From the first card, one element jumps out at you. The ring road no longer appears as a clear delimitation between Paris and its suburbs but as a simple boulevard, difficult to distinguish from major Parisian arteries such as Avenue de Paris, which starts from Porte de Vincennes to irrigate the city of the same name and Saint-Mandé, in Val-de-Marne. “This shows the abolition of the border between Paris and the surrounding towns,” explains Vincent Grandferry, head of the Cartoville collection at Gallimard, who has already published nearly a dozen guides on Rome, London, Porto and, well, on Paris.
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