La carte de France de Cassini. Une encyclopédie du territoire

A cartographic masterpiece of the 18th century, the Cassini map of France is the first map of France surveyed geometrically at the scale of an entire country. An emblematic historical document made up of 181 sheets, it is also a monumental work of art, eleven metres wide by twelve metres high. Drawing in particular on a major deposit by the IGN at the Archives nationales, the exhibition traces the history of the map from a new perspective.