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Historical Map
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Cartographer
J.N. Henriot
Engraver
J.N. Henriot
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Individual map
Call Number
G5834.P3 1855 .H4
Digital Repository
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:5168923?buttons=y
Date Published
1855
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Nouveau plan complet de Paris avec ses fortifications: divisé en 12 arrondissements & 48 sections avec les principaux monuments en elévation, donnant la distance légale en mètres des forts détachés aux murs d'enceinte & aux murs d'octroi indiquant la population & les fêtes patronales des environs de Paris
Creator
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J.N. Henriot
Publisher
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A. Bes et F. Dubreuil
Date
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1855
Type
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map
administrative buildings
administrative divisions
artistic embellishment
canals
churches
fortifications
France
memory
monuments
Paris
railways
urban environment
urban growth over time
urban limits
urban space
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Map layer
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Title
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Monuments
Description
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Important monuments such as Notre Dame and the Louvre are identified by large engraved depictions, which contrast with the two-dimensional design of the map. While these pictures seem to be scaled to fit roughly in the area on the map the building they depict occupies, they still dominate the surrounding area. It is interesting to look at which buildings make the cut: functioning medieval relics such as Notre Dame and the Hôpital St. Louis, former royal palaces such as the Louvres and Tuileries, administrative buildings such as the town hall, senate and legislature, monuments to the revolution (place de la Bastille) and famous cemeteries at Montmartre and Pere Lachaise. On my layer I categorised these places accordingly. It is difficult to identify a particularly political project in this selection, though the equivalence of representation seems to tie these disparate sites together, both serving as a guide for tourists and as an expression of a unified national tradition.
administrative buildings
artistic embellishment
national identity
religious buildings
tourism
urban growth over time
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Map layer
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Administrative Distinctions
Description
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This layer consists of the boundaries of the Arrondissements (administrative districts of Paris), the Murs d’Octroi, which marked the edges of Paris, and the towns of the surrounding area, which are named but not circumscribed. The names of towns are circled if the population is listed and underlined if not. It is perhaps strange that map-makers should take such care to demark municipal authorities, especially as these distinctions were created in 1795, and were not necessarily representative of qualitative distinctions in districts. It maybe speaks to the influence of government centralisation on spatial awareness and identity (government districts were meaningful divisions which people identified with), or that this map was made to educate students about their government (perhaps supported by the stamp on the map “Instruction Publique. M. Lebel, Auguste”). The division between Paris proper and the towns of the surrounding area is emphasised by their very different representation, and by highlighting the larger towns (the names of which are printed in larger, non-italicised type, and accompanied by the number of inhabitants) you can get a rough sense of the distribution of population in the areas around Paris. Updated versions of this map made in 1863 and 1866, after the city limits had been extended to the Murs d’Enceinte extend the visual language of central Paris to the extended city.
districts
divisions
forgetting
local government
rationalisation
urban growth over time
urban limits