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Les Curiositez de Paris. Par M. L. R. Réimprimées d'après l'édition originale de 1716, etc. [Variously attributed to Claude Marin Saugrain and George Louis Le Rouge, but more probably by the former. Edited by Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon

COURDE DE MONTAIGLON, Anatole de., R., M. L., Saugrain, Claude Marin. · 1883 · 88 pictures

A 19th-century reprint (Paris, 1883, edited by Anatole de Montaiglon) of the 1716 Paris guidebook Les Curiositez de Paris, attributed to Claude Marin Saugrain and aimed at visitors and antiquarians. The plates are small line-engraved elevations of churches, hôtels and palaces, drawn frontally with hatched roofs and shadows, offering ready-made classical facades, pediments, domes and gated forecourts.

British Library · HMNTS 10168.m.4. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)