Every recorded bomb and shell impact on Paris and its suburbs during the First World War — 820 events compiled from the French Wikipedia recapitulative table, geocoded via the Base Adresse Nationale.
Each circle is one bomb or shell impact, coloured by weapon type and sized by the number of casualties. A gold ring marks impacts that have a photograph. With the long-range-gun layer active, a red axis shows the direction the shells came from; the timeline names the active firing position (the guns moved three times over 1918, ~90–113 km NE), and “View firing area” zooms out to show all three. Click any impact for its date, casualties, the original report, photos and sources — and use the timeline (press ▶) to replay the bombardment from 1914.
Each impact is taken from the recapitulative table in the French Wikipedia article, which compiles three layers of primary documentation:
Most events are sourced to newspapers that reported each raid the next day, digitised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France on Gallica — chiefly L'Excelsior and Le Petit Parisien. Where a specific article exists, it is linked in that impact's popup.
Illustrations from the article — click to enlarge. Includes the historical Paris Gun shell-impact map.
Bombardements de Paris et de sa banlieue durant la Première Guerre mondiale (French Wikipedia) — the source table.
Coordinates: each address is geocoded within its commune (matched by INSEE code) or arrondissement. 678 of 820 events resolve to an exact street address; the remaining 142 — renamed or demolished streets, intersections and landmarks — are placed at the area centre and flagged ⚠ in their popup. Casualty figures (285 killed, 755 wounded) are parsed from the free-text French notes.