Jean-Louis de Boubers de Corbeville sometimes named Boubers the Younger (18 June 1731 – 30 July 1804) was a French printer, publisher and bookseller who moved to the Liege area within the

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. He was also characters founder, music publisher and paper producer. He became royal printer for the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in

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Biography

Jean-Louis de Boubers, born in

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, was the son of Henri-Louis de Boubers de Corbeville, Captain in the Maillé Infantry Regiment and of Marie-Catherine Gavois. He was the brother of Claude-René-Denis de Boubers, named Denis de Boubers, "one of the most remarkable typographer of France", and of Henri-François de Boubers, printer. Son-in-law in first marriage (1752) of Louis-François Barbier, bookseller in Arras, his second wife (1759) was the daughter of the Lille bookseller André-Joseph Panckoucke. He entered the selected circle of the founder of the eighteenth century first press empire created by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke and Henri Agasse de Cresne. This northern French tradition will continue through Jean Prouvost ( fr), founder of the press group Paris Match and

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. Printer and bookseller in

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. "Liège was actually a duty-free country where printing was developing in the eighteenth century because of equally free counterfeiting practices." In 1759, Jean-Louis de Boubers had allegedly been involved in the conflict between

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( fr) and Liege authorities: he was ordered "to migrate from the city within three times twenty four hours". In 1760, he wished to go to Lille to replace Charles-Joseph Panckoucke but was blocked by the town councillor. However, in 1761, he obtained the Liege

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diploma. Then he migrated to Brussels where he got authorization to establish as printer in 1768. Six years later he was responsible of the most prestigious editions of the

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complete works in 12 volumes at a London address. Granted the privilege of

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bookseller, he published plays and opéras comiques performed from 1777 to 1799.

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, he joined the Brussels Lodge ''Les Vrais Amis de la Justice''. He printed the ''journal de Bruxelles''.categorie Commons

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