D'Anville, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON

D'Anville, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON, a geographer and map-maker, was born at Paris, 11th July 1697, and devoted himself to mathematical and geographical studies with such zeal and success that in 1719 he was appointed geographer to the king. He died 28th January 1782. He published in all 211 maps; the most notable collections were the Atlas Général (1737-80), and the Atlas Antiquus Major, with its accompanying three volumes of Geographie Ancienne (1769).