Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) is considered the father of French cartography and founder of the famed Sanson firm. Around 1677, his son, Guillaume published one of Nicolas’ maps depicting North and South America entitled Atlantis Insula. They subsequently published maps showing how America had been divided up between the ten Atlantean royal families, with Mexico allocated to Atlas.
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) together with his son, Didier (1723-1786), were important French 18th century cartographers and globemakers, who in common with many of their peers depicted North America as the location of Plato’s Atlantis on some of their maps. Didier was appointed geographer to King Louis XV. They were related to the arguably better known cartographer Nicolas Sanson.