Client:

École typographique des Orphelins (partnership)

Profession(s):

profession	translation	profession group	economic sector
éducateur	Pedagogue	Education	Professions
typographe	Compositors	Printshop workers	Print-related trades

Acquired: between 545 and 566 books (in 6 orders)

Notes:

The 'école typographique des orphelins' was in fact a front organised by a single bookseller - Karl de Grandmesnil. He accumulated a debt of more than 3000 livres tournous with the STN in 6 months in 1781 and then disappeared without making a single payment. He reappeared in Vienna in 1788 and even had the audacity and surety of his new identity to order further books from the STN. (Freedman, 488).

Query:

Correspondence:

Date(s): 26th April 1781 - 11th September 1781

There are 16 documents from this client in the archive, of which 16 are letters.

Address(es):

HOMBOURG

Manuscript list (MS, fos):

1147, 4-35

For more details on archival references, see the complete list of manuscripts.

Named people:

Name:	Grandmesnil, Karl [de]
Sex:	male
Notes:	The 'école typographique des orphelins' was in fact a front organised by a single bookseller - Karl de Grandmesnil. He accumulated a debt of more than 3000 livres tournois with the STN in 6 months in 1781 and then disappeared without making a single payment. He reappeared in Vienna in 1788 and even had the audacity and surety of his new identity to order further books from the STN. (Freedman 488).