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1946 Leconte Pocket Map or Plan of Paris, France Showing Monuments (w/ guidebook)
Paris-leconte-1946
Title
1946 (dated) 22 x 29 in (55.88 x 73.66 cm) 1 : 16000
Description
This map was issued in various editions from, roughly 1900 to 1937. Here it is issued as part of a tourist guidebook published in 1946. The guidebook consists of a street index, along with other important tourist information. Printed by Gaston Maillet & Co., this map was published by A. Leconte, of 38 Rue St. Croix de la Bretonnerie, Paris.
Cartographer
André Leconte (fl. 1880 - 1930) was a Paris based guidebook and map publisher active in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is one of the publishers of the attractive art nouveau style "Nouveau Paris Monumental" series. Leconte is often associated with L. Guilmin, another Paris based map publisher of the same period. Early in World War II (1939 - 1945) the firm published anti-German propaganda, but briefly shut down operations during the occupation. Leconte's name appears on maps and guidebooks of Paris well after his death (though we can't date this event with any precision) to about 1980. More by this mapmaker...