Port of Barcelona 1727
'Plan de la Ville et Port de Barcelone du Fort de Mountjouy et l’Etat ou ils etoeint en 1697 Par Michelot et Bremond,' in, Michelot, Henri & Bremond, Laurent, Recueil de Plusieurs Plans des Portes et Rades de la Mer Mediterranée dediée a Monseigneur Le Grand Prieur de France, General des Galeres, Marseille: 1727.
Henri Michelot, a French sea pilot from St Malo, and ‘Hydrographe et Pilote Real des Galeres du Roy’ to use his own description on the title page of his volume of plans, was associated in its production with Laurent Bremond, described as ‘Hydrographe du Roy et de la Ville’ [Marseille]. Michelet also worked in conjunction with such well known French map and atlas producers as Nicolas de Fer and Guillaume Delisle, Premier Géographe du Roi from 1718.
This volume of plans of the major Mediterranean Ports and sea roads in part reflects the uncertain political situation in Europe leading up to the Peace of Utrecht in 1713-14, and the need for strong sea defences round major ports. The concentration of information is on the sea approaches, the depth of water in the immediate environs of the ports, the sites of the principal defence structures, military batteries and arsenals, the presence of dunes, marsh, mud or sandbanks which might impede access, and the position of necessitous activities such as a Boulangerie in Toulon.
