Jean de Beaugrand
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France
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lineographer of the seventeenth century. Though born in Mulhouse
Mulhouse
Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...
, de Beaugrand moved to Paris
Paris
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in 1581. He also worked as a mathematician
Mathematician
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and published works on geostatic
Geomatics
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s. He lived and worked in Paris as an artist until his death in 1640.