Biography

Joseph Forest, born March 20, 1865 in Paris and died March 30, 1942, was a French geographer and cartographer.
In 1886, at 17-19 rue de Buci, he founded his own publishing house for maps and plans, world maps, globes, terrestrial and celestial spheres, charts and wall maps for educational use. He became a supplier to schools in 1889, approved by the Ministry of Public Instruction.

To know more, please click on this Wikipedia link (in French):https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Forest_(g%C3%A9ographe)