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HACHETTE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHE FRANCOIS

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 793 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HACHETTE, LOUIS CHRISTOPHE FRANCOIS .(1800-1864), French publisher, was born at Rethel in the Ardennes on the 5th of May "Soo. After studying three years at a normal school with the view of becoming a teacher, he was in 1822 on political grounds expelled from the
seminary
 . He then studied law, but in 1826 he established in Paris a publishing business for the issue of works adapted to improve the system of school instruction, or to promote the general culture of the community. He published manuals in various departments of knowledge, dictionaries of modern and ancient languages, educational journals, and French, Latin and Greek classics annotated with
great
  care by the most eminent authorities. Subsequently to 1850 he, in conjunction with other partners, published a cheap railway library, scientific and miscellaneous libraries, an illustrated library for the
young
 , libraries of ancient literature, of modern foreign literature, and of modern foreign romance, a
series
  of guide-books and a
series
  of dictionaries of universal reference. In 1855 he also founded Le Journal pour tous, a publication with a circulation of r50,000 weekly. Hachette also manifested
great
 
interest
  in the formation of mutual friendly societies among the working classes, in the
establishment
  of benevolent institutions, and in other questions relating 'to the amelioration of the poor, on which subjects he wrote various pamphlets; and he lent the
weight
  of his influence towards a just
settlement
  of the question of international literary copyright. He died on the 31st of July 1864.


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