The Narrative Promise: Redesigning History in La Gazette du Vieux Paris

“As an advertisement, guide, and souvenir for the exhibit, the elaborate La Gazette du Vieux Paris offered its subscribers stories, poems, and images . . . about a particular period in French history in folios that reproduced the paper, lettering, subject matter, and illustrations of that period, beginning with Gallo-Roman France and ending with the First French Empire.”