- 1798
1798 - Peasant Woman and Churn
Peasant Woman and Churn - In the Gallery of the Palais-Royal
- Waiting for the Saint-Cloud Coach
Waiting for the Saint-Cloud Coach Place de la Concorde 1806 - 1807
1807 - The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon'
The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon' - The Perron of the Palais-Royal
The Perron of the Palais-Royal - The Delights of the Malmaison
The Delights of the Malmaison A saunter through the park in 1804 - The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal
The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal 1803 - A gathering in the Luxembourg Gardens
A gathering in the Luxembourg Gardens 1800 - The Boulevard 'Des Petits Spectacles'
The Boulevard 'Des Petits Spectacles' 1808 - View of the two panoramas and of the passage between them
View of the two panoramas and of the passage between them 1810 - The first Switchback
The first Switchback 1799 - A Public Room at Frascatis
A Public Room at Frascatis - Preparing for conquest
- French National Library
French National Library - Map of France, corrected by order of the king
Map of France, corrected by order of the king Desborough Cooley in his "History of Voyages," says, "They deprived her (France) of several degrees of longitude in the length of her western coast, from Brittany to the Bay of Biscay. And in the same way retrenched about half a degree from Languedoc and La Provence." These alterations gave rise to a "bon-mot." Louis the XIV., in complimenting the Academicians upon their return, remarked, "I am sorry to see, gentlemen, that your journey has cost me a good part of my kingdom!" - Courtyard of a House
The cut, from a MS. in the French National Library, gives the interior of the courtyard of a great house. We notice the portion of one of the towers on the left, the draw-well, the external stair to the principal rooms on the first floor, the covered unglazed gallery which formed the mode of communication from the different apartments of the first floor, and the dormer windows. - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis We must now speak of two important expeditions, which ought to have settled the animated discussion as to the shape of the earth. The Academy of Sciences had despatched a mission to America, to compute the arc of the meridian at the Equator. It was composed of Godin, Bouguer, and La Condamine. It was decided to entrust a similar expedition to the North to Maupertuis. - Alain René Le Sage
In a little garden summer-house behind a Paris street, Le Sage sat at his desk, dipped through Spanish books, and wrote with a light heart of the people that he knew, disguised in foreign clothes, and moving in places he had never seen.