La France Illustrée

Rennes, Fougères, Vendôme and the cathedral at Vienne appear beside departmental maps with inset town plans in La France Ill...

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Rennes, Fougères, Vendôme and the cathedral at Vienne appear beside departmental maps with inset town plans in La France Illustrée, V.-A. Malte-Brun's survey of France combining geography with history, administration and statistics. The work was published by Jules Rouff and Company, and the prints here date from 1881–1884. The maps locate settlements within each department, the views pick out a building or an approach within a town, and the captions keep historical department names and older spellings.

Rennes, Fougères, Vendôme and the cathedral at Vienne appear beside departmental maps with inset town plans in La France Illustrée, V.-A. Malte-Brun's survey of France combining geography with history, administration and statistics. The work was published by Jules Rouff and Company, and the prints here date from 1881–1884. The maps locate settlements within each department, the views pick out a building or an approach within a town, and the captions keep historical department names and older spellings.