Jean Delagrive
Jean Delagrive (born in 1689 with Sedan - died in 1757) was a priest Lazariste French, who was the Géographe appointed town of Paris. He was member of the Royal Société of London.
Adviser near Colbert, the Delagrive abbot is at the origin of the current site of the Mint of Paris.
One owes him the first atlas of Paris and his suburbs as well as the first detailed chart of the the Seine. He is the author of many plans, of which one of Versailles, gone back to 1746
It is on one of its charts that for the first time the name of the Fields-Elysées would have appeared. ----
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