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Jean Le Clerc (geographer)

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On 20 December 1619 Le Clerc was granted a six-year royal concession to "engrave maps of the provinces of France and portraits of patriarchs and princes of the Hebrew people, with a chronological history" ("graver les cartes des provinces de France et les portraits des patriarches et princes du
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and developed a huge publishing business, collaborating with several engravers and publishing maps, images of contemporary events and other works, including an atlas of France. His wife was Frémine Ricard or Richard.
133:(1560–1612) to produce a collection of 179 biblical scenes, allegories, calendar pages and other works, probably published in 1606. They both produced engravings for it themselves as well as using works by 118: 107: 162: 134: 81: 166: 122: 154: 19:(c.1560 - 1621 or 1624) was a French geographer, copperplate engraver, printer and publisher, mainly active in Paris. He was also known as 239: 234: 102:
He had proved himself by 1587, at which date he was living and working on Rue Chartière in Paris. From 1590 to 1594 he took refuge in
284: 279: 259: 190: 87: 153:, including newer plates as well as reworked plates from Bouguereau's work. The new plates were produced by artists such as 254: 249: 211: 169:(1587–1664). It went through several editions and Jean Le Clerc V continued to reissue it after his father's death. 244: 80:(1532–1592) as his godfathers. He came from a family of printers and publishers - Jean's younger brother 117:
Jean Le Clerc's publications included portraits, maps, contemporary news events and other engravings by
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he fled Paris in 1588 and spent a year elsewhere in France. He gained royal concessions under
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from Maurice Bouguereau's atlas and edited by Le Clerc for his own atlas.
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peuple hébreu avec l’histoire chronologique"). In 1620 he published his
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He was baptised on 16 August 1560 in Paris, with the engraver
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Index

French Wars of Religion
Huguenot
Henry IV of France
Louis XIII of France
François Desprez
JĂ©rĂ´me Bollery
David Le Clerc

Duchy of Burgundy
Tours
Maurice Bouguereau
Jacques Granthomme
Pierre Firens
LĂ©onard Gaultier
Thomas de Leu
Justus Sadeler
Isaac Briot
Nicolas Briot
Jean Fayen
Jodocus Hondius
Salomon Rogiers
Hugues Picart
Leo Bagrow
ISBN
978-1-4128-1154-5
BNF
Categories
16th-century French cartographers
17th-century French cartographers
French geographers

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