Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Coudray
Contributions
- Appel à l'impartiale postérité, par la Citoyenne Roland, femme du Ministre de L'Intérieur, ou recueil des écrits qu'elle a rédigés, pendant sa détention aux prisons de l'Abbaye et de Sainte-Pélagie has translation publisher
- Emilie de Varmont, ou le Divorce Nécessaire, et les Amours du Curé de Sévin: par l'Auteur de Faublas has translation author
- Quelques notices pour l'histoire et le récit de mes perils depuis le 31 mai 1793 has translation author publisher
- Siècle de la Raison, seconde partie, ou Recherches et réflexions sur la théologie vraie et fabuleuse. Traduit de l'anglais de Thomas Payne translation has paratext publisher
Knows
- Joseph de Boffe bookseller publisher
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur freemason pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
- Benjamin Constant politician translator writer
- Claude Fauchet cleric freemason journalist revolutionary writer
- Louise-Félicité Guinement de Kéralio Robert abolitionist journalist novelist publisher salonnière translator writer
- François-Xavier Lanthenas abolitionist civil servant physician politician translator writer
- Raffaele Netti publisher revolutionary
- Louis-François Prault bookseller editor publisher
- Maximilien Robespierre jurist politician revolutionary
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière civil servant politician scientist writer
- Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière revolutionary salonnière writer
Member of
- Committee of Public Safety political institution
- Council of Five Hundred political institution
- Girondists political organisation
- Institut national des Sciences et Arts academic institution
- Jacobin Club political organisation
- Legislative Assembly political institution
- National Convention political institution
Notes
Son of a stationer, Louvet worked as a bookseller's clerk for Louis-François Prault, before gaining acclaim with the publication of his popular novel, 'Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas' and its sequels (1787, 1788 & 1790). In May 1792, he became editor of the Girondin-subsidized journal 'La Sentinelle' and also wrote for the 'Journal des débats'. After escaping the proscription of the Girondins, he was allowed to resume his seat in the Convention on 8 March 1795 and set up a publishing enterprise with his wife. His widow continued to publish for a few months after his death in 1797, before retiring to Chancy.