André François Le Breton

LC 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)