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

Bouge, Jean-Baptiste de (1757-1833 · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
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- Jean-Baptiste de Bouge was born on 5 January 1757. · Ixelles.
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- 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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De Bouge was born in Ixelles on 5 January 1757 to Joseph-Ernst de Bouge and Marie-Anne Brems. His first official position, in 1782, was as surveyor and cartographer to the Duchy of Guelders. During the French invasion of 1794 he fled the Southern Netherlands. He found refuge first at Nijmegen, in 1796 at Mainz, and in 1797 at Vienna. Listed as an émigré by the Revolutionary authorities, his property was sequestered. In 1806 De Bouge produced guidebooks to Aachen, Antwerp, and Paris (all published in Brussels), and the same year became head of the Topographical Bureau of the Kingdom of Holland. In 1808 he attempted to establish an engravers' school in Amsterdam. In 1810 De Bouge's department was transferred to Paris, and his wife, Marie-Thérèse Moss, died there on 29 October 1814. He retired the same year. De Bouge died at The Hague on 20 February 1833.
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• Carte chorographique du duché de Brabant (1778) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Carte générale correspondante aux cartes particulieres comprenant les tenances & routes des postes (1783) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Nouvelle Carte de la Grande et Petite Moere: Situées dans la Flandres Autrichienne et Françoise entre les villes des Furnes et Dunkercke (1784) • Nouvelle carte chorographique des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1786) • Available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. • Carte Topographique du Pays de Waes (1788) • Available online from the Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land van Waas. • Carte générale des bureaux et ténances des postes des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1789) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Plan de Luxembourg avec ses nouveaux ouvrages (1790) • Available online from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. • Carte du Théatre de la Guerre aux Pays-Bas, en 1790 (1791) • Available online from Bibliotheca Andana. • Carte itinéraire et partie du théatre de la guerre (1793) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Carte Du Département du Nord Ou Les Provinces de Flandre, du Hainaut et du Cambresis (1794). • Carte chorographique de la Grande Principauté de Transilvanie (1799) • Available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. • Nouvelle Carte Chorographique Des Etats Du Roy De Sardaigne (1800). • Carte de l'Europe (1803). • Carte géographi-diplomatique suivant les derniers traités de paix (1803) • Available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. • Nouvelle description ou tableau géographique et historique de l'Europe (1809) • Monument historique du dix-neuvième siècle juin MDCCCXV (1815) – a map of the Battle of Waterloo • Carte générale-administrative du royaume des Pays-Bas [c. 1816] • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Plan topographique de la ville de Bruxelles et de ses faubourgs (1816) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Carte Chorographique du Royaume des Pays-Bas (1823) – in 17 parts • Available online from the National Archives of Hungary. • Carte générale des provinces belgiques (1823) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Plan topographique de la ville de Bruxelles et de ses faubourgs (1823) • Available online from the Royal Library of Belgium. • Ichnographie des édifices et monumens royaux et publics de Paris (1824) • Available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. • Petit Atlas du Plat-Pays (1829)
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1757
Jean-Baptiste de Bouge was born on 5 January 1757.
1833
Jean-Baptiste de Bouge died on 20 February 1833.
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Jean-Baptiste de Bouge was born at Ixelles.
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Jean-Baptiste de Bouge died at The Hague.
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Ixelles.
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The Hague.
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Books
• Guide des étrangers ou Itinéraire de la ville d'Anvers (Brussels, 1806) • Available online from Google Books. • La Boussole, ou le Guide des étrangers dans Paris (Brussels, 1806) • Guide des étrangers ou Itinéraire de la ville d'Aix-la-Chapelle (Brussels, 1806) • Manuel géographique statistique et administratif du royaume des Pays Bas (Brussels, 1821) • Available online from Google Books.
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- 1.Discover print artist, cartographer Jean-Baptiste de Bouge.
- 2.Claire Lemoine-Isabeau, La cartographie du territoire belge de 1780 à 1830: Entre Ferraris et le dépôt de la guerre de Belgique (Brussels, 1997).
- 3.Carlo de Clercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.
- 4.Hubert Lardinois, Jean-Baptiste de Bouge , National Geographic Institute (Belgium), accessed 21 November 2016.
- 5.Carlo de Clercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 260-261.
- 6.Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld, "Reports", in Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1800, Blueprints for a National Community, edited by Joost Kloek and Wijnand Mijnhardt (Assen, Basingstoke and New York, 2004), p. 297.
- 7.J. Raineau, "Une École de gravure à Amsterdam sous Louis Napoléon: Le projet de Jean-Baptiste De Bouge (1808-1811)", in Échanges artistiques entre les anciens Pays-Bas et la France 1482-1814, edited by G. Maës and J. Blanc (Turnhout 2010), pp. 75-87.
- 8.Carlo de Clercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), p. 264.
- 9.Carlo de Clercq, "Jean-Baptiste De Bouge et sa carte des opérations militaires dans la région mosane belge en 1790", Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur 50 (1961), pp. 205-268.
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