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François-Laurent-Xavier Levrault

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  1. Aperçu de l’état des moeurs et des opinions dans la République française, vers la fin du XVIII.e siècle translation has paratext publisher
  2. De l'état politique et économique de la France sous sa Constitution de l'an III. Ouvrage traduit de l'allemand translation has translation publisher
  3. New translation of Volney's Ruins or Meditations on the Revolution of Empires translation has paratext has other edition bookseller

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Published as Frères Levrault. Operation based at 33 rue des Juifs in Strasbourg (1798–1821), and quai Malaquai, 69 rue des Saints-Pères (1805) and 8 rue Mézières (1808–1810) in Paris. Also published in Basel as Levrault, Schoell et compagnie (1803–1806).

Son of the publisher François-Georges Levrault (1722–1798), who took over the Strasbourg-based Imprimerie de la Société typographique (et littéraire) in December 1789 after it went bankrupt. After his father's death in 1798, he set up a second publishing operation and bookshop in Paris, in collaboration with his brothers Louis-Charles and Nicolas-Pierre. Collaborated with the Stamperia Italiana on 939 rue Vaugiraud (1803–1804).

From the beginning of the Revolution, François-Laurent-Xavier was heavily involved in the département du Bas-Rhin as substitut au procureur de la commune and then procureur syndic from November 1790 before having to flee to Basel in December 1793 where he spent two years working for the publisher Haas. Returning to Strasbourg in January 1795, he resumed his public career, joining the conseil général du Bas-Rhin in 1800, president of the collège électoral in 1816 and rector of the academy in November 1818.