Jules Renouard

Jules Renouard (13 February 1798 - 20 February 1854) was a French book dealer, editor and bibliographer. Life Jules Renouard was born in Paris in the 11th arrondissement (under the city's pre-1860 district boundaries). His father was the industrialist-politician and book dealer Antoine-Augustin Renouard. His maternal grandfather was Charles-Grégoire de Beauchamps. He attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand (school) a few hundred meters to the south of the city centre, and then relocated to London where he began a business career, working for a banker. In 1826 he took over his father's book dealership, installing himself and his business in an imposing town house back in Paris. Renouard married Adèle Cunin-Grudaine on 17 March 1832. Her father, Laurent Cunin-Gridaine, was an industrialist who had grown rich and become a politician. The marriage produced a son, Léopold Renouard (1833-1910) who in due course would become a leading Paris banker. However, in 1834 Adèle died, aged just 34. His second marriage was to Amélie Talabot (1810-1869)) and took place on 27 October 1837, producing in due course five recorded children including Georges Renouard (1843-1897) who much later would marry a daughter of Baron Haussmann, France's most famous city planner.