Victor Tournachon

{{Short description|French printer and bookseller (1771–1837)}}

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| name = Victor Tournachon-Molin

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1771|10|13|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1837|8|8|1771|10|13|df=y}}

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| nationality = French

| occupation = Printer, bookseller

| children = Nadar

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Victor Tournachon-Molin (13 October 1771 – 8 August 1837) was a French printer and bookseller. He was the father of the photographer Nadar.{{cite web

| url=http://data.bnf.fr/13531692/victor_tournachon-molin/

| title=Victor Tournachon-Molin

| publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France

| accessdate=2017-01-12}} He was also the first French printer to publish the translation of Giacomo Casanova's masterpiece, Histoire de ma vie, from 1825 to 1829.{{cite web

| url=http://lavenuslitteraire.com/SplendideCasanova.htm

| title=Splendide Casanova

| first=Joseph|last=Vebret

| publisher=lavenuslitteraire.com

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Translation of ''Histoire de ma vie''

After the success of the first German edition of Casanova's memoirs, Victor Tournachon edited a pirate edition, without access to the original manuscript. This first French edition was a German to French translation from the French to German Schütz translation, which results in a very approximate and imperfect text.

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