Louis René Quentin de Richebourg de Champcenetz; (1759, in

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– 23 July 1794, Paris) was a French journalist

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d for his writings. He was the son of the Marquis de Champcenetz, governor of the

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at the time of the

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* Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer, ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', t. 9, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1854, p. 187–188 *

Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1190 1759 births 1794 deaths French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution French male journalists 18th-century French journalists 18th-century French male writers Writers from Paris {{France-journalist-stub