Le Romain (other)
Le Romain is a French epithet for "the Roman" which may refer to: * Jacques Dumont le Romain (1704—1781), French painter called "le Romain" * Jean-Baptiste-Pierre le Romain, eighteenth-century French engineer and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' *Pierre Mignard Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (; 17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a ...

Jacques Dumont Le Romain
Jacques Dumont called "le Romain" (10 May 1704 — 17 February 1781), was a French artist, who worked in painting, engraving and drawing. He was called "the Roman" from his youthful residence at Rome and to distinguish him from other artists named Dumont, notably his fellow-academician Jean-Joseph Dumont. Though comparatively unknown today, he enjoyed celebrity and a long, successful career. Biography Dumont was born in Paris on 10 May 1704. He was the second son of Pierre Dumont, court sculptor to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and Marie Mercier. François Dumont, Dumont's older brother, also sculpted for the Duke of Lorraine until his untimely death in 1726. Pierre-Jean Mariette, who knew him well, reported that in his youth le Romain made his way to Rome by camping out; Mariette makes errors about his teacher in Rome, however. Dumont returned to Paris in 1725. In 1727, he first showed at the Paris Salon and in 1728 he was received as a member of the Académie Royale de Peintur ...
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Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain (dates of birth and death unknown) was a French engineer and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' during the eighteenth century and the Age of Enlightenment. Living in Martinique, in 1734 Le Romain drew up a topographic map of the island for the French government. In 1740 he was sent as an assistant engineer to improve the fortifications of the island of Grenada, where he was appointed chief engineer in 1748. Le Romain provided nearly seventy articles on the Caribbean between volumes III and XVI of the ''Encyclopédie'' of Diderot and D'Alembert. More than half of his articles are short descriptions of production, animals, minerals and geography of the Caribbean islands. He provided more detail of the production of regional products such as indigo, sugar and foods derived from cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, ...
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