Didier Robert de Vaugondy was the great grandson of the renowned French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, and son of Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. Stevenson notes that: "Didier seems to have possessed talents none the less brilliant than were those exhibited by the father, and upon him, in succession, the king conferred the title Royal Geographer [Géographe Ordinaire du Roi]", adding that Gilles issued, "his first pair [of globes] ... in the year 1751, in which work he doubtless was assisted by his son" (vol. II, p. 176). In the preface to this book Didier mentions these globes, adding that: "sa Majesté me fit la grace de les recevoir avec bonté" (p. i). That he was asked to contribute the article on globes, to Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopéedie (Paris, 1757, vol. VII, pp. 707-714) is perhaps the best indication of the esteem in which his knowledge was held by his contemporaries: The World In Your Hands (p. 29) describes this account of globe manufacture and use as, "one of the fullest and most elegant".
The World In Your Hands notes that: "The Delamarche business was founded by Charles François Delamarche ... the most successful French map and globe seller of the late 18th century. Charles took over the remaining part of Robert de Vaugondy's workshop, republishing their atlases and globes" (p. 50), and lists Delamarche's book as item 4.34, describing it as, "A useful manual issued to explain the uses of a geocentric or heliocentric armillary sphere or orrery, and to encourage the purchase of armillary spheres".