Adrien-Jean-Quentin Beuchot (13 March 1777, in Paris^[1] – 8 April 1851, in Paris) was a 19th-century Frenchbibliographer.

Raised by theoratorians ofLyon, He then worked briefly with a notary, and eventually studied medicine. In 1794 he was appointed surgeon adjutant by the ninth battalion of theIsère department.

Back into civilian life as soon as it was possible for him, Beuchot published his first literary essays in theBulletin des Petites Affiches of Lyon. In 1801 he moved to Paris where he cooperated to theCourrier des Spectacles by Édouard-Marie-Joseph Lépan and in 1802, he published with Dominique Boutard acomédie en vaudeville entitledles Prisonniers de Londres, ou les Préliminaires de paix, and inserted several light poems in different collections. In 1808, he was active with theNouvel Almanach des Muses, and wrote severalobituaries in theDécade philosophique.

• From 1810, he was, with F. Pillet andCharles Weiss, one of the most committed collaborators of theBiographie de la France byLouis-Gabriel Michaud, and until 1827, he mainly revised the bibliographic part of this work, to which he ceased to cooperate during printing of vol. XLVIII, due to problems with the publisher, Mr. Michaud. He inserted valuable information in them.
• He also wrote the bibliographic part of theBiographie des Hommes vivants, 1815, 5 volumes in-8. From 1811 to 1849 he conducted with informed care the publication ofBibliographie de la France, ou Journal de l’imprimerie et de la Librairie, useful collection, accompanied by index aimed at facilitating searches.

• He also had reprinted, with prefaces and notes:
  • theDictionnaire historique byPierre Bayle; 1820–1824, 16 volumes in-8°
  • theŒuvres byVoltaire; 1831–1841, 72 volumes in-8 including 2 of indexes. This edition, the most complete and most prized, was the result of fifteen years of work

From 1828 to 1840 he republished the complete works of Voltaire and wrote several "Avertissements" particularly forl'Écossaise, theatre play written in 1760 (1829), but also for theLe Dictionnaire philosophique,La Henriade,l'Essai sur les mœurs andL'esprit des nations, etc.

Librarian of the House of Representatives from 1831, Beuchot retired in 1850.

• 1812:Nouveau Nécrologe des hommes nés en France ou qui ont écrit en français, morts depuis le 1 janvier 1800; Paris, in-8;
• 1814:Liberté de la Presse, in-8;
• 1814:Oraison funèbre de Bonaparte; in-8: recueil piquant des adulations adressées à Napoléon par certains fonctionnaires; il y eut cinq éditions;^[2]
• 1815:Opinion d’un Français sur l’Acte additionnel aux constitutions de l’empire; in-8°;
• 1815:Dictionnaire des Immobiles; in 8;
• 1817:Réflexions sur les lois concernant la propriété littéraire; in-8;
• 1831:Notice surFénelon, suivie d’une liste chronologique de ses écrits; in-8°;
• Catalogue de la bibliothèque Voltairienne, unique collection remained in manuscript, including the original editions and reprints of each main Voltaire works with satire, criticism, parody, apologies, etc. on Voltaire.

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• 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
• 19th-century French journalists
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• 1777 births
• 1851 deaths
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