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L'Historiographie du royaume de France
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L'Historiographie du royaume de France

Game board with numbered compartments from 1 to 108 arranged in a spiral, the more elaborate compartments bearing a cartouche with the name of a region in France, beneath which are listed its principal industries, the subsequent compartments containing lists of its principal cities and towns, with a key to their status, the final compartment being Paris, surmounted by a portrait medaillion of Louis XV. In the centre, a map of France, showing all the towns mentioned in the game, above which is the title and a description of the map; to the left of the map, the rules, to the right, a description of the "Air, Sol, Peuples, et Villes" of France, the longitudes and latitudes of the principal towns, and a key. Hand-coloured etching

Date
1744–1768
Place
France
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,957 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; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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"L'Historiographie du royaume de France" (1744–1768). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27Historiographie_du_royaume_de_France_(BM_1893,0331.109).jpg

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