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French engineer, geographer and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym Barquebois
Jacques Robbe
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French engineer, geographer and playwright who wrote under the pseudonym Barquebois
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1721 (aged 78 years)
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Paris, France
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78 years
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Jacques Robbe (1643–1721) was a French engineer and geographer. He also wrote plays under the pseudonym Barquebois.
Life
Born in Soissons, Robbe was educated as a lawyer. He became royal geographer, publishing a treatise on geography in 1678, which was translated into Turkish by Petros Baronian, the interpreter for the Dutch embassy in Istanbul.
Robbe died in Paris in 1721.
Works
- Methode pour apprendre facilement la geographie: dediée a monseigneur le duc du Mayne, 2 vols., 1678
- (as M. de Barqubois) La rapinière, ou l'interessé: comédie, 1683
- La femme testvë, ou, Le medecin Holandois: comedie, 1686
- Les hazards du jeu de l'hombre, 1700
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