About Didier Robert de Vaugondy
Lived 1723 – 1786 (aged 62–63). Didier Robert de Vaugondy was a French encyclopédistes, geographer and cartographer.
Map Environs de Paris ("Surroundings of Paris"), from the first edition of the Atlas Universel, Paris 1757.
Madame de Pompadour's globe (1751), :fr:musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres.
Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723, Paris – 1786) was an 18th-century French geographer.
The son of Robert de Vaugondy, he was appointed geographer of the King by Louis XV, geographer of the Duke of Lorraine by Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine. In 1773, he became royal censor for works related to geography, navigation and travels.
Works L'Europe : divisée en ses états, empires, royaumes et républiques. Delamache, Paris 1767 Collaboration to the Encyclopédie, Vol 7: Foang – Gythium, Paris 1757. Article Fuseau (Geog.), (p. 385) Article Géographie, (p. 608–613) Article Globe (Astronom. & Géogr.), (p. 707–711)
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Who was Didier Robert de Vaugondy?
French geograph (1723-1786)
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy was born in 1723 in Paris.
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy died in 1786.
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy was an encyclopédistes, geographer and cartographer.
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy was French.
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