Log in

Radical Translations
  • Date
  • False: false attribution such as false place of imprint or false date
  • Fictional place: false imprint contains a fictional, invented place of imprint or date
  • Form: type or genre of writing.
  • Female
  • Male
  • Language
  • Noble: person was born noble.
  • Place
  • Role: the main role of a person or organization in relation to a resource.
  • Subject: content, theme, or topic of a work.
  • Uncertainty: information could not be verified.

Jean-Nicolas Barba

Aisne 1769-11-14 – 1846-05-17 Paris French Main: Paris Other: Cambrai , Reims actor bookseller writer Barba, Jean-Nicolas, 1769-1846 (viaf) Jean-Nicolas Barba, Firme (cerl) Jean-Nicolas Barba (wikidata)

Contributions

  1. La jeune hôtesse, comédie en trois actes, en vers: par le citoyen Carbon Flins translation has other edition publisher
  2. La jeune hôtesse, comédie en trois actes, en vers: par le citoyen Carbon Flins translation publisher
  3. Othello ou le More de Venise, tragédie... translation

Notes

Jean-Nicolas Barba was born in Sommelan, Aisne to a farming family. He moved to Paris in 1785, working firstly under his uncle, a printer; then as a clerk in Pierre-Michel Lamy's bookshop.

He was stationed in Cambrai in 1788-1789 but deserted on 20th August 1789 to return to Paris. He would have started working at the Palais-Royal after having tried hawking in Reims. He was also in the National Guard, in the Bataillon des Filles-Saint-Thomas, but was imprisoned in March 1790, having been denounced as an "aristocrat". He escaped on 17th May and returned to Paris a few months later to set up a bookshop.

He dabbled in writing and was also an actor, performing at the Théâtre de la Cité in 1795.

Barba was taken to court several times for forgery - in January 1796, February 1798, then again in December the same year. He went bankrupt in September 1806, then a second time in 1830, with debts of 300,000 francs (which he would have paid off in three years). He became a patented (licensed) bookseller on 1st October 1812, with his patent renewed on 6th January 1820.

He acquired Claude-François Maradan's stock and specialised in theatre publishing, as well as taking up work as an acting agent. His bookseller's patent was withdrawn on 7th August 1825 for "lewd" publications, but he remained active under a dummy company. In 1828, his shop burnt down.

He obtained a new patent on 30th August 1838 for his son Gustave Barba (1803-1867). He went blind and retired in July 1839, having sold his stock to his chief clerk, Christophe Tresse. However, he continued working in his son's bookshop on Rue Gît-le-Cœur until around 1842.

In 1845-1846 he published his memoir, 'Souvenirs de Jean-Nicolas Barba, ancien libraire au Palais-Royal'. He died in Paris on 17th May 1846.

https://data.bnf.fr/en/12230268/jean-nicolas_barba/