De la fortification des places de guerre
A French military engineering treatise on fortifying garrison towns, written by Jean François Gaspard Noizet de Saint-Paul and published in 1792 by Barrois l'aîné, aimed at army engineers and officers. Its plates are numbered engraved diagrams of bastions, ditches, ramparts, gates and sections, drawn in plan and elevation with labelled figures. A designer could take from them the strict geometry of star-shaped fortress plans, the angular earthwork patterns and the crisp hatched line style of 18th-century technical drawing.
