Facts:   - death place: paris , france    - residence: france    - fields: mathematics    - death date: 16 january 1834      - birth date: 6 may 1769    - name: jean nicolas pierre hachette    - image: jean nicolas pierre hachette.jpg    - birth place: mézières , france   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean nicolas pierre hachette .
jean nicolas pierre hachette -lrb- may 6 , 1769 -- january 16 , 1834 -rrb- , french mathematician , was born at mézières , where his father was a bookseller .for his early education he proceeded first to the college of charleville , and afterwards to that of reims .in 1788 he returned to mézières , where he was attached to the school of engineering as draughtsman to the professors of physics and chemistry .in 1793 he became professor of hydrography at collioure and port-vendre .while there he sent several papers , in which some questions of navigation were treated geometrically , to gaspard monge , at that time minister of marine , through whose influence he obtained an appointment in paris .towards the close of 1794 , when the ecole polytechnique was established , he was appointed along with monge over the department of descriptive geometry .there he instructed some of the ablest frenchmen of the day , among them sd poisson , françois arago and a fresnel .accompanying guyton de morveau in his expedition , earlier in the year , he was present at the battle of fleurus , and entered brussels with the french army .in 1816 , on the accession of louis xviii , he was expelled from his chair by government .he retained , however , till his death the office of professor in the faculty of sciences in the ecole normale , to which he had been appointed in 1810 .the necessary royal assent was in 1823 refused to the election of hachette to the académie des sciences , and it was not till 1831 , after the revolution , that he obtained that honour .he died at paris on 16 january 1834 .hachette was held in high esteem for his private worth , as well as for his scientific attainments and great public services .his labours were chiefly in the field of descriptive geometry , with its application to the arts and mechanical engineering .it was left to him to develop the geometry of monge , and to him also is due in great measure the rapid advancement which france made soon after the establishment of the École...