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1628 Map of the River Garonne and its tributaries.

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In 1899, Finland faced an existential political crisis. As part of the Russian Empire, the country had long enjoyed a degree of constitutional autonomy, but this was abruptly challenged by the February Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II. The decree

Printed in Paris in 1628, this hand-coloured map of the River Garonne was engraved and published by Jean (Joan) Le Clerc, one of the most accomplished French mapmakers of the early seventeenth century. Rather than mapping borders or kingdoms, Le Cler

Few figures embody the contradictions of the French Revolution as fully as Maximilien Robespierre.

Lawyer, Jacobin, and leading voice of the National Convention, Robespierre believed that the Republic could only survive through virtue enforced by la

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