Pierre Jannet (5 January 1820,
Saint-Germain-de-Grave – November 1870, Paris) was a 19th-century French bibliophile and bibliographer.
A self-educated publisher, Jannet published with the assistance of
Ternaux-Compans, the ''Bibliothèque elzévirienne'', elegant collection of 16th-century French writers, of which he edited himself several volumes: ''l’Ancien Théâtre Français'', ''les Facétieuses de Straparole'', etc.
He wrote several collections of bibliographies.
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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
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, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1090
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Alphonse Alkan, ''Les étiquettes et les inscriptions des boîtes-volumes de Pierre Jannet, Fondateur de la Bibliothèque elzéverienne'', 1883
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French bibliographers
French bibliophiles
People from Gironde
1820 births
1870 deaths