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Details:dimensions: 17 3/4 x 23 5/8 x 1 inchesformat: text, maps and clear overlays bound in hard covers clamped together with metal pinscondition: very goodlanguage: FrenchDescription: Georges Dupeux, Professor at the University of Bordeaux, presents his mapping thesis that a historical review of France's population statistics expressed as the pattern of village, town and city growth will yield a missing portrait of the country. This atlas is mapping of data. This book provides the population statistics for France by town based on the census figures for 1809-1812. Using circles of different sizes to represent population size, Dupeux creates 19 maps for this atlas. Paris is dominant relative to all of the other settled areas in France with more than 5,000 inhabitants. Each map is bound with a clear plastic overly that also is printed in red with clusters of towns of from 3,000 to 4,999 inhabitants. Thus the Atlas demonstrates where and by what relative increases in population France has… Read More