Chemin de fer de Paris à la mer  

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"By the railway space is annihilated, and only time remains. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to Orleans, in the same time to Rouen. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German lime-trees; the billows of the North Sea are bounding and roaring before my door."--Heinrich Heine commenting upon the opening of the chemin de fer de Paris à la mer in 1843

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Le Chemin de fer de Paris à la mer désigne un projet ferroviaire élaboré dans les premiers temps du chemin de fer en France, sous la Restauration, visant à relier Paris au Havre via Rouen, avec un embranchement vers Dieppe. S’inscrivant dans les réflexions générales du gouvernement pour améliorer et accélérer les transports dans le royaume, il a pour ambition de donner à Paris les moyens de constituer une place commerciale d’envergure, tant au niveau national qu’en Europe continentale.

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