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Jean-Baptiste de Bouge

Illustration — A new map of Europe (1810) by J.-B. de Bouge, showing the Continent's transformation by French conquests Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (1757–1833) was a Belgian cartographer whose career spanned decades of major political upheaval, his country in turn being (part of) the Austrian Netherlands, the United Belgian States, the French First Republic, the Napoleonic Empire, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, before becoming the Kingdom of Belgium. He often worked with the cartographic engraver Philippe Joseph Maillart.

Jean-Baptiste de Bouge

Sujet: Europe

Bouge, Jean-Baptiste de (1757-1833 · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain

Born
Jean-Baptiste de Bouge was born on 5 January 1757. · Ixelles.
Occupation
geographer · map drawer · engraver · publisher

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Illustration — A new map of Europe (1810) by J.-B. de Bouge, showing the Continent's transformation by French conquests Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (1757–1833) was a Belgian cartographer whose career spanned decades of major political upheaval, his country in turn being (part of) the Austrian Netherlands, the United Belgian States, the French First Republic, the Napoleonic Empire, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, before becoming the Kingdom of Belgium. He often worked with the cartographic engraver Philippe Joseph Maillart.

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Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (1757–1833) was an engraver, geographer and map drawer, among other activities. The engraver was born in Ixelles and died in The Hague. Jean-Baptiste de Bouge worked in Amsterdam, Nederland and The Hague. Works are held at National Museum Paleis het Loo and Stadsarchief Rotterdam.

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