About Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin
Lived 1650 – 1712 (aged 61–62). Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin was a French cartographer, hydrographer and draftsperson.
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin (; 1650 – c.1712) was a French trader who was appointed in the early 1670s as the first cartographer in Nouvelle France (Canada) by the colony's governor. He was appointed in 1688 as a royal hydrographer by Louis XIV.
Franquelin was born in the commune of Pallauau-sur-Indre in central France.
He had married and had 13 children with his wife. She and ten of their children drowned in a shipwreck in 1693, near Sept-Iles, Quebec.
Burke-Gaffney, M. W. "Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste-Louis". In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography André Charbonneau. « Cartobibliographie de Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin ». In: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 11, 1972 , p. 39–52 (digital.library.mcgill.ca) — The list of maps is an attempt at exhaustivity. Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online "Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin". In: Canadian Encyclopedia
Karel, David (1992). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord (in French). Presses de l'Université Laval, p. 314.
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin was born on 16 March 1650 in Palluau-sur-Indre.
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin died in 1712 in Kingdom of France.
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin was a cartographer, hydrographer and draftsperson.
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