Victor Petit is an architectural draftsman, lithographer and French writer born in 1817 in Troyes (Aube) and died in 1871 in Aix-les-Bains. He is the son of Michel Victor Petit, who became a drawing teacher at Sens College, and Marie-Rose Baltet. His younger brother, Stanislas, devoted himself to industrial and geometric drawing. He is a student of Jean-Simeon Fort , painter of battles to which he will borrow the taste of detail and great prospects. He was also a disciple of Lemercier, the famous inventor of chromolithography. From 1838, he collaborated with the Yearbook Yonne , including its scenic Guide Yonne department which will be published as itineraries for more than twenty years (1842-1864).