Tufte definitely has something of a soft spot for Minard. He discusses that particular map on page 40 - 41 of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (in

Tufte definitely has something of a soft spot for Minard. He discusses that particular map on page 40 - 41 of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (in the section "Narrative graphics of space and time"), and his site has a page devoted to it/the sources used to produce it: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard