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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.
Height comparison of some Paris landmarks Printable tourist map showing the main attractions of Paris. Paris, the capital of France, has an annual 30 million foreign visitors, and so is one of the most visited cities in the world. [1]
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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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 ...
Highly detailed reproduction of this historic map. Featured on Commons. This is a set nomination. The full image and all 20 individual plates above (20 images altogether) are all nominated. Articles in which this image appears Turgot map of Paris FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps Creator