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1880: Transportation within Paris is by horse carriage; for cross-country trips, the locomotive is available.
1910: In the year following the first flight across the English Channel by Louis Blériot, Parisians realize that the age of aviation has arrived. Automobiles are common on Parisian streets.
Today: Paris’s streets, designed in the 1870s, are choked with automobile traffic. For travel on the continent, the TGV, or bullet train, travels at speeds often exceeding 186 miles per hour.
1880: Paris is the artistic center of the...
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