Jean de Beaurain

Germany with parts of neighboring countries, Jean de Beaurain, 1765

Jean de Beaurain (born January 17, 1696 in Aix-en-Issart , Duchy of Artois , † February 12, 1771 ) was a French geographer and cartographer.

Beaurain came to Paris at the age of 19 and studied with the royal cartographer Pierre Moulart-Sanson . At the age of 25 he was given the title of royal cartographer himself. He became known in 1724 through the publication of an ecclesiastical and civil perpetual calendar and also attracted the attention of Louis XV. In the period that followed, Beaurain made numerous maps and plans on a royal commission.

His most important publication is the cartographic work published in 1755 and 1756 on the campaigns of the French army in Flanders and the southern Netherlands during the years 1690 to 1694. A new edition in five volumes published in Potsdam from 1783 to 1787 contained explanations of military tactics by a Prussian officer.

In addition to his work as a cartographer, Beaurain was occasionally involved in political negotiations on behalf of French statesmen, and he was one of the teachers of the dauphin (nobility) . His son Jean-Baptiste, born in 1728, also became a cartographer.

Beaurain's description of the Battle of Minden from 1759

Works

Histoire militaire de Flandre, depuis l'année 1690 jusqu'en 1694 inclusivement, qui comprend le détail des marches, campemens, batailles, sièges & mouvemens des Armées du Roi & de celles des Alliés pendant ces cinq campagnes , N. Poiron, Paris 1755 (also as Histoire militaire du duc de Luxembourg, La Haye, Paris and The Hague 1756).
Histoire de la Campagne de M. Le Prince De Condé, en Flandre en 1674. Précédée d'un tableau historique de la guerre de Hollande jusqu'à cette époque , Ch.Ant. Jombert, Paris 1774, Internet Archive .

Web links

Commons : Jean de Beaurain - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Literature by and about Jean de Beaurain in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Adrien-Jean-Quentin Beuchot: Beaurain (Jean de) . In: Joseph Fr. Michaud (ed.): Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne , Michaud Frères, Paris 1811, Volume 3, pp. 651–652.

personal data
SURNAME	Beaurain, Jean de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French geographer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aix-en-Issart , Duchy of Artois
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1771

[BU-1] A ^b ^c ^d Adrien-Jean-Quentin Beuchot: Beaurain (Jean de) . In: Joseph Fr. Michaud (ed.): Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne , Michaud Frères, Paris 1811, Volume 3, pp. 651–652.