A really interesting set which give the history of the streets of Paris and each is a small booklet on heavy card with sepia prints in very high quality. Inside is a potted history of the street in Paris named after the celebrity on the front.
Any one of these beautiful booklets would be rare in its own right. In fact, I have not found anywhere even one offered for sale. A complete set in perfect condition is unheard of - but here it is.
1 The portrait shows Napoléon Bonaparte as First Consul, reproduced from a black chalk drawing created in 1801 by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey.
2 the famous French composer Charles Gounod (1818–1893), based on a photograph by Nadar
3 the famous self-portrait of the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Corot, la palette à la main, originally housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence).
4 The central portrait is a reproduction of a historical likeness of Christopher Columbus (traditionally attributed to the Florentine school or Cristofano dell'Altissimo, credited via Cliché Alinari from Florence)
5 The image shows a portrait of the French writer and politician François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
6 a portrait of Amiral Courbet (Amédée Courbet, 1827–1885)
7 a portrait of the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)
8 featuring a portrait of the French playwright Molière
9 a portrait of Tsar Alexander III of Russia from a photograph by Nadar
10 a portrait of François-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878), a prominent French chemist, naturalist, physician, and politician
11 the equestrian statue of Étienne Marcel in Paris
12 a portrait of Lazare Carnot (1753–1823), a French statesman, general, and mathematician of the French Revolution and First Empire
13 a portrait of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (the renowned French military engineer and Marshal of France under Louis XIV)
14 a portrait of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (Marshal Turenne), painted by Philippe de Champaigne and engraved by Giraudon
15 a portrait of the renowned French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur
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