Louis Brion de la Tour

Cartes des Amériques, 1764.
Vallée Richelieu, Monréal, Trois Rivières, by Louis Brion de la Tour, 1777.
Map of Paris, by Louis Brion de la Tour, 1787.

Biography

His family may have come from Bordeaux, having found asylum in Alsace when the Edict of Nantes was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.[1]

Generally, authors were careful to differentiate him from the engraver Antoine Brion from Reims, born in 1739. He was perhaps his son.[2]

His official title was « Ingénieur Géographe du Roi » ("King's Engineer Geographer"). Although he was a prolific geographer, very little is known of his life or his career. His life passed in scientific work. However what is known is that an important part of his work was done in collaboration with Louis Charles Desnos (circa 1750–1790),[3] bookseller and geographical engineer for globes and spheres of His Danish Majesty. Between 1762 and 1785, he participated in the development of the Indicateur fidèle ou guide des voyageurs, qui enseigne toutes les routes royales.[4]

In 1795, he obtained a pension of the National Assembly.[5][6]

These cards cost 25 sols (1786)[7]

References

  1. Pierre Gusman, La gravure sur bois en France aux XIXe siècle (1929), (p. 120).
  2. 1 2 BRUEL (F.-L.). Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1871: Ancien régime, par F.-L. Bruel, B.N., coll. de Vinck, (1970), (p. 312).
  3. LAROUSSE (Pierre), Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX : français, historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique, Paris, Grand Dictionnaire universel, 1866-1877, (p. 1280).
  4. Claude-Sidoine Michel (1785). "L'Indicateur fidèle ou guide des voyageurs" (in French). Desnos. Retrieved 22 August 2016..
  5. BABBE, VIEILH de BOISJOLIN, et SAINTE PREUVE. Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains; (1836), t. 1, (p. 636)
  6. MICHAUD (J. Fr.). Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, t. 5, (1843), (p. 549–550).
  7. Mercure de France, (1786),(p. 125).
  8. RENOUVIER (Jules), MONTAIGLON. Histoire de l'art pendant la Révolution. (1863), (p. 235–236).
  9. According to the authority controls SUDOC, DNB et LOC.
  10. MAZENEAU (Guillaume). Le bain l'histoire: Charlotte Corday et l'attentat contre Marat, 1793- (2009), (p. 227).

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