Joan Blaeu (1598-1673) published this map of Saintonge in 1662 in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Maior" class="extiw" title="en:Atlas Maior">Atlas Maior</a>. The map is a copy of a map by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Willem Blaeu">Willem Jansz. Blaeu</a> (1571-1638) of the same area from 1635, but this map is more detailed and the scale of this map by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> is larger. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> probable used for the composition of his map work by the French cartographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sanson" class="extiw" title="en:Nicolas Sanson">Nicolas Sanson</a> (1600-1667) published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Janssonius" class="extiw" title="en:Jan Janssonius">Jan Janssonius</a> (1588-1664) in Amsterdam in 1646.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19972007" class="extiw" title="d:Q19972007"><span title="Dutch artist">Dirk Jansz van Santen</span></a>
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1662<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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