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Plan de Paris.
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Kevin James Brown
Title
Plan de Paris.
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English: 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 .
Date 1739 (original) / c. 1900 Taride Issue
Dimensions height: 86 in (218.4 cm); width: 106 in (269.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,86U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,106U218593
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Geographicus link: Paris-turgot-1909
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: some dust spots removed, levels adjusted. The original can be viewed here: 1739 Bretez - Turgot View and Map of Paris, France (c. 1900 Taride issue) - Geographicus - Paris-turgot-1909.jpg.

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