Louis-Balthazar de La Chevardière

Louis-Balthazar de La Chevardière (February 1730 in Volx – 8 April 1812 in Verrières-le-Buisson) was a French music publisher in the second half of the 18th century.

[2] He first took over the company that Jean-Pantaléon Le Clerc[3] had passed to his daughter, Madame Vernadé.

In February 1780, he entrusted the management of the shop to his daughter, Elisabeth Éléonore and his step-son Jean-Pierre Deroullède for three years.

On 1 December 1784, he sold the company to Pierre Leduc (1755–1818) – the brother of composer Simon Le Duc – and retired in Verrières-le-Buisson where he became mayor of the city (1790).

In this area, his catalog included Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Carl and Anton Stamitz, Toeschi, Cannabich, Locatelli, Boccherini, Jommelli, Pergolesi, Gossec, Grétry, Philidor, Monsigny[2] His son, Alexandre-Louis Lachevardière (1765–1828), was a jacobin activist, then a senior official who had a son, Alexandre Lachevardière (1795–1855), an editor and bookseller.