The Tranchot Obelisk
Napoleon had the Rhineland mapped, from Aachen. To commemorate surveyor Jean Joseph Tranchot’s feat, an obelisk was erected on the Lousberg hill in Aachen in 1807.
Napoleon had the Rhineland mapped, from Aachen. To commemorate surveyor Jean Joseph Tranchot’s feat, an obelisk was erected on the Lousberg hill in Aachen in 1807.