The conquest of landscape: representations of Mexican territory in a couple of illustrated Parisian weeklies during the French intervention (1862-1867)
Journal: Signos Históricos
Year: 2024

This paper studies the representations of the territory, the communication infrastructure, and the climate during the French intervention in Mexico (1862-1867), based on the quantitative, iconographic and iconotextual analysis of the images and reports published on the matter by two Parisian illustrated weeklies: Le Monde Illustré and L'Illustration Journal Universel. The results obtained after exploring the three proposed categories –landscape, views, and cartographic images– were contrasted wi