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   Desceliers
   Pierre
   P. D. ; P. Des Celiers / Décéliers‏ / Descheliers‏ ;
   
   
   1487 OR 1500 c. in Arques-la-Bataille, France
   1558
   Dieppe, France
   archer at the Chateau d’Arques; his family possibly originated from the d’Auge area, where the family name survives between Honfleur & Pont-l'Év
   
   he ordained and lived near Arques ; he founded the "charting school" of Dieppe in the Normandy, .
   France
   several large portolans: The 1543, 1546. 1550, 1553 and 1558 maps ; Planisphère, 1550 ; Mappemondes 1546 and 1550 ;
   French Kings Francis I & Henry II ; teacher at Institute de Cartographie in Dieppe ca.1542 ; Cardinal Louis d'Este;
   cartographer Jean Ango ; cartographer Dieppois ; explorer Giovanni da Verrazano ;explorer Jean Parmentier (brother) ; explorer Raoul Parmentier (brother) ;
   maritime and cartographical map-making and copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desceliers_1550_map_-_Australia_detail.jpg ;
   On the charting school of Dieppe see www.sullacrestadellonda.it/cartografia/francia2_en.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_maps ;
   Die Weltkarte des P. D. v.1553, im Auftrage der geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien ; Monique La Roncière et Michel Mollat du Jourdin: Les Portulans. Cartes marines du XIIIe siècle (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1984) ;
   
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