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Autun (French: ⓘ) is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France.It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre.
Picard and La Hire write in 1672 that King Louis XIV instructed the Academy of Sciences to, "create a map of all of France with the greatest precision possible.", [6] Cassini writes that in September 1672, M. Vivier had, "come by order of the King" and was, "employed by order of the King to work on the Map of the Kingdom under the direction of ...
Français : Carte du monde produite par la Section d'information géospatiale des Nations Unies (SIG, anciennement Section cartographique) et publiée le 20 Février 2020. Date 20 February 2020
Carte de France très sommaire, avec les montagnes, les fleuves, les mers et les pays voisins. Date: 5 January 2010, 22:08 (UTC) Source: France_cities.svg; Author: France_cities.svg: Thomas Steiner; derivative work: Benjism89 (talk) Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Carte climatique de la France.svg
A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).
Mistral wind blowing near Marseille. In the center is the Chateau d'If. The winds of Provence, the region of southeast France along the Mediterranean from the Alps to the mouth of the Rhone River, are an important feature of Provençal life, and each one has a traditional local name, in the Provençal language.
The Garonne enters France from Spain at the town of Fos, and goes through Toulouse and leaves the department. ... Plaisance-du-Touch: 19,402 Cugnaux: 19,344 Balma ...
The Map of Tendre (Carte de Tendre or Carte du Tendre) was a French map of an imaginary land called Tendre produced by several hands (including Catherine de Rambouillet).It appeared as an engraving (attributed to François Chauveau) in the first part of Madeleine de Scudéry's 1654-61 novel Clélie.