The city walls of Paris (French: enceintes de Paris or murs de Paris) refers to the city walls that surrounded Paris, France, as it grew from ancient times until the 20th century, built primarily to defend the city but also for administrative reasons. Several successive city walls were built over the centuries, either adding to existing walls or replacing demolished ones, through 1846, when construction of the Thiers wall was completed.

Overview
The city walls of Paris include:

a Gaulish enclosure (precise location unknown)
a Gallo-Roman wall
two medieval walls, one of which was the Wall of Philip II Augustus
the Wall of Charles V, extending on the right bank of the River Seine
the Louis XIII Wall [fr], extending on the western part of the right bank
the Wall of the Farmers-General, for tax purposes
the Thiers wall.
As Paris rapidly expanded to become one of the largest cities in Europe, new walls were built to consolidate the existing city with new houses, gardens, and vegetable fields. Many historical walls were eventually destroyed (as in 1670, when Louis XIV ordered the demolition of the Louis XIII Wall), and the paths formerly occupied by the walls were often repurposed into streets or boulevards. Only a few sections of the Wall of the Farmers-General (pavilions of Claude Nicolas Ledoux) and the Wall of Philippe Auguste survive to the present day. The walls’ influence on modern Paris can still be seen on some of its major streets and boulevards, such as:

the Grands boulevards (main streets), built by replacing the Charles V and Louis XIII Walls
the parallel streets Rue de Cléry and Rue d’Aboukir (2nd Arrondissement), tracing the route of the Charles V Wall
the outer boulevards, built in place of the Wall of the Farmers-General
the Boulevards of the Marshals, a loop encircling the city consisting of boulevards named for the Marshals of France, built to replace the Thiers wall
the Boulevard Périphérique (ring road or beltway), built beyond the loop of the Boulevards of the Marshals.

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