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Barbie du Bocage Family Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1257

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.

Dates

  • 1800-1847

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open.

Biographical / Historical

Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage (sometimes misspelled Barbier Bocage), b. 1760, d. 1825, was a student of the eighteenth-century mapmaker and historical geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville before becoming a significant mapmaker and historical geographer in his own right. Over the course of his career, he was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (both before and after the French Revolution), the Cabinet des médailles in the Bibliothèque du roi (a position he lost when arrested as a suspect during the Terror), the Ministry of Interior's cadastral map depot, and the Faculté de lettres de Paris where he was the first professor of ancient and modern geography. He was elected to the French National Institute in 1806, and served at different times as President of the Société de géographie and the Société royal des antiquaries de France. He also worked on commissions for a variety of other ministries and private individuals. His published works include the atlas accompanying Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grèce (1789). He played a central role in the production of the comte de Choiseul-Gouffier's Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce (1782-1824) and in producing maps to illustrate the travels of a number of early nineteenth century French men in Greece and the Ottoman Empire (Chandler, Castellan, and Pouqueville) and around the world (for example, a map of the Indian Ocean and South Pacific for Labillardière's Rélation du voyage à la recherché de la Pérouse (1799)). He also prepared maps and wrote introductions to Antoine Ignace Melling's Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople and du rive de Bosphore (1819). Jean Guillaume Barbié du Bocage, b. 1793, d. 1843, was the eldest son of Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage and succeeded him (after a period in Istanbul as a jeune de langues) as geographer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Extent

0.25 Cubic Feet (1/2 Doc Box)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Guide to the Barbie du Bocage Family Papers
Author
Processed by: Lisa Glasscock Digitized by: Noah Biblis
Date
09/05/2018; 02/24/2020
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Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository

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