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Le Breton, André François, 1708-1779

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Personal name headingLe Breton, André François, 1708-1779
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Variant(s)Breton, André François Le, 1708-1779
Lebreton, André François, 1708-1779
Le Breton, 1708-1779
Le Breton, Andrea Francesco, 1708-1779
LocatedParis (France)
AddressRue de la Harpe Rue Hautefeuille Au Saint-Esprit Paris France
Birth date17080902
Death date17791004
Field of activityBooksellers and bookselling Publishers and publishing Printing
AffiliationChapitre de Notre-Dame (Paris, France) Knights of Malta
Profession or occupationBooksellers and bookselling Publishers and publishing Printers
Found inPieces originales et procedures du proces, fait à Robert-François Damiens ... 1757 (name not given)
Memoire a consulter, et consultation pour la dame Anne-Rose Cabibel, veuve Calas, & pour ses enfans, 1762: colophon (De l'imprimerie de Le Breton, imprimeur ordin. du roi)
Gr. dict. enc. Larousse (Le Breton, André François, imprimeur-libraire français; b. Paris, 1708; d. Paris, 1779; printer for Diderot's Encyclopédie)
Hoefer (Lebreton, André-François)
Quérard (Lebreton, André-Franç.; b. Aug. 1708, Paris; d. 10/5/1779, Paris)
Répertoire d'imprimeurs/libraires (vers 1500-vers 1810), 2004 no. 3052 (Le Breton, André-François (1708-1779); Lebreton, André-François; born 2 September 1708, died 4 October 1779; bookseller active in Paris 1733-1779; addresses: Rue de la Harpe; Rue Hautefeuille; sign: Au Saint-Esprit; "(premier) imprimeur ordinaire du Roi (1740) et du chapitre [cathédral de Paris]; petit-fils maternel de Laurent d'Houry"; succeeded by his widow Marguerite Vaux)
BnF authorities, Oct. 15, 2014 (Le Breton, André-François (1708-1779); born 1708-09-02; died 1779-10-04; active 1733-1779; forename variant: Andrea Francesco; bookseller; "(premier) imprimeur ordinaire du Roi (1740) (et du chapitre [cathédral de Paris])"; "imprimeur ordinaire de l'ordre de Malte"; master bookseller, Sept. 1, 1733; [master] printer, Mar. 5, 1746; consul, Jan. 1767, judge-consul, Jan. 1770; retires from his printing business in favor of Jean-Georges-Antoine Stoupe in May 1773; publisher of Almanach royal and (with others) of the Encyclopédie)
OCLC, Oct. 15, 2014 (usage in imprints chiefly Le Breton; often with addition "imprimeur ordinaire du roi" or "premier imprimeur ordinaire du roi"; also Andrea Francesco Le Breton for one 1760 Italian title)
Associated languagefre ita