Map of North America claimed by France – Antique Wall Map
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This antique map of Map of North America claimed by France brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Map of North America claimed by France
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A map like this one shows how France laid claim to a vast interior of North America that it knew mostly from river routes and fur-trading posts rather than from survey. Much of the territory it marks was drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries, and the claim rested on explorers such as La Salle, who traced the river to its mouth in 1682 and named the region Louisiana after King Louis XIV. Maps like this one were often drawn in Europe to support diplomatic and commercial arguments, so their boundaries reflect ambition as much as geography. Worth noticing is how loosely the western limits are drawn, a sign of how little of that land Europeans had actually seen.
| Original scan | 12,637 × 7,670 px · prints to 42 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1720 French |
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