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Dame Besongne

Rouen – French Main: Rouen bookseller publisher Veuve Besongne, Imprimerie, Rouen (viaf) Besongne, Jacques-Jean-Louis-Guillaume (cerl) Besongne, Veuve de Jacques-Jean-Louis-Guillaume, imprimeur-libraire (cerl)

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  1. Observations sur le Commerce des États Américains, par le Lord Sheffield translation publisher

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Catherine Panet, or la Dame Besongne married Jacques-Jean-Louis-Guillaume Besongne, son of the veuve Besongne, or Marie-Madeleine Gruchet, in 1767. Gruchet was the daughter of a publisher from Le Havre, who married the publisher Jacques-Nicolas Besongne in 1742, taking over his business after his death in 1760. In 1764, she was imprisoned with her 21-year-old son, Jacques-Jean-Louis-Guillaume for publishing a forbidden title on royal finances. From 1776–81, she handed over control of her operation to her son. In 1786, just before he moved to Paris, he officially passed it over to his wife Catherine, who operated as 'dame Besongne', becoming the official printer for the Lord Chancellor ("garde des Sceaux") from 1786–90, as well as the Normandy Almanach, and Jacques Leclerc's Chronique nationale until 1791. In Paris he worked as a printer and wrote some pamphlets on the freedom of the press. After his death in July 1790, his wife also became known as veuve Besongne. In 1792, she sold her business to Philippe-Jacques-Étienne-Vincent Guilbert's 'Société typographique'.