Jacques Robbe

Jacques Robbe (1643–1721) was a French engineer and geographer. He also wrote plays under the pseudonym Barquebois.[1]

Life

Born in Soissons, Province of Picardy. Robbe was educated as a lawyer.[2] 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.[3]

Robbe died in Paris in 1721.[4]

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

References

  1. ^ Yves Lamy; Jean Wirtz (2008). Les anagrammes littéraires: pseudonymes et cryptonymes. Belin. p. 52. ISBN 978-2-7011-4714-7. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. ^ Jacques Robbe. Accessed 13 January 2013.
  3. ^ George Vlahakis (2006). Imperialism And Science: Social Impact And Interaction. ABC-CLIO. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85109-673-2. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  4. ^ Henry Carrington Lancaster (1940). A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century: The period of Racine, 1673-1700. Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins Press. p. 519. Retrieved 13 January 2013.


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