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Louis-Claude Brullé

French printer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3261536 ↗
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Louis-Claude Brullé (died 8 January 1772 in Paris) was an 18th-century French printer and Encyclopédiste.

From 1752 until 1765, Brullé was a foreman in the printing company of André le Breton, one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie. Brullé helped his employer to censor this book, which earned him the lasting resentment of Diderot.

Brullé wrote the articles Imprimerie and Prote for the Encyclopédie.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Louis-Claude Brullé” is french printer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Louis-Claude, Brullé and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1772, 1752, 1765—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1750. For this dossier, Louis-Claude, Brullé and French is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3261536. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1772, 1752 and 1765.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis-Claude Brullé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.