Rigobert Bonne, a prolific French cartographer active between 1760 and 1788, began his work in the French Hydrographical Office, and was appointed as Hydrographer to the French King. (He succeeded Bellin in this honor.) Although initially involved in the production of charts for the Atlas Maritime, his most famous maps were done for his Atlas Moderne in 1772. He also prepared a number of maps for Raynal's Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connue du Globe Terrestre, published in 1780, and two atlases, the Atlas de Geographie (1785), and Atlas Encydopeadique (1787), published in conjunction with Nicholas Desmaret.
