Lot n° 386
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386. DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR (Nicolas). Memorandum... - Lot 386 - A.Blanchy | E.Lacombe - Bordeaux Chartrons - Bordeaux Enchères
386. DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR (Nicolas). Memorandum relating to some interesting projects for the city of Bordeaux. Bordeaux, M. Racle, 1782. In-4, 76 p., 4 folded plans in fine, blue paper covered boards.
First edition. Set of projects aiming at transforming Bordeaux at the end of the 18th century. Nicolas Dupré de Saint-Maur (1732-1791) was a very active intendant of Guyenne from 1776 to 1784. A visionary urban planner, he developed major projects for the city in the spirit of Tourny. He planned the destruction of the Trompette castle to replace it with a large square, created a botanical garden and completed the construction of the Grand Théâtre by Victor Louis. But his most audacious project was certainly the great canal surrounding the city. This semicircular canal, whose route is shown on the grand plan, was to drain the marshy areas at the gates of the city, protect Bordeaux and provide it with its second and immense port. This canal never saw the light of day and it was the great boulevards that were later established at this location.
Among other astonishing projects proposed by Dupré de Saint-Maur, the reader will discover that of the destruction of the sandbank of the manufacture or of the floating bridge linking La Bastide to Bordeaux (also appearing on one of the four fold-out plans). Provenance: the artist and scholar Gustave Labat (1824-1917) attested by his engraved bookplate pasted on the back cover.
Binding a little rubbed, corners dulled, small lack at the bottom of the spine, small paper defect in the margin of p. 33, other minor defects.
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