Henri Desbordes

Henri Desbordes (died circa 1722) was a Huguenot printer who was exiled from his business in France and set up as a publisher in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Among his works was Nouvelles de la république des lettres.[1]

Career

Henri Desbordes was one of the most successful refugee booksellers in Saumur serving the theology students of his neighboring Protestant academy as well as ministers. In 1682 suspicion arose of him of having printed the anti-catholic Preservatif contre le changement de religion (A Preservation against the Change of Religion), which was written by Pierre Jurieu,[2] and the authorities send him to prison.[1]

Desbordes moved to Amsterdam after his release where in July 1682 he became a member of Amsterdam's Walloon church.[1] Apart from religious coercion, according to sources, he may have resettled in Amsterdam because he wished to open a shop abroad as at that time he possessed enough funds to do so. The shop he subsequently opened was situated in the commercial Kalverstraat.[3] Among others, Nouvelles de la république des lettres was one of the journals he published there.[1][4]

Beside printing more than 100 publications and selling books, Desbordes was also involved in conducting auctions.[5]

Personal life

Jaques Desbordes was the nephew of Henri Desbordes. Jaques was also noted for being a Huguenot publisher who took refuge in the Netherlands in the late 17th century.[6]

References
  1. David van der Linden (2015). Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700. Ashgate. pp. 54–55. ISBN 9781472429278.
  2. The Catholic University of America (2008). "A Preservative Against Popery" (1738): The Use of Late Seventeenth Century Polemical Works to Discourage Conversions from the Church of England. ProQuest. p. 159. ISBN 9780549583226.
  3. Louis Sloos (2008). Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.): Catalogue of Early Printed Books from before 1801 in Dutch Military Collections (in French). BRILL. p. 598. ISBN 9789047425885. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  4. Christophe Tournu; Neil Forsyth (2007). Milton, Rights and Liberties. Peter Lang. p. 141. ISBN 9783039112364. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  5. Jan Storm van Leeuwen (2006). Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century: General historical introduction, Noord Holland Volume 1 of Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century. University of Michigan: HES & De Graaf Publishers B.V. ISBN 9789061943693. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  6. Martin Fitzpatrick (2004). Enlightenment World: Routledge Worlds. Psychology Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780415215756. Retrieved 9 November 2015.

Further reading
  • Van Eeghen, Isa (1963). De Amsterdamse boekhandel, 1680-1725. Vol. II. Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema N.V. pp. 87–95.


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