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Reference Maps on the
French Revolution 1789-1799

Map of France 1769-1789

Map Traites Customs France 1781

Map of the Salt Tax / Gabelle France 1781

Map of France before the Revolution

Map of France in 1789

Map of Paris in 1789

Map of Paris during the Revolution

Map of Revolutionary Paris

Map of Versailles in 1789

Map of Central Europe in 1789


Reference Maps on the
French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802

Map of the Principal Seats of War 1788-1815

Ecclesiastical Map of France 1789 and 1802

Map of France in Departments 1790 (Colbeck)

Map of France in 1791, showing the Departments and former provinces (Shepherd)

Map of Europe in 1792

Map of the Empire and the Netherlands in 1792

Map of Belgium in 1792

Map of the Eastern Frontier of France: Revolutionary Campaigns 1792-1795

Map of the Rhine River 1792-1796

Map of the European Waters: Naval Wars 1792-1815

Map of Britanny and the Vendee (The Wars of the Vendée 1793-1796)

Map of the Battle of Quiberon Bay - June 27, 1795

Map of Northern Italy 1796-1805 (Shepherd)

Map of Northern Italy: Bonaparte's Campaign 1796-1797 (Cambridge)

Map of North Italy and Switzerland 1796-1805

Map of Northern Italy - April 1796

Map of Northern Italy - April-June 1796

Map of Central Europe after the Peace of Basel and of Campo Formio

Map of South West Germany and North Italy: The War of the Second Coalition 1798-1801

Map of Italy in 1799: The War with Naples 1798-1799

Map of Egypt and Syria 1798 (Cambridge)

Map of Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt 1798 (Shepherd)

Map of the Treaty Adjustments 1801-1812

 


Map Description
Historical Map of France in 1789.

Illustrating:

Top Left
The gouvernements and their capitals.

Top Right
The generalities (généralités) or intendancies and their capitals.
- Pays d'Elections (pays d'élections)
- Pays d'Etats (pays d'états)
- Provinces / Districts

Bottom Left
The Salt Tax and the Customs.
- Region of the great salt tax (grande gabelle)
- Region of the Rethel salt tax (gabelle du Rethelois)
- Region of the salt-works tax (gabelle de salines)
- Region of the quart-boullion
- Region of the redeemed provinces
- Region of the free provinces
- The figures show the relative prices paid for a certain amount of salt in various parts of France.
- Boundary of the cinq grosses germes, i.e. subject to the tariff of 1664
- Boundary of the provinces réputées étrangères au royaume, i.e. as regards the tariff of 1664
- Provinces d'étrangèr effectif, i.e. acquired since 1664, or endowed with special privileges
- B. = Bishopric / C. = County / LAB. = Labourd

Bottom Right
Laws and Courts.
- Region of the "customary (feudal) law"
- Region of the "written (Roman) law"
- Boundary of jurisdiction of a parlement or supreme council
- Seat of a parlement of conseil souverain
- Seat of a chambre des comptes
- Seat of a cour des aides
- Seat of an admiralty
- Seat of a bureau de finance and chambre du domaine
- Seat of a cour des monnaies
- Seat of a prévôts des maréchaux
- Seat of a chief court of the salt tax
- Seat of a grand mastership of waters and forests
- B. = Bishopric / C. = County / LAB. = Labourd
 

Credits
University of Texas at Austin. Historical Atlas by William Shepherd (1911).


Related Links
Parlement (French Revolution Glossary)     About the gabelle     Timeline of the French Revolution    

About the French Revolution     About the French Revolutionary Wars     About King Louis XVI    

About Charles Alexandre de Calonne     Taxation in Pre-Revolutionary France     List of French comptrollers-general



Map of France in 1789. The "Gouvernements", The Generalities or Intendancies, The Salt Tax, and Laws and Courts.

 



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