France historique et monumentale. Histoire générale de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, illustrée et expliquée par les monuments de toutes les époques, etc
Abel Hugo's France historique et monumentale (Paris, 1836) is a multi-volume general history of France told through its monuments, issued in three volumes for French readers of antiquarian and national history. The plates are fine outline steel engravings, usually two scenes stacked per page with captions: royal effigies and saints' statues isolated on blank grounds, Gothic pinnacles and cloister elevations, and crowded processions, entries and funeral rites — useful for cut-out figures, architectural spot details and crowd silhouettes.
