Biography
Student of Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier at the Collège de Beauvais (at the time a constituent college of the University of Paris#Colleges, University of Paris), he found employment with the ''Ferme générale''. The poems and comedic plays he published early in his career were not successful. He turned to the study of geography and taught geography at the ''École Militaire'' during the 1760s. During the 1780s he taught geography to the royal household and in 1786 designed a globe, which is still on display in the Dauphin of France, Dauphin's apartments at the Palace of Versailles. A supporter of the French Revolution, he taught at the '':fr:École centrale (Révolution française), Écoles centrales'' and at the ''École Normale Supérieure''. He was elected to the National Institute of Sciences and Arts, Institut de France in 1795. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mentelle, Edme University of Paris faculty 1730 births 1816 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French geographers French cartographers