Jean Ballesdens
French lawyer, editor and bibliophile
Jean Ballesdens (1595 in Paris – 1675 in Paris) was a French lawyer, editor and bibliophile, though he has left practically no writings. He is the first known collector of books with historic bindings.[1]
Biography
A lawyer to the parlement de Paris and secretary to chancellor Séguier, he was elected to the Académie française in 1648 - though he had renounced a place when it was first offered him, in favour of Pierre Corneille. He collected books and formed a library that was the rival of his master's in terms of numbers, choice and the editions' beauty. Notable books from it were the nine volumes in Grolier bindings.
References
- ^ Bearman, Frederick A. (1992). Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library. p. 16. ISBN 0962925411.
External links
- Académie française (in French)
- Le Roux de Lincy, "Researches Concerning Jean Grolier: His Life and His Library."(Grolier Club, 1907) pp.90-92
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- Claude de Malleville (1634)
- Jean Ballesdens (1648)
- Géraud de Cordemoy (1675)
- Jean-Louis Bergeret (1684)
- Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (1694)
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1743)
- Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1759)
- Jean-Sifrein Maury (1784)
- Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (1803)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1816)
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1827)
- Charles de Rémusat (1846)
- Jules Simon (1875)
- Adrien Albert Marie de Mun (1897)
- Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart (1918)
- Octave Aubry (1946)
- Édouard Herriot (1946)
- Jean Rostand (1959)
- Michel Déon (1978)
- Daniel Rondeau (2019)
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