Nolin set up a family publishing house on Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, which was initially unsuccessful until it was moved nearer to other geographers on Quai de l'Horloge.
[3] Claude accused Nolin of copying both the shape of California (depicting it as a peninsula rather than an island) and the mouth of the Mississippi River from a manuscript globe by Guillaume, which he had been working on since 1697 for Louis Boucherat, the chancellor of France.
Eventually, both Nolin and Guillaume were compelled to present their respective maps before a panel of experts, and to explain their sources for them.
[4] Nolin argued that the information he had used for his map was in the public domain, but the panel ruled in the Delisles' favour.
Jean-Baptiste the younger produced an atlas that was published posthumously in 1783, 21 years after his death.