Atlas for the Généralité of AuchCharles Daniel Trudaine

This 18th-c. watercolor manuscript map shows the roads of the généralité of Auch in Gascony, marking villages, fields, rivers, and the Basque coast with meticulous care. Part of the vast Trudaine Atlases, a 62-volume survey of routes ordered by Charles Daniel Trudaine, it illustrates both the infrastructure and the lived landscape of provincial France, a unique fusion of technical precision and cultural memory under the Ancien Régime.