Marc-Michel Rey

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Marc-Michel Rey was an 18th-century Dutch publisher and bookseller known for printing and disseminating works of Enlightenment philosophers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf bookseller
person
publisher
activeYearsEnd 1780
activeYearsStart 1740s
associatedWith French Enlightenment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
birthDate 1720-05-05
birthPlace Canton of Vaud NERFINISHED
Lausanne NERFINISHED
Switzerland
businessModel international book trade
causeOfDeath illness (unspecified in most sources)
countryOfCitizenship Dutch Republic
deathDate 1780-06-08
distributionArea Dutch Republic
France
other parts of Europe
employer self-employed
era 18th century
ethnicGroup French-speaking Swiss
fieldOfWork Enlightenment literature
philosophy books
genre philosophical literature
political literature
religious criticism
knownFor disseminating Enlightenment philosophy
printing works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
publishing controversial and heterodox texts
languageOfWorkOrName Dutch
French
movement French Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment
name Marc-Michel Rey self-link
notablePublication The Social Contract
surface form: Du contrat social (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Lettres écrites de la montagne (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
various clandestine philosophical works
Emile, or On Education
surface form: Émile, ou De l’éducation (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
notableWork editions of works by Baron d’Holbach
editions of works by Denis Diderot
editions of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
editions of works by other Enlightenment philosophers
editions of works by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
occupation bookseller
publisher
religion Protestantism
residence Amsterdam
workLocation Amsterdam

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marc-Michel Rey name Marc-Michel Rey self-link
Julie, or the New Heloise publisher Marc-Michel Rey