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Tag Archives: Jacques Antoine Dulaure
Islands
The boulevard Morland is a tree-lined, one-way thoroughfare in the fourth arrondissement. Nothing indicates that the buildings between it and the river occupy what was once an island, or that the street sits atop what was once an arm of … Continue reading
Posted in Paris bridges, Paris history, Paris maps, Seine
Tagged Boulevard Morland, Charles de Louviers, Elaine Sciolino, Ile aux Cygnes, Ile aux Juifs, Ile aux Templiers, Ile à la Gourdaine, Ile Boute-clou, Ile des Cygnes, Ile Louviers, Ile Maquerelle, Ile Merdeuse, Ile Notre Dame, Ile St-Louis, Jacques Antoine Dulaure, Jacques Hillairet, Moulin de la Monnaie, Pavilion de l'Arsenal, Pierre-Antoine Demachy, Turgot map
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Lutetia, viewed by a 19th-century historian
I have a weakness – no, a fondness – no, a passion for old maps of Paris. On a visit a year or so ago, I bought three old maps from an antiquarian bookseller. During our annual New Year’s tidy-up, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris history, Paris maps
Tagged Abbaye St-Germain, aqueducts, Arènes de Lutèce, Bièvre River, Bibliothèque Nationale, Carnavalet Museum, cippe antique, Clos de Lias, Cluny Museum, Cybèle, Gregory of Tours, Histoire physique civile et morale de Paris depuis les premiers temps historiques jusqu'à nos jours, Ile de la Cité, Ile Louviers, Jacques Antoine Dulaure, Jacques-Marie Hacq, Jean-Pierre Adam, jeu de mail, La Petite Seine, Lutèce, Lutetia, Mont Locutitius, Musée des monnaies médailles et antiques, Notre Dame Cathedral, Palais des Thermes, Philippe Velay, Place Tudella, Prison de Glaucin, Roman-era Paris, St Bacchus, St-Benoit-le-Bétourné, Tour de Marquefas, Victor Hugo
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