Between 1770 and 1777 Comte Joseph de Ferraris, General and Commander of the Artillery in the Austrian Netherlands, produced a chorographical map of these regions, which was put in print in 1780. After revolutionary France had occupied the Austrian Netherlands in 1794, Louis Capitaine, First Engineer of the map of the French Republic, issued a new engraving of Ferraris' work. The division of the map over the various sheets was rearranged in such a way that it formed a unity with the already existing map of France by Cassini, as to portray the southern Netherlands as an integral part of that country. The old Ferraris map sheets are shown below for a small part of Flanders, by clicking on the sheets, the picture has the URL tot the map viewer, showing the original detailed scanned maps as published by the Belgian National Geographic Institute and the Royal Library of Belgium. On the technical side: the images on this map are loading from a KMZ file. It might take a few seconds before these are shown(7 MB file).
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