Print of hand colored steel engraving titled „Carte du Partage de L’Empire de Charlemagne“.

Drawn by L. Dussieux.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Atlas General De Geographie physique, politique et historique par L. Dussieux. Atlas de Geographie ancienne, du moyen age et Moderne“. Paris. 1854.

Louis-Étienne Dussieux, born April 5, 1815 in Lyon and died February 11, 1894 in Paris. He was a French historian-geographer.

Charlemagne (2 April 742/747/748 – 28 January 814), also known as Charles the Great (Latin: Carolus or Karolus Magnus) or Charles I, was King of the Franks. He united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King of Italy from 774. From 800, he became the first Holy Roman Emperor — the first recognized emperor in Western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. While Charlemagne already ruled his kingdom without the help of the Pope, recognition from the pontiff granted him divine legitimacy in the eyes of his contemporaries.

Approx. image size 24, 5 x 18, 5/31, 8 x 22, 2 cm. Condition: good.