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    French Polynesia (France). "Base 800203 (A00342) 5-89." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1989-01-01
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    The Game of France.
    Le Jeu de France     Pierre Duval (1619-83) was a nephew of the great French geographer Nicolas Sanson (1600-67) who rose to become "geographer to the king" in his own right. In the 1660s and 1670s he published a large number of atlases and geographic works. Duval was the first in France to conceive of geographical games that aimed to inform and instruct while providing entertainment. Jeu de France…
    • Contributor: Duval, Pierre
    • Date: 1659-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    French Guiana (France). Also shows arrondissement boundaries. "Base 801773 (R00066) 3-92." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    French Guiana (France). Also shows arrondissement boundaries. "Base 801774 (R00066) 3-92." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1992-01-01
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    Map of France's Post Offices.
    Carte particulière des postes de France     Drawn by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (circa 1632-1712) in 1690, the Carte particulière des postes de France (Particular map of the post offices of France) was preceded by the work of geographer Nicolas Sanson (1600--67), including his 1632 Carte géographique des Postes qui traversent la France (Geographical map of post offices throughout France). The evolution of the mapping of the postal network sheds light on various…
    • Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert - Cordier, Louis, 1711
    • Date: 1690-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    France. "11-91." Relief shown by shading. "Base 801455(B00996)." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1991-01-01
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    France in America This online collection presents digitized items from the Library of Congress collection originally made available as the France in America digital library project, a part of the Global Gateways initiative. Conceived in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique was launched as a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress. It explored the history of…

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    French Guiana. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map with radial distances, comparative area map, and subject maps of "Economic activity" and "Vegetation." In right margin: 14A.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1983-01-01
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    Carte de France Relief shown by hachures. Title from sheets no. 1 and no. 6. Publication taken over by Dépôt de la guerre in 1793. Publication information and dates from Pelletier's Cartes des Cassini, 2002. Engravers named on some sheets: C. Aldring, Aubin, J.A. Aveline, Beauvais, Bourgoin, R. Brunet, N. Chalmandrier, Chambon, Desbruslins, B. Desfontaines, Dupain-Triel fils, Durand, Foin, Le Roy le ainé, Le Roy le jeune,…
    • Contributor: Dépôt De La Guerre (France) - Andriveau-Goujon, J. - Cassini, César-François - Société De La Carte De France
    • Date: 1756

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    France, administrative divisions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "50109 8-64." Includes inset of Corsica and index to départements.
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1964-01-01
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    Le royaume de France. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Sanson, Guillaume - Jaillot, Alexis Hubert
    • Date: 1724-01-01
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    La Nouvelle France où Canada. Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I, no. 4." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 112 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
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    French West Indies. 6-60. Scale 1:500,000 and 1:13,700,000. "Base 29011." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
    • Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
    • Date: 1960-01-01
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    Map of France Divided into Départements, Subdivided into Arrondissements.
    Carte de la France divisée en départemens, subdivisée en arrondissemens communaux     This 1806 map of France shows the division of the country into départements (regions) and arrondissements (districts). The modern départements were created in 1790, following the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly, partly to weaken the old military and historical loyalties of the provinces and create a more coherent and loyal national system. Each département was run by…
    • Contributor: Belleyme, Pierre De - Barrière, Le Père
    • Date: 1806-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Carte de la Nouvelle France, Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. "Rather more than 1/4 of the whole map." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. Index to points of interest on verso. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Champlain, Samuel De - Thoreau, Henry David
    • Date: 1850-01-01
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    Map for the Clarification of Land Titles in New France, 1678.
    Carte pour seruir à l'éclaircissement du Papier Terrier de la Nouvelle-France     This large and beautiful map by Jean-Baptiste Franquelin (1651--after 1712), later the royal hydrographer in Quebec, shows the French presence in the Saint Lawrence valley and Atlantic Canada in 1678. For 20 years from the early 1670s, maps by Franquelin accompanied reports to France sent by the highest officials in its American territories. This map was dedicated to Jean-Baptise Colbert (1619-83), minister of finance…
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste
    • Date: 1678-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    [Map of Utah Beach, Normandy, France]. Depth shown by bathymetric tints. Shows tide lines, slope of the beach, buildings beyond the beach, and the location of hedgehogs (an anti-landing craft system). Numbers on the map correspond with other more traditional maps developed for the invasion. Title provided by cataloger. Created by United States Navy, June 1944 at Camp Bradford, Va. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as…
    • Contributor: Burwell, Charles Lee - United States. Navy
    • Date: 1944-01-01
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    Geographical Distribution of the Population in France, or Population Density by Commune.
    Répartition géographique de la population en France ou densité de la population par commune     Victor Turquan (1857-19?) headed the French Statistical Bureau from 1887 to 1896. He wrote numerous works on economic and demographic statistics, which included maps with graded coloration and iso-lines (lines connecting points with equal values). For Turquan, "the study of population distribution within the territory of a country belongs as much to geography as to statistics." In an era in which color rarely was…
    • Contributor: Turquan, Victor,19
    • Date: 1887-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing the French encroachments through all the British plantations from Nova Scotia down to the Gulf of Mexico.
    British and French dominions in North America     Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Shapero Gallery Acquisitions control no. 2004-80
    • Contributor: Bowles, Thomas - John Bowles & Son
    • Date: 1758-01-01
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    Advance of the French Army to Moscow Shows numerous troop positions (color-coded) along eastbound routes linking the Vistula River (north and south of Warsaw) and Moscow (Borodino). The principal routes are identified with the names of the respective French military units. Title from map area (upper left). Hand colored to identify troop positions (colors not specifically identified on map). Watermark: 1809 IIS. LC copy imperfect: Slightly foxed, sectioned to 12 panels…
    • Contributor: Hurst - And Brown - Orme - Porter, Robert Ker - Rees - Neele, Samuel John - Longman
    • Date: 1813-01-01
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    The island of Hispaniola called by the French St. Domingo. Subject to France & Spain. Scale ca. 1:1,750,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Description of the Spanish West Indies. 1762. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1853 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas
    • Date: 1762-01-01
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    Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. "Longitude occidentale du meridien de Paris." Relief shown pictorially. Shows Great Lakes region. Appears in the Homann Erben Atlas compendiarivs. 1752 [i.e. 1755] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 774 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    An Accurate Depiction of New France, 1657.
    Novae Franciae Accurata Delineatio, 1657     This 1657 map, entitled Novae Franciae Accurata Delineatio (An accurate depiction of New France), is attributed to the Jesuit Francesco Bressani (1612-72), who was sent as a missionary to the Huron Indians in 1642. In 1653 he published in his native Italy an account of his stay in New France in which he announced the impending publication of a map, also based on his…
    • Contributor: Bressani, Francesco Giuseppe
    • Date: 1657-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 274 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm) - Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1755-01-01
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    Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. "Longitude du meridien de l'isle de Fer." Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the Homann Erben Atlas compendiarivs. 1752 [i.e. 1755] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 273 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1755-01-01