Jeu géographique de la République Française: présenté à la Convention Nationale

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Jeu géographique de la République Française

Caption

French Republic geography game, circa 1795. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, World Digital Library.

Catalog notes

France’s new administrative geography becomes a spiral board game. Players move through departments toward Corsica, while the sheet surrounds the journey with revolutionary symbols and instructions. The result is both playful and political: a map that teaches readers to recognize a newly organized country. It brings welcome variety to a repository of surveys and charts, showing that geographic knowledge has long been learned through games as well as classrooms and fieldwork.

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