Jacques Robbe
French engineer, geographer and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym Barquebois
About Jacques Robbe
Lived 1643 – 1721 (aged 77–78). Jacques Robbe was a French geographer, engineer and jurist.
Jacques Robbe (1643–1721) was a French engineer and geographer. He also wrote plays under the pseudonym Barquebois.
Life Born in Soissons, Province of Picardy. Robbe was educated as a lawyer. He became royal geographer, publishing a treatise on geography in 1678, which was translated into Turkish by Petros Baronian, the interpreter for the Dutch embassy in Istanbul.
Robbe died in Paris in 1721.
Works Methode pour apprendre facilement la geographie: dediée a monseigneur le duc du Mayne, 2 vols., 1678 (as M. de Barqubois) La rapinière, ou l'interessé: comédie, 1683 La femme testvë, ou, Le medecin Holandois: comedie, 1686 Les hazards du jeu de l'hombre, 1700
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French engineer, geographer and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym Barquebois
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Jacques Robbe died in 1721 in Paris.
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Jacques Robbe was a geographer, engineer and jurist.
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