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Digital Image: 1863 De Brayer Map of Paraguay
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Title
Carte de la Républiuque Du Paraguay dédiée et présentée à sa Majesté Napoléon III Empereur des Français, par le Comte Lucien de Brayer Consul de France au Paraguay.. Publiée pat en 1863.
1863 (dated) 50 x 33 in (127 x 83.82 cm) 1 : 1036000
1863 (dated) 50 x 33 in (127 x 83.82 cm) 1 : 1036000
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Alfred Lucien de Brayer (1816-1894) was a French Count, a draughtsman, painter, and diplomat. He served as French consul to Paraguay beginning in 1855, an appointment he received from Napoleon III. He had initially been tasked with the creation of a French colony across the Paraguay river from Asuncion; he would later struggle to maintain support the interests of French colonists in the face of the increasingly capricious and xenophobic regime of Franciso Solano López. He came from a military family. His grandfather, the French general Michel-Sylvestre Brayer (1769 - 1840), had distinguished himself under Napoleon and paid for his loyalty with exile until 1821: Michel-Sylvestre would begin his family's association with South America, serving with a variety of armies, indluding that of Jose Miguel Carrera in Chile. Michel-Sylvestre's son Lucien de Brayer (1794–1865) was born in Germany and followed his father's trade: in 1828 he commanded a regiment of the Republic of Montevideo, and was a high-ranking officer in Greece supporting the rebellion there against Turkish rule. He died died a military officer in Uruguay in 1865. More by this mapmaker...
Azara, Félix de (May 18, 1742 - October 20, 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer. He joined the Army, and received training as an engineer in a Spanish military academy. His thirteen year career in the Army would see him promoted to Brigadier General. He spent twenty years in the Rio de la Plata region of South America as a delegate under the treaty of San Ildefonso, during which period he undertook to create an accurate map of the region. On the surveys, he also recorded the fauna the region, in particular cataloguing nearly four hundred species of bird. On his return to Europe in 1801 he wrote and published in Paris his Voyage dans l'Amerique meridionale depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801 (1809) which contained his observations on the region's geography, natural features, and indigenous groups. His work was praised for thoroughness and accuracy, and was well regarded by Darwin. He died of pneumonia on October 20, 1821. Learn More...
References
OCLC 49201416.