Huitième plan de Paris divisé en ses vingts quartiers (1705) The French King Louis XIV had long had abandoned Paris as the traditional home of the monarch in favor of his father's hunting lodge a day's ride from the capital. This 1705 map of Paris is the last of a multi-volume publication Traité de la police (1707-1738) written by Paris Police Commissioner Nicolas de la Mare (1639-1723) where he also catalogued new police methods used to quell riots in the city. Even though historians have noted inaccuracies within the maps created for Traité de la police, this eight-map series shows the growth of Paris from the Roman era. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
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