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From: Brendan Wehrung <>
Subject: Anybody used Cassini map CD?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:47:10 -0700 (PDT)

Hello all,

I saw a recent mention of a CD set devoted to scans of
maps for all of France prior to the Revolution,
produced originally by a family named Cassini.

I did a quick search and came up with this page for an
example:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.venturini/quiho/Cassini.html
(in French) (it's "html" at the end, in case the line
wrap I see in my mail program is how you receive this
message).

Has anybody seen or bought the set (available from
http://www.cdip.com/cassini/index.htm)? (also in
French)

I'd like to know about the scan quality as well as the
accuarcy of cartography (in other words, when they
didn't have a detail, did they make it up, as some
early U.S. state maps did)? And how many of the maps
are devoted to our area of interest, the Bossue
region?

You can buy either north or south France, at about
$38/per disc (including shipping) but the place does
not seem to rebate the tax, so if the discs are
available elsewhere they could be cheaper. If you
have a lot of French research to do you can also buy
an accessory locator program.

You may also be interested in a map I place on my web
page, which is a bit south of where many of you may be
researching, but is a least a start. The direct URL
is
http://www.geocities.com/b_wehrung/Bossue3.jpg
It dates from a 100+ years later. I xeroxed the
original in the map room at the University of
Michigan.

Brendan Wehrung

Ps If you are like me and struggle with online sites
in French, drop the URL into htt;://translator.go.com
Very useful. Is it gauche to admit that I don't read
French all that well any more?

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