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Paris street sign It's been a while since I've shown you a typical Paris street sign. Here is the one of Rue des Dames (this street used to lead to L'Abbaye des Dames - the women Abbey - which was located up in Montmartre not far from where I took this photo). Before 1728 there were no street signs (or very rarely) but it became compulsory for the owners of the first and the last house of each street to engrave its name on the walls. In 1806 Napoleon passed a law demanding the names should no longer be engraved but painted and in 1847 the authorities turned to enamel...