Alfred Bonnardot

{{short description|French essayist, independent historian, and bibliophile}} {{Infobox person | name = Alfred Bonnardot | image = Alfred Bonnardot.png | caption = Bonnardot in 1868 (from Perrot 1911) | birth_date = {{birth date|1808|02|16|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1884|01|05|1808|02|16|df=y}} | burial_place = Paris: Père-Lachaise Cemetery- Division 28 | occupation = {{hlist|Essayist|independent historian}} }} '''Alfred Bonnardot''' (16 February 1808 – 5 January 1884) was a French essayist, independent historian, and bibliophile.<ref>{{citation |title=Alfred Bonnardot, 1808–1884 : un grand Parisien du XIXe siècle |author=Victor Perrot |year=1911 |location=Paris}}</ref> His most notable work is a study on maps of Paris from the 16th-18th centuries, ''Études archéologiques sur les anciens plans de Paris des XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siecles'' (1851). He developed his antiquarian interests under the mentorship of [http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=102662 Antoine Gilbert] (1784–1858), ''grand sonneur'' of Notre-Dame de Paris and Jérôme Pichon (1812–1896), president of the Société des bibliophiles français. Bonnardot also wrote a comprehensive manual on the care and restoration of prints and old books, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=qhBBAAAAYAAJ&dq=a+bonnardot+essai+sur+la+restauration+1858&pg=PA227 Essai sur l'art de restaurer les estampes et les livres] (1846, 1858 2nd ed.)''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sokolowski |first=Christopher |title="Bonnardot's Essai: a nineteenth-century restoration manual and its author" in Brajer, Isabelle, ed. Conservation in the Nineteenth Century |publisher=Archetype |year=2013 |isbn= |location=London |pages=147–156 https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42717149}}</ref> Bonnardot's name is included among those important to the history of Paris on the exterior wall of the Musee Carnavalet on the rue des Francs Bourgeois, and the museum has holdings from his personal collection, notably ''[http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/collections/le-cimetiere-et-l-eglise-des-saints-innocents Le cimetière et l’église des Saints-Innocents]'' ({{circa|1570}}) attributed to the Flemish painter Jacob Grimmer.

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