des Plantes. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
This is one of the many maps published by the British based Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1826-1848) whose aim was to provide information to the working and middle classes. Here we have a detailed map of Paris representing the era of the July Monarchy (1830-1848). Constitutional monarch Louis-Philippe ruled during the 1832 cholera outbreak when Paris lost 20,000 out of 650,000 inhabitants within the capital. A second epidemic would hit France in 1849, just after the revolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Republic. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Nouveau plan de la ville de Paris (1854) Prior to the first 1855 Paris Univeral Exposition, Napoleon III attended the successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Motivated to show his capital city as the most modern in the world, the Emperor gave Baron Haussmann unprecendented authority to move ahead with the reconstruction of Paris during the Second Empire. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Paris instantané : plan à aiguille (1865) A detailed tourist guide and map in anticipation of the Paris Exposition universelle d'art et d'industrie de 1867. Here you can see many of the changes implemented by Napoleon III and Haussmann in time for the second exposition hosted by the Emperor to show off the modernization of his capital city. The Louvre galleries are completed and connect to the Tuileries Palace along the expaned rue de Rivoli with its covered pedestrain arcades, new modern hotel and department stores. The 1867 Exposition ran from April - November and the main site is featured next to the École Militaire. The Arc de Triomphe sits centered at Place de l'Étoile with its twelve spokes radiating outwards into the city. The Avenue des Champs-Élysées flows directly from the Arc de Triomphe with a clear line to Place de la Concorde, the Jardin des Tuileries and Napoleon III's home at the Tuileries Palace. / Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Nouveau Paris monumental : itinéraire pratique de l'étranger dans Paris (1787) Beautiful three-dimensional imagery for this practical itinerary guides visitors through Paris during the Third Republic. Although not drawn to scale, a birds-eye view highlights the legacy of Haussmann and Napoleon III to create more air and light throughout the capital city with broad streets to make key sites more accesible. / Image courtesty of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Paris et ses environs (1878) This map shows all twenty arrondisements (neighborhoods) of Paris in their spiral formation from the inner circle outwards, delineated by color. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Rue Tirechape renovated during the Rue de Rivoli construction, now Rue du Pont-Neuf that crosses Rivoli from the Seine straight to Les Halles, Photograph attributed to Charles Marville circa 1852-1853.
Rue de Rivoli at the time of the Pairs Exposition Universelle which ran from May to November of 1855. This street was the first project under Haussmann after appointed Prefect of the Seine by Emperor Napoleon III. With sweeping powers to implement construction plans, and only reporting directly to Napeleon himself, Haussmann was able to fund, demolish 800 houses and rebuild this major two mile artery running east-west across the capital city in a short amount of time at an estimated cost of 120 million francs. Photograph by Adolphe Braun (1811-1877).
The Emperor's Kiosk (1857) created by Gabriel Davioud as the first structure in the Bois de Boulogne which was a park gifted by Napoleon III to the city of Paris in 1852. Davioud was an important architect, who worked closely with Haussmann, designing all of the Parisian "street furniture" such as kiosks, lamps, benches, fences, monuments, the fountain at Place Saint-Michel and the Théâtre de la Ville, to name a few. This 1858 photograph is by Charles Marville, hired by Haussmann to document the city's transformation.
Boulevard Haussmann, circa 1870, photograph attributed to Charles Marville. Note the tree-lined boulevard, a hallmark of Haussmann's design. He planted over 600,000 trees throughout Paris and the city parks in less than two decades.
Rue de Rivoli in 1870, the covered arcades designed for pedestrians to comfortably walk through the city regardless of weather and access shopping, restaurants and hotels. The Jardin des Tuileries is to the left of the image with the Palais du Louvre gallery.
Paris Construction of Avenue de l'Opera by Charles Marville 1876. Note the workers lined across the buildings and rooftops. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Paris Construction of Avenue de l'Opera by Charles Marville 1876. Note the opera house in the distance and the demolition of the surrounding buildings. Haussmann estimated that over 350,000 people were displaced during his time as Prefect. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Parisian public urinals, seen here in an 1876 photograph by Charles Marville, helped cement its reputation as the most modern city in the world. / Image courtesy of Musée Carnavalet.
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. / Text: Wikipedia
/ Image: Sakurako and William Fisher Collection
Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. / Text: Wikipedia / Image: Sakurako and William Fisher Collection
Appointed by Emperor Napoleon III in 1853, Seine Prefect and city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891) reconfigured the map of France’s capital into the ‘city of light’ we celebrate today. The Digital Gallery is pleased to offer the exhibit Paris Transformed as part of the California Map Society's annual conference which took place on 25 April 2020. Here you can explore maps and images related to Paris during its transformation under the regimes of the Second Empire (1852-1870) and Third Republic (1870-1940). Curated by C. Spikes.
