Constant Desjardins, Peripatetic Cartographer
James Krokar
The French-born, nineteenth-century commercial cartographer, Constant Desjardins (1787‒1876) remains a rather obscure figure, despite productive career of more than four decades and his creation precociously designed atlas Europe. was typical mapmaker age in interest thematic mapping, use the new technology lithography, publication materials primarily for growing educational systems Yet he unusual increasingly nationalistic era Europe that produced multilingual as well monolingual maps. He also crossed many state borders, working France, Bavaria, Austria, Hungary Serbia. Indeed, this cosmopolitanism may explain relative obscurity.
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