Travel time from Paris
May 5, 2021
According to James Maxwell Anderson, by the late eighteenth century, the region of the Ile de France had the best-constructed roads in Europe, much admired by foreigners. But, when traveling by horse-drawn vehicles over vast distances, travelers found that the roads sometimes became just bumpy tracks and that the trip was slow and tiresome. Going to Bordeaux or Strasbourg from Paris took six days; traveling to Toulouse took seven or eight-day and to Marseille, nine days.
The trip from Paris to Calais by fourgon also took six days; by diligence, the travel time was two and a half days.
Isochrone Map from Paris (1882)
