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 PIERRE JACOTIN (1765-1829),
PIERRE LBONARD DANDELEUX (1783-?)
Pierre
Jacotin (1765-1829) was named director of all the surveyors and
geographers working In the Nile valley in 1799. After his return from Egypt, Jacotin
worked on preparing the plates for publication, but in 1808 Napoleon formally forbade
publication of any map of the country. It was not until the Restoration that the engraved
plates could be utilized.
Pierre
L. Dandeleux (born 1783) is known to have been a specialist engraver
of maps, employed by the Department of War.
Referances
J.CHRIStOPHER Herold, Bonaparte
in Egypt, New York. 1962.
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