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Bouquet, Raymond (sold)


Raymond Bouquet (18xx - 19xx) was a French colonial administrator in French Equatorial Africa. He worked in the Africa from at least 1911 until at least the early 1930s.
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Brazzaville as an expanding colonial capital.

Environs de Brazzaville.

1915 (dated)
31.5 x 26 in (80.01 x 66.04 cm)
EnvironsBrazzaville-bouquet-1915

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  • Digital Map Information
  • Suitable for large format printing
  • File Size: 39.99 MB
  • File Type: ZIP / TIFF
  • ICC color profile embedded
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A unique survivor, this is a 1915 map of Brazzaville and its environs by Raymond Bouquet, a French colonial administrator. The ferro-gallic print process suggests it was issued in Brazzaville for administrative use, likely in less than 10 examples. Encompassing the Congo River, numerous villages, and a telegraph line, this map captures Brazzaville at the end of a period of explosive urban development, but also during World War I (1914 - 1918), when it became a staging point for French troops to wage war against German Cameroon. (more details)

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