This is one of the many maps published by the British based Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1826-1848) whose aim was to provide information to the working and middle classes. Here we have a detailed map of Paris representing the era of the July Monarchy (1830-1848). Constitutional monarch Louis-Philippe ruled during the 1832 cholera outbreak when Paris lost 20,000 out of 650,000 inhabitants within the capital. A second epidemic would hit France in 1849, just after the revolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Republic. / Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
