Recueil des fortifications forts et ports de mer de France ...
A French engineering atlas of fortifications, forts and seaports compiled by Georges-Louis Le Rouge, published in Paris in the eighteenth century for military engineers and officers. Its pages show plans of fortified towns such as Salins, Hesdin, Boulogne, Ardres, Collioure and Villefranche, each drawn as a bird's-eye plan with star-shaped bastions, moats and surrounding terrain. A designer might take its crisp engraved linework, hatched shading on hills and clean grid-like layouts for maps, diagrams or architectural schematics.
