Resumen de "Antiquités de Paris": A Text for Architects, Antiquarians, Amateurs
Henri Sauval's Histoire et Recherches des Antiquités de la Ville de Paris, which was completed after the author's death in 1676 and published in 1724, has been widely used for all kinds of documentation relating to Paris, specifically, its description of buildings, mapping of streets, discussion of social customs, and introduction to legal traditions. The writer explores the book's contents; its subject matter, composition, and format; its inherent problems; its literary sources (guidebooks and architectural/scientific treatises); the intellectual, political, and social ambience of Sauval (and cartographic parallels); the work's critical fortunes; and the prognosis for future research.
