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Edme Mentelle

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French geographer

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Edme Mentelle was a French geographer and educator. He taught at the École Militaire and the École Normale and was elected to the Institut National des Sciences et des Arts in 1795.

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Mentelle's globe on display in the grand office of the Dauphin at the Palace of Versailles, in 2023.Mentelle's globe on display in the grand office of the Dauphin at the Palace of Versailles, in 2023.Map of Africa from Mentelle's atlas c. 1797Map of Africa from Mentelle's atlas c. 1797Map of Egypt from a later edition of Mentelle's Atlas universel (1807).Map of Egypt from a later edition of Mentelle's Atlas universel (1807).

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Edme Mentelle was a French geographer and educator. He taught at the École Militaire and the École Normale and was elected to the Institut National des Sciences et des Arts in 1795. Mentelle's textbooks and atlases were widely used in the late eighteenth century, with his career spanning the monarchy, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire.

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Lived 1730 to 1815 · aged 85
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