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Laurent-Étienne Testu

1765 – 1839-07-15 Bercy French Main: Paris bookseller publisher Testu, Laurent-Étienne, 1765-1839 (viaf) Testu, Laurent-Étienne (cerl) Laurent-Étienne Testu (wikidata)

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  1. Droits de l'homme, seconde partie, réunissant les principes et la pratique translation has paratext publisher
  2. Les chateaux d'Athlin et de Dunbayne, histoire arrivée dans les montagnes d'Écosse, par Anne Radcliffe. Traduite de l'anglais translation publisher
  3. Vie et mémoires de Marie Wollstonecraft Godwin, auteur de la Défense des droits de la femme, d'une Réponse à Edmond Burck, des Pensées sur l'education des filles: Traduit de l'anglais par le citoyen D*****n translation has paratext publisher

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Testu was the son of Maurice Testu, squire and seigneur de Chaltrait et des Champeaux, contrôleur des guerres à Paris. From 1788, he worked as a clerk for François-Jean-Noël Debure, before buying his business for 25,000 livres in June 1791. Often collaborated with the publisher Jean-André Blanchon from Aug 1791 until An 8 (1799-1800). Appointed imperial publisher to Napoleon from 1808-14, and then the duc d'Orléans and prince de Condé from 1818-19. Probably related to the Testu who managed the printshop for Laurent-Charles d'Houry. From 1792, he published the 'Almanach national', taking it over from d'Houry's widow, and marrying her daughter in 1795.