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Abraham Louis Fauche-Borel

Neuchâtel 1762-04-12 – 1829-09-04 Neuchâtel English, French, German Main: Neuchâtel Other: Besançon , Ghent , Hamburg , Jersey , London , Paris bookseller diplomat freemason publisher spy writer Fauche-Borel, Abraham Louis, 1762-1829 (viaf) Fauche-Borel, Louis (cerl) Louis Fauche-Borel (wikidata)

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  1. La nature et l'art, par Mistress Inchbald, auteur de Simple Histoire. Nouvelle traduction par Mlle de G*** et Mme de C*** translation publisher

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Son of the publisher Samuel Fauche. Apprenticed to Jean Guillaume Virchaux in Hamburg and then with his father whom he succeeds in 1789, having already set up in business from 1786. Publishes the Almanach de Neuchâtel and takes a share in the Société typographique de Neuchâtel (STN) in 1789.

Specializes mainly in counter-revolutionary and émigré literature from 1790–1800 and becomes a royalist spy from 1795, working for the prince de Condé and then general Jean-Charles Pichegru, being sent on missions to Paris, London and Germany until 1801. Denounced by a fellow Genevan now residing in Paris, Charles Frédéric Perlet, he is arrested in July 1802, escapes from prison in 1804 and is then re-arrested and imprisoned until February 1806 in the Force and Temple prisons. Returning to France in 1814 under Louis XVIII he demands in vain to be compensated for his services, and is accused of being a double agent and imprisoned in Ghent for a couple of months in 1815 before being expelled. On his return to Neuchatel, he published a 'Précis historique des différentes missions dans lesquelles M. Louis Fauche-Borel a été employé pour la cause de la monarchie' (1815), leading to the arrest and imprisonment of Perlet. Finally granted a royal pension in 1820. Commits suicide in Neuchatel in 1829.