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Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI and Étienne-François Turgot, naturalist, administrator of Malta and governor of French Guiana. Son and father were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris. References
Michel-Étienne Turgot, marquis de Sousmont, seigneur de Bons, Ussy, Brucourt, est un magistrat français né le 9 juin 1690 et mort le 1 er février 1751. Il est prévôt des marchands de Paris de 1729 à 1740 .
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- 9 juin 1690Paris
- 1 er février 1751 (à 60 ans)Paris
- Royaume de France
Michel-Étienne Turgot was prévôt des marchands de Paris from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated with one of the most famous maps of Paris, the "Plan de Turgot", a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.
Turgot map of Paris. The Turgot map in its assembled form. The Turgot map of Paris (French: Plan de Turgot) is a highly accurate and detailed map of the city of Paris, France, as it existed in the 1730s. The map was commissioned by Parisian municipality chief Michel-Étienne Turgot, drawn up by surveyor Louis Bretez, and engraved by Claude Lucas.
Born in Paris, Turgot was the youngest son of Michel-Étienne Turgot, "provost of the merchants" of Paris, and Madeleine Francoise Martineau de Brétignolles, and came from an old Norman family. As one of four children, he had a younger sister and two older brothers, one of whom, Étienne-François Turgot (1721–1789), was a naturalist, and ...
May 24, 2013 · Le Plan de Turgot, a detailed bird’s-eye view of Paris, is one of the most famous urban maps ever created. Commissioned by the prévôt des marchands de Paris, Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690-1751), in 1734, the map was realized by Louis Bretez over the course of five years. Bretez, a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ...
Jul 18, 2012 · The continued visual appeal of Turgot’s Plan de Paris is attested to by recent high-end decorator reproductions in both paper and fabric forms. Take a complete virtual tour of Turgot’s Paris in the 1730s. Marquand’s copy of Turgot’s Plan is also on display in “A Fine Addition: New & Notable Acquisitions in Princeton’s Special ...
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