Louis Christophe François Hachette

Louis Christophe François Hachette ( born May 5, 1800 Rethel, Ardennes department; † July 31, 1864 in Paris) was a French bookseller and author.

Life and work

Hachette studied education at the École normale supérieure. Politically interested and engaged ( restoration ) in 1822, he moved to the Sorbonne to study law. In 1826 he broke from this study and also founded a bookshop in Paris with attached Publishing. His goal was to create a basis to improve the school-based teaching and the like, the formation of the " common people " by hand and text books, educational magazines, dictionaries to increase. Later followed and arrangements of French, Greek and Latin classics, which also found their competitive pricing widespread.

In 1848, the French Second Republic was proclaimed, there were also changes in the business sector. Therefore Hachette founded along with business friends a Discount Bank, the " Comptoir National d' escompte de Paris" ( from 1966 part of the BNP Paribas ).

From 1850 Hachette began with his sons Louis Bréton († 1883) and Émile Templier († 1891), and later with his sons (H. & Compagnie ) to publish fiction and illustrated series in its publisher; inter alia,

• Bibliothèque variée
• Bibliothèque des meilleurs romans étrangers
• Bibliothèque populaire
• Bibliothèque rose illustrée
• Bibliothèque des merveilles
• Collections des guides et itinéraires ( by Adolphe Joanne and others)

In 1855, Hachette magazine Le journal pour tous, and later the Tour du monde. As a businessman, he was a member of the Comptoir d' escompte of Paris and sat in numerous essays and reports for the protection of literary and artistic property (copyright) a.