Jean-Baptiste-François Née de La Rochelle
Contributions
Knows
- Joel Barlow diplomat entrepreneur freemason journalist poet politician translator writer
- Conrad Lüdger entrepreneur teacher translator
- Moreau père translator
- Louis-François Prault bookseller editor publisher
Notes
Based at 13 rue de Hurepoix.
Son of a magistrate in the Paris parlement and grandson of the writer Jean Née de La Rochelle (1692–1772). Apprenticed with his step-father Jean-Baptiste Gogué from 1765 with whom he worked from 1773–1786, and from whom he inherited his business, which he sold to his brother-in-law Jacques-Simon Merlin in 1793, while continuing to work as a publisher until 1794. Author of many bibliographic works. Retired to Nivernais and practised as a Justice of the Peace in La Charité-sur-Loire from 1802–1828.