"Illustrated with more than 1,000 full-color maps, diagrams and photographs of the iconic Paris subway system Paris Underground is the essential graphic history of the Metro."--BOOK JACKET

• Paris prevaricates over a metro
• Birth of a network
• The second hand of design
• Metro for commerce; unofficial maps 1
• Metro to the city limits
• Into the suburbs
• War, occupation and aftermath
• RATP to RER
• Metro for commerce; unofficial maps 2
• A new dawn
• The digital era
• Palm-size Paris
• RER: crossing Paris beneath the metro
• Line, in-csr and track maps
• Routes of distortion; the diagram debate
• Metro for commerce; unofficial maps 3
• A public face; sognage and logos