Biography
Born at Saint-Michel de Villebernin, he grew up in the village in the small commune of Palluau-sur-Indre in central France. Having developed drawing and mapmaking skills, Franquelin migrated in 1671 from the Indre department to Nouvelle France (Quebec) to work as a trader.
New France Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac soon recognized his talents and hired him to draw maps. Franquelin recorded the explorations of Louis Jolliet and René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle between 1674 and 1684. His 1684 map of Nouvelle France, including La Louisiane , became well known and served as the basis of maps by men from other countries.
In 1688 the King appointed Franquelin as royal hydrographer. He went to France in 1692 to complete a series of maps of the New England Atlantic coast, as the English and French were competing for control of territory in North America. He also continued to hold his appointment from New France from 1686 to 1697, and again from 1701 to 1703. But, from 1694 to 1707, he worked in France for Louis XIV's military engineer Vauban. Franquelin never returned to Canada. [2]
He had married and had 13 children with his wife. She and ten of their children drowned in a shipwreck in 1693, near Sept-Iles, Quebec. [2]
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