Laurent Durand

Laurent Durand (* 1712 ; † 1763 ) was a French publisher in the Age of Enlightenment . He was close to the encyclopedists .

Live and act

Durand was born the son of a merchant near Auxerre . From 1730 he worked for the Parisian bookseller and printer Jacques Chardon (1688–1766). On January 31, 1739, he married Elizabeth Carbonnier, a niece of François Jouenne . He ran his company on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris under the name Saint-Landry et du Griffon . In 1746, the Paris Parliament condemned the work Pensées philosophiques, written by Denis Diderot and published anonymously by Durand, and publicly burned it . The Enlightenment was one of the four publishers - besides in particular André-François Le Breton , Antoine-Claude Briasson and Michel-Antoine David - those who published the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

literature

• Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland: Diderot et Laurent Durand, son éditeur principal, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. (2005), n ° 39, pp. 29-40.

Web links

• Literature by and about Laurent Durand in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IdRef. Biographical and bibliographical data
2. ↑ Jacques Chardon (1688–1766) data.bnf.fr
3. ↑ Frank A. Kafker; Jeff Loveland: Diderot et Laurent Durand, son éditeur principal. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, numéro 39 Varia, December 4, 2008
4. ↑ Joseph Le Gras: Diderot et l'Encyclopédie. Reviews Ayer Publishing, (1928), p. 57.