Louis de CORMONTAIGNE (1696–1752)., Manuscript, *Mémoires sur les

An important collection accompanied by hand-drawn and watercolour plans. This manuscript is divided into two parts, plus a third treatise ‘on spectacles’, dated Metz, 31 December 1743; it is written in beautiful, neat handwriting that is very legible. Each notebook bears the signature of the Chevalier de PERTHUIS and the date 1776 (1777 for the final notebooks). The manuscript is accompanied by a collection of 60 plates illustrating it, most of which are watercolours and fold-out (approximately 39 x 46 cm): plans of bastions and fortifications, including the forts and strongholds of Fort-Louis du Rhin, Kehl, Bergues, Huningue, Lille, Arras, Strasbourg, Metz, Douai, Aire, Sarre Louis, Phalsbourg, Longwy, Luxembourg, Maubeuge, Frankendal, Sélestat, Menin, Toul and Freiburg im Breisgau (sheets 32, 41, 43, 44, 46, 53 and 54 are missing). We enclose 12 further plates, including in particular the plans of the forts at Maubeuge, Toul, Fribourg and Longwy

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