Jules Renouard (13 February 1798 - 20 February 1854) was a French

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and

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Life

Jules Renouard was born in

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in the 11th arrondissement (under the city's pre-1860 district boundaries). His father was the industrialist-politician and book dealer

Antoine-Augustin Renouard Antoine-Augustin Renouard (21 September 1765 – 15 December 1853) was an industrialist and political activist in Paris at the time of the French Revolution who became a book dealer, printer and bibliographer. Life Renouard was born in Paris i ...

. His maternal grandfather was Charles-Grégoire de Beauchamps. He attended the prestigious

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(school) a few hundred meters to the south of the city centre, and then relocated to

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where he began a business career, working for a banker. In 1826 he took over his father's book dealership, installing himself and his business in an imposing town house back in Paris. Renouard married Adèle Cunin-Grudaine on 17 March 1832. Her father,

Laurent Cunin-Gridaine Laurent Cunin-Gridaine (10 July 1778 – 19 April 1859) was a French businessman and politician. He was a deputy from 1827 to 1848, and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce from 1839 to 1848, with one short interruption. Early years Laurent Cuni ...

, was an industrialist who had grown rich and become a politician. The marriage produced a son, Léopold Renouard (1833-1910) who in due course would become a leading Paris banker. However, in 1834 Adèle died, aged just 34. His second marriage was to Amélie Talabot (1810-1869)) and took place on 27 October 1837, producing in due course five recorded children including Georges Renouard (1843-1897) who much later would marry a

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, France's most famous city planner. Renuard was a founder member of the Cercle de la librairie (Book dealers' association) founded in 1847, and himself delivered an important paper to the association in 1851 under the title "Progrès de la contrefaçon, dénonciation et protestation", protesting against the unfair trading practices of foreign competitors. He was also a member of the

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and served as a judge at the Commercial Court in

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Jules Renouard
on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Renouard, Jules French booksellers French bibliographers Businesspeople from Paris Defunct publishing companies French bankers Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni 1798 births 1854 deaths