Jean de Beaurain

Training under Pierre Moulart-Sanson is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is geography. Work by Jean de Beaurain is recorded in the collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France, Library of Congress and Biblioteca Nacional de España.

• Born — 7 January 1696 • Birthplace — Aix-en-Issart, Artois, France • Died — 12 February 1771 • Place of death — Paris • Fields — Geographer • Workplaces — Paris • Patrons — Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus; King Louis XV • Known for — Creation of maps

Beaurain was said to be a descendant of the former castellans of Beaurain. At the age of nineteen, he went to Paris, and studied geography under the direction of Pierre Moulart-Samson, geographer to the king, a title that Beaurain himself obtained at the age of twenty-five. An ecclesiastical and civil perpetual calendar that he published in 1724 made him known to Louis XV, for whom he made many maps and plans. The Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, employed him several times for delicate negotiations. He contributed to the education of the Dauphin, for which he received an annual pension of 800 pounds as a reward for his Théâtre de la dernière guerre qu'il a eu l'honneur de présenter à Sa Majesté (Theatre of the Last War which he had the honour of presenting to His Majesty).

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