Pierre Jacotin

An area of Northern Palestine, 1826, by Jacotin

Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827) was named director of all the surveyors and geographers working in the Nile Valley in 1799 during the campaign in Egypt of Napoleon. 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.

Further reference

• Karmon, Y, (1960), An analysis of Jacotin's map of Palestine, IEJ, 10, pp. 155–173 and 244-153.
• Panckoucke, Charles Louis Fleury (1824). Description de l'Égypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en ... 17. Paris: Imprimerie de C.L.F . Panckoucke. (Pierre Jacotin: pp. 437-652, “Syria”: pp. 594-609 )

External links

• Jacotin maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection .