Napoleonic Road Map of France & The First French Empire Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 22.8 cm numbered in an old hand

numbered in an old hand

112 x 68 cm

Edges untrimmed

Underground maps after Beck

35 x 50 cm

Napoleonic Road Map of France & The First French Empire Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 22.8 cm numbered in an old handCarte Routire de la France dresse par ordre de Monsieur le Directeur Gnral des Ponts et Chausses Though described in the title as a road map of France, more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleons French Empire, stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Duchy of Warsaw in the east and Madrid and Rome in the south; the former still at this juncture nominally the seat of Napoleons brother Joseph, the latter