Robb - Parisians

M AP OF P ARIS

Plan Guilmin: Nouveau Plan de Paris Monumental (Leconte et Guilmin, Paris, 1900).

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1. From the Plan Turgot, by Louis Bretez (map commissioned by Michel-tienne Turgot), 173439.

2. Louis-Lopold Boilly, The Galleries of the Palais Royal (1809; the original version, now lost, was shown at the 1804 Paris Salon). Some of the gentlemen may be British visitors, taking advantage of the Peace of Amiens (180203).

3. View taken from under the Arch of Givry (1807), by John Claude Nattes, engraved by John Hill: Pont au Change, Conciergerie and Tour de lHorloge. The arcades, flooded at high tide, ran under the Quai de Gesvres and later formed part of a tunnel in the Mtro.

4. Monsieur, someone has robbed me of a thousand-franc note: Honor Daumiers view of Vidocqs Bureau des Renseignements. Le Charivari , 6 November 1836.

5. Gustave Le Gray, Paris, View of Montmartre (a montage: cityscape, c. 184950; sky, c. 185556).

6. Cross-section of a Parisian house on 1 January 1845, by Bertall (Albert dArnoux). Le Diable Paris , vol. II (1846).

7. Le Stryge at Notre-Dame (1853), by Charles Ngre. The man is the photographer Henri Le Secq. The streets below were demolished to make way for the new Htel-Dieu hospital.

8. The Siege of Paris, 1870, by R. Briant: the Prussian army to the south of Paris, and Thierss fortifications, on the line of the present Boulevards des Marchaux, just inside the Priphrique.

9. The Htel de Ville, torched by Communards. June 1871.

10. Gustave Caillebotte, Young Man at His Window (1875): the artists brother at the corner of Rue de Miromesnil and Rue de Lisbonne, with Boulevard Malesherbes in the background.

11. Camille Pissarro, Avenue de lOpra, Sun, Winter Morning (1898), from the Grand Htel du Louvre.

12. Universal Exhibition of 1900: Champ de Mars station, Celestial Globe and Marorama (an attraction simulating a sea voyage from Paris to Yokohama).

13. The floods of 1910 and the Nord-Sud Mtro before its inauguration. Maurice Branger (1910).

14. Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin (1925). How can we deal with the problem of Paris? The great EastWest throughway of Paris offers the City Council the chance to launch a gigantic financial enterprise. The two tiny blobs in the central square are the Porte Saint-Denis and the Porte Saint-Martin.

15. Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler and Arno Breker being filmed on the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot, 23 June 1940. By Heinrich Hoffmann.

16. Playground. Children only. No Jews . November 1942.

17. Statues used as scrap metal during the Occupation. In the foreground: the Marquis de Condorcet, by Jacques Perrin. The statue was later recast and restored to the Quai de Conti. By Pierre Jahan, 1941.

18. The Liberation of Paris: FFI Resistants at a window of the Prfecture de Police, 25 August 1944.

19. Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre from a castle in the Quercy, June 1945.

21. Barricade on the Boulevard Saint-Germain near Rue Hautefeuille, May 1968. By Alain Dejean.