Marc-Antoine Jullien: a Pioneer of Documentation
Marc-Antoine Jullien, fils, called "de Paris", was born in 1775 and died in 1848, after a life of brilliant promise and bitter disappointment. He has found no place in the histories of libraries or of classification, not even that of Dr. Eric de Grolier, who has done so much to show the importance of the French contribution. Although he was well-known internationally in his own life-time, inspiring a biography by Louis Boivin in 1842, he might have been completely forgotten but for a most fortunate bibliographical "discovery". The eminent Hungarian educator, Francois Kemeny, while a student in Paris in 1885, found a large volume of "Brochures diverses" in a quai-side bookstall. One of the "brochures" was an Esquisse et vues preliminaires
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