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| Keywords: 1739 Bretez - Turgot View and Map of Paris, France.jpg LargeImage This is the c 1900 Taride edition of Louis Bretez and Michel-Etienne Turgot's monumental 1739 map of Paris Turgot's map of Paris is possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken Shows the whole of 18th century Paris and offers a wonderful perspective on the city prior to Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann �s 19th-century redesign Turgot who held the mayor-like office of Prévôt des Marchands de Paris commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map in 1734 Oriented to the east on an axonometrical projection this map is best understood as an aerial view where in every building window tree shadow and park is shown It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece In order to produce the thousands of sketches and surveys required to complete this map Bretez was issued a permit to enter every building in Paris The completed map which consists of twenty individual sheets can be assembled into a massive and striking display roughly 8 feet by 10 feet Twenty-one loose sheets embraced in a marbled folio this is Alphonse Taride's c 1900 issue of Bretez's Plan de Paris 1739 original / c 1900 Taride Issue Size in 106 86 object history credit line accession number Paris-turgot-1909 Geographicus-source Retouched picture some dust spots removed levels adjusted 1739 Bretez - Turgot View and Map of Paris France c 1900 Taride issue - Geographicus - Paris-turgot-1909 jpg PD-art-100 Plan de Turgot 1739 maps Louis Bretez Maps in French | ||||
