Jean-Baptiste Étienne Repos (1803–1872) was a French publisher who specialised in works on liturgy, religion and history. The son of a bookbinder from Avignon, Repos was licensed as a printer in

Digne Digne-les-Bains (; Occitan: ''Dinha dei Banhs''), or simply and historically Digne (''Dinha'' in the classical norm or ''Digno'' in the Mistralian norm), is the prefecture of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Cô ...

on 27 December 1837. He published a number of periodicals, some quite short-lived, including ''Journal de la Société d'agriculture des Basses-Alpes'' (1838–1849), ''Le Bas-Alpin'' (1838) and ''Le Glaneur des Alpes'' (1847–1849). Between 1852 and 1856 Repos published Jean-Joseph-Maxime Feraud's revised

plainchant Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ''plain-chant''; la, cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text ...

service books. In 1857 he set up shop in Paris as a liturgical publisher and bookseller, selling his printing equipment in Digne to Augustin-André Vial, who shipped it to Algeria. He published ''Le Plain-chant'' (1860) and ''Revue de musique sacrée ancienne et moderne'' (1861–1870), as well as a series of decrees of the Sacred Congregations. From 1864 until the end of his life he published

Honoré Fisquet Honoré Jean Pierre Fisquet (1818–1883) was a French historian, biographer and writer of guide books, including a ''Nouveau guide général du voyageur en Angleterre, en Écosse et en Irlande'' (1864), which he wrote together with Henri-Marie Mart ...

's ''La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana)'' which gave a systematic biographical overview, by

ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of seve ...

, of all the French bishops and archbishops. He died in Paris in July 1872.

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