1654  COULON, Louis 

Little is known about Louis Coulon besides the few facts that he was born in Poitiers in 1605 and died in 1664. He was a Roman Catholic abbot interested in history and geography and is the compile and translator of a number of works. He translated a work by Masson on the rivers of France (Riviéres de France) and his French Ulysses of 1643 was an unacknowledged translation of a work by Abraham Gölnitz some 12 years earlier.

There is no evidence that his Le fidele Conducteur pour les Voyages de France, D´Angleterre, D´ Allemange , et D´ Espagne, published in Troyes at Chez Nicolos Oudon and in Paris at Chez Gervais Clovzier is a copy of another work, but it is not beyond imagination. This was a work in several individual books on the various routes through France with supplementary volumes covering England and Wales and Germany as well as Spain. The book covers various routes through the countries and lists the sights on the way.

Le fidele Conducteur pour le voyage d'Angleterre. Montrant, Exactement les Raretez & choses Remarquables qui se trouvent en chaques Villes, & les distances d'icelles ...
(Published for) Par le Sieur Coulon. A Troyes. 1654. (BnF, BStB).

The book is arranged by county. For Cornwall nine roads are shown including: (vii) to Saint Burien in Cornwall.

 

      

    

 

Illustrations courtesy of the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.

 The book covering France included a map (no roads), with a small part of southwest England shown. Illustrations courtesy of the Bibliothéque nationale, Paris.