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Edme-Étienne Rétif

Contributions

  1. Le vieillard et ses trois filles. Pièce en trois actes, en prose translation has paratext publisher

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Based at 11 rue de la Bucherie.

Nephew of the author and publisher Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne. Apprenticed with his uncle from 1788, marrying his daughter in 1791. Publisher for the Journal du commerce de l'Europe from 1792. Sometimes printed on his behalf as 'Restif jeune' or 'Rétif neveu'.