A fine map of the Cherbourg peninsula and the western beaches of Normandy with an inset of the Channel Islands. It was engraved by Pierre François Tardieu (1757-1822) who was born Antoine-Francois but often signed in the name of his uncle as here. It appeared in ‘L’Atlas Universel de Géographie Physique et Politique, Ancienne et Moderne’, 1798. The cartographers are Edmé Mentelle (1730-1815) and Pierre-Grégoire Chanlaire (1758-1817). Chanlaire and Mentelle were the authors of ‘L’Atlas National de France’, published in 1793, the first atlas of French departments created by the new Republic. Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004).