Minard's famous illustration of the fate of Napoleon's Grand Armee in the 1815 March on Moscow. A flow map showing the army size shrinking across the map, much more on the retreat, shown in black

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📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow.

Some called it best graphic ever produced, but EJ Marey put it best:
"Defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence"
No known portrait of CJ, only .sig

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