Atlas De France : Divisée En ses Gouvernemens Militaires et en ses Généralités; subdivisée En toutes ses Provinces et Petits Pays &c. : Assujetti aux Nouvelles Observations de M.M. de l'Académie Roy.le des Sciences
An 1768 French atlas by Louis Brion de la Tour and Louis-Charles Desnos, published in Paris from the Rue St. Jacques shop, presenting France's military governments and provinces for military and administrative readers. The four pictured maps are hand-coloured copperplate engravings with ornate cartouches, sea monsters and compass roses, showing dense regional networks of roads, rivers, forests and borders in soft green, pink and yellow washes that suggest a restrained palette for antique cartographic framing.
