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- Pierre Duval
- Also known as
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Pierre Duval
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primary name: Duval, Pierre
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other name: Du Val, P
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other name: Duval, Pierre
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other name: Val, Pierre du
- Details
- individual; publisher/printer; academic/intellectual; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1618-1683
- Address
- Quay de l'Horloge, coin rue de Harlay, Isle du Palais, Paris
- Biography
- Born in Abbeville, Duval began his cartographic career in Paris studying under his uncle, the celebrated geographer Nicolas Sanson. He was soon employed in editing maps for publication by the print-seller Pierre Mariette. By 1650, he had become a géographe du roi. According to royal letters found among his papers in 1683, Duval was employed as an officer in the Maison du Roi and received a modest wage of 350 livres. There is no record of him receiving any official commission in this capacity. He sustained a publishing collaboration with Mariette until 1654, when he married Marie Desmaretz, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Following this, he established himself in Paris and produced maps and cartographic documents for a variety of Parisian map-sellers. Duval supplied manuscripts to Nicolas Berey, Girard Joillan, Nicolas Langlois, Estienne Vouillement and Antoine de Fer. He also self-published some prints, which he sold from a series of addresses.
- Bibliography
- Schreiber Sheets French 12
Mireille Pastoureau, Les Atlas Français XVIe-XVIIe siecles: Répertoire bibliographique et étude, (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984), pp. 135-166.
