Terrestrial Globe J Forest Napoleon III World Map

Terrestrial globe signed Joseph Forest from the Napoleon III period Boiled cardboard globe, metal base Set in excellent condition Delivery 30 euros Joseph Forest is the son of Henri Étienne Forest and Marie Modot, domiciled at 28, rue d'Astorg in Paris. It was born at 191, rue de Sèvres. From the 1882 class, he was conditionally engaged (article 54) as a volunteer in the 6th dragoons, under the orders of Colonel Rapp who commanded this unit from 1881 to 1887. He left after a year with the rank of brigadier. In 1886, he founded his publishing house of maps and plans, world maps, globes, terrestrial and celestial spheres, tables and wall maps for teaching at 17-19, rue de Buci in Paris and remains at 1, place du 13 October in Bagneux. Suppliers to schools since 1889, approved by the Ministry of Public Education, it also offered a globe lighter in its catalog. This type of fancy globe is also available in globe-bar versions for example. Appointed foreign trade advisor to France in 1912, whose work he regularly followed, he was reappointed in this role in 1922. He exported for a very large sum his material of globes, Copernicus sphere and Ptolemy sphere, school maps and economic maps, cosmography devices in Spanish, Portuguese and English speaking countries. His works are translated and adopted exclusively by South American governments in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. Its exports to Canada are in French. In 1923, he chose Alphonse Pinard, vice-president of the Exhibitions Committee, as godfather in the presentation of his Legion of Honor.