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Brullé « L’ostrogoth » identifié

Frank A. Kafker

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Brullé “L’ostrogoth” identified
Little was know previously about the Encyclopedist Brullé except that he was the author of the articles IMPRIMERIE and PROTE, that he supervised the printing shop of André- François Le Breton, the publisher of the Encylopédie, and that he had helped his employer censor the Encyclopédie and thus earned the enmity of Diderot. Thanks to the discovery of two documents in the Archives Nationales, we now know that his full name was Louis- Claude Brullé, that he was trained as a printer, that he was neither rich nor poor, and that he lived modestly in an apartment on the Left Bank, where he died in 1772. Also we suspect that he was motivated to censor the Encyclopédie because he was a royalist and a sincere Catholic as well as a loyal employee of Le Breton.

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Frank A. Kafker, “Brullé « L’ostrogoth » identifié”Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie [Online], 27 | 1999, Online since 04 August 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rde/891; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rde.891

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