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JOSEPH MARIE QUERARD (1797-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 742 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:MARIE See also:QUERARD (1797-1865)  , See also:French bibliographer, was See also:born at See also:Rennes on the 25th of See also:December 1797 . He was apprenticed to a bookseller in his native See also:town, and was sent abroad on business . He remained in See also:Vienna from 1819 to 1824, and there See also:drew up the first volumes of his See also:great See also:work, La See also:France lilteraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique See also:des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, &c . (10 vols., 1826-1842), dealing especially with the 18th and See also:early 19th centuries, which he was enabled to See also:complete by a See also:government See also:subsidy granted by See also:Guizot in 183o, and by the help of the See also:Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky . The See also:firm of See also:Didot, who were his publishers, took out of his hands the Litterature francaise contemporaine with which he had intended to complete his work, and placed it with Ch . Louandre and F . Bourquelot . See also:Querard avenged himself by pointing out the errors of his successors . In spite of his claims Querard was unable to secure a position in any of the public See also:libraries . He died in See also:Paris on the 3rd of December 1865 . Among his other See also:works are: See also:Les supercheries titteraires devoilees (5 vols., 1845–56); Bibliographie La Menaisienne (1849); Dictionnaire des ouvrages-polyonymes et anonymes de la litterature francaise, 1700–1850 (1846–47); an additional See also:volume to La France littiraire entitled Ecrivains pseudonymes, &c . (1854–56) .

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Mar . Jozon d'Erquar, Querard, in La France litteraire (1854), vol. xi .

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