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.
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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.