The South of France East Half

Reaching well beyond the Mediterranean coast its title suggests, The South of France East Half takes in Vichy, Mont-Dore and...

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Reaching well beyond the Mediterranean coast its title suggests, The South of France East Half takes in Vichy, Mont-Dore and La Bourboule as well as the approaches to Grenoble, Briançon and the Grande Chartreuse. These antique maps come from the fifth edition of Part II of C. B. Black's guide to the eastern half of southern France, published by the Black house in London in 1899. The spa towns of the Auvergne are especially well represented, and other sheets extend north towards Dijon. Local maps like these give resorts, thermal towns and mountain excursions a space no general map of France could offer, and they make an excellent record of nineteenth-century tourism.

Reaching well beyond the Mediterranean coast its title suggests, The South of France East Half takes in Vichy, Mont-Dore and La Bourboule as well as the approaches to Grenoble, Briançon and the Grande Chartreuse. These antique maps come from the fifth edition of Part II of C. B. Black's guide to the eastern half of southern France, published by the Black house in London in 1899. The spa towns of the Auvergne are especially well represented, and other sheets extend north towards Dijon. Local maps like these give resorts, thermal towns and mountain excursions a space no general map of France could offer, and they make an excellent record of nineteenth-century tourism.

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