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Antoine Chambon

Saint-André-de-Rosans 1747-10-12 – 1821 Paris French Main: Paris bookseller publisher Chambon, Antoine 1747-1821? (viaf) Chambon, Antoine (cerl)

Contributions

  1. Brutus et Cassius, ou la Bataille de Philippes, suite de la Mort de César, tragédie en vers et en deux actes, imitée de l'anglais de Shakespeare translation has paratext publisher
  2. Les Victimes Cloitrées. Drame en quatre actes, et en prose has translation publisher

Notes

Antoine Chambon was born in Saint-André-le-Rousin (modern-day Saint-André-de-Rosans, Hautes-Alpes) and began working in a printing house from the age of 12. He moved to Paris, lodging with a jeweller on the Pont-au-Change, and was admitted as a hawker on 5th May 1778 to the Paris union of printers and booksellers. He was selling books illicitly in Paris from 1783 (at the latest) to 1790 and was sent to the Bastille in June 1783 for distributing prohibited books from Neuchâtel. He was transferred to the Prison de la Force on 5th November 1783, at which point his profession was officially described as "printing worker". After being caught printing lampoons at a hidden printing house on Rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, he was sent back to the Bastille, where he was imprisoned between 2nd March and 29th May 1786.

In 1789, he was running a bookshop at the Collège de Navarre on Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève. It was thanks to the Revolution that he established himself as a printer, and from May 1790 he was publishing, with Louis-Michel (de) Lechaver, Martel's newspaper, 'L'Orateur du peuple'. (Martel was the pseudonym of the politician and journalist Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, 1754-1802).

According to his carte de sûreté (identity card issued to Parisians during he Reign of Terror) dated 19th October 1793, when he was 46, Chambon was a printer residing on 25 Rue des Grands Augustins and had been living in Paris since 1776. After an inspector's survey of the Librairie in December 1810, he gained a reputation for being "old and miserable", working alone with just one printing press.