Word: franquelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectual "rayonnement" of Harvard is quite as much the concern of this volume as is Harvard's debt to French culture. A map of "Boston" drawn in 1693 by Franquelin, a French engineer, is reproduced in the opening pages. On the banks of the Charles can be distinguished a group of houses (which may be the first known view of Harvard!) with the explanation: "Cambridge, bourgade de 80 maisons. C'est une universite." This succinct comment probably represents all that was known about Harvard in the dominions of Louis XIV. How far that little candle (to quote Shakespeare...
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