Antoine-Augustin Renouard

Antoine-Augustin Renouard (21 September 1765 – 15 December 1853) was an industrialist and political activist in Paris at the time of the French Revolution who became a book dealer, printer and bibliographer.

Life Renouard was born in Paris in 1765. His father, Jacques-Augustin Renouard (1736-1806) was a merchant and manufacturer, originally from Guise, who specialised in Gauze and Silk from premises in the centre of Paris. In 1781 Antoine-Augustin followed his father into the Gauze and Silk businesses, father and son working together

In 1834 he was able to acquire the Abbey of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, which had previously been a royal property, but was then declared a national asset and nationalised during the revolution, before being sold off to bolster state finances.

Publications As a publisher, Renouard's output included the following volumes: Coup-d'oeil sur les monnoies, sur leur administration et sur le ministre des contributions publiques, Paris : Garnery : Desenne, 1793 Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, 1819 Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions, Paris, 1803-1812; 2nd edition Paris, 1825 Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou l'histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions; 3rd} edition. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 1837 & 1843. Recueil de 123 fables en 5 livres, imitées d'Ésope. - Complété par l'"Appendix Perottina", contenant 30 ou 32 fables et le "Phaedrus solutus", contenant 30 autres fables Sorte de journal, écrit en grec, divisé actuellement en 12 livres, méditations sur la vanité des choses terrestres, Pensées : Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853) as éditeur scientifique

Family In 1794 Renouard married Catherine de Saintes (1772-1858), the illegitimate daughter of The Marquis of Beauchamps and the Countess Ferdinanda Louise de Horion (at the time of Ferdiandna Louise's birth the widowed third wife of Maximilian of Arberg). Renouard's five recorded children were: (1794-1878), magistrate, moralist and politician Eugénie Renouard (1795-1871) Jules Renouard (1794-1854), book dealer-editor Paul Renouard (1803-1871), consul and painter Hippolyte Renouard (1808-1871), squadron leader Renouard's grandchildren included Albert Ricot (1826-1902), iron master and politician Léopold Renouard (1833-1910), financier and deputy governor of the Bank of France Georges Renouard (1843-1897) who became son-in-law to city planner Baron Haussmann Lucie Renouard who married the populist politician Général Boulanger