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Are they sure the French map is from 1836? It looks like Paris has its petite ceinture railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture h
by lainga 5y ago
Are they sure the French map is from 1836? It looks like Paris has its petite ceinture railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceintu...) which was built in the late 1850s.
- lqet 5y agoIf you look closely, you can see that the railway lines were later drawn onto the map by hand: https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurvey/?layers=158%2C164&bbox=258648.0583533829%2C6255504.645424236%2C267748.8420335867%2C6258705.445983678 https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurve...