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(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
André François Le Breton
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

André François Le Breton

active Paris, 1733 - 1779
BiographyLC name authority rec. non88295196
LC Heading: Le Breton, André François, 1708-1779
Printer, bookseller
found: Répertoire d'imprimeurs/libraires (vers 1500-vers 1810), 2004 no. 3052 (Le Breton, André-François (1708-1779); Lebreton, André-François; born 2 September 1708, died 4 October 1779; bookseller active in Paris 1733-1779; addresses: Rue de la Harpe; Rue Hautefeuille; sign: Au Saint-Esprit; "(premier) imprimeur ordinaire du Roi (1740) et du chapitre [cathédral de Paris]; petit-fils maternel de Laurent d'Houry"; succeeded by his widow Marguerite Vaux)
found: BnF authorities, Oct. 15, 2014 (Le Breton, André-François (1708-1779); born 1708-09-02; died 1779-10-04; active 1733-1779; forename variant: Andrea Francesco; bookseller; "(premier) imprimeur ordinaire du Roi (1740) (et du chapitre [cathédral de Paris])"; "imprimeur ordinaire de l'ordre de Malte"; master bookseller, Sept. 1, 1733; [master] printer, Mar. 5, 1746; consul, Jan. 1767, judge-consul, Jan. 1770; retires from his printing business in favor of Jean-Georges-Antoine Stoupe in May 1773; publisher of Almanach royal and (with others) of the Encyclopédie)
found: OCLC, Oct. 15, 2014 (usage in imprints chiefly Le Breton; often with addition "imprimeur ordinaire du roi" or "premier imprimeur ordinaire du roi"; also Andrea Francesco Le Breton for one 1760 Italian title)

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