Martin Bossange

Martin Bossange (2 February 1765 – 30 October 1865) was a book dealer, originally from Bordeaux, who relocated to Paris and created an international publishing business.

Bossange opened a book dealership in Santo Domingo (then part of Haiti) in 1801, and then in 1814, despite the wartime trade blockade, a subsidiary in London.

The centre of the international network which emerged after the end of the war was at Great Marlborough Street in London, where Bossange collaborated with two associates named Barthès and Lowell to build up a major book dealing business.

In 1818 or 1819 Martin Bossange ended the Masson partnership[1] and sold the printing shop that produced the Journal de la librairie.

During Bossange's absences abroad Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, a Bavarian writer who had fled to Paris in 1829 following differences with the authorities in Munich, presided over a series of "literary evenings" here.