Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (born Paris 1703, died Versailles 21 March 1772). In 1721 Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. Appointed "ingénieur hydrographe" in August 1741. Member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50 year career he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. Published during his lifetime were: Hydrographie française (1753), Petit Atlas Maritime (1764) and Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie (1769).

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• E. Taillemite. Dictionnaire des marins français. Paris, 1982.
• Jean-Marc Garant. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1722), cartographe, hydrographe, ingénieur du ministère de la Marine: sa vie, son oeuvre, sa valeur historique. Thèse (M.A., Histoire), Montréal: 1973

• Library and Archives Canada: The Mapmakers : an essay in four parts
• Bibliothèque et Archives Canada: Les cartographes : essai en quatre parties

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• See a 1754 map by Jacque-Nicolas Bellin, Karte von der Erdenge Panama und den Provinzen Veragua, Terra Firma und Darien / zur allgemeinen Historie der Reisen, von dem Hrn Bellin ; Ing. de la Marine., hosted by the Portal to Texas History.