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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon

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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (lived 18th century)

French geographer and cartographer. He was recognized internationally as a leading geographer, and in 1719 was appointed geographer to the king of France. He occupied the chair of geography in the Academie des Sciences from 1773.

D'Anville published 211 maps, the chief collections being Atlas Général (1737–80), Atlas Antiquus Major, Orbis Romanus, Orbis Veteribus notus, Géographie ancienne abrégé (3 volumes; 1769), and Etats formés en Europe (1771).



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