À la conquête de nouveaux territoires La planification urbaine extra muros en France au xviii^e siècle, entre idéal urbanistique et contraintes financières

In the Enlightenment, controlling the growth of modern towns and neighbourhoods was an objective shared by both the Royal authorities and municipal councils. Numerous municipalities attempted, pragmatically, to accompany this extension by trying to control, guide, and anticipate it rather than restrain it. Their more or less ambitious attempts did not always meet with success.