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Breteuil, Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, baron de Preuilly., Vüe de Rio de Janeiro [together with] Plan de la Baye de Rio Janeiro et de ses Deffense., 1757
Breteuil, Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, baron de Preuilly., Vüe de Rio de Janeiro [together with] Plan de la Baye de Rio Janeiro et de ses Deffense., 1757

Breteuil, Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, baron de Preuilly.

Vüe de Rio de Janeiro [together with] Plan de la Baye de Rio Janeiro et de ses Deffense., 1757
A plan of Rio de Janeiro by the Comte de Breteuil, the last prime minister of pre-revolutionary France, together with one of the earliest manuscript prospects of the city.

Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, baron de Preuilly (1730-1807) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, statesman and politician. He was the last Prime Minister of the Bourbon Monarchy, appointed by King Louis XVI only one hundred hours before the storming of the Bastille.
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Plan: 535 by 735mm (21 by 29 inches); View: 290 by 790mm (11.5 by 31 inches). Manuscript plan of the bay of Rio de Janeiro in pen and ink with wash, signed “Breteuil fecit”, offered together with a pen and ink prospect of Rio de Janeiro, both dissected and mounted on canvas.

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