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Nouvelle Carte del La France indiquant les Routes de Poste, les Routes Nationales & Departmentales aved les Distances en Kilometres.
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Victor Jules Levasseur  (1800–1870)  wikidata:Q588019
 
Alternative names
Victor Levasseur; Jean Charles Victor
Description French cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 8 December 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 4 February 1870 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Caen 9th arrondissement of Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q588019
Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie  (1805–1870)  wikidata:Q55256153
 
Alternative names
Guillaume Laguillermie
Description French engraver
Date of birth/death 1805 Edit this at Wikidata 1870 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q55256153
Title
Nouvelle Carte del La France indiquant les Routes de Poste, les Routes Nationales & Departmentales aved les Distances en Kilometres.
Description
English: This is a folio format map of France issued with Victor Levasseur's 1852 Atlas National Illustre . Covers all of France as well as adjacent parts of Italy, Span, and England. Shows all Departments as well as postal routes, major cities, rivers, and roadways. Indicates mileage between most towns. Additionally shows ferry and shipping routes in the Mediterranean and in the English Channel. An inset in the lower left quadrant focuses on Corsica. A second inset in the upper left quadrant details the vicinity of Paris.
Date 1852 (dated)
Dimensions height: 24 in (60.9 cm); width: 21 in (53.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21U218593
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Geographicus link: France-levasseur-1852
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Levassuer, V., Atlas National Illustre des 86 Departements et des Possessions de La France Divise par Arrondissements, Cantons et Communea avec La Trace de Toutes Les Routes, Chemins,de fer et Canaux., 1852 edition.

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