Abstract
ABSTRACT During the eighteenth century, the French government embarked on a major programme of upgrading the old royal highways and other major roads and opening new ones. The manuscript maps and plans created in connection with this ambitious policy, assembled in the 65 bound volumes now known as the Trudaine Atlas (L'atlas de Trudaine), have been widely admired both for their aesthetic quality and as repositories of information on French landscape history. Less attention, however, has been paid to their administrative role in the management and maintenance of the French road network, and their power as tools of state, a situation this article seeks to remedy.
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