Mar 11, 1678Guise, Hauts de France, FranceDied on 14 Jun 1756 (aged 78)Pisces
About Prosper Marchand
Prosper Marchand (11 March 1678 – 14 June 1756) was an 18th-century French bibliographer. The son of a king's musician, a native of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he was received as bookseller in August 1698, but established his shop only by the end of 1701, in association with Gabriel II Martin.
He took refuge in The Hague in 1709 for matters of religion.
He abandoned the profession of bookseller around 1713.
From 1713 to 1723, he was proofreader at Fritsch and Böhm in Rotterdam, then editor at the Journal littéraire from 1713 to 1737; booksellers catalogs editor; review editor; author of the Dictionnaire historique ou Mémoires critiques et littéraires, edited by J.
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Allamand, La Haye, 1758-1759.
At the end of his life, he was attached to Daniel Monnier, a librarian in The Hague