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John Rocque's A Plan of London, 1766
In this earlier plan of London, Rocque soberly describes a physical superiority of London over Paris. The header text calculates London to be 8 ½ square miles compared to Paris's 6 ⅓ square miles. Did Rocque's royal patronage oblige upon him this subtle exercise in cartographic propaganda or was he simply emboldened by his position?
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