Map of Paris from 1911 showing Thiers fortifications surrounding the city.The Thiers wall and the Porte de Versailles at the turn of the 20th century. On the right is the rampart and the stone scarp wall, on the left is the counterscarp and beyond that the sloping glacis, with the slums of the zone just visible in the background.
The Thiers wall (Enceinte de Thiers) was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1846 and was proposed by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers but was actually implemented by his successor. The 33 kilometres (21 mi) long wall and ditch made a complete circuit around the city as it stood at the time of the July Monarchy. It was bombarded by the Prussian Army during the Franco-Prussian War, captured by government troops during the Paris Commune and refortified at the start of the First World War. However, by then it had become obsolete as a fortification and was a barrier to the expansion of the city. The area immediately outside of it, known as "the zone", had become a shanty town. The wall was demolished in the interwar period; its path today can be traced by the Boulevards of the Marshals which originally ran just behind the fortifications and by the Boulevard Périphérique which was later built just outside. A few remnants of the wall can still be seen.
The Thierswall (Enceinte de Thiers) was the last of the defensive walls of Paris. It was an enclosure constructed between 1841 and 1846 and was proposed...
walls were built over the centuries, either adding to existing walls or replacing demolished ones, through 1846, when construction of the Thierswall...
Thiers also built the ring of fortifications around Paris known as the ThiersWall, of which a few traces can still be seen. The location of the wall...
fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries comprise: The ThiersWall, surrounding the city of Paris, and farther from the city, The detached...
known as the Thierswall after its chief proponent, prime minister Adolphe Thiers. The plan involved the construction of a new fortified wall around an expanded...
Look up thiers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thiers is a French place name and surname, with the variants Thier and Tier. It may refer to: Adolphe...
fortified Thierswall, completed around 1840. In 1859, the military engineering service gave conditional control of the Rue Militaire and Thierswall to the...
under the strict control of Paris' urban planners. The demolition of the Thierswall during the 1920s allowed for the creation of a third ring of boulevards...
Vincennes and named after the Porte de Vincennes, a gate in the former ThiersWall, which was at the beginning of the road to Vincennes. The station opened...
nineteenth century Thierswall of Paris, which led to the town of Montreuil. Flea markets are held on the glacis (the sloping bank in front of a wall) of the fortifications...
a situation where everything within the Thierswall was Paris and everything without was not. The Thierswall, with its accompanying berm and moat, led...
named after the nearby Porte des Lilas, a gate in the nineteenth century ThiersWall of Paris, which led to the town of Les Lilas. The station was referred...
is named after the Porte de Clichy, a gate in the nineteenth century Thierswall of Paris, which led to Clichy. The station opened 20 January 1912 with...
named after the Porte de la Chapelle, a gate in the nineteenth century Thierswall of Paris, on the Rue de la Chapelle, the old Roman road to Calais via...
a situation where everything within the Thierswall was Paris and everything without was not. The Thierswall, with its accompanying berm and moat, led...
a situation where everything within the Thierswall was Paris and everything without was not. The Thierswall, with its accompanying berm and moat, led...
arrondissement. It is named after the Porte de Vanves, a gate in the 19th century Thierswall of Paris. Contrary to what its name suggests, it gave access to the commune...
a situation where everything within the Thierswall was Paris and everything without was not. The Thierswall, with its accompanying berm and moat, led...
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