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Jean-Baptiste Devaux

– 1799 French Main: Paris bookseller journalist publisher writer Jean-Baptiste Devaux, 17..-1799 (viaf) Devaux, Jean-Baptiste (cerl)

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  1. Collection complète des travaux de M. Mirabeau l'aîné à l'Assemblée Nationale. Précédée de tous les discours et ouvrages du même auteur, prononcés et publiés en Provence, pendant le cours des élections. Par E. Méjan has translation publisher

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Jean-Baptiste Devaux is thought to have worked in secret as a journalist on Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs and to have sold in 1765 the 'Lettres de la Montagne'. He began an apprenticeship under Parisian bookseller François-Charles Gattey on 15th January 1788 and became a bookseller in his own right in 1789.

With Gattey, he published the Journal des États généraux from 5th May to December 1789. In 1790, he set up a printing house on Rue de Chartres, which he ran until at least 1792. According to bibliographers Johann Samuel Ersch and Joseph-Marie Quérard, a "J.-B. Devaux" was the author of a 'Théorie des honnêtes gens' in 1796.

He was still trading in June 1799, but his wife was officially recorded as a widow around the Republican year 7 (i.e. before the end of September 1799).

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