The main obstacle that interferes with the movement on Parisian streets is parked cars. To drive away from the side of the road, you have to literally excuse your car, set up closely and behind the car. This phenomenon is common throughout Europe, but in Paris especially. Among the road signs on the streets is the most common sign that, having left the car in this place, you risk finding it later in the police station, if you suddenly turn out that your car is “interfering with others”. And then no one will look at the brand of the car, whether at least the brand new Tundra Tundra 2014.
On many streets, you are destined to see personally in the truly Napoleonic addiction of the Parisian authorities to all kinds of edicts and legislative acts: the most ordinary orders are written with the date of adoption of the relevant laws. For example, quite often you can see an ominous quote from a law prohibiting the pasting of proclamations; It is dated April 1943. – At that time, Paris was occupied by German troops.
The modern appearance of Paris was created by Baron Osman. Having become the prefect of the Seine Department, by order of the authorities, the whole second half of the 19th century was rebuilt the city. Boulevards enjoyed the love of Parisians a century ago, but Osman, as it were, breathed a new life into them. He set to work with the enthusiasm of the child, who was bought a “railway”. Not sparing funds, he laid new boulevards, streets, avenues, created squares, broke squares and forest parks, built bridges and sewage systems. And all this was done with purely French ingenuity and German pedantry (Osman was German by origin). He baptized many of the old areas of Paris with the ground (the mare was next in line), one after another, buying up plots with the time that has served the time.
Never before, almost to the ground, a map of Paris was overlapped. Wherever you take a look, everywhere opening delightful views, crews raced along the wide streets. This effect was achieved due to a competent layout: long avenues, like the rays of the star, are scattering from the center that the area serves (for example, Tern – Place de Ternes, Viktor Hugo – Place Victor Hugo), or wriggling rings, as if in an intricate and along with it, and along with an orderly dance around some huge building (Grand Opera Theater, Madeleine Church and even Saint-Lazar Station).
