Grand atlas départmental

Mineral resources and historic battle sites are marked on the coloured departmental sheets of the Grand Atlas départemental,...

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Mineral resources and historic battle sites are marked on the coloured departmental sheets of the Grand Atlas départemental, making it an economic and historical portrait of France as well as a geographical one. The full title is Grand Atlas départemental de la France, de l'Algérie et des colonies, published in Paris by A. Le Vasseur with descriptive text by H. Fisquet, and the maps here are dated 1876. They range from the Ardennes and Moselle to the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean coast, with rivers, settlements and administrative divisions, and names such as Seine-et-Oise, Côtes-du-Nord and Basses-Pyrénées. These closely annotated sheets differ from the scenic border illustrations of Victor Levasseur's separate Atlas national.

Mineral resources and historic battle sites are marked on the coloured departmental sheets of the Grand Atlas départemental, making it an economic and historical portrait of France as well as a geographical one. The full title is Grand Atlas départemental de la France, de l'Algérie et des colonies, published in Paris by A. Le Vasseur with descriptive text by H. Fisquet, and the maps here are dated 1876. They range from the Ardennes and Moselle to the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean coast, with rivers, settlements and administrative divisions, and names such as Seine-et-Oise, Côtes-du-Nord and Basses-Pyrénées. These closely annotated sheets differ from the scenic border illustrations of Victor Levasseur's separate Atlas national.

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