Le libraire et l’écrivain La correspondance entre Charles de Villers et Christophe-Gabriel Collignon

Descending from a long line of printers and booksellers in Metz, Christophe-Gabriel Collignon was Villers’s main publisher. From 1798 to 1814, the writer and the publisher kept up a voluminous correspondence. The study of those letters highlights the writer’s speculative or artistic interests, his personality and, finally, the genesis of his works. Collignon’s letters reflect the life of a firm that looks toward Germany, in a period of extensive technical and economic changes.