#maps of paris

[ellie-valsin]

The Hôtel de Ville neighborhood, used heavily in Virago 1830.  Of course, the upper left corner of the map is getting into 1832 territory, with the cloître St-Merri and the rues des Arcis and de la Verrerie.  Courfeyrac’s second residence (1831-1832) is also located at no. 16, rue de la Verrerie, which would be located in the upper right corner of this map.

[ellie-valsin]

The Palais-Royal and rue St-Honoré neighborhood.  These locations are used for Virago, both in 1828 (the Galerie Vivienne and the Palais-Royal) and of course in 1830 (the place des Victoires, the shopping galeries, the Palais-Royal, and the rue St-Honoré).

[ellie-valsin]

This one’s the most important one for Virago, obviously, since it shows the most common locations mentioned: the student neighborhoods, including the universities and schools, the Panthéon, the Odéon, and the Jardin du Luxembourg, as well as an educated guess at where the café Musain would have been.  Again, the place St-Michel was in a different location back then than it is now (super confusing, that!).

These neighborhood maps were made by tracing, assembling, and interpreting different maps included in A. M. Perrot’s Petit Atlas Pittoresque (1834).

[ellie-valsin]

I figured I’d upload the maps I made for Virago.  They’re really quite useful!  I dithered for a while over whether or not to include them in the actual book file, since Kindle will probably display them in super crappy quality, but I figured why not.  So they’re in the book, but looking pretty crap, so I thought I’d give you guys the full quality images here. 

This one is a basic map of Paris, divided into arrondissements.  The Parisian arrondissements ca. 1830 were different from those of modern-day Paris.  For instance, the Panthéon, now a famous landmark of the 5th arrondissement, was at that time located in the 12th arrondissement; likewise, the Louvre, now the primary attraction of the 1st arrondissement, was then located in the 4th arrondissement.  Enjolras and her friends and family spent most of their time in the 10th, 11th, and 12th arrondissements, a thought foreign to those familiar with the modern-day Latin Quarter, now located in the 5th and 6th arrondissements.

I’ve also marked famous neighborhoods on this map, as well as several of the locations commonly mentioned in Virago.

[pilferingapples]

Maps of Paris

Paris Maps of multiple times and in various detail!

Chanvrerie.net's  maps Wikimedia commons, chronological order