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Montreal, Quebec
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Person
Brisebois, Michel
1947-2006
Michel Brisebois was born on June 27, 1947, in Montreal, Quebec.
He was a Canadian specialist in 18th-century French books, a former antiquarian bookseller, and a rare books curator and librarian at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa and Bibliothèque nationale du Canada in Montreal. He is the author of the books, "Impressions" (1999), "The Printing of Handbills in Quebec City, 1764-1800" (1995) and its French version, "L'imprimerie à Québec au XVIIIe siècle: les feuilles volantes et affiches, 1764-1800" (2005).
In 1967, he married Ginette Gauthier (1949–1998). He died on February 3, 2006, in St. Placide, Quebec.