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SANSON D'ABBEVILLE Diocese, Prevosté, et Eslection de Paris. Le Diocese est divisé en Archipretrés, ou Doyennés Ruraux. PARIS ILE DE FRANCE FRANCE 1650ca SANSON ORIGINAL CHART
Paris, 1650. ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED CHART OF PARIS REGION FRANCE. La Prevosté en Balliages, ou Prevostés subalternes, Et l'Eslection en Chastellenies, et ses différentes divisions sont distinguées par differentes sortes de Lettres, et de Points. Stricking and decorative copper engraved map centered on Paris and covering the surrounding region. Map presents a lot of topographical details as well as cities, rivers, woods, etc. Map includes the cities of Paris, Rambouillet, Villeroy, Auteuil, Rosoy, Beaumont, Saint Denis, etc. Decorative title cartouche at top right corner. Map embellished with two putti handing a ribbon including dedicatory at top left corner. Plate size approx.: cm 54,6 x 40,8. Paper size approx.: cm 58,1 x 44,9. Strong and dark inpression on strong paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Wide margins. Warming at lower margin near centre fold. Original colors at the outlines. Small browning and foxing. Small waterstains and mushrooms.Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667) was a French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography. He was born of an old Picardy family of Scottish descent, at Abbeville, on the 20th (or 31st) of December 1600, and was educated by the Jesuits at Amiens.In 1627 he attracted the attention of Richelieu by a map of Gaul which he had constructed (or at least begun) while only eighteen. He gave lessons in geography both to Louis XIII and to Louis XIV; and when Louis XIII, it is said, came to Abbeville, he preferred to be the guest of Sanson (then employed on the fortifications), instead of occupying the lodgings provided by the town. At the conclusion of this visit the king made Sanson a councillor of state.In 1647 Sanson accused the Jesuit Philippe Labbe of plagiarizing him in his Pharus Galliae Antiquae; in 1648 he lost his eldest son Nicolas, killed during the Fronde. Among the friends of his later years was the great Condé. He died in Paris on the 7th of July 1667. Two younger sons, Adrien (d. 1708) and Guillaume (d. 1703), succeeded him as geographers to the king.
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