They look more like telephone poles, and if my google-fu is serving me, it's unlikely that large scale power distribution was around in Paris in 1887: https://

They look more like telephone poles, and if my google-fu is serving me, it's unlikely that large scale power distribution was around in Paris in 1887: https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-compagnie-parisienne-de-distribution-delectricite-1914-1946/ https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-compagnie-parisienne-de-d...