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Appointed in 1802 as Government research commissioner in science and the arts for the four departments of the Rhine, Jean-Baptiste Maugérard supplied the Bibliothèque nationale with large quantities of manuscripts and rare printed books confiscated in Germany. As a former Benedictine monk from Lorra...
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| المؤلفون الرئيسيون: | , |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Français |
| منشور في: |
2000
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Appointed in 1802 as Government research commissioner in science and the arts
for the four departments of the Rhine, Jean-Baptiste Maugérard supplied the
Bibliothèque nationale with large quantities of manuscripts and rare printed books
confiscated in Germany. As a former Benedictine monk from Lorraine, he had,
before the Revolution, developed close trading relations with book loving circles in
France and Germany, and had undertaken a number of investigative journeys across
the Rhine. He had been forced into exile in 1792, and had taken refuge in
Thuringia, where he had carried on a large scale business in rare books and manuscripts obtained at low prices from German monasteries. He was allowed to return to
France in 1802, and was at once given the task by the government of choosing and
sending to Paris precious books held in the regions annexed to France by the treaty
of Lunéville (1801). In close on two years, he sent several hundred valuable books to
the Bibliothèque nationale. This booty was partially returned in 1815, and in
Germany has been subjected to detailed study, whereas in France Maugérard’s activities have for long remained in carefully preserved obscurity. |
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