Fleury Mesplet
Fleury Mesplet, 1794
Fleury Mesplet (January 10, 1734 – January 24, 1794) was a French-born Canadian printer best known for founding the Montreal Gazette, Quebec's oldest daily newspaper, in 1778.[1][2]
Biography
Mesplet was born in Marseille, France, and was apprenticed as a printer in Lyon. He emigrated to London in 1773 where he set up shop in Covent Garden.[1]
In 1774 he emigrated to
Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada) for the Continental Congress in 1775, and travelled to Montreal
the following year to set up a printing press in the newly captured city.
As the Americans withdrew from Montreal, he was arrested and imprisoned, but released later in the year; however, he managed to publish several works in 1776.
In 1778 he founded the Gazette Littéraire de Montréal, edited by
Montreal Gazette
, the successor to the suspended Gazette Littéraire.
In total, he published some seventy or eighty works, in
Iroquois; ten of these ran to more than a hundred pages, and another seven were almanacs
.
References
- ^ a b Galarneau, Claude. "Mesplet, Fleury", in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, University of Toronto and Université Laval, 2000, retrieved January 15, 2009
- ^ Steinberg, S. H. (1974). Five Hundred Years of Printing; 3rd ed., revised by James Moran. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974, 400 p. (1st ed.: 1955)
- ^ Doyon, Nova, "L'Académie de Montréal (1778): fiction littéraire ou projet utopique ? Archived 2013-12-26 at the Wayback Machine", in Mens, vol 1, no 2, Spring 2001, pp. 115-140.
Further reading
- Brunet, Michel (1951). Les Idées politiques de la Gazette littéraire de Montréal (1778-1779), 8 p.
- Derome, Robert, Bernard Andrès, Marc-André Bernier, and Yvan Lamonde. "The Publications of Mesplet and du Calvet", in the site Images from the Turn of a Century 1760-1840. A Portrait of Arts, Literature and Eloquence in Québec, 2000 (was also an exhibition presented at the Château Ramezay Museum between January 27 and May 28, 2000)
- Fauteux, Aegidius (1934). Fleury Mesplet; une étude sur les commencements de l'imprimerie dans la ville de Montréal, United States, s.n, 35 p. (online)
- Fleury Mesplet (1734-1794) at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2005), in the site of 'ALAQ, 2002
- Lagrave, Jean-Paul de & Ruelland, Jacques G. (2001). L'imprimeur des Libertés : Fleury Mesplet (1734-1794) : roman historique, Montréal: Éditions Point de Fuite, 391 p. ISBN 2-89553-019-X
- Lagrave, Jean-Paul de (1994). L'Époque de Voltaire au Canada: biographie politique de Fleury Mesplet, imprimeur, Montreal: L'Étincelle éditeur, 502 p.
- Lagrave, Jean-Paul de (1985). Fleury Mesplet, 1734-1794 : diffuseur des Lumières au Québec, Montréal : Patenaude, 503 p.
- McLachlan, Robert Wallace (1906). Fleury Mesplet, the First Printer at Montreal, Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 113 p. (online)
- Morin, Victor (1939). Fleury Mesplets, pionnier de l'imprimerie à Montréal : causerie faite au dîner annuel des Maîtres imprimeurs de Montréal le 19 avril 1939, Montreal: Compagnie de papier Rolland limitée, 30 p.
- Trudel, Marcel (1945). L'influence de Voltaire au Canada, Tome I: de 1760 à 1850, Montréal: Publications de l'Université Laval, Fidès, 1945.
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