Jean de Beaurain ( 1696 - 1771)

French geographer who at the age of nineteen, came to Paris and studied geography under Pierre Moulart-Samson, geographer to the king, a title which Beaurain obtained at the age of twenty-five. A perpetual calendar, ecclesiastical and civil, which he published in 1724, made him known to Louis XV, for whom he made a large number of maps and plans.