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Re:Interactive maps of Europe in the 19th century by lainga on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @02:41PM (#29641220)
Are they sure the French map is from 1836? It looks like Paris has its petite ceinture railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceintu...) which was built in the late 1850s.
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Re:Interactive maps of Europe in the 19th century by lqet on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:31PM (#29641744)
If you look closely, you can see that the railway lines were later drawn onto the map by hand:

https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurve...

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