BRUNET, JACQUES CHARLES French bibliographer, was born in Paris. He was the son of a bookseller, and in 1802 he printed a supplement to the Dictionnaire biblio graphique de livres cares (1790) of Duclos and Cailleau. In 1810 there appeared the first edition of his Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur des livres. Brunet published successive editions of his great bibliographical dictionary, which rapidly became the stand ard work on the subject. Among his other works are Nouvelles Recherches bibliographiques (1834), Recherches ... sur les editions originales de Rabelais (1852) and an edition of the French poems of J. G. Alione d'Asti, dating from the beginning of the 16th century (1836).
See a notice by Le Roux de Lincy, prefixed to the catalogue (1868) of his own valuable library. A supplement to the 5th ed. (186o-65) of the Manuel du libraire was published (1878-8o) by P. Deschamps and G. Brunet.