Honoré Champion (1846–1913) was a French publisher. He founded Éditions Honoré Champion in 1874 and published scientific works geared towards laymen, particularly concerning history and literature. Champion died from an

embolism An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (air embolism, gas embolism), amniotic ...

on 8 April 1913 in his apartment at 30 rue Jacob, Paris.Pierre Champion,
Mon vieux quartier
', Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1932, p. 55-56 . Retrieved 20 December 2018. His tomb, located at the

Montparnasse Cemetery Montparnasse Cemetery () is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement of Paris, 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. The cemetery has over 35,00 ...

, was sculpted by

Albert Bartholomé Paul-Albert Bartholomé was a French painter and sculptor. He was born on 29 August 1848 in Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, France, and died in 1928 in Paris. He won the Grand Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle (1900), Exposition Un ...

. His sons were Edouard Champion, who took over the publishing house (often rendered in colophons as H. Champion), and the historian

Pierre Champion Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

.Gabriel Leclec
"Edouard Champion ou la belle légende du vieux libraire"
''L'Homme libre '', 6-7 March 1938, pp. 1-2 . Retrieved 20 December 2018.

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French book publishers (people) 1846 births 1913 deaths Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery French male writers Members of the Ligue de la patrie française {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub