Description historique de Paris, et de ses plus beaux monumens

Béguillet, Edme, -1786 · 1779 · A Paris : Chez les auteurs ... : Au Bureau de la Bibliothèque de France ... : Et à Dijon : Chez Frantin, imprimeur ru roi · 12 pictures

A 1779 French guidebook to Paris by Edme Béguillet, printed in Paris and Dijon, describing the city's historic buildings and the University of Paris for a general readership of travellers and antiquarians. Its engraved plates are oval-framed portraits of kings and a churchman, set in garlands and ribbon cartouches, with Latin and French inscriptions below, offering a designer models of formal Rococo-era frame and cartouche ornament.

Université de Paris -- History · Monuments -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800 · Architecture -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800 · Paris (France) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 · Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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