📘 Excerpt from La ChineL'empire chinois occupe la partie orientale du continent asiatique, la contrée des Seres et des Sinae des Anciens, entre le 18° et le 43° de latitude Nord et entre le 96° et le 120° de longitude Est, méridien de Paris.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.