Vivien de st Martin Louis
Contenu
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Nom
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Vivien de st Martin Louis
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Date de naissance
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17 May 1802
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Date de mort
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1897
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Lieu de naissance
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St Martin de Fontenay (Calvados)
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Couverture temporelle
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19th century
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Biographie
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A geographer and writer who migrated early to Paris where where he published an electoral map in 1823 and an Atlas universel in 1825. Thereafter he undertook a wide range of historical and geographical writing (which included a translation of the works of Walter Scott in 25 volumes), and the founding of the journal L'Année géographique (1863). He also drew a number of globes that of 1850 being engraved by Pierre Tardieu.1
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Notes biographiques
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1 Vapereau (1880) 1826; Randier 28.11. 82 lot 215; Marcelin 8. 12. 96 Lot 152; 1850 globe, Artcurial October 2022.
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Identifiant
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3113
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