TY - JOUR
AU - LEWIS, ROBERT
AB - 486 REVIEWS OF BOOKS personal control of the expanded work and in 1785 he secured royal funding for an enterprise which he now realized would need to become even more ambitious Pronteau has discovered enough new documents to provide a thoroughly new treatment of the preparation of the Verniquet plan. Much of the new material comes from the notarial archives which, at last, are coming to be used for Paris topographical studies despite their many difficulties Rightly, she offers a much more limited treatment of the commission des artistes which has been fully studied elsewhere, but she is able to show that Verniquet and his plan played a fundamental part in its work Indeed, she ends with the claim that Verniquet's plan has been the foundation of all subsequent studies of Pans She is prepared to admit some of the criticisms of Verniquet's character defects, but these were voiced in the Revolu- tionary period when all public figures suffered some form of attack Verniquet's reputation emerges enhanced from this searching examination Madame Pronteau has devoted fifteen years to this brilliant example of the Pari- sian antiquarian tradition, which she presents with engaging modesty as a mere diversion from her 
TI - Reviews of Books
JF - French History
DO - 10.1093/fh/2.4.486
DA - 1988-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reviews-of-books-uYhX4PYoX8
SP - 486
EP - 487
VL - 2
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -