3 daughters who married the paper merchant Guillaume Danet and the copper engr. Jacques-François Besnard (Bénard)
1646 in Paris
1720
Paris
Parisian printer and map publ. Antoine de Fer (?-1673)
mother Geneviève, who took over the map making company in 1673, passed on to Nicolas in 1687 because of old age; son in law Denis Bénard (1710-?)
apprentice of copper engr. Louis Spirinx in Paris since age 12; in 1673 successor of his father as head of publ. co.
France
Les Côtes de France (1690) ; La France Triomphante Sous le Règne de Louis le Grand (1693) ; Atlas Royal (1695 & 1699-1702) ; Petit et Nouveau Atlas (1697) ; Atlas Curieux (Paris 1700 & exp. ed. 1717) ; Atlas ou recueil de cartes géographiques (1709) ; La Sphère Royale ; astronomer Philippe de La Hire: planispher ; map "Japan inset in a map of the Philippines" (The Hague 1691 / Paris 1703) ;
French court; since 1691 official French geographer of Louis, Dauphin of France; since 1702 Herzog von Anjou; Spanish King, French King Louis le Grand