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Anne-Robert-Jacques TurgotBiblio.com

uvres de Mr. Turgot Ministre d'État Vol. 2: Précédées Et Accompagnées de Mémoires Et de Notes sur Sa Vie Son Administration Et Ses Ouvrages Classic Reprint French Edition

BRETEZ, Louis and TURGOT, Michel-EtienneBiblio.com

Plan de Paris. Commencé l'Année 1734. Dessiné et Gravé sous les ordres de. Achevé de Graver en 1739. Levé et Dessiné par Louis Bretez Gravé par Claude Lucas et Ecrit par Aubin.

54315Paris: 1734-39. FIRST EDITION. 20 original engraved double page sheets each c. 52 x 80 cm here presented as 20 framed panels each measuring c. 56 x 85 cm giving a total wall space of 280 x 340 cm. A fascinating and colossal view of Paris and amongst the greatest city views of all time. Turgot's map of Paris is possibly the most ambitious urban mapping ever undertaken. This map shows the whole of 18th century Paris and offers an expansive perspective on the city before Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann's 19th-century redesign. Turgot who held the mayor-like office of Prevôt des Marchands de Paris commissioned Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas to produce this map. Oriented to the east on an axonometric projection this map is best understood as an aerial view where in every building window tree shadow and park are shown from an equidistant aerial perspective. 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. It took the team nearly five years of exhaustive sketching and surveying to assemble this masterpiece. A Monumental Achievement With unprecedented access to the properties of Paris and an official mandate Bretez achieved outstanding detail and accuracy. The buildings of Paris are presented as one would have seen them at the time. The Louvre the Tuileries Garden Notre Dame Cathedral and the Champs Élysées can all be easily recognised. The Bastille the flashpoint of the French Revolution which would start 58 years later is depicted as well. Michel-Etienne Turgot 1690-1751 Louis XV's Prévot des Marchands commissioned this plan in 1734 from Louis Bretez a sculptor painter and perspective specialist who used the conventional bird's-eye representation isometric projection. The stunning result shows maps with great and decorative detail being an important record of the architecture and gardens of Baroque Paris the world capital at the time. This was the last major example of this type of plan. Turgot was chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of merchants the equivalent of today's mayor. He was the father of the famous economist and statesman Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot whom history remembers chiefly as an early advocate for economic liberalism. Turgot was motivated to commission a map of Paris by his will to champion the reputation of the city for Parisian provincial or foreign elites. As such he asked Louis Bretez a French architect cartographer and professor of perspective who belonged to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to draw up the plan of Paris and its suburbs. Over his two years of work 1734-1736 Bretez was granted access to all the houses and gardens he needed to visit in order to take the relevant measurements. Paris: 1734-39 unknown

Robert Frew Ltd · Royaume-Uni22 500,00 £GB≈ 25 690,50 €

Manuel, Frank E [Turgot] [Condorcet] [Saint-Simon] [Fourier] [Comte]Biblio.com

THE PROPHETS OF PARIS

1962505862Harvard University Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. xiv 349pp. B/W frontispiece portraits of all five prophets. 8vo sewn binding in green cloth black stamped lettering. Exceedingly clean and sharp with fresh pages and tight binding; DJ price clippeda bit toned and rubbed around the edges. 'A study of five French thinkers and a school - friends disciples enemies — whose works evoke the image of a new age of prophecy. Tur-got Condorcet Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians Fourier and Comte form an unbroken chain of intellectual transmission from the Enlightenment through the first half of the nineteenth century. These men were crisis phil-osophers system-makers moralists magnificent obsessives intoxicated with the future. Mr. Manuel has combined psychological portraiture with philosophical and historical analysis. His fresh reading of underestimated thinkers is based on manuscripts as well as more familiar sources suggesting new insights. Historians of Marxism will be particularly interested in his interpretation of the social doctrines and philosophies of history; Freudians in his exploration of new attitudes toward love among the Saint-Simonians Fourier and Comte; scientists in his description of the imaginative projects of Turgot and Condorcet; students of the varieties of religious experience in his treatment of the Saint-Simonian cult and the Positivist religion. From the DJ flap. 'Each of these figures is ac corded a highly sophisticated and compact biographical treat- ment and subsequently personal details are appropriately in jected into the unfolding tale of the intellectual contribution of the thinker. As Professor Manuel proceeds he compares and contrasts the thinker of the chapter with the men already intro- duced and foreshadows the approaching 'prophet.' The historical context in which the prophets lived is expertly insinuated; so too the historical impact of the five men on the thought and practice of our own age. If Professor Manuel's plan appears highly ambitious it must be immediately stated that its execu tion has been eminently successful.' Donald J. Harvey review in Political Science Quarterly. Harvard University Press hardcover

Arches Bookhouse · États-Unis110,00 $US≈ 93,07 €