BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE



Author(s)

Chastillon, Claude et al.

Title Topographie françoise...
Imprint Paris, J. Boisseau, 1648
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Subject Castles, Churches, Domestic architecture
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French

     The illuminator and map publisher Jean Boisseau (16??-after 1657) republished the Topographie françoise of 1641 seven years later. This second edition contains thirteen new plates, plans of cities (Lunel, Montauban, Montpellier...) and a certain number of plates which appeared in copies having a title page dated 1641 but which have plates with later dates (1642, 1643 and 1644) such as the one of the Cordouan lighthouse engraved by Jacques Poinssart (Pastoureau & Lestringant 1984, pp. 97, 116, 119-120).

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CESR, Tours) – 2014

Critical bibliography

M. Grivel, Le commerce de l’estampe à Paris au XVIIe siècle, Geneva, Droz, 1986, p. 282.

R.-A Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1939, 1, pp. 393-394.

M. Pastoureau (in collaboration with F. Lestringant), Les atlas français, XVIe-XVIIe siècles: répertoire bibliographique et études, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1984, pp. 120-124.

M. Préaud, P. Casselle, M. Grivel & C. Le Bitouzé, Dictionnaire des éditeurs d’estampes à Paris sous l’Ancien Régime, Paris, Promodis, 1987, pp. 56-57.