Michel-Étienne Turgot was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris) from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated to one of the most famous maps of Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, the "Plan de Turgot" or "Plan Turgot", a detailed bird-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.

Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI. Both were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.

External links

• Plan de Paris, University of Southern Maine
• Plan de Paris, University of Chicago Plan de Paris, scanned from the original edition, with zoom and navigation