User:Wesshendrikx/Map by Truschet and Hoyau

Map of Paris by Truschet and Hoyau
Artist	Truschet and Hoyau
Year	1552 (actual view), 1553 (publication)
Type	Map of Paris
Dimensions	96 cm × 133 cm (38 in × 52 in)

the Map of Paris by Truschet and Hoyau, published in [the sixteenth century], is a map of Paris of which only one copy is known to exist. The [map of Paris] is more commonly known as the map of Bâle, after the place the map was discovered.

History of the map

Discovery

The map was discovered, or rather recovered, at Basel in 1874 by Louis Siebert, who was a librarian at the university. It was part of the collections of the library of Amerbach, a family of printers and scientists located in Basel, and was aquired by the University of Basel in 1661. The map is very rare as only one copy of it remains. This is also the case for another map of Paris: Plan de la tapisserie. It was published in 1877 with the title :

« Map of Paris during the reign of Henry II of France, by Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau. Copied after the unique specimen in the library of Basel by M. F. Hosffbauër, commissioned by MM. Louis Sieber, librarian of University of Basel, and Jules Cousin, Librarian of Paris »

The only copy of the map resides in the library of the university of Basel. [[Category:Maps of Paris]] [[Category:WikiProject Europe articles]] [[Category:WikiProject France articles]]