Name Charles-Antoine Jombert | ||
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Died 1784, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France | ||
Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712–1784) was a French bookseller and publisher.
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Charles-Antoine Jombert was born 1712 in Paris.
Jombert belonged to a dynasty of booksellers. He became a bookseller when his father, Claude, who had been a bookseller since 1700, died in 1735.
Charles-Antoine Jombert specialised exclusively in military works and was royal bookseller to the artillery and the Royal Engineers. Later he bought much of Pierre-Jean Mariette's collection of prints and books, published an edition of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, and traded with all of Europe.
He died 1784 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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