Prosper Marchand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Prosper Marchand

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1678

Place of Birth: Guise, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 14-Jun-1756

Profession: publisher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Prosper Marchand

  • Prosper Marchand (11 March 1678 – 14 June 1756) was an 18th-century French bibliographer. The son of a king's musician, a native of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he was received as bookseller in August 1698, but established his shop only by the end of 1701, in association with Gabriel II Martin.
  • He took refuge in The Hague in 1709 for matters of religion.
  • He abandoned the profession of bookseller around 1713.
  • From 1713 to 1723, he was proofreader at Fritsch and Böhm in Rotterdam, then editor at the Journal littĂ©raire from 1713 to 1737; booksellers catalogs editor; review editor; author of the Dictionnaire historique ou MĂ©moires critiques et littĂ©raires, edited by J.
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  • Allamand, La Haye, 1758-1759.
  • At the end of his life, he was attached to Daniel Monnier, a librarian in The Hague

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