75. Lubersac de Livron, Charles François de.
DISCOURS / SUR LES / MONUMENS PUBLICS / DE TOUS LES
ÂGES / ET DE TOUS LES PEUPLES CONNUS, / SUIVI / D'une
Description de Monument projeté à la gloire / de Louis XVI & de la
France. / TERMINÉ / Par quelques Observations sur les principaux
Monumens modernes / de la ville de Paris, & plusiers Projets de décoration
/ & d'utilité publique pour cette Capitale. / DÉDIÉ AU ROI. / Par
M. l'Abbé DE LUBERSAC, Vicaire genérál de Narbonne, / Abbé de
Noirlac & Prieur de Brive. / A PARIS, / DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE
CLOUSIER, Rue Saint-Jacques, vis-à-vis les Mathurins. / M. DCC.
LXXV.
Folio. Half title (1 leaf); frontispiece and explanation of frontispiece (2
leaves); title page (1 leaf); dedication (4 leaves); note (i-viii); text
([1]-288); 2 folding, engraved plates; [new pagination:] observations
on the monuments of Paris ([i]-lxxix); license (1 unnumbered p.).
The two engravings of the front (see Plate LXXIII) and back view of a
monument in the form of an obelisk are very spirited. The monument
was designed by Lubersac and drawn by Touze. The plates were engraved
by L. T. Masquilier, perhaps Louis-Joseph Masquelier (17411811).
Charles François de Lubersac de Livron (1730-84) was an abbé
as well as an author. His Discours sur les monumens publics is primarily
a means of flattering his monarch, but its most interesting portion is that
containing a description of existing monuments.
Kimball (p. 96) says Jefferson acquired his copy, which was later
sold to Congress, during his years in France. Sowerby notes that this
edition was its first. Jefferson ordered the work for the University in the
section on "Architecture" of the want list, and it had entered the collections
before his death, but that copy has not survived. The present
duplicate has been recently received, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation.
U. Va.
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