Noël Aubin (23 December 1754 in

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– 18 August 1835 in Tours) was an 18th/19th-century French bookseller-publisher and

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. The son of a waxmaster whose profession he first continued, he was arrested in Tours and released in then established himself as publisher and bookseller in

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(1795), working in association with printer-bookseller J.-M. Chevet. Between 1799 and 1802, he published several comedies under the

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s Desfougerais or Desfougerets and published (1793–1797) and translated (1795–1802) various works, especially by British authors such as James Harrington, William Cooke or

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. His own

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were then given at the

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. He put an end at his bookselling activity (1814), and returned to Tours where he published, as well in

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and

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, several theatre plays. He died in Tours in August 1835.

Works

*1798: ''Le Rosier'', song, music by

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*1799: ''Le Déménagement du Salon ou le Portrait de Gilles'', comédie-parade in 1 act and in comédie en vaudeville, with

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and

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*1799: ''Gilles aéronaute, ou L'Amérique n'est pas loin'', comédie-parade in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with

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ans

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*1799: ''Les Deux Bluettes'', comedy *1800: ''Chamfortiana, ou Recueil choisi d'anecdotes piquantes et de traits d'esprit de Chamfort'' *1802: ''Pannard, clerc de procureur'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act and in

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*1815: ''Les Avoués en voyage, ou la Méprise'', comedy in 2 acts and in prose *1824: ''L'Ami des pauvres et de son pays, ou l'Ennemi des abus'', comedy *1824: ''La Maladie de l'imagination, peinte par l'homme de la nature'', comedy *1824: ''Les Trois Domiciles, ou le Pauvre rentier'', comedy in 2 acts and in prose

Bibliography

Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the fi ...

, ''La France littéraire'', vol.1, 1828, (p. 511) * Joseph-Marie Quérard, ''Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées'', 1869, (p. 915) {{DEFAULTSORT:Aubin, Noel 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French booksellers French publishers (people) 1754 births Businesspeople from Tours, France 1835 deaths Writers from Tours, France