Alexandre Lachevardière (1795 in Sucy-en-Brie – 6 May 1855 in

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) was a French bookseller and printer-publisher of the 19th century.

Biography

The son of Alexandre-Louis Lachevardière (1765-1828) and grandson of Parisian music publisher

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or Lachevardière (1730-1812), he directed Louis-Toussaint Cellot's printing company (1822) and got his printer's license 9 December 1823. He then took over the Cellot printing. One of the introducers of mechanical presses in France, in 1824 he financially participated with

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to the founding of the newspaper ''

Le Globe ''Le Globe'' was a French newspaper, published in Paris by the Bureau du Globe between 1824 and 1832, and created with the goal of publishing Romantic creations. It was established by Pierre Leroux and the printer Alexandre Lachevardière. After ...

'' and in 1833 to that of ''

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''. His printing became one of the largest of Paris, employing the most workers and presses in the capital. He is famous for having published numerous Saint-Simonists.Philippe Régnier, ''Études saint-simoniennes'', 2002, (p. 272). In 1830, he lost many of his printing presses during the

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. The government then made a loan of 60,000 francs. Among his many impressions, the best known are the ''Nouveau dictionnaire historique des environs de Paris'', published in 1825 and the fourteen volumes of ''Histoire d'Angleterre, depuis la première invasion des Romains'' by English historian

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Work

* ''Spécimen des caractères de l'imprimerie de Lachevardière fils'' (1826)

Bibliography

* Jean-Jacques Goblot, ''Le Globe, 1824-1830'', Honoré Champion, 1993, p. 264

References

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