Antique map - Cassini No. 136 - La Teste-de-Buch 1789-1815
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Description
This sheet covers the Arcachon Bay and the Cap Ferret peninsula, which encloses its ocean entrance around the port of La Teste-de-Buch. At the time of the survey in 1762-1763, nothing resembled today's resort area: Cap Ferret was merely a narrow strip of sand, shifting dunes and marshes, without forest or village, where the bay's fishermen only moored temporarily.
The pines that now cover the peninsula did not yet exist. The first attempts to stabilize the dunes by sowing maritime pines did not begin until 1787 in La Teste, under the direction of the engineer Nicolas Brémontier, twenty-five years after this survey, and the Cap Ferret forest was not planted until the early 19th century. Tourism is even further off: Arcachon did not yet exist as a municipality, and would only be created in 1857 by detaching a fishing district from La Teste.
Main towns and places shown:
- Cap Ferret - the peninsula, now a renowned resort area, then a simple expanse of sand, dunes and marshes.
- Arcachon Bay - a vast lagoon open to the ocean by a narrow channel, the "passes", which lives from fishing and oysters.
- La Teste-de-Buch - the bay's main town and port, the municipality from which Arcachon would be detached in 1857.
- The shifting dunes of the Pilat area - which the wind pushed inland, making life difficult for the bay's inhabitants.
Cartographic reference: largely occupied by the bay and the Cap Ferret peninsula, this sheet retains the image of a coastline before its transformation: bare sand, water and marshes where today we see pine forests and residences. It is located between No. 135 (Pinadas) to the north and No. 137 (Cazaux) to the south.
In short: for those who know today's Cap Ferret, this sheet shows what this coastline looked like before the pines and tourism, a vanished landscape that no photograph can reproduce.
What region does Cassini map No. 136 cover? It covers the Arcachon Bay, with the port of La Teste-de-Buch and especially the Cap Ferret peninsula, shown before its afforestation with pines and its transformation into a resort area.
In what year was this sheet surveyed and published? The surveys were carried out in 1762-1763; the publication, which was delayed, took place between 1789 and 1815.
What is the source of this reproduction? This reproduction is made from copies held by the Maps and Plans Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), a partner of Cartopolo.
(→ see also Cassini map No. 137, Cazaux, the neighboring sheet to the south)
Technical description: standard formats 50x70cm and 70x100cm, high-definition inkjet printing, 200 g/m2 fine art paper
Creative paper
For vintage paper posters, we use a natural-toned and textured, slightly grained, 200 gsm FSC®-certified fine art paper. We chose this paper for its durability and to preserve its vintage look: it is an uncoated paper, so the colors will have an "aged" appearance that stays true to the spirit of the original card.
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