Published three years before Grotius’ escape, this hand-coloured map by Claes Jansz. Visscher depicts the city where Grotius would find refuge, in terms of its streets as well as its people. Visscher framed his map with small costume prints, showing what the city’s noblemen looked like and how Parisian paupers dressed. The map includes the locations of the two houses where Grotius lived during his exile. His first home was on Rue de Hautefeuille in the Parisian city centre. In 1622, he and his family moved to a larger house in the suburbs in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where they would stay until 1631.
C.J. Visscher, Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, map, 1618 [COLLBN Port 83 N 17]