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Cassini's Map of France: An Encyclopedia of the Territory
Culture · Wednesday, October 14 · 10:00 · Paris
Le Musée des Archives nationales – L’Hôtel de Soubise, 60, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
Free
A eighteenth-century cartographic masterpiece, Cassini's map of France is the first map of France to be geometrically surveyed at a country-wide scale. A iconic historical document made of 181 sheets, it is also a monumental art object measuring eleven meters wide by twelve meters high. Relying notably on a major contribution from IGN to the National Archives, the exhibition… In 2021 and 2025, the National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) donated to the National Archives the file of archives relating to the Academy's France map, better known…
