Guillaume Debure
Contributions
- Eléments de la morale universelle, ou catéchisme de la nature has translation publisher
- Systême universel de principes du droit maritime de l'Europe. Par Dominique-Albert Azuni, membre des académies des sciences de Naples, de Turin translation has paratext publisher
Knows
- Jean-Nicolas Démeunier civil servant freemason jurist politician translator writer
- François-Ambroise Didot bookseller publisher
- Pierre-Nicolas-Firmin Didot bookseller playwright politician publisher writer
- J.-M. Digeon civil servant diplomat translator
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian playwright poet writer
- Marie-Nicole Hérissant bookseller publisher
- Jean-Gabriel Mérigot publisher revolutionary writer
- Jacques-André Naigeon artist translator
Notes
Guillaume Debure was the eldest son of the publisher Jean Debure, and the son-in-law of Marie-Jacques Barrois. He qualified in 1759. From December 1774 to June 1780, he worked in partnership with his younger brother François-Jean-Noël Debure under the name 'Frères Debure'. In 1786, he was a bookseller for the Bibliothèque du Roi (which later became the Bibliothèque Nationale, then the Bibliothèque Impériale) and in 1788 for the Académie (royale) des inscriptions (et belles-lettres) and the Académie royale des sciences.
In 1789, he entered the service of the National Assembly's Comité de l'Instruction Publique, and in November 1790, he was appointed to the Commission des Monuments, Section des Lettres. From January 1795, he was employed by the temporary Arts commission to compile a catalogue of confiscated libraries. From 1803, he worked in partnership with his sons Jean-Jacques and Marie-Jacques, who eventually succeeded him after 1813.
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