First Empire France in departments. Belgium Italy Germany NL. LIZARS 1842 map
France in departments. Artist/engraver/cartographer: William Home Lizars. Provenance: "Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas: containing maps of every Empire, State and Kingdom…", Edinburgh; Lizars, 3, St James' Square; S. Highley, 32 Fleet Street, London; and W. Curry, Jun., & Co., Dublin. Type: Antique 19th century atlas map with original hand colouring. This curious map shows France with some of the territories acquired during the First French Empire - although France's borders had retreated to closer to the country's current borders after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, a quarter of a century earlier. The territory shown as French includes all of present-day Belgium, and parts of Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. The map includes the following departements which are no longer part of modern-day France, or whose names have since changed: parts of modern day Italy: Liguria (corresponding closely to the modern Italian province), Tanaro, Parma, Erida (part of the modern province of Piedmont); Batavia (corresponding to the southern part of the present-day Netherlands); annexed from the Austrian Netherlands (part of present day Belgium): Dyle, Escaut (Scheld) , Forêts , Jemmapes, Lys (Lis), Ourte , Sambre-et-Meuse; Annexed from the Cisrhenian Republic (part of present day Germany): Mont-Tonnerre, Rhin-et-Moselle , Roer , Sarre; Annexed from the Holy Roman Empire: Deux-Nèthes (part of present day Belgium), Meuse-Inférieure (part of the present day Netherlands); Annexed from the Kingdom of Sardinia: Léman (roughly corresponding to the present day French departement of Haute Savoie), Mont-Blanc (roughly corresponding to the present day French departement of Savoie); Annexed from the Subalpine & Ligurian Republics: Stura (part of present day Italy), Doire (parts of the present day Italian provinces of Aosta and Piedmont), Marengo (parts of the present day Italian provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont)
Size: 5738px × 4800px
Location: France
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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