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Walking Through Paris in 1739 Using the Beautiful Turgot Map!

In 1734, a cartographer named Louis Bretez began an impossible task: to draw every single building in Paris. For five years, he walked every street, sketched every façade, and measured every courtyard. The result was the Turgot Map, the most detailed and beautiful city map ever created. Now, nearly 300 years later, we've brought his map to life. Join us on a morning walk through Paris as it existed in 1739. We begin at Notre-Dame, not the burned cathedral you know, but the medieval heart of a living city. We cross the Pont Neuf, where aristocrats and pickpockets rubbed shoulders, where tooth-pullers promised painless extractions and charlatans sold miracle cures. We walk the commercial quays of the Seine, enter the royal gardens of the Tuileries, and end our journey at the Louvre, then a palace of artists, not yet the museum it would become. This is Paris before Haussmann's grand boulevards. Before the Revolution. Before the world changed forever. ———— About this reconstruction: This video uses historical research combined with AI image and video generation to visualize Paris as recorded in the Turgot Map (1734-1739). While no reconstruction can be perfect, our goal is to offer a window into a world that disappeared long ago. ———— Sources and Further Reading: The Turgot Map can be explored in high resolution at the David Rumsey Map Collection "The Plan de Paris" — detailed history of the map's creation Period details drawn from contemporary accounts and paintings by Canaletto, Watteau, and Chardin ———— 🗺️ Want to explore more historical cities brought back to life? Subscribe and turn on notifications. 💬 What city or time period should we reconstruct next? Tell us in the comments.