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to his own. Shortly afterwards, he opened a bookseller's 
shop, and in 1820 added a printing establishment to it. In 
1826, he became possessed of another printing office in 
Paris, while still retaining that at Blois. At this period of 
life, he not only pursued the regular business of this profes- 
sion, in which he excelled, but like many other printers who 
have themselves cultivated literature, he published various 
works on his own account. 
Among the more beautifully executed books which have 
issued from his press, may be mentioned “ The Luciad," 
translated by himself from the Greek, and an edition of 
“ Daphnis and Chloe," in Greek and French, translated by 
Amyot. He was the author of an historical description of 
those countries which form the department of Loire et Cher, 
Which heads the annual account of this department for 1825, 
and- of “Entomology, in Fifteen Lessons." He also pub- 
lished a prospectus and specimen sheet of a Polyglott Bible, 
but was obliged to relinquish it, for want of sufficient en- 
Couragement; and lastly he began to prepare a large book 
upon Insects, entitled * The Reaumur of Youth," which re- 
mained in manuscript and incomplete. 
Among, however, all these varied labours, Botany con- 
tinued to be his favourite study, and he diligently explored 
the department of the Loire et Cher, with a view to publish 
its Flora, à more pleasing task than tbat to which future 
events compelled him to addict himself. At this period, he 
became intimately acquainted with M. Naudin, a Justice of 
the Peace, now Councillor of the Prefecture and an ardent 
admirer of Natural History, also with a most respectable 
ecclesiastic, M. Lefrou, Rector of Cour-Cheverni, himself an 
excellent Botanist, whose just praise may be seen in M. 
Boreau's Introduction to the Flora of Central France.* 
From 1826, Aucher-Eloy fixed his residence in Paris, and 
continually endeavoured to extend his business, but his 
enterprizes did not meet with the desired success, and one of 
the frequent and trying crises in the book-trade, coming 1n 
* In 2 vols. 8vo. published at Paris by Roret, in 1840. 
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