{"id":211,"date":"2024-10-28T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:05:44","slug":"calon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=211","title":{"rendered":"Calon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00c9tienne-Nicolas de Calon (Grandvilliers, 3 November 1726 \u2013 Paris, 4 June 1807)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>A geographical engineer from 1750 on, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly, where he sat in the centre, and of the Convention, where he sat with the Mountain. Brigadier in 1793, Director of the War Depot (rebaptized General War Depot for War and Geography) from 1793 to 1797. He opened that institution to the different branches of geography (ancient, modern, physical), arranged a training course at the Depot in order to recruit new geographical engineers and set up a division of scientists. The Depot also started to send copies of its maps to the generals on campaign (Cf. Bret, Patrice. 1991. Le D\u00e9p\u00f4t g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Guerre et la formation scientifique des ing\u00e9nieurs-g\u00e9ographes militaires en France (1789\u20131830). <em>Annals of Science<\/em>, 48: 114\u2013157, Binois, Gr\u00e9goire. 2023. Les cartes en mains. Le travail des topographes et la construction de la g\u00e9ographie militaire dans la France du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, doctoral thesis, Paris-1 University: 323-324).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9tienne-Nicolas de Calon (Grandvilliers, 3 November 1726 \u2013 Paris, 4 June 1807) A geographical engineer from 1750 on, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly, where he sat in the centre, and of the Convention, where he sat with the Mountain. Brigadier in 1793, Director of the War Depot (rebaptized General War Depot for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}