(Economically, the railways' operation ... causes distances to diminish ... Lille suddenly finds itself next to Lourves; Calais to Pontoise; le Havre to Poissy; Rouen to Sevres or to Asnieres; Reims to Pantin; Strasbourg to Meaux; Lyon to a place halfway between Melun and Corbeil; Marseilles to Nemours; Perpignan to Pithiviers; Bordeaux to Chartres or to Etampes; Nantes to Arpajon, etc.) --Constantin Pecqueur, 1839
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