Eugène Renduel (18 November 1798 – 19 October 1874) was a 19th-century French

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Career

After he started working as a clerk by an "

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" in Clamecy, he moved to

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in 1819. First an employee by a bookseller, he established his own bookshop in 1828 at 22 rue des Grands-Augustins in the modern

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and soon became the regular publisher of romantic writers. During the 1830s, he took part in all meetings of the new school and met the future celebrities, still beginners, mostly those of the literary world of the time. Between 1831 and 1838, he published works by

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, Gautier, Lamennais, Pétrus Borel, etc. However, he eventually dropped the ''

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seven years after signing the contract with the author. He knew upon the best illustrators of the time,

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, who would provide him with engravings. In 1838, he purchased the castle of Beuvron (

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Illustrations

Le Romantisme et l'éditeur Renduel
on wikisource. {{DEFAULTSORT:Renduel, Eugene French publishers (people) 1798 births People from Nièvre 1874 deaths