La Savoie, par le P. Placide….

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Article ID EUF2765

Title

La Savoie, par le P. Placide….

Description

Masp shows total Savoyen with the lake of Geneve.

Year

ca. 1780

Artist

Dezauche/de l´Isle, (1780-1838)

Jean-Claude Dezauche (1780-1838) was the successor to Guillaume De L'Isle and Philipe Buache. Guillaume De L´Isle (1675- 1726) Paris, was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas and Africa. De L´Isle was admitted into the French Académie Royale des Sciences, an institution financed by the French state. After that date, he signed his maps with the title of “Géographe de l’Académie”. Five years later, he moved to the Quai de l’Horloge in Paris, a true publishing hub where his business prospered. De L´Isle’s ascension through the ranks culminated in 1718 when he received the title of Premier Géographe du Roi. His new office consisted in teaching geography to the Dauphin, King Louis XIV’s son, a task for which he received a salary. De L´Isle’s reputation as a man of science probably helped .This supports the claim of the historian Mary Sponberg Pedley, who says “once authority was established, a geographer’s name might retain enough value to support two or three generations of mapmakers”. In De L´Isle’s case, it could be said that his accomplishments surpassed his father’s. Up to that point, he had drawn maps not only of European countries, such as Italy, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, and regions such as the Duchy of Burgundy, but he had also contributed to the empire’s claims to recently explored continents of Africa and the Americas. Like many cartographers of these days, De L´Isle did not travel with the explorers and elaborated the maps mostly in his office. The quality of his maps depended on a solid network that would provide him first-hand information. Given the family’s reputation and his own, De L´Isle had access to fairly recent accounts of travellers who were coming back from the New World, which gave him an advantage over his competitors. Being a member of the Académie, he was also aware of recent discoveries, especially in astronomy and measurement. When he could not confirm the accuracy of his source, he would indicate it clearly on his maps. For instance, his Carte de la Louisiane shows a river that the baron of Lahontan claimed he discovered, but no one else could validate it, so De L`lsle warned the viewer that its actual existence was in doubt. De L´Isle 's search for exactitude and intellectual honesty entangled him in a legal dispute in 1700 with Jean-Baptiste Nolin, a fellow cartographer. Noticing Nolin had used details that were considered original from his Map of the World, De L´isle dragged Nolin in court to prove his plagiarism. In the end, Delisle managed to convince the jury of scientists that Nolin only knew the old methods of cartography and therefore that he had stolen the information from his manuscript. Nolin's maps were confiscated and he was forced to pay the court costs.The scientificity of the work produced by the De L´Isle family contrasted with the workshop of Sanson. While Sanson knowingly published outdated facts and mistakes, De L´Isle strived to present up-to-date knowledge.

Historical Description

In Celtic times, the area was inhabited by the Allobroges, a Celtic tribe. In 121 BC the Romans subdued it and united it with Gaul, from which they later formed the province of Alpes Graiae et Vallis Poeninae. In 838 Sapaudia came to High Burgundy, then from 934 it belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy, with which it joined the Holy Roman Empire in 1032. The new lords called themselves Counts of Savoy since 1125 and soon got rid of their ecclesiastical feudal lord. In 1310/1313 Savoy was elevated to an imperial principality and in 1388 the county of Nice was acquired. In 1512/1521, Savoy was finally formally incorporated into the Upper Rhine imperial circle. In 1792, French Revolutionary troops invaded the territory without a declaration of war. Between 1796 and 1815, Savoy was part of France, initially forming the Département Mont-Blanc. In 1798 it was divided into the departments of Mont-Blanc and Léman. In 1801, the country also left the Roman-German Empire under international law. As a result of the Italian unification process, which came about with French support, inMarch 1860 King Victor Emmanuel II ceded Savoy and the County of Nice to the French Empire in the Treaty of Turin.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)57 x 43
ConditionVery good
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueCopper print

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