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Lyon, France
Lyon, France
His work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
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Girard Desargues's family (on both his mother's and his father's side) had been very rich for several generations and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlement in Paris as well as to that in Lyon (then the second most important city in France).Desargues biography books
Girard's father, also having the name Girard Desargues, married Jeanne Croppet in Condrieu a small town in the Rhône department in eastern France. They moved to Lyon but certainly retained the property in Condrieu since Girard (Junior) spent time there towards the end of his life.
In Lyon Girard (Senior) worked as an investigator for the bailiff, then as a tax collector and royal notary, which was his occupations when his son Girard was born. Girard and Jeanne Desargue