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General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
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Turgot map of Paris, general map - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg 9,080 × 6,920; 35.34 MB Turgot map of Paris, sheet 1 - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg 9,070 × 5,540; 37.27 MB Turgot map of Paris, sheet 2 - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg 8,950 × 5,540; 36.87 MB
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Turgot map of Paris Description Turgot map of Paris, sheet 18-19 - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.jpg English: In marked contrast to the small, single-page city views appearing in late 16th and 17th century town atlases, were large, multi-sheet wall maps and birds eye views published during the 18th century.
The Merian map of Paris (French: plan de Merian) was created in 1615 by Matthäus Merian the Elder. It presents a bird's eye view looking east with a scale of about 1 to 7,000. The map originally consisted of two engraved plates (50 x 37 cm each) with the left and right halves of the map and was printed with 2 columns of portraits (each 50 x 13 ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...