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Jacques Robbe

Abraham Hicks with Jacques Robbe (2013-03-09 Orlando FL)


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

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Life

Born in Soissons, Robbe was educated as a lawyer. 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.

Robbe died in Paris in 1721.

Works

  • Methode pour apprendre facilement la geographie: dediee a monseigneur le duc du Mayne, 2 vols., 1678
  • (as M. de Barqubois) La rapiniere, ou l'interesse: comedie, 1683
  • La femme testve, ou, Le medecin Holandois: comedie, 1686
  • Les hazards du jeu de l'hombre, 1700

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