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Chapter Chronology

PRIMARY SOURCE 22.2

Apartment Living in Paris

This drawing shows a typical layout for a European city apartment building in about 1850.

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(Bibliothèque nationale de France)

EVALUATE THE EVIDENCE

  1. Question

    Describe the inhabitants of each floor. How does the economic condition of the tenants differ from the 1st Étage (the equivalent of the American second floor) to the garret apartments on the top floor?

  2. Question

    What does this drawing suggest about urban life in the nineteenth century? How might a sketch of a modern, urban American apartment building differ in terms of the types of people who reside in a single building?