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		lainga on Dec 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interactive maps of Europe in the 19th century 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_Ceintu...) which was built in the late 1850s.

lqet on Dec 21, 2021 [–]

If 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-secondsurve...

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