Eugène Renduel (18 November 1798 – 19 October 1874) was a 19th-century French
publisher
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.
Career
After he started working as a clerk by an "
avoué
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" in
Clamecy, he moved to
Paris
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in 1819. First an employee by a bookseller, he established his own bookshop in 1828 at 22
rue des Grands-Augustins
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Access
Notable residents
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in the modern
6th arrondissement
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and soon became the regular publisher of
romantic writers. During the 1830s, he took part in all meetings of the new school and met the future celebrities, still beginners, mostly those of the literary world of the time. Between 1831 and 1838, he published works by
Hugo,
Nodier,
Eugène Sue
Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (; 26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated '' The Mysteries of Paris'', whi ...
,
Sainte-Beuve
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic.
Early life
He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he se ...
,
Musset,
Gautier,
Lamennais,
Pétrus Borel, etc. However, he eventually dropped the ''
Gaspard de la nuit
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'' by
Aloysius Bertrand
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seven years after signing the contract with the author. He knew upon the best illustrators of the time,
Célestin Nanteuil
Célestin-François Nanteuil-Lebœuf, known as Célestin Nanteuil, (11 July 1813 – 6 September 1873) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator closely tied to the Romantic movement in France. He was born in Rome of French parents who were ...
,
Louis Boulanger
Louis Candide Boulanger (1806 – 1867) was a French Romantic painter, pastellist, lithographer and a poet, known for his religious and allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Life
Boulanger was born in Piedmont where his father, Fran ...
,
Tony Johannot, who would provide him with engravings.
In 1838, he purchased the castle of
Beuvron (
Nièvre
Nièvre () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. Named after the river Nièvre, it had a population of 204,452 in 2019.[Louis Hachette
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.
Illustrations
Le Romantisme et l'éditeur Renduelon wikisource.
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19th-century French publishers (people)
1798 births
People from Nièvre
1874 deaths