Laurent Durand

Laurent Durand (1712, Paris – 1763) was an 18th-century French publisher active in the Age of Enlightenment. His shop was established rue Saint-Jacques under the sign Saint Landry & du griffon.[1]

Durand was the son of a merchant born near Auxerre. From 1730, he worked for the Parisian bookseller and printer Jacques Chardon (1688-1766). On 31 January 1739, he married Elizabeth Carbonnier, a niece of a certain François Jouenne.

He was one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, along with Michel-Antoine David, André le Breton, and Antoine-Claude Briasson. He also was Denis Diderot's main publisher as well as that of several clandestine books.

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  1. ↑ He must not be mistaken for the bookseller-publisher P. E. G. Durand. See Robert Niklaus, Denis Diderot, Pensées philosophiques, Geneva, Droz, 1965, (p. 50) (footnote).
  2. ↑ Journal des savants (in French). 1746. p. 496.
  3. ↑ Date of his death; the publication of the Encyclopédie continued until 1772.
  4. ↑ Mercure de France, March 1759, (p. 137).
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