A plan of Geneva with contemporary manuscript for the Revolution of 1782

GLOT, C.B.

Plan de la Ville de Geneve Corrigé sur les lieux, en 1777.
Geneva: Sieur Hardy, c.1777. Original colour. 515 x 670mm. With manuscript additions to the map and a key underneath.

Faint stain in cartouche, split in lower centre fold repaired.

A superbly-engraved plan of Geneva and surrounds, with an elaborate title cartouche, inset maps of Geneva in acient times and in 1715, an inset map of the environs of the city and a 57-point key. It has been updated with details of the Geneva Revolution of 1782.
Five years after the publication of this map, the population of Geneva rebelled against the city's constitution, which limited the vote to an oligarchy of 1,500 upper middle-class burgers. On April 5th 1782, the armoury was broken into and the revolutionaries took over the city. However, by 1st July forces from France, Savoy and Bern arrived at Geneva, setting up to bombard the city. Their positions and lines of fire have been drawn over the fields of Servett, to the west of the city.
The leaders of the revolt boarded boats and escaped across Lake Leman to Neuchâtel (many moving to Waterford in Ireland), then the gates of the city were opened..


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