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Pierre-Alexandre Le Prieur

1722-09 – 1799 French, Latin Main: Paris bookseller civil servant publisher Le Prieur, Pierre-Alexandre, 1722-179.? (viaf) Le Prieur, Pierre-Alexandre (cerl) Pierre-Alexandre Le Prieur (wikidata)

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  1. 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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A printer/bookseller in ordinary to the King (1749), and a printer for the Académie Royale and the Collège de Chirurgie.

Son of a Parisian gold merchant and nephew of the Parisian printer/bookseller Jean-Baptiste III Coignard, at whose shop he took an apprenticeship in March 1743. Son-in-law (from February 1759) of the printer/bookseller Jacques-Philippe-Charles, or Charles III Osmont. Became a bookseller on 20th April 1747 and a printer on 2nd June 1749, succeeding Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine, whose printing shop he bought. On 17th November 1755, 1,600 copies of 'L'Histoire de la guerre de 1741' were seized from his shop.

In May 1773, he relinquished his printing shop to his old foreman Jacques-Gabriel Clousier.

He was elected consul in January 1776. He ceased trading in 1785, and became a secretary of the King. He died during the Revolution.