District (Paris)

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The districts of Paris were a short-lived division of the capital of France at the beginning of the revolution.

Just before the revolution began, Paris had an area of ​​3,440 hectares. It was bordered to the west by the Place de l'Etoile , to the east by the Pere Lachaise , to the north by the Place de Clichy and to the south by the Montparnasse cemetery .

Under the Ancien Régime , the city consisted of 21 districts, but the city was provisionally divided into 60 districts for the elections to the General Estates of 1789 . Just one year later, the number was reduced to 48 sections .