Plan de la route de Paris en Bretagne par Dreux et Allençon

Plan de la route de Paris en Bretagne par Dreux et Allençon (France, about 1770).
Plan de la route de Paris en Bretagne par Dreux et Allençon (France, about 1770).

Plan de la route de Paris en Bretagne par Dreux et Allençon

France, about 1770

Vault Case MS 5312

Gift of Roger S. Baskes, Vincent Buonanno, Arthur Holzheimer, D. Carroll Joynes, and Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., supplemented by the McNally Rare Map and Book Fund

A royal engineer's working map for the royal highway to Brittany that subsequently became known as Route nationale no. 12. The maps record planned road improvements.

Acquisition Date: 
2004