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Last Name Robert de Vaugondy

Given Name Didier Robert

alt. Names D. R. d. V. ; D. R. de Vaugondy ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1723 in Paris

Year died 1786

Place of death

Father's occupation royal geographer Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766)

Relatives geographer Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) = Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville (great-grandfather) ; the Sanson-de Vaugondy family

Education taught by his father

Country of Activity France

Worked for Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) ; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ; Charles de Brosses, Comte de Tournay, Baron de Montfalcon, Seigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin (1709-1777) ; map "Japan with Ezo" (Paris 1749) ; map "Japan with Ezo (Hokkaido), and Korea" (Paris 1749) ;

Patronage kings of France

Collaborators Jean-Baptiste le Rond, called D’Alembert (1717-1783) ;

Techniques animal, natural, and cartographical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Robert_de_Vaugondy#/media/File:Robert_de_Vaugondy_-_Environs_de_Paris.jpg

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Robert_de_Vaugondy

Published sources Mary Sponberg Pedley: Bel et utile. The work of the Robert de Vaugondy family of mapmakers (Trinq 1992) ; Walter 1994: plates 85A & 85B ;

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