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French cartographer and geographer, born in Paris in 1688, died in 1766; he composed various atlases including the Atlas des révolutions du globe, in 66 maps, which remained unpublished, and the Atlas Universel in 108 maps, published for the first time in 1758. He was the king's ordinary geographer, like his son Didier , born in Paris in 1723, died in 1784, who continued his father's work, increasing and improving Gilles' atlases. Read the full biography

French cartographer and geographer, born in Paris in 1688, died in 1766; he composed various atlases including the Atlas des révolutions du globe, in 66 maps, which remained unpublished, and the Atlas Universel in 108 maps, published for the first time in 1758. He was the king's ordinary geographer, like his son Didier , born in Paris in 1723, died in 1784, who continued his father's work, increasing and improving Gilles' atlases. There is also a work by him Institutions géographiques published in 1766 and a large Géographie ancienne, on which he worked from 1774, but which he left unpublished. Didier also collaborated on the Encyclopédie and outlined the papers for Buffon's Histoire naturelle and other widely read works.