This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. French admiral Claude d’Annebault knew his political career was in trouble. Once a top adviser to King Francis I, he ...

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A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean, innovative maps of these unfamiliar ...