Historical Context of the Production of Vaud Cadastral Maps (Ancien Régime – 1840)
Lucas Rappo
After 1536 and the conquest of Vaud by Bern, the Bernese authorities wanted to know the size and income of the newly acquired land: for this, documents called “terriers” were established. At a twenty- or thirty-year interval, landowners must declare their possessions, a process called recognition (“reconnaissance”). The difficulty with this type of document is (…)
