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# A map showing the journey time in days from Paris to French cities in the eighteenth century
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/karta-pokazyvaiushchaia-dlitelnost-puti-v-dniakh-ot-parizha-do-frantsuzskikh-gorodov-v-xviii-veke/
- Published: 2022-04-23T08:06:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:57.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Geography, Maps, Observations, Paris

A map showing the journey time in days from Paris to French cities in the eighteenth century. Today the trip from Paris to Nantes takes 4 hours on an express train; three hundred years ago the same road would have demanded up to 8 days, which is more than the train from Moscow to Vladivostok takes in our own time. It is worth bearing in mind the speed of travel in the past, if we are to grasp the true dynamics of the events described in history textbooks