Plan Routier de la Ville et Faubourg de Paris divisé en 12 Municipalités

An extraordinary map of pre-Haussmann Paris and the early Faubourgs (suburbs) issued in 1802, following Napoleon Bonaparte's 1800 reorganization of the city into 12 Municipalities. Covers Paris on both sides of the Seine from the Champ de Mars to Le Trone, extends north as far as Montmartre and south roughly to Port Royal. Produced at the height of French dominance of the cartographic arts, this maps is a fine example the engraver's art. Individual buildings, fields, streets, hills, valleys, orchards, and public gardens are revealed in breathtaking detail. We can even see the incomplete state of the northern wing of the Louvre Palace. There is an elaborate street index on either side and at the bottom of the map. In the lower right quadrant appears a list of names of the ministers in charge of the Municipalities. This is an update of a similar street plan made by the same publisher in 1797. This type of map, known as a Pocket or Case Map, is designed with the traveler in mind and while it display's beautifully unfolded, is designed to fold and fit in a vest or coat pocket. It accordance with its purpose, the map has been dissected and mounted on linen in 21 sections. This system wa

Date

1802

Mapmaker / publisher

Jean Jean (fl. 1797 - c. 1829) was a French publishing house active in Paris during the late 18th and the early 19th centuries during the Napoleonic Period. The firm seems to have produced a large cor

Place

Paris

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

6,000 × 4,030 pixels

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