Jean Baptiste-Louis Charle (c 1850) Jean Baptiste-Louis Charle was a prominent French Geographer active in the early to mid 19th century. His is known to have worked with Levassuer, Lapie, and others. Despite a large corpus of work, little is known of Charle's life.Click here for a list of rare maps from Jean Baptiste-Louis Charle. Rare maps by Jean Baptiste-Louis Charle currently for sale. Rare maps by Jean Baptiste-Louis Charle in the Geographicus Antique Map Archive.