Carte de France

Relief shown by hachures. Title from sheets no. 1 and no. 6. Publication taken over by Dépôt de la guerre in 1793. Publication information and dates from Pelletier's Cartes des Cassini, 2002. Engravers named on some sheets: C. Aldring, Aubin, J.A. Aveline, Beauvais, Bourgoin, R. Brunet, N. Chalmandrier, Chambon, Desbruslins, B. Desfontaines, Dupain-Triel fils, Durand, Foin, Le Roy le ainé, Le Roy le jeune, J. Séguin. Sheet no. 160 was never published, but its projected coverage was included in some states of sheet 131. Most sheets include both a sheet number in the upper right or middle margin and a number in the upper left indicating the order of publication, e.g. no. 3, feuille 11. LC scanned copy is This is a complete set, hand colored, on uncut sheets of heavy paper.

Date: 1756
Mapmaker / publisher: Cassini, César-François; Andriveau-Goujon, J.; Société De La Carte De France; Dépôt De La Guerre (France)
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: map
Sheets: 40
Original size: 10,823 × 7,249 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Carte de France" (1756). Cassini, César-François; Andriveau-Goujon, J.; Société De La Carte De France; Dépôt De La Guerre (France). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_de_France_LOC_gm72002942-1.jpg

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