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A large and decorative map showing the enlargement of French territory by Louis XIV.
The map is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs: this example comes from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title and scale cartouches.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632-1712) was one of the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth century. Jaillot traveled to Paris with his brother, Simon, in 1657, hoping to take advantage of Louis XIV's call to the artists and scientists of France to settle and work in Paris. Originally a sculptor, he married the daughter of Nicholas Berey, Jeanne Berey, in 1664, and went into partnership with Nicholas Sanson's sons. Beginning in 1669, he re-engraved and often enlarged many of Sanson's maps, filling in the gap left by the destruction of the Blaeu's printing establishment in 1672.
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