French engineer and geographer, born at Aix-en-Essart in 1696; died in 1771; studied under Pierre Moulard-Sanson, and was made “Geographer to the King.” He published a Topographic Description of Flanders; or, Campaigns of Marshal Luxembourg (1756); also, an Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography (14 vols., fol.) His son, bearing his name, was also an engineer and geographer, and published Maps for the History of the Campaign of Prince Condé in Flanders; and Maps for the History of the Four Last Campaigns of Marshal Turenne.
