Address bureaus ( fr. Bureaux d'adresse ) - in the 17th — 20th centuries in European countries, offices were established mainly in large cities and engaged in mediating between the supply and demand of personal services, facilitating the hiring of servants, inviting teachers, governors, clerks, etc. ; in France and Germany, sometimes even marriages were arranged ( bureau d'adresse et de rencontre ); also provided services for the rental of apartments, etc. [1] . In fact, they were the first information bureaus .
In 1630, French physician Teofrast Renodo (1586-1653), thanks to the patronage of Richelieu , received a patent for the ubiquitous design of address offices - places for all sorts of references and services, from hiring a worker to treating patients. It was at this office that the first French newspaper appeared (1631). From 1633, Renaudot began to issue, under the name "Feuille du Bureau d'adresse", the first leaflet of announcements; In the same year, the Academy was established at the office where every knowledgeable person could come to publicly discuss the most important issues of physics, morality, mathematics and other sciences . At Feuille du Bureau, the weekly meeting program was printed in advance, and then a report on it was published. Meetings were held until the year of death of Richelieu (1642). [2] [3] The advertisement sheet continued to be published until 1651. [4]
In Russia
Address offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow were established under the law of October 15, 1809 as special offices, police stations, obliged to register people of both sexes, who arrived in the capital for employment or other conditions. Their official names are:
- in St. Petersburg - " Address Office ",
- in Moscow - " Office of addresses ".
In 1867, the first experimental address tables were established in the cities of Vilna and Riga [5] [6] , before the experience gained spread throughout the country. In Soviet times, the bureau of references kept the name of the address table.
Notes
- Б Encyclopedic dictionary Brockhaus and Efron
- ↑ Renodo, Theophrastus // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ CONFÉRENCES DU BUREAU D'ADRESSE (1633–1642) / Dictionnaire des journaux (1600–1789)
- ↑ FEUILLE DU BUREAU D'ADRESSE (1633–1651) Dictionnaire des journaux (1600–1789)
- ↑ Note in the publication of the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire, 1868
- “Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Imperial”, vol. 42, part 2
Links
- Address offices // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.