A detailed map of the Moluccas in the East Indies first published by George Le Rouge in 1748 in the ‘Atlas Nouveau’. George Louis Le Rouge it appears was born in Hannover 28 August 1704 where the parents who are recorded as being French went by the name of Noel and Maria Anna Rouger. Upon their return to France George Louis Le Rouge became a military engineer for the French and took up cartography from about 1740 in the Rud des Grands Augustins, Paris. He was made Geographe du Roy by Louis XV and died in 1778. From the ‘Atlas Nouveau Portatif a l’Usage des Militaires, et du Voyageur’. Phillips 3510.