Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470-1600 [1 ed.] 9789004324145, 9789004324138

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Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600

Library of the Written Word volume 87

The Handpress World Editor-in-Chief Andrew Pettegree (University of St. Andrews) Editorial Board Ann Blair (Harvard University) Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz) Shanti Graheli (University of Glasgow) Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins University) Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford) Alicia Montoya (Radboud University) Angela Nuovo (University of Milan) Helen Smith (University of York) Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool) Malcolm Walsby (ENSSIB, Lyon) Arthur der Weduwen (University of St. Andrews)

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Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 By

Malcolm Walsby

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Cover illustration: Members of the book trade active in provincial France 1470–1600 [see also illustration 2] Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Walsby, Malcolm, author. Title: Booksellers and printers in provincial France, 1470-1600 / by  Malcolm Walsby. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: The handpress world ;  volume 68 | Includes indexes. Identifiers: LCCN 2020036155 (print) | LCCN 2020036156 (ebook) | ISBN  9789004324138 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004324145 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Book industries and trade—France—History—To 1500. | Book  industries and trade—France—History—16th century. |  Printing—France—History—Origin and antecedents. |  Printing—France—History—16th century. | Booksellers and  bookselling—France—History—Registers. |  Printers—France—History—Registers. | Women in the book industries and  trade--France—History—Registers. Classification: LCC Z305 .W35 2020 (print) | LCC Z305 (ebook) | DDC  381/.450020944—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036155 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036156

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Contents List of Illustrations vii 1 French Booksellers and Printers and the Provincial Book Trade during the Renaissance 1 Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 5 A Diverse Group 13 Women in the Provincial Book Trade 17 Commercial Relationships 19 Fictitious Printers and Booksellers 23 2 A Guide to the Dictionary 26 The Sources 29 3 Table of Abbreviations and Bibliography 30 4 Booksellers, Printers, and Bookbinders of Provincial France, 1470–1600 47 Index of Booksellers and Printers Falsely Indicated as Being Active in Provincial France during the Sixteenth Century 889 Index of Family Trees 890 Index Cognominum 891 Index of Women Booksellers and Printers Active Independently 893 Index of Women Named as Having Married Male Booksellers and Printers 895

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Places with an active bookseller or printer 1470–1600 6 Number of members of the book trade active in provincial France 1470–1600 7 3 Number of members of the book trade active in the provinces in the 1510s 9 4 Entry for Pierre Grangier in the Dijon tax register, AM Dijon L 206 f. 65 10 5 Number of booksellers and printers in the main French cities 12 6 Number of booksellers and printers per 1,000 inhabitants in the main French cities 13 7 Towns with direct dealings with Lyon booksellers or printers 20 8 Towns with direct dealings with Paris booksellers or printers 21 9 Towns with direct dealings with Poitiers booksellers or printers 22 10 Towns with booksellers who had direct commercial relations with Geneva and Protestant churches founded in the sixteenth century 24 11 Signature of Pierre Abegou, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 47 12 Signature of Clément Alexandre, 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 51 13 Signature of Thibaud Ancelin, 1591, AD Gard 2 E 1 280 57 14 Device used by Michel Angier, 1527, USTC 112440 62 15 Device used by Domergue Anselme, 1500, GW M38574 64 16 Signature of Pierre Arnoul, 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 67 17 Signature of Robert Auber, 1551, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 403 72 18 Signature of Jean Aubin, 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 74 19 Signature of Olivier Avenel, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 415 79 20 Signature of Pierre Barrilhard, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 91 21 Signature of Bonaventure Belis, 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 446 104 22 Signature of Guillaume Bichon, 1598, AN MC LXXIII 149 120 23 Signature of Jean Blondel, 1550, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 1302 128 24 Signature of Romain Blondel, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 414 129 25 Signature of Charles de Bougne, 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 153 26 Signature of Jean Boullenc, 1560, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 430 156 27 Signature of Raoulin Boullenc, 1560, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 430 157 28 Signature of Guillaume Bourdon, 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 159 29 Signature of Philippe Bourguignon, 1558, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 2 161 30 Signature of Denis Bouvet, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 431 166 31 Signature of Pierre Brenouzet, 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 447 177 32 Device used by Jean Calvez, 1499, USTC 57340 197 33 Signature of Pierre Caura, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 204 34 Signature of Matthieu Chedeville, 1564, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 438 219

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35 Signature of Nicolas Chedeville, 1565, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 442 220 36 Mark of Jean Chesnaye, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 433 222 37 Signature of Jean Collet, 1596, AM Troyes Boutiot AA 43 6 247 38 Signature of Joachim de Contrières, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 436 256 39 Signature of Jean Crevel, 1570, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 474 271 40 Signature of Jean Dache, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 274 41 Signature of Aimard Dalvy, 1599, AM Périgueux GG 32 275 42 Signature of Pierre I Dalvy, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 276 43 Signature of Pierre II Dalvy, 1594, AM Périgueux GG 29 276 44 Signature of Gilles Degoys, 1592, AM Périgueux GG 28 287 45 Signature of Pierre Degoys, 1599, AM Perigueux GG 32 288 46 Signature of Jean Desnoyers, 1569, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 462 299 47 Signature of Jean des Planches, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 433 300 48 Signature of Jean I des Planches, 1557, AM Dijon L 111 300 49 Signature of Pierre Doriou, 1616, AD Loire-Atlantique B 5649 306 50 Signature of Pierre du Gord, 1569, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 463 321 51 Signature of Sébastien du Molin, 1591 AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 323 52 Device used by Raphaël du Petit-Val 329 53 Signature of Jean I Elis, 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 342 54 Signature of Jean de Fontaines, 1560, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 431 367 55 Signature of Jean Fortin, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 434 368 56 Gadoubert, Amadis 1591 AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 250 376 57 Signature of Claude Garnier, 1584, AM Troyes Boutiot AA 43 3 382 58 Signature of Edme Garreau, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 384 59 Signature of Claude Isaye Gentil, 1591, AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 395 60 Signature of Eloy Gibier, 1583, BM Tours Rés 5569 398 61 Device used by François Girault, 1556, USTC 37674 407 62 Signature of Cornelis Godefroy, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 409 63 Signature of Antoine Gourdin, 1570, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 474 415 64 Signature of Pierre Grangier, 1557, AM Dijon L 111 422 65 Signature of Zacharie Griveau, 1591, AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 427 66 Signature of Mathieu Guillemot, 1591, AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 436 67 Device used by Antoine Hernault, 1591, USTC 18064 456 68 Signature of Saturnin Hotot, 1583, BM Tours Rés 5569 463 69 Signature of Jean Houdin, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 414 464 70 Signature of Pierre Hubault, 1553, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 405 467 71 Signature of Catherine Jabot, 1601, AM Reims C 802 l 175 472 72 Signature of Pierre Jagourt, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 476 73 Signature of Sébastien Jaquy, 1596, AD Gard 2 E 1 291 478 74 Signature of Jean Julian, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 415 486

Illustrations 75 Signature of Guillaume Laignel, 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 442 498 76 Signature of Richard I Lallement, 1570, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 471 502 77 Signature of Guillem de la Mothe, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 504 78 Signature of Jean Lancolle, 1552, AD Gironde 3 E 848 506 79 Signature of Louis Lavanne, 1565, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 444  521 80 Escutcheon of Bertrand de Léau and his second wife, church of Gouesnou 523 81 Signature of Richard Le Febvre, 1553, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 406 542 82 Woodcut used by ‘Jean Le Gascon’, 1577, USTC 10089 548 83 Mark of Robert Le Gentil, 1556, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 417 550 84 Device used by ‘Le Libertin’, 1597, USTC 75273 553 85 Mark of Martin I Le Mesgissier, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 411 556 86 Signature of Martin II Le Mesgissier, 1564, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 439 557 87 Signature of Tassin Le Mesgissier, 1564, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 439 559 88 Signature of Jean I Le Prest, 1554, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 409 568 89 Signature of Jesse Le Sellier, 1565, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 443 579 90 Signature of Pierre L’Huillier, 1585, AN MC XXXIII 19 587 91 Signature of Michel Logeroys, 1595, AD Ille-et-Vilaine C 2901 591 92 Signature of César Luquet, 1591, AD Gard 2 E 1 280 602 93 Signature of Guido Malignan, 1591, AD Gard 2 E 1 280 616 94 Signature of Robert I Mallard, 1565, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 444 619 95 Signature of Thomas II Mallard, 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 621 96 Signature of Pierre Marchant, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 627 97 Signature of Jean Marie, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 413 632 98 Signature of Jamet Mettayer, 1591, AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 661 99 Device used by Jamet Mettayer, 1594, USTC 2781 662 100 Signature of Simon Millanges, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 666 101 Signature of Pierre Moulin, 1560, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 432 690 102 Signature of Guillaume Mullot, 1550, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 1302 692 103 Signature of Jean Oudot, 1596, AM Troyes Boutiot AA 43 6 709 104 Signature of Georges Paien, 1595, AD Vendée 3 E 37 259 712 105 Signature of Guillaume Pavye, 1569, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 464 723 106 Signature of Jean Petit, 1570, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 471 732 107 Signature of Charles Pingault, 1552, AD Gironde 3 E 848 746 108 Signature of Louis Pourchel, 1551, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 403 757 109 Signature of Jean Primoult, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 762 110 Signature of Antoine Ravisse, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 771 111 Signature of Théodore Reinsart, 1594 Museum Plantin Moretus Archive 92 782 112 Signature of Jaspar de Remortier, 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 446 783

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113 Signature of Jean Richer, 1591 AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 789 114 Signature of Jacques Rousseau, 1572, AM Nantes BB 148 800 115 Signature of Pierre de la Salle, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 812 116 Signature of Pierre Thoulouze, 1552, AD Gironde 3 E 848 838 117 Device used by ‘Philippe de Tours’, 1578, USTC 7020 842 118 Signature of Antoine Tresfer, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 846 119 Signature of Florent Valentin, 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 424 857 120 Signature of Robert I Valentin, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 431 858 121 Signature of Jean Vattes, 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 427 862 122 Signature of Philippe Verdure, 1564, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 438 866 123 Tomb stone of Pierre de Villiers and Suzanne Béjart, Church of St Jean, Troyes 874 124 Signature of Jacob Virevaloys, 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 878

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French Booksellers and Printers and the Provincial Book Trade during the Renaissance The French provincial book world has traditionally been the poor relation of book history in France. In particular, the analysis of the extensive network of booksellers that covered the entirety of the kingdom has been the subject of very little scholarly interest. As early as the nineteenth century, serious archival work was done to identify, list and make widely accessible knowledge of the Paris book industry. At the forefront of this movement was the bookseller turned scholar Philippe Renouard. Following in the footsteps of his father Antoine-Augustin Renouard, whose seminal work on the Estienne workshop was a milestone in French bibliographic studies, he published a repertoire of all the printers, booksellers, bookbinders and other men and women connected to the world of printing in Paris.1 He supplemented this with another volume that presented the minutes of all the relevant documents he had been able to identify.2 In this, he was using not just his father’s work but also the pioneering research undertaken by Ernest Coyecque in the minutier central, the archive of all the notarial acts relating to agreements made within the capital.3 The result of this formidable undertaking was a volume that, though printed at the beginning of the twentieth century, has continued to be the main work of reference for the sixteenth-century Paris book industry. Indeed, when it was deemed that subsequent scholars had discovered a sufficient quantity of new information to warrant a new publication, they did not replace the volume but instead issued a second amended edition of the original.4 The durability of Renouard’s undertaking stands testament to the quality of his work. 1  Philippe Renouard, Imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d’imprimerie, puis l’introduction de l’imprimerie à Paris, 1470 jusqu’à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris: A. Claudin, 1898) and Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Annales de l’imprimerie des Estienne, ou Histoire de la famille des Estienne et de ses éditions (Paris: J. Renouard, 1843). 2  Philippe Renouard, Documents sur les imprimeurs, libraires, cartiers, graveurs, fondeurs de lettres, relieurs, doreurs de livres, faiseurs de fermoirs, enlumineurs, parcheminiers et papetiers ayant exercé à Paris de 1450 à 1600 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1901). 3  Ernest Coyecque, ‘Inventaire sommaire d’un minutier parisien pendant le cours du XVIe siècle (1498–1600)’, Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France. Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France, XX–XXIII (1893–1896). 4  The book was published in 1965 under the same title as the original by the Parisian publishing house Minard with additional work undertaken by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer and Brigitte Moreau. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021 | doi:10.1163/9789004324145_002

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In this regard, however, Renouard’s work does not stand alone. The bibliographic research of Henri Baudrier, continued in part by his son and supplemented by the analysis of the De Tournes by Cartier, offers a similar overview of the Lyon book trade of the Renaissance.5 Though it was also published in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, it did not like the Renouard volume offer details of all the printers and booksellers and the nature of their known activity in the succinct format of a purpose designed repertoire. Nevertheless, the first volume devoted to the various publishers and printers of the city does list all the main and secondary figures that Baudrier had encountered during his research. By adding to this the indexes published at the end of each volume and the further supplementary volumes, it was possible to have a broadly comprehensive overview of the members of the local trade. Together, Renouard and Baudrier’s volumes offered a very useful and accurate basis from which to analyse the activity of the two cities. The ease of access to this information perhaps helps to explain in part the concentration of most subsequent work on these sections of the French book world. Certainly, nothing of the sort was available to those interested in the development of the provincial book trade. During the late nineteenth-century, studies in this field by and large concentrated on identifying printed books worthy of regional pride and on analysing the advent of printing in a town and the subsequent evolution of its print industry. The numerous studies of early provincial printing that appeared during this period are often very detailed and perform the invaluable task of locating dispersed documents and the role of local proto-typographers. But the booksellers and bookbinders active in this period rarely receive much attention. Furthermore, these studies were generally published in relatively obscure local periodicals, often the journal of the regional society for the study of archaeology and history.6 In consequence, for many decades access to their contents remained restricted to those who either sought them out in the French national library or who lived in the area in which they were originally published. Though mass digitisation programmes have made many of these works more accessible, they still remain difficult to find, sandwiched as they are between analysis of local megaliths and accounts of numerous heroes of the 1789 revolution.

5  Henri Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise. Recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle (Lyon: Librairie ancienne d’Auguste Brun, 1895– 1921) and Alfred Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des de Tournes, imprimeurs lyonnais (Paris: Éditions des Bibliothèques nationales, 1937–1939). 6  See the numerous works listed in the bibliography that follows this introductory essay.

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The first attempt to bring all this information together was the result of a much later bibliographic undertaking: the Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIe siècle.7 Initially issued as a series of separate brochures for each place of publication before being re-printed (confusingly) in a different order a few years later, this was a long process involving many different authors. The first consequence of this was that the volumes were of varying quality. Some of the bibliographers limited their efforts to local libraries and erudite publications, whilst others sought to undertake a complete national and sometimes international trawl for surviving copies.8 Once the set was complete it was possible to use the data gathered to publish the first national overview of the print industry during the sixteenth century. The resulting volume was compiled by Jean Muller and was organised not by the name of the individuals concerned but by town, replicating the format of the individual bibliographic volumes from which the data had been extracted.9 To this, he had added further information on both Paris and Lyon to provide a complete national picture. The entries for each person were very succinct: they comprised the first and second names followed simply by the dates at which they were known to be active – information that was once more derived from the title pages and colophons of the books described in the series. The limited nature of the records meant that the volume was in reality little more than a general index of the Répertoire bibliographique and as such of little help to understand the nature of the provincial book world. Furthermore, though the title suggested the book was a dictionary, in fact it only sought to provide a list of those individuals who had been identified as having taken part in the publication of a volume. This meant that whilst all the printers were theoretically included, booksellers were only included if they also acted as commercial publishers. More recently, a comprehensively approach has been adopted under the aegis of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. First published in 1988, under the guidance of Jean-Dominique Mellot, a team of librarians and researchers have 7  Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle (Baden-Baden: initially by Heitz and then by Valentin Koerner, 1968–1986). The volumes for Normandy were printed under a separate title and were the result of the careful scholarship of Pierre Aquilon: Bibliographie normande: bibliographie des ouvrages imprimés à Caen et à Rouen au seizième siècle (Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1980–1986). 8  In one case, the well-respected scholar of sixteenth-century French literature, Michel Simonin, went as far as to castigate what he called ‘l’auteur médiocre du Répertoire bibliographique’. 9  Jean Muller, Dictionnaire abrégé des imprimeurs-éditeurs français du seizième siècle (Baden-Baden: Heitz, 1970).

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offered a more fully documented overview of the publishers of the early modern book world stretching from the appearance of print in France to 1830.10 Now in its fifth edition, this handbook has entries for over 10,000 different individuals known to have been active in the publication of books all over the world. This is a mammoth undertaking which is inevitably continuously evolving as the authors’ efforts are divided over a large chronological and geographical spread. However, the main weakness for our understanding of the world of the book in Renaissance France is that it is mainly concerned with the production of books, not with their distribution or sale. The increasing interest in the economics and early practices of the book trade has challenged this traditional approach to the printed book. In 2005, Andrew Pettegree noted in his milestone work Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion that this domain had never been systematically studied, but this is no longer the case.11 James Raven has sought to understand the long-term evolution of the trade in England whilst the translation of Angela Nuovo’s general perspective of the intricacies involved in buying and selling books in Italy has made her work widely accessible.12 On a pan-European scale, Ian Maclean’s analysis of the complexities of the commerce in learned books has provided a welcome international perspective.13 All these studies stress the importance of the distribution and retail sale of contemporary imprints and must lead us to reconsider the place and influence of the local bookseller in the book trade. This is something I sought to achieve in my own study of the economics of the French book in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that emphasises the role of provincial retailers.14 In such a context, the index provided by Muller seemed inadequate. The present dictionary of the bookbinders, booksellers and printers of provincial 10   Jean-Dominique Mellot, Élisabeth Queval, Nathalie Aguire, Cécile Bellon, Wojciech Kolecki, Antoine Monaque, et al., Répertoire d’imprimeurs / libraires (vers 1470–vers 1830) (Paris: BnF Éditions, 2019). It was initially published under the slightly different title Répertoire d’imprimeurs-libraires, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles in 1988 with further editions in 1991, 1997 and 2004. 11  Andrew Pettegree, Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 12  James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450–1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). Angela Nuovo was first published under the title Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento in Milan before being translated into English: The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2013). 13  Ian Maclean, Learning and the Market Place. Essays in the History of the Early Modern Book (Leiden: Brill, 2009) and Scholarship, Commerce, Religion. The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). 14  Malcolm Walsby, Entre l’atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021).

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France attempts to provide the first overview of all the members of the regional book trade: both those involved in the production and publication of books and those who were simply sellers. It provides entries for over 2,650 different individuals active in the provinces – close to four times the number identified by Muller. It also seemed important to provide information that would help us make sense of their careers and mutual interactions as well as data that would be helpful to other scholars. As a result, the dictionary provides more than a simple index, with short biographies numerous other features that are explained below.

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France

Bookselling as an occupation predated printing. In Paris, the need for texts for students and teachers of the university saw the development of a network of bookseller-stationers that was already in place in the late fourteenth century. The development of print, however, changed their role and led to an exponential rise in the number of booksellers both in the capital and elsewhere in France. Initially, printers sought to look after the sale of their own books, seeking out potential buyers and opening retail stalls often adjoining their workshops. Such trade was concomitant to their activity as producers of books and, indeed, when printers travelled from one city to the next in search of employment, they travelled with copies of their existing stock that they sold in each of the towns through which they passed.15 Within a few decades, however, this system of distribution had been replaced. It had proved insufficient to meet the increasing demand for printed books not just in the centres of production but throughout the large network of small and medium sized towns that characterised the French provinces. The diversity of texts on offer was tantalising for readers outside of Paris and Lyon. The level of demand was demonstrated in the attempts of a canon in the town of Saint-Flour to obtain the latest Lyon imprints in the first decades of the sixteenth century by asking local merchants who travelled to the city to bring back the books he craved.16 By then in most towns, there was a new figure to deal with such requests: the local retail bookseller. 15  See the example of Mende where itinerant printers are known to have sold books in 1477, despite the fact that no books are known to have been printed in the town before the seventeenth century: Monique Hulvey, ‘Sellers and Buyers of the Lyon Book Market in the Late Fifteenth Century’ in Cristina Dondi (ed.) Printing R-evolution and Society 1450–1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe (Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2020). 16  Jean Chatel meticulously indicated how he obtained his books, noting for instance that his works of Antonin of Florence had been obtained by the local merchant Jean de La

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Illustration 1 Places with an active bookseller or printer 1470–1600

The rise in the number of booksellers was exponential during the first decades of print in France. Between the advent of print and the end of the sixteenth century, retailers set up shop in all middling and large towns in the kingdom. This dictionary lists close to 200 different places where books were produced or sold in this period – a list which is undoubtedly incomplete as it is based on the fragmentary evidence of the archives and on the survival of the books themselves. This meant that wherever one lived, there was a bookseller nearby who could purvey books. Illustration 1 shows the extent of this coverage. This geographic dispersion demonstrates that most French people had relatively easy access to books in the sixteenth century; the local bookseller was Voûte who had bought the volumes in the shop of the Lyon bookseller Simon Vincent in 1521 and had brought back for him: Diocesan library of Saint-Flour.

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Illustration 2 Number of members of the book trade active in provincial France 1470–1600

the key figure in the dissemination of the editions printed in Paris, Lyon, or other great European centres of print. With over 2650 identified members of the book trade, it is also possible to assess the importance of each town in this topography of the French book world (Illustration 2). The density of the network is striking, as is the sheer number of individuals involved. Beyond the two major centres of the book with international standing, there are clearly regional centres: Rouen in Normandy, Troyes for the Champagne region, Angers and Orléans along the Loire, Poitiers for the west and central regions, Bordeaux in Guyenne, Toulouse in the south and Avignon for Provence. All these cities played a crucial role in the dissemination of volumes beyond the immediate surrounding countryside. Secondary centres such as Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Reims, Dijon, Bourges, Aix-en-Provence, Limoges, represented a lower tier essential in the organisation of the book trade, still

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engaging in wholesale as well as retail activity. The bookshops of the other towns and cities seem mainly turned towards retail. These were the most quotidian level of bookselling beneath which there remained only what Robert Darnton has called the ‘capillary system of the book trade’ when analysing the eighteenth-century, in other words, book peddling and sales at market stalls.17 The embedding of booksellers in so many different French centres meant that a person who wished to acquire books could do so locally. This made the local bookseller the first and main interlocutor through which texts could be sourced. The establishment of this wide network was surprisingly rapid. By the 1510s, just forty years after the appearance of print in the kingdom, there were already at least 77 towns in which booksellers were established. The geographic dispersion over the whole territory was already complete and the main regional centres had already begun to emerge. Fifteen cities had five or more identified actors in the trade active in that decade, as is shown in illustration 3. These disparities are, in part, the result of the survival of documentary evidence. But they often mirror very real differences between cities. A comparison between Dijon and Troyes is revealing in this respect. Both these cities were regionally influential. Dijon boasted a parlement, an episcopal see, was the capital of the surrounding region of Burgundy, and had historically been a thriving cultural centre. Similarly, Troyes was also an episcopal see, with a buoyant commerce that had profited from the local fairs, as well as a tradition of cultural patronage. The similarity extended to the size of their population: at end of the sixteenth century Dijon had some 21,000 inhabitants, whilst Troyes was only slightly smaller with 19,000.18 In both cases, tax rolls compiled by the local authorities at regular intervals have survived in the municipal archives that supplement other existing sources to give a good overview of who was active in the local book world.19 Despite these structural similarities, the sources suggest that the nature of the book trade in the two cities differed greatly. 17  Robert Darnton, A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) p. 183. 18  See Michel Turquois, ‘La population de Troyes au XVIe siècle’ in Pierre-Eugène Leroy (ed.), Le beau XVIe siècle troyen. Aspects de la vie politique, économique, artistique, littéraire et religieuse à Troyes de 1480 à 1550 (Troyes: Centre troyen de recherche et d’études Pierre et Nicolas Pithou, 1989), pp. 63–72, and Paul Bairoch, Jean Batou, and Pierre Chèvre (eds), La Population des villes européennes : banque de données et analyse sommaire des résultats, 800–1850 (Geneva: Droz, 1988), pp. 25 & 30. 19  For Dijon, the sources include the rolls between 1523 and 1581, as well as the requests submitted to reduce tax rates: AM Dijon LL 111, LL 164, LL 192–193, LL 201, LL 206, LL 679, LL 687 & LL 691. For Troyes, they cover the period 1512 to 1600: AM Troyes, F 211, F 232–236, F 247, F 261, F 265, F 269–270, F 272, F 274–276.

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Illustration 3 Number of members of the book trade active in the provinces in the 1510s

Research in the local archives has enabled me to identify 201 booksellers, printers and binders in Troyes, but only 36 in Dijon. This ratio of almost six to one is confirmed if we look at a single decade where two tax registers survive for both cities. In the 1580s, eight people appear in the dictionary for Dijon but 54 for Troyes. This disjuncture in the number of practitioners is not necessarily linked to the printed output of each city. In the 1570s, for instance, when the presses of Jean I des Planches were in activity, 32 imprints are identified by the USTC for Dijon in the 1570s, and 65 in Troyes. A close look at the tax rolls show that there is also a substantial difference between the wealth of members of the book trade of each city. In Dijon, the municipal tax roll of 1580 identified just four people, but they paid, on average, the considerable sum of 10.5 livres tournois. In Troyes, the same document in the same year lists 25 practitioners, though in this case they were taxed just two thirds of a livre; in other words, they were required to pay fourteen times less than their Burgundian

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Illustration 4 Entry for Pierre Grangier in the Dijon tax register, AM Dijon L 206 f. 65

counterparts. The printer, bookseller and publisher Jean I Moreau in Troyes paid as much as the Dijon booksellers, but there were numerous other people who owed just a few sous. All were dispersed in various parts of the town. In Dijon, in contrast those named were grouped together and cited alongside the town notables such as lawyers of the local Parlement (see illustration 4). This page of the tax register shows that, as far as can be ascertained, the register also included people exempt from taxation, such as ‘Me Othebert’, undoubtedly Pierre Odebert, a councillor to the Parlement from 1568 to 1589.20 Whatever their financial problems, booksellers were considered to be amongst the elite of the city. For most towns, however, such extensive tax records do not survive and here it has been necessary to look for other sources of information to evaluate the number of members of the book trade active in each city. The registers of births, marriages and deaths are a useful manner of filling in the gaps of our knowledge, especially in towns where the priests were conscientious enough to note 20  Fleury Vindry, Les parlementaires français au XVIe siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1909– 1912), I, 171.

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systematically the profession and name of each protagonist. This was unfortunately not always the case. In Angers, in the parish of Saint-Maurille, an entry created in September 1584 frustratingly reads ‘Le mercredy vingtungiesme jour dudict moys et an sudit fut enterré ung libraire fort aagé’ with no further explanation of the bookseller’s identity.21 Mostly, however, it was the profession that was omitted, making the identification of booksellers, binders and printers difficult, beset in particular by the dangers of confusion with contemporary namesakes, especially when the known members of the book trade bore names that were common locally. However, in some places such as Toulouse, although incomplete, the registers are pivotal in understanding how the trade continued and developed in the city during the second half of our period.22 This allows us to ascertain with a greater degree of precision the relationship between the number of members of the book trade active in a town and the size of its population. The following table presents the combined data we have for bookseller and printer activity in the most prominent French cities of the Renaissance. The calculation presented in the final column reveals that there was proportionally a greater concentration of members of the book world in cities such as Poitiers, Rouen, Toulouse and Troyes than in Paris. More broadly, three different strata of printing towns emerge from these statistics those with a high rate of between 7 and 10 book personnel for every thousand inhabitant (five cases), those with a medium rate between 3 and 5 (also five cases), and a lower rate between 1 and 2. It is interesting to note the relationship between the population figures and the number of booksellers and printers we know to have been active simultaneously. Illustration 6 shows us what this means on a more practical level by presenting the number of booksellers and printers per inhabitant in 1600. The graph underlines the disparity in experience between cities where the book trade was particularly strong, such as Troyes or Rouen, and the rest of the kingdom. Such a snapshot emphasises the importance of the provincial nodal points of the trade, with a minimum in all these main cities of one bookseller per 1,000 inhabitants. As a point of comparison, there was at the start of 2020 one bookshop for every 7,000 inhabitants in Rennes, and one for every 9,500 in Dijon. 21  ‘On Wednesday the twenty first day of the said month and year a very old bookseller was buried’ – parish register of Saint-Maurille, AD Maine-et-Loire GG 112 f. 16r. 22  I was able to find useful evidence in the following registers now preserved in Toulouse’s municipal archives: GG 1, GG 2, GG 6, GG 26, GG 27, GG 28, GG 29, GG 32, GG 102, GG 103, GG 104, GG 220, GG 221, GG 222, GG 522, GG 523, GG 524, GG 554, GG 555, GG 556, GG 557, GG 573, GG 574, GG 575, GG 695, GG 696, GG 697, GG 1937.

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City

Booksellers and printers

Population in ‘000s c. 1600a

Ratio to population

Parisb Lyonc Rouen Toulouse Troyes Bordeaux Poitiers Angers Avignon Bourges Tours Orléans Caen Nantes La Rochelle Rennes Dijon Amiens Montauban Aix-en-Provence Reims Nîmes

1407 378 426 355 202 165 158 100 95 63 61 60 58 40 37 35 34 33 33 30 29 28

260 35 60.2 40 19 35 20 24.8 26 18 47.5 40 30 22,5 21.25 30.9 21 25 15.5 18 16 14

5.41 10.8 7.08 8.87 10.63 4.71 7.9 4.03 3.65 3.5 1.28 1.5 1.93 1.78 1.74 1.13 1.62 1.32 2.13 1.67 1.81 2

a The population figures were taken from the following sources: J. Boutier, Documents d’histoire moderne du milieu du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Talence: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1992), pp. 129–130; J. Dupâquier, Histoire de la population française (Paris: PUF, 1995), p. 94; J.-P. Bardet, Rouen aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, les mutations d’un espace social (Paris: SEDES, 1983), p. 34; M. Turquois, ‘La population de Troyes au XVIe siècle’, in P.-E. Leroy (ed.), Le beau XVIe siècle troyen (Troyes: Centre troyen de recherche et d’études Pierre et Nicolas Pithou, 1989), pp. 63–72; J. Gaston, La communauté des notaires de Bordeaux (1520–1791) (Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, 1991) pp. 46–47; F. Cadilhon and L. Coste (eds), L’Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : textes et documents (Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008), p. 123; F. Lebrun, Les hommes et la mort en Anjou aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : Essai de démographie et de psychologie historiques, (Paris: Mouton, 1971), p. 162; P. Bairoch, J. Batou and P. Chèvre, (eds), La Population des villes européennes : banque de données et analyse sommaire des résultats, 800–1850 (Geneva: Droz, 1988), p. 23; O. Chalines, ‘La société urbaine des ports de commerce français du ponant’, in J.-P. Poussou (ed.), Les sociétés urbaines au XVIIe siècle : Angleterre, France, Espagne (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007), p. 136; P. Benedict, The Huguenot Population of France, 1600–1685 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1991), p. 55 and F. Lebrun, ‘L’évolution de la population de Rennes au XVIIe siècle’, Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l’Ouest, XCIII (1986), 249–255. b P. Renouard, Imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d’imprimerie, depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie à Paris (1470) jusqu’à la fin du XVIe siècle, second edition by J. Veyrin-Forrer and B. Moreau (Paris: M.-J. Minard, 1965). c Data mainly from H. Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise. Recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle (Lyon: Auguste Brun, 1895–1921), and ‘Dictionnaire des imprimeurs et libraires lyonnais du quinzième siècle’, Revue française d’histoire du livre, CXVIII–CXXI (2003), pp. 209–225. Illustration 5 Number of booksellers and printers in the main French cities

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Illustration 6 Number of booksellers and printers per 1,000 inhabitants in the main French cities



A Diverse Group

Though these are important and interesting indicators as to the omnipresence of the book trade in provincial France, behind these overall statistics there lies a real diversity between the different booksellers and printers listed in the dictionary. We have already seen this in terms of taxation, but the differences ran deeper that just financial circumstances. For many of the people identified here we have little information on which to build a profile of their career. Though the average career described lasted just over ten years, for half we are only able to identify their activity during a single year. However, this also means that for the others we are able to reconstruct careers spanning several decades. Originally from Lyon, Hugues Barbou settled in Limoges in 1567. He had a background in the trade as his father had also been a bookseller and Hugues clearly understood how to profit from the production, wholesale and retail trade in books. Two decades after he had moved, he was able to buy a house of the considerable sum of 3,000 livres and immediately undertook an ambitious plan to develop the property even further. He added a staircase, a courtyard, refurbished the foundations of the walls and paved all the rooms as well as the

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courtyard. All told, he had to double the amount of money he had invested for the acquisition of the property and still bought some vines the very same year.23 The commercial success of his business was confirmed under the stewardship of his inheritors after his death and the family as a whole experienced a quite stunning social ascension. By the eighteenth century, members of the family held important offices both locally and in the service of the king.24 In other cities, booksellers with a lower profile were similarly successful. The notarial registers of Montauban stand testament to the wealth of Jean Peyrusse who was able in 1575 to make an advantageous marriage that brought with it a dowry of 500 livres.25 His career went from strength to strength as he acquired extensive land.26 The will he drew up in 1581 shows considerable wealth, establishing dowries of 600 livres for each of his daughters and leaving sums to the poor of the city.27 Another example was the Luquet family in Nîmes. In 1550, Jean Luquet was able to undertake a wholesale refurbishment of his shop. He changed the entire façade and explained in some detail how he intended follow the latest architectural trends.28 The business continued to thrive in the second half of the sixteenth century and in 1592 his son, César, redesigned the entire interior space of his bookshop. He had three internal walls removed to maximise space, had the paving inside the shop entirely redone and extended the building.29 However, selling books did not guarantee wealth and the dictionary is full of examples of those who failed to profit from the trade. Some booksellers complained very vocally about their financial difficulties. In Dijon, Philibert Soignerot asserted that he owned very few possessions and no real estate. Bookselling barely allowed him to make ends meet: people, he explained, did not buy anything.30 A few decades later in the same city Pierre Grangier in 1552 described how he had to support a wife and ten children and how this 23  See the family register published in P. Ducourtieux, Les Barbou imprimeurs, Lyon-LimogesParis (1524–1820) (Limoges: Veuve H. Ducourtieux, 1896), p. 15–16. 24  See Erin K. Lichtenstein’s thesis, ‘The Barbou of Limoges: Gender, Family, and Work in France, 1566–1786’, Stanford University, 2014. 25  Marriage contract between Jean Peyrusse and Bonne de Fabre, 14 August 1575, AD Tarn-et-Garonne, 5 E 837 f. 195. 26  In 1586 alone he bought three pieces of land, see the contracts of 14 February, 26 February and 12 March 1586: AD Tarn-et-Garonne, 5 E 250 f. 31r, 322r and 33v. An earlier acquisition of 17 February 1583 was also confirmed that same year (see f. 74v). 27  Jean Peyrusse’s will, 28 March 1581, AD Tarn-et-Garonne, 5 E 250, f. 46–51. 28  Contract and payment for work undertaken on Jean Luquet’s shop, 30 November 1550 and 19 November 1551, AD Gard, 2 E 1 232 and 2 E 1 233. See also my description and reconstruction of the shop front in Entre l’atelier et le lecteur, chapter 2. 29  Payment by César Luquet, 5 July 1592, AD Gard, 2 E 1 280. 30  Philibert Soignerot to the mayor and aldermen of Dijon, [1501], AM de Dijon, LL 679.

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forced him to work simultaneously in the fields as he did not sell sufficient books to feed them.31 Poverty was certainly a recurrent theme in the registers of taxation and even some high profile figures found the going tough. Having learnt his trade in Paris, Antwerp and Lyon with some of the great names of the industry, Théodore Reinsart had considerable experience of publishing and bookselling and had married the wealthy widow of Thomas II Mallard. Yet by the time of his death, he was no more than ‘a poor bookseller’ and was buried without a coffin.32 The type of activity undertaken does not seem to have had a direct bearing on financial success. Whether a printer, a publisher, a wholesale or a retail bookseller, or any combination of these, commercial success seems to have been down to astuteness, business savvy, and, undoubtedly, luck. Certainly, there are examples of success and failures in all fields. Perhaps the most striking feature is the number of otherwise rather obscure retail booksellers who seem to have done on average disproportionately better than those working in other branches of the trade. By leaving a lot of the risk to publishers who had to speculate on what would sell, to wholesalers who had to look after the distribution of books, and to printers who often depended on the irregular and frequently tardy payments from local institutions, they seem to have managed to turn a profit. The advantageous contracts they signed with other members of the trade seem to confirm this.33 These differences were not simply financial. The level of education of those involved varied widely. Some had studied at university before entering the world of the printed book. Nicole Paris who was active in Troyes and Larrivour between 1542 and 1547 had attended the University of Paris where he obtained a master’s degree in the arts. Simon Millanges had a bachelor’s degree in law, registered as a lawyer, then became master at the college of Guyenne, before moving into printing, publishing and bookselling. Even some for whom we have no formal indication of their level of education were clearly well read, such as Jean Luquet in Nîmes whose design for his new shop was based on reading the works of Sebastiano Serlio. Others, on the other hand, struggled. Martin I Le Mesgissier, the founder of an important dynasty of Rouen publishers, was incapable of signing his name. The Poitiers bookseller Matthieu Lucas was another who admitted that he did not know how to write. A good basic education was not seen as a prerequisite for work in the book trade. The marked differences in the quality of penmanship demonstrated in the

31  Pierre Grangier to the mayor and aldermen of Dijon, [1557], AM de Dijon, LL 111. 32  Accounts of the parish of Saint-Sauveur, 1617, AD Seine-Maritime G 7563. 33  This analysis is developed further in my Entre l’atelier et le lecteur.

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hundred signatures reproduced in this volume emphasises the varied capacities of those who entered the trade. Religion became another source of diversity during the sixteenth century. Traditionally, the Reformation was thought to have been adopted by many members of the book world. This understanding was partly based on the German example, but also on high profile examples such as Étienne Dolet and Robert I Estienne.34 However, more recent work has underlined the strength of the Catholic response.35 Certainly, the provincial book world was very divided. Some were heavily committed to the Protestant cause and, like Guyon Boudeville in Toulouse, paid the ultimate price. A Catholic rival, Jacques I Colomiès was quick to profit from his downfall, buying his material and setting up a dynasty that dominated the local market for the following decades.36 Others Protestants chose to keep a low profile; the printer and bookseller Julien du Clos in Rennes for instance kept his head down and continued to work for the local authorities whatever his own religious convictions.37 On some occasions these religious divisions had an impact both on the running of the shop and on family life. Martin Cottereau was born into the trade in 1546 and took over his father’s shop in Chartres. However, his conversion to Protestantism when he was around thirty brought him into conflict both with the local authorities and his own family. His wife, Anne Hotot, the daughter of another local bookseller, refused to convert to Calvinism. Martin was forced to flee his home town in 1585, seeking refuge in Geneva, but already by then he had been undermined by Anne who had, behind his back, taken his children to be baptised as Catholics. The parish registers recorded that at the birth of his son Josias in 1579, the infant was stolen away by his wife ‘a good and honourable woman’ aided by Martin’s own father. In 1585 another son, Joseph, was re-baptised aged two, despite having already received the sacrament in the local Protestant church. To add insult to injury, when Martin returned to the city in 1589, he was promptly banished. In his absence, it seems his wife ran the shop most competently and they were thought at that time to be amongst the wealthiest inhabitants of the city.38 34  N  . Z. Davis, ‘Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyon: a Study in the Problem of Religion and Social Class During the Reformation’, Doctoral thesis, University of Michigan, 1959. 35  F. Higman, Piety and the People: Religious Printing in French 1511–1551 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996) and A. Pettegree and M. Hall, ‘The Reformation and the Book: a Reconsideration’, Historical Journal, XLVII (2004), 785–808. 36  See, most recently, G. Bessis, Guyon Boudeville. Heurs et malheurs d’un imprimeur toulousain au temps de la Renaissance (Toulouse: Amis des Archives de la Haute-Garonne, 2014). 37  M. Walsby, The Printed Book in Brittany, 1484–1600 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 187–201. 38  G. Feyel, L’imprimerie à Chartres (Chartres: Société archéologique d’Eure-et-Loir, 2007), pp. 564–566.

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Women in the Provincial Book Trade

As is suggested by the case of Martin Cottereau, women were central to the functioning of the book trade. However, as was the case with questions of faith, their involvement in the provincial trade is often hidden from view by the limitations of our sources. This is a recurrent problem when attempting to gauge the role and importance of women in the book world. Traditional descriptions and characterisations of the early modern book trade have mostly been silent on the question of gender or the role played by women, contributing to the assumption that they were of marginal importance.39 Recent work in France has sought to highlight their role, but evidence remains fragmentary.40 When an attempt was made to enumerate all women booksellers in France over the first four centuries of print, the result for provincial France in the Renaissance was rather underwhelming; under forty individuals were listed as active before 1601.41 This work, as most others, only included women who were active independently from a husband or son and, to add insult to injury, did so by including them under the names of their late husbands.42 This does not do justice to their real presence or role during this period. They are listed here under their own names. Work in the archives has enabled us to increase substantially the number of women listed as running a bookshop or a printer’s workshop to over a hundred different individuals. We also know that a wife during her husband’s lifetime often worked alongside him in the shop – not least as her husband had on some occasions acquired the shop, or the money to set it up, thanks to her dowry. The extent of the practical involvement of wives is hard to gauge: depictions of bookshops in the early modern era often feature women selling books, but inevitably little hard proof of this is to be found in extant documents. At best, we have anecdotal evidence that points to the fact that this

39  See Michelle Levy’s questioning of Darnton’s communication circuit in her ‘Do Women Have a Book History?’, Studies in Romanticism, LIII (2014), 296–317 – though this is predominately interested in authorship. 40  For Rouen see S. Skora, ‘Héritières et pionnières: les femmes et le livre à Rouen à l’époque moderne’ in A. Bellavitis, V. Jourdain, V. Lemonnier-Lesage and B. Zucca Micheletto (eds), Tout ce qu’elle saura et pourra faire: femmes, droits, travail en Normandie du Moyen âge à la Grande guerre (Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015), 67–82. For Paris: A. Parent-Charon, ‘A propos des femmes et des métiers du livre dans le Paris de la Renaissance’ in D. de Courcelles and C. Val Julián (eds), Des femmes et des livres : France et Espagnes, XIV e–XVIIe siècle (Paris: École des chartes, 1999), 137–148. 41  R. Arbour, Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470–1870) (Geneva: Droz, 2003). 42  The same is true of Christoph Reske’s Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschen Sprachgebiet (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015).

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was assumed common practice.43 It seemed obvious to contemporaries that Jacquette Turpin, the wife of the Angers bookseller Jean Varice, would conduct the transactions with other booksellers that led to him being freed from the prison of the Conciergerie in 1547.44 In Rouen, the role of Georges Jouenne’s wife, who seems to have worked as a bookbinder in his shop, was not seen as noteworthy.45 That a wife should work alongside her husband would have often been considered as the habitual modus operandi.46 This means that identifying the wives of members of the book trade is necessary to shed light on a vital, but hitherto hidden, facet of the trade itself. By systematically including the names of these women, we can add close to another 600 names of women which are listed separately in an index with the names of their husbands. The role played by some women as the shop manager emphasises that they were not simply passively overseeing the day to day work. The degree of identification they had with their trade in the eyes of their contemporaries shows how they were considered. A case in point was Jacquette Aubry who was active in her own right in Poitiers after the death of her husband, Mathurin Guérineau. In surviving documents, she was referred to simply as ‘Jacquette la librairesse’. Marie Geoffre in Bordeaux showed the importance of playing an active role in the development of a printer’s workshop, requesting and obtaining privileges from the Parlement of Guyenne.47 Catherine Jabot in Reims did the same with regard to the selling of books, defending her right to a strategic place at the local fair.48 The irate autograph letter written by the Parisian publisher Denise de Marnef about the payment of outstanding debts to the Nevers bookseller Jacques Montignon underlined this hands on role.49 Women were also often central to relations between booksellers, not least through matrimonial alliances that fitted in with the wider strategic commercial positioning of the 43  S ee A. Pettegree and A. der Weduwen, The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2019) pp. 401– 402 for telling evidence, also involving a dowry. 44  Payments made to Yolande Bonhomme and Oudin Petit, 18 June 1547, AN Minutier Central étude LXXIII carton 10. 45  Skora, ‘Héritières et pionnières’ at p. 67. 46  See the more general remarks made in C. Dousset, ‘Commerce et travail des femmes à l’époque moderne en France’, Les Cahiers de Framespa, II (2006): http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/57. 47  See the acts of 7 July 1563 and 24 April 1567, AD Gironde 1 B 273 n° 92 and 1 B 302 n° 280. 48  Request made by Catherine Jabot, 31 March 1601, AM Reims C 802 l. 175. In this case she associated her son, Gilbert de Foigny, to her claim. 49  Denise de Marnef to Jacques Montignon, 21 October 1547, printed in L. Delisle, ‘Papiers de Jacques Montignon, libraire de Nevers’, Mémoires de la Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France, XXIII (1896), 281–291 at p. 287.

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shops. In the book world, marriage within the profession was commonplace, as has been recognised in a number of cities or in the case of specific families.50 It enabled dynasties of booksellers to establish relations that formed the background to many of the local commercial relationships that were vital to the book trade.

Commercial Relationships

The book trade depended on the presence of strong commercial networks that enabled the producers of books to disseminate their output. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to move books from the workshops mainly clustered in great print centres such as, for France, Lyon and Paris to the 200 or so different towns in which the books were to be sold. This development from centralised production to dispersed retail sale required the creation of a mercantile infrastructure capable of buying, transporting and selling books wholesale. Establishing, refining and strengthening this system was a gradual process achieved both by innovation and by replicating existing commercial practices. This was not a smooth process; some systems were set up and then abandoned. Circumstances as well as political and religious upheaval forced changes. The development of the French book trade was anything but a smooth and untroubled success story.51 The inclusion of all identifiable commercial partners in the dictionary enables us to understand some of the characteristics of this system as it evolved over time. The most obvious lesson to be learned from the analysis of commercial partners is first of all local. Booksellers and printers worked mainly with their counterparts within the town or with those who had settled nearby. The complex mesh of relationships was dense within all trades on a local level: people often married, exchanged goods and undertook projects with other families who worked in the same or in a related trade within the same town.52 In all provincial cities, the most likely commercial partner for funding publication of an edition was a bookseller from the same city. Such projects could involve 50  See the cases highlighted in P. John, ‘Publishing in Paris, 1570–1590: A Bibliometric Analysis’, Doctoral thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011, pp. 12–19. 51  The stages of this development are analysed in my ‘Les étapes du développement du marché du livre imprimé en France du XV e au début du XVIIe siècle’, Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, LXVII (2020). 52  Endogamy amongst artisans dominated in Dijon, for instance, where over half also chose godfathers from within the same guild: J. R. Farr, Hands of Honor. Artisans and Their World in Dijon, 1550–1650 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) pp. 133–149.

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Illustration 7 Towns with direct dealings with Lyon booksellers or printers

a substantial number of local members of the book trade. When a temporary corporation was set up in Toulouse to print 1,250 copies of a grammar book for local students in 1535, no fewer than fifteen different booksellers of the city took part.53 As was the case in this example, printers in the provinces were also most likely to work for local publishers. A second issue of interest is understanding the relative influences of Lyon and Paris in the provinces through the prism of the commercial relations they developed. Illustrations 7 and 8 present the number of booksellers and printers in each provincial city who had direct dealings with their counterparts in the two big print centres. For Lyon, the Loire valley seems, with the exception of Rouen, to mark the most northern point of direct influence. The river was 53  R  . Corraze, ‘Jacques Colomiès, maître imprimeur toulousain (1490–1570)’, Bulletin philologique et historique jusqu’à 1715 du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (1938/39), 121–136 at p. 130.

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Illustration 8 Towns with direct dealings with Paris booksellers or printers

an important transit route for books from the city that were destined for the Iberian market and they maintained contacts in the main fluvial ports but no further. Beyond that, they relied on other booksellers to buy their imprints and act as wholesalers to distribute them to retail traders. In the south, they had strong relations with all the large cities and especially Toulouse where most booksellers seem to have turned to Lyon to obtain a large part of their stock. Of the other cities, Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Bordeaux and Dole stand out as having strong commercial ties with the city. The map of the Parisian network presents an almost symmetrical spread but this time for the northern part of the kingdom. The coverage is good, with most towns of importance maintaining some degree of direct commercial relations with the city. The Loire Valley, in this case, seems to have acted as a vector for distribution rather than as a furthest point of reach, as was the case of Lyon. For cities situated on the river, the number of booksellers enjoying relations with their Parisian counterparts is higher than it was for Lyon and Parisian

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Illustration 9 Towns with direct dealings with Poitiers booksellers or printers

influence seems to have reached as far as the towns situated on the tributaries of the Loire – though not much beyond that. Cities such as Bordeaux and Toulouse as well as Burgundians towns turned firmly towards Lyon. Rouen, unsurprisingly, stands out as the main partner for Paris with significant dealings with counterparts in Angers, Orléans and Troyes. The kingdom thus seems to have been in great part cut in two between the principal print centres, but regional centres also had their role to play both in terms of their own more modest output and, mainly, as centres of local distribution. The map of the towns that enjoyed commercial relations with Poitiers booksellers is instructive in this respect. The city maintained strong relations with both Lyon and, in particular, Paris from where the great Marnef dynasty had come in the early sixteenth century. These connections meant that Poitiers booksellers were ideally placed to source wholesale packets, split up and then sell on bales of books to retail booksellers in the local area. Towns such as

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Angoulême, Niort or Pons seem to have relied on consignments that had first transited by regional hubs such as Poitiers. Information about these commercial networks is also important for understanding the penetration of the Reformed book on the French market. The manner in which Genevan wholesalers such as Laurent de Normandie operated has attracted attention, as have the unfortunate pedlars who were caught and tried by French courts.54 But it is interesting to see that Calvinist book distribution in great part depended on using existing booksellers strategically situated to make the most of local demand. Illustration 10 shows the correlation between the towns in which these retailers operated and the number of Protestants. Some of these towns were important centres of Huguenot France, such as Nîmes, Montauban, La Rochelle, Caen or Saint-Lô. Others were clearly chosen for their capacity to disseminate books further afield as the presence of regional hubs such as Bordeaux, Poitiers or Troyes suggest. These cities were not known for their Protestant sympathies or for the publication of Calvinist texts, but the Genevan booksellers were able to count on the support of local retailers to help them sell their editions. In such cases, the omission of the place of printing, the use of ambiguous phrases with regard to the publisher and the decision to insert a false imprint on the title page, all helped to give the books a veneer of respectability and facilitate their sale in areas that were ostensibly antagonistic to the teachings of the Reformation.

Fictitious Printers and Booksellers

The use of fictitious addresses and invented names is a fascinating aspect of the Renaissance book world. This volume lists over 50 instances of such names included on title pages or in colophons to hide the true identities of those who produced the imprints. These include cases where the false address was obvious, forming part of a game with the reader that sought to add depth to a satirical text. Thus, the use of the ‘Le Libertin’ in Montpellier did not seek to confuse the authorities but rather amuse the reader. This mischievous approach is emphasised by the satirical privilege printed on the reverse of the title pages.55 In these instances, the printer has generally been identified as fictional. Some games were less obvious. When the Parisian publisher Jean Richer inserted the 54  See in particular H.-L. Schlaepfer, ‘Laurent de Normandie’, in Aspects de la propagande religieuse (Geneva: Droz, 1957), 176–230. 55  G. de Reboul, La cabale des reformez, Montpellier: ‘chez Le Libertin’, 1597, USTC 75273.

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Towns with booksellers who had direct commercial relations with Geneva and Protestant churches founded in the sixteenth century Note: The data for the churches is taken from S. Mours, ‘Liste des églises réformées avec date de leur fondation’, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, CIII (1957), 37–59.

address ‘à Rennes pour Noël Glamet de Quimpercorentin’ in his edition of Noël du Fail’s facetious Propos rustiques, it was likewise meant as an in-joke for his readership; he was making the book more rustic by using the name of a bookseller who would have plied his trade in a city traditionally seen as isolated. However, the relative plausibility of the name and the passing of the years has meant that the humorous nature of the imprint was lost on generations of bibliographers who included Glamet as a genuine publisher in their works. Most of the cases listed here were, however, not meant as part of a lighthearted exchange with the reader. Rather, they sought to make their imprint

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difficult to identify and to divert the eye of the authorities away from the workshop that had printed the book. Printing heretical works was seen as one of the worse religious offenses of the age and was punishable by death, as a number of the cases analysed in this volume underline. Seditious pamphlets were seen in a similar way. In the face of such dangers, printers made genuine attempts to confuse the authorities and the impact of their success in this endeavour can still be felt today as bibliographers struggle to separate the true from the false. Here, I have tried to look at the figures I have listed with a critical eye. In some instances, it has been possible to track down the recurrent use of pseudonyms. Thus, for example, the Basel press of Conrad Waldkirch hid behind the name of Jean Le Court in Langres, and Jean de Tours – successively as a printer of Langres and of Montauban. In a few cases, it has been impossible to prove that the address used was false and I have simply indicated my reservations. The analysis of false addresses does bring some general trends to the fore. Firstly, in most instances, the works are the sole documented occurrence of the supposed publisher. This arouses suspicions that are often reinforced by the polemical nature of the book and by the fact that they are, for the most part, short pieces that required little investment. Secondly, the imprint typically does not include a full address, but simply indicates the town in which the supposed publisher was active. They do not feature a proper device on the title page or at the end of the edition, and they typically use substandard material. This could mean antiquated type and outmoded or absent woodcuts where normal imprints have well-cut ornate letters, headers and culs-de-lampe. Though it is important to record these fictitious printers and booksellers alongside real members of the book trade, they have been given their own discreet references in order to enable rapid identification.

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A Guide to the Dictionary The aim of the dictionary has been to give succinct articles on each protagonist, limiting the details given to those that have been deemed relevant to the world of the book. The different fields chosen present the known information in analytical form. Each entry provides data where available in the following format: – Inventory number. Surname, First name – Dates of activity – Name variations – Location of activity – Role – Address – Biography – Commercial partners – Device – Motto – Types – Documents – References The paragraphs that follow give some explanation as to the criteria and norms adopted in the dictionary. Inventory number. This has been automatically generated from a list conceived by following the alphabetical order of the surname and first names. When these are identical, the beginning of the individuals’ activity is used to determine their order. Fictitious printers and booksellers are identified with their own series of numbers preceded by the letter F, though they are included in the same alphabetical sequence with other entries for ease of reference. Name. The lack of standardisation in the names used both in manuscript documents and on printed books, sometimes by the protagonists themselves, can lead to confusion. Wherever possible I have chosen the accepted form of the name, mostly by using as a resource the authority file of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In the case of names not included in the BnF authority file, the most common printed version has been preferred or, in the absence of such indications, the most common orthography in manuscript form. An exception to this rule involves women’s names. In this case, the woman’s own name is given first and her status as a widow relegated to the zone devoted to

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alternative spellings. In all instances, whenever the differences are more than just standard modifications in sixteenth-century French spelling (such as endings in ‘d’ or ‘t’, or the separation or not of ‘du’, ‘la’, or other particles from the main part of the name), these have been included in a separate section entitled ‘Name variations’ that is situated immediately after the dates of activity. This comprises Latinised forms of the name when they involved more than simply adding a Latin ending. Dates of activity. The years indicated refer to the entire time spent by the individual in the book trade, whether it be as an apprentice, a journeyman, or a master. Where it has not been possible to establish that a given person was active as a member of the trade at a date that would have constituted a terminus ante or post quem, but we have biographical details emanating from relevant documents (date of marriage or death, presence on a tax register without indication of profession), the extra years have not been included. They have instead been used in the biographical part of the entry. In contrast, the years spent working in the trade elsewhere than in provincial France have been taken into account in order to give a better overview of their activity. Location of activity. When known, all the places of activity in the book trade have been listed here with the relevant dates. These may overlap as some booksellers or printers could move several times a year or maintain two or even three workshops between which they flitted in order to respond to specific commercial opportunities. The names of French towns and cities listed are followed by the ancien régime provinces in which they were situated in the sixteenth century. For foreign places, the state is added instead. French place names have been given in French, other towns have been given in English for ease of comprehension. They are listed in the chronological order relevant to each individual’s career. Role. Wherever possible, the role of the protagonist has been listed with distinctions made between printers, booksellers, bookbinders and publishers. When one can be sure that they are only known to have played the part of an apprentice or a journeyman, this is indicated here. Evolutions in their roles are described in the biography where adjunct roles such as punchcutters or engravers are also indicated. These, along with those who simply played the part of publishers, are not included in their own right in this dictionary. It is, however, worth noting that the various roles were often ill-defined and overlapped to a considerable degree in the Renaissance. One should therefore be aware of the limitations of these categories, however useful they may be. Address. The indications are normalised and given in modernised French spelling to avoid having to include the endless orthographical and stylistic variations. The address given is that of the shop and / or stall where the books

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could be purchased or where they were made or prepared for retail sale – this is sometimes the same place as where the master lived. As a result, no addresses are included for apprentices or journeymen. The street is given first, followed by further information on the location, with details of the shop sign last. When there is more than one address used over the course of a career, these are listed in chronological order with dates, when they can be ascertained. Biography. This section seeks to provide a succinct overview of the known information relating to the life and career of the individual. This has been limited to, at most, half a page so as to maintain some balance between the entries for those for whom large quantities of documents have survived and for whom we have little documentary evidence. When relevant, their role as publishers has also been described. Commercial partners. The various other members of the book trade with which the individual interacted are listed in alphabetical order of their name with the town in which they were active at the time when these commercial relations were active. I have included in this category all those who had shared publications, those who were involved in financial transactions or signed contracts together, or those who served as proxies. I have excluded those who are known only to have had family ties, who simply served as godparents to the other’s children or who just exchanged letters or knew each other. When known, this information is included in the biography. As this dictionary is devoted to understanding the book trade in provincial France, commercial partners listed who were then active in cities outside the scope of this study (such as in Paris and Lyon or outside of France) are excluded. Device. The indications refer to the most comprehensive tools – both printed and on-line. The decision has been made not to use those listed on library websites which are based on their own collections as these have proved to be unstable and often of limited use. Motto. This is taken either from the device or from the line added beneath it. They are given verbatim in the original language used. Type. The resources available to describe the type used in provincial France are extremely limited as examples of the analysis of imprints outside Lyon and Paris are rare. In some cases, I have identified type that was listed in descriptive works without reference to the relevant provincial workshop. References to Vervliet’s Palaeotypography are only included when they refer to foreign types and music glyphs absent from the Conspectus. Documents. This section has been used sparingly. Where existing literature provides editions of the documents or very full summaries, these have supplanted references to the archival originals even when these were consulted. References. This section mixes macro and micro analytical approaches to the provincial book trade. So as not to dominate reading, virtually all works have

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been abbreviated and are listed at the end of this introduction. For on-line resources, the identification numbers have been cited as these are more permanent and useful than URL addresses. The one resource that has not been listed here, as its use was systematic where relevant, is the Universal Short Title Catalogue. A comprehensive list of all the editions of a publisher or printer serves little purpose and would render the dictionary unwieldly. When a single edition is known, this is generally referred to in the biography section.

The Sources

The work presented here is the result of twenty years of research in libraries and archives in Europe and North America. It is based in part on the physical examination of over 40,000 different copies of contemporary editions, using evidence from both the imprints themselves (from title pages, privileges, colophons, as well as the material used) and the physical book with information coming in particular from surviving annotations and original bindings. In addition to this, substantial work was carried out in the municipal and departmental archives of many French towns. In some cases, this did not yield a great return on the time invested, but in some of the major cities such as Bordeaux, Rouen, Toulouse, or Troyes, this was crucial in giving a rounded view of the local book world. In places like Dijon, where the rewards reaped were very limited, despite surviving tax registers, this allows us to determine with some confidence the nature of the market in that city. Fruitful work was also carried out in archives outside the perimeter of this study: the registers of notarial minutes preserved in the National Archives in Paris in the Minutier central are, for instance, very rich, as are the archives of the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. Despite these efforts, any such trawl is necessarily imperfect, and I have relied extensively on excellent scholarship in this field. It is hard, for example, to overemphasise the importance of the Universal Short Title Catalogue in this regard. It has consistently been a point for reference and is repeatedly cited throughout. The work of nineteenth-century scholars, cataloguers and archivists has also enabled me to find relevant documentation. I returned ad fontes to check the references as systematically as possible, though this was unfortunately not always possible. In addition to this, the long bibliography of abbreviations that precedes the dictionary stands testament to the fact that this work would not have been possible without the extraordinary amount of scholarship, often done locally, particularly on the first century of print.

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Table of Abbreviations and Bibliography Abord: Abord, H., Histoire de la Réforme et de la Ligue dans la ville d’Autun (Autun: Dejussieu, 1855). AD: Archives départementales. AE: Archives d’État. Affre: Affre, H., ‘Imprimerie et imprimeur en Rouergue’, Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de l’Aveyron, XIII (1881–1886) 94–108. AM: Archives municipales. Amerbach: Halporn, B. C., The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in its Social Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). AN: Archives nationales. Angot: Angot, A., Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne (Laval: Goupil, 1903–1910). Aquilon: Aquilon, P., ‘Géographie urbaine de l’édition rouennaise. Imprimeurs et libraires dans la ville. Rouen 1485–vers 1600’ in C. Bénévent, I. Diu and C. Lastraioli, Gens du livre et gens de lettres à la Renaissance (Turnout: Brepols, 2014) 293–307. Arbour: Arbour, R., Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470–1870) (Geneva: Droz, 2003). Arbour (Du Petit Val): Arbour, R., ‘Raphaël du Petit Val, de Rouen et l’édition des textes littéraires en France (1587–1613)’, Revue française d’histoire du livre, V (1975), 87–141. Ardouin-Weiss: Ardouin-Weiss, I., Imprimeurs et libraires à Tours au XVIIe siècle (Tours: Centre généalogique de Touraine, 2008). Assier: Assier, A., Les Archives curieuses de la Champagne et de la Brie (Troyes: Bouquot, 1853). Audiat: Audiat, L., Essai sur l’imprimerie en Saintonge et en Aunis (Pons: Noël Texier, 1879). B. Normande: Aquilon, P., Bibliographie normande: bibliographie des ouvrages imprimés à Caen et à Rouen au seizième siècle (Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1980–1986). Balsamo & Simonin: Balsamo, J., and Simonin, M., Abel L’Angelier et Françoise de Louvain: 1574–1620. Suivi du catalogue des ouvrages publiés par Abel L’Angelier, 1574– 1610 et la veuve L’Angelier, 1610–1620 (Geneva: Droz, 2002). Banderier: Banderier, G., ‘Une sodalitas Nemausensis? Imprimeurs, érudits et poètes à Nîmes au XVIe siècle’, Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire du Protestantisme de Nîmes et du Gard, III (2004), 72–86. BaTyR: BaTyR, Base de Typographie de la Renaissance, project hosted by the CESR in Tours, http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/batyr/beta/index.php.

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Baudrier: Baudrier, H., Bibliographie lyonnaise. Recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle (Lyon: Librairie ancienne d’Auguste Brun, 1895–1921). Beauchet-Filleau: Beauchet-Filleau, H., Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des familles du Poitou (Poitiers: Oudin, 1895). Beaupré: Beaupré, J.-N., Recherches historiques et bibliographiques sur les commencements de l’imprimerie en Lorraine et sur ses progrès jusqu’à la fin du XVIIe siècle (Nancy: Grimblot, 1845). Beaupré (Nouvelles): Beaupré, J.-N., Nouvelles recherches de bibliographie lorraine, 1500–1700 (Nancy: Grimblot & Peiffer, 1856). Beaurepaire: Beaurepaire, C. Robillard de, ‘Les boutiques du portail des Libraires’, Bulletin de la Commission des antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure, XIII (1903–1905), 391–408. Belle: Belle, E., La Réforme à Dijon, des origines à la fin de la lieutenance générale de Gaspard de Saulx-Tavanes (1530–1570) (Paris: Champion, 1911). Bèze: Bèze, T. de, Histoire Ecclésiastique des églises réformées au royaume de France en laquelle est descrite au vray la renaissance et accroissement d’icelles depuis l’an M. D. XXI. jusques en l’année M. D. LXIII. (Geneva: Jean Remy, 1580). Billioud: Billioud, J., Le livre en Provence du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (Marseille: Saint Victor, 1962). Bimbenet: Bimbenet, E., ‘Restitution de la librairie de l’Université d’Orléans ou salle des Thèses’, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l’Orléanais, XX (1885) 243–299. Blanc-Rouquette: Blanc-Rouquette, M.-T., ‘L’église Saint-Quentin, siège de la corporation des imprimeurs et libraires toulousains’, Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Midi de la France, LVI (1996) 169–182. Blayney: Blayney, P. W. M., The Stationers’ Company and the printers of London 1501–1557 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). BM: Bibliothèque/Médiathèque municipale. BnF: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Booton: Booton, D. E., Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). Bordeaux: Livre des bourgeois de Bordeaux (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) (Bordeaux: Féret et fils, 1898). Bory: Bory, J.-T., Les origines de l’imprimerie à Marseille, recherches historiques et bibliographiques (Marseille: V. Boy, 1858). Bouange: Bouange, G. M. F., Histoire de l’abbaye d’Aurillac, précédé de la vie de Saint Géraud, son fondateur suivi de notes et pièces justificatives (Paris: Fontemoing, 1899). Bouton: Bouton, A., Le Maine. Histoire économique et sociale, XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles (Le Mans: Monnoyer, 1970).

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Boyer: Boyer, H., Histoire des imprimeurs et libraires de Bourges, suivie d’une notice sur ses bibliothèques (Bourges: Jollet-Souchois, 1854). Bremme: Bremme, H. J., Buchdrucker und Buchhändler zur Zeit der Glaubenskämpfe (Geneva: Droz, 1969). Brun-Durand: Brun-Durand, J., Dictionnaire biographique et biblio-iconographique de la Drôme (Grenoble: H. Falque & F. Perrin, 1900–1901). Brunet: Brunet, P.-G., Imprimeurs imaginaires et libraires supposés: étude bibliographique; suivie de recherches sur quelques ouvrages imprimés avec des indications fictives de lieux ou avec des dates singulières (Paris: Tross, 1866). BVH Minutes: Chevalier, B., ‘De minute en minute. Les minutiers tourangeaux’, project hosted by the CESR in Tours, http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/Minutes/index.asp. Cadart: Cadart, C., ‘À propos du premier in-folio imprimé par Simon Millanges’, Bulletin de la Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne, LI (1950), 1–12. Cadier & Courtault: Cadier, L., and Courtault, H., Le livre des syndics des Etats de Béarn (Paris: H. Champion, 1889–1906). Calviniana: Peter, R., and Gilmont, J.-F., Bibliotheca calviniana: les oeuvres de Jean Calvin publiées au XVIe siècle (Geneva: Droz, 1991–2000). Cappellen: Cappellen, R., ‘À l’enseigne du masque: imprimeurs, libraires et éditeurs de Rabelais de 1552 à 1588’, Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, LXXXII (2016), 65–115. Cappellen (Ni): Cappellen, R., ‘Ni Lyon, ni Paris? Sur quelques impressions gothiques des textes rabelaisiens et para-rabelaisiens’, L’Année rabelaisienne, I (2017), 297–331. Castan: Castan, A., Catalogue des incunables de la Bibliothèque publique de Besançon (Besançon: J. Dodivers, 1893). Cauvin: Cauvin, T., ‘Histoire de l’imprimerie dans la province du Maine’, dans Documents relatifs à l’histoire des corporations d’arts et métiers du diocèse du Mans, (Le Mans: 1860), 287–327. Chabé (Philippe): Chabé, A.-A., ‘À propos de deux impressions de Gaspard Philippe’, Bulletin de la Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne, XLV (1947), 5–18. Chabé (Pimandre): Chabé, A.-A., ‘Le Pimandre de Mercure Trimegiste de la philosophie chrestienne par François de Foix, Evêque d’Aire. Premier in-folio imprimé par Simon Millanges (1579). Un contrat de librairie à Bordeaux au XVIe siècle’, Bulletin de la Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne, XLVIII (1948), 93–102. Chaix: Chaix, P., Recherches sur l’imprimerie à Genève de 1550 à 1564, étude bibliographique, économique et littéraire (Geneva: Droz, 1954). Chandenier (Richeboys): Chandenier, F., ‘Gilles Richeboys, deuxième imprimeur Sènonais (1556–1565)’, Bulletin de la Société Archéologique de Sens, XXX (1916), 198–289. Chandenier (Sens): Chandenier, F., ‘Les débuts de l’imprimerie à Sens en 1551’, Bulletin de la Société Archéologique de Sens, XIX (1905), 161–204. Chardon: Chardon, H. (ed.), Nouelz nouvaulx de ce présent an mil cinq cens et douze, dont en y a plusieurs notez à deux parties, dont l’une n’est que le plain chant, composez par maistre François Briand (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1904).

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Charmasse: Charmasse, A. de, ‘L’imprimerie à Autun aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’, Mémoires de la Société éduenne, (1872), 313–384. Charon: Charon, A., Les métiers du livre à Paris au XVIe siècle: 1535–1560 (Geneva: Droz, 1974). Choux: Choux, J., ‘Imprimeurs de Saint-Nicolas-de-Port et papetiers de la vallée de la Moselle au début du XVIe siècle’, Lotharingia. Archives lorraines d’archéologie, d’art et d’histoire, II (1990), 49–57. Claudin (1): Claudin, A., ‘Les enlumineurs, les relieurs, les libraires et les imprimeurs de Toulouse aux XVe et XVIe siècles (1480–1530)’, Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, (1893), 1–24 and 142–165. Claudin (2): Claudin, A., ‘Les libraires, les relieurs et les imprimeurs de Toulouse au XVIe siècle (1531–1550)’, Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, (1895), 1–16, 90– 108, 269–283 and 390–399. Clément-Janin: Clément-Janin, M.-H., Les imprimeurs et les libraires dans la Côte-d’Or (Dijon: Darantière, 1883). Clément-Simon: Clément-Simon, M. G., La gaieté de Baluze; Opuscules burlesques d’Etienne Baluze; Tableau généalogique de la famille Baluze: documents biographiques et littéraires (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1888). Clerc: Clerc, P., Dictionnaire de biographie héraultaise des origines à nos jours (Montpellier: Pierre Clerc, 2002). Clouzot: Clouzot, H., ‘L’imprimeur du Manuale Ecclesiasticum de 1587. Documents inédits sur les imprimeurs et libraires de Poitiers à la fin du XVIe siècle’, Le Bibliographe moderne: courrier international des archives et des bibliothèques, XI (1907), 41–50. Colvelle: Colvelle, A. L., Le livre des bourgeois de l’ancienne république de Genève, publié d’après les registres officiels (Geneva: J. Jullien, 1997). Conner: Conner, P., Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism During the Wars of Religion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). Cordonnier: Cordonnier, P., Les origines de l’imprimerie au Mans: Vieux bois et livres rares (Le Mans: Paul Cordonnier, 1961). Corrard de Breban: Corrard de Breban, A.-H.-F., Recherches sur l’établissement et l’exercice de l’imprimerie à Troyes, contenant la nomenclature des imprimeurs de cette ville jusqu’en 1789, et des notices sur leurs productions (Paris: Delion, 1851). Corraze (Domaysel): Corraze, R., ‘Jean Domaysel, maître imprimeur toulousain’, Mémoires de l’académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse, XIII (1941), 93–110. Corraze (Grandjean): Corraze, R., ‘Jean Grandjean, maître imprimeur toulousain (1460–1519)’, Bulletin philologique et historique jusqu’à 1715 du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (1936–1937), 79–92. Corraze (Toulouse): Corraze, R., ‘Notes pour servir à l’histoire de la librairie à Toulouse (1500–1540)’, Bulletin philologique et historique jusqu’à 1715 du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (1934–1935), 59–81.

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Morin (Heures): Morin, L., ‘Les livres liturgiques et les livres d’Église imprimés à Troyes pour d’autres diocèses’, Bulletin historique et philologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, XXVIII (1910), 139–157. Morin (Ligue): Morin, L., L’imprimerie à Troyes pendant la Ligue (Paris: Henri Leclerc, 1912). Morin (Troyes): Morin, L., ‘Histoire corporative des artisans du livre à Troyes’, Mémoires de la société académique d’agriculture, des sciences; arts et belles-lettres du département de l’Aube, XXXVI (1899) 293–433 & XXXVII (1900), 1–162. Morisse: Morisse, G., Gens du livre venus de France: transpyrénéens aux XVe–XVIe siècles (dictionnaire), [Privately published] Gérard Morisse, 2019. MPM: Museum Plantin Moretus, Antwerp. Muller: Muller, J., Dictionnaire abrégé des imprimeurs-éditeurs français du seizième siècle (Baden-Baden: Heitz, 1970). Mynard: Mynard, J., ‘Sur un volume des coutumes du Nivernais édité à Clamecy en 1539’, Bulletin de la société scientifique et artistique de Clamecy, (1908), 89–105. ODNB: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Oursel: Oursel, C., ‘Notes pour servir à l’histoire des imprimeurs et des libraires à Dijon’, Bulletin du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (1914), 355–373. Pallier: Pallier, D., Recherches sur l’imprimerie à Paris pendant la Ligue (1585–1588) (Geneva: Droz, 1975). Pallier (Normandie): Pallier, D., ‘L’officine plantinienne et la Normandie au XVIe siècle’, Annales de Normandie, XLV (1995), 245–264. Pansier: Pansier, P., Histoire du livre et de l’imprimerie à Avignon du XIVe au XVIe siècle (Avignon: Aubanel frères, 1922). Paris-Jallobert: Paris-Jallobert, P., Anciens registres paroissiaux de Bretagne (Baptèmes-mariages-sépultures) (Rennes: Plihon et Hervé (Hommay), 1890–1914). Pasquier: Pasquier, E., Imprimeurs et libraires de l’Anjou (Angers: Éditions de l’Ouest, 1932). Patry: Patry, H., Les débuts de la réforme protestante en Guyenne, 1523–1559. Arrêts du parlement (Bordeaux: Feret et fils, 1912). Peach: Peach, T., ‘Une collaboration éditoriale à Poitiers au XVIe siècle. Les de Marnef et Bouchet, frères’, Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l’Ouest et des Musées de Poitiers, XIII (1999), 91–134. Perrossier: Perrosier, C., ‘Essai de bibliographie romanaise’, Bulletin de la Société d’archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme, XXVI (1892) 306–318, 406Pettegree: Pettegree, A., The French Book and the European Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2007). Pettegree (Emden): Pettegree, A., Emden and the Dutch Revolt. Exile and the Development of Reformed Protestantism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Pichon & Vicaire: Pichon, J., and Vicaire, G., Documents pour servir à l’histoire des libraires de Paris, 1486–1600 (Paris: Techener, 1895).

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Polain: Polain, M.-L., Marques des imprimeurs et libraires en France au XVe siècle (Paris: Droz, 1926). Porcher: Porcher, R., Notice sur les imprimeurs & libraires blésois du XVIe au XIXe siècle (Blois: C. Migault, 1895). Port: Port, C., Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique du Maine-et-Loire (Paris: J. B. Dumoulin, 1878). Portal: Portal, C., Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d’art du Tarn du XIIIe au XXe siècle (Albi: chez l’auteur, 1925). Pouy: Pouy, F., Recherches historiques sur l’imprimerie et la librairie à Amiens, avec une description de livres divers imprimés dans cette ville (Amiens: Lemer ainé, 1861). Puech: Puech, A., Une ville au temps jadis ou Nîmes à la fin du XVIe siècle (Nîmes: Grimaud, Gervais-Bedot, Catélan, 1884). Puech (Apprentissage): Puech, A., ‘Contrat d’apprentissage entre le libraire Gouzet de Nimes et Jehan Dumas’, Bulletin de l’Académie de Nîmes, (1884), 57–59. Puech (Jaquy): Puech, A., ‘Les débuts de l’imprimerie à Nîmes : Sébastien Jaquy (1578– 1612)’, Bulletin historique et archéologique du Vaucluse, VI (1884), 207–229 & 247–261. Pussot: Henry, E., and Loriquet, C. (eds), Journalier, ou Mémoires de Jean Pussot (Reims: P. Régnier, 1858). RB: Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle (BadenBaden: Heitz then Valentin Koerner, 1968–1986). Read: Read, C., ‘La Saint-Barthélemy à Orléans: racontée par Joh.-Wilh. de Botzheim, étudiant allemand témon oculaire 1572’, Bulletin historique et littéraire de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, XXI (1872), 345–392. Renouard: Renouard, P., Imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d’imprimerie, puis l’introduction de l’imprimerie à Paris (1470) jusqu’à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris: A. Claudin, 1898, revised edition by J. Veyrin-Forrer and B. Moreau, Minard: 1965). Renouard (Documents): Renouard, P., Documents sur les imprimeurs, libraires, cartiers, graveurs, fondeurs de lettres, relieurs, doreurs de livres, faiseurs de fermoirs, enlumineurs, parcheminiers et papetiers ayant exercé à Paris de 1450 à 1600 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1901). Renouard (Marques): Renouard, P., Les marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles (Paris: Hontré Champion, 1926–1927). Répertoire: Mellot, J.-D., Queval, É., Aguire, N., Bellon, C., Kolecki, W., Monaque, A. et al., Répertoire d’imprimeurs / libraires (vers 1470–vers 1830) (Paris: BnF Éditions, 2019). Ribière: Ribière, H., Essai sur l’histoire de l’imprimerie dans le département de l’Yonne et spécialement à Auxerre, suivi du catalogue des livres, brochures et pièces imprimés dans cette ville de 1580 à 1857 (Auxerre: Perriquet, 1858). Ricci: Ricci, S. de, ‘Noel de Harsy, imprimeur rouennais du XVe siècle’, Journal des savants, XIV (1916), 513–516.

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Richard (Bouchet): Richard, A., Notes biographiques sur les Bouchet, imprimeurs et procureurs à Poitiers au XVIe siècle (Poitiers: G. Roy, 1912). Ridderikhoff et al.: Ridderikhoff, C. M., et al., Les Livres des procurateurs de la Nation germanique de l’ancienne Université d’Orléans, 1444–1602 (Leiden: Brill, 1971–2015). RIECH: Répertoire des imprimeurs et éditeurs suisses actifs avant 1800 (RIECH), project hosted by the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne: http://dbserv1-bcu.unil.ch/riech/intro.php. Robert: Robert, U., L’enseignement à Besançon jusqu’à la fin du XVIe siècle (Besançon: Imprimerie du progrès, 1900). Rochambeau: Rochambeau, A. de, Les Imprimeurs vendômois et leurs oeuvres (1514– 1881) (Paris: J.-B. Dumoulin, 1881). Rondot: Rondot, N., ‘Les enlumineurs de Troyes aux XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles’, Nouvelles archives de l’art français, III (1882), 42–52. Rondot (Relieurs): Rondot, N., ‘Les Relieurs de livres à Troyes, du XIVe au XVIe siècle’, Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, LXV (1898), p. 273–284. Ronsin (Lorraine): Ronsin, A., ‘Le Livre en Lorraine, 1482–1696’, Doctoral thesis, Université de Nancy 2, 1962. Ronsin (Saint-Dié): Ronsin, A., ‘L’imprimerie humaniste de Saint-Dié au XVIe siècle’, in Mélanges offert à Albert Kolb (Wiesbaden: G. Pressler, 1969), 382–425. Ronsin (Verdunois): Ronsin, A., ‘L’imprimerie et la librairie dans le Verdunois et le Barrois (du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle)’, Bulletin des Sociétés d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de la Meuse, XXXVI (2004), 17–46. Rouchon: Rouchon, U., ‘La musique et la librairie au Puy à la fin du XVIe siècle’, Bulletin du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (1908) 35–44. Roudié & Desgraves: Roudié, P., and Desgraves, L., ‘Relations entre les imprimeurs et libraires de Bordeaux et de Lyon aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles’, in Nouvelles études lyonnaises, (Geneva: Droz, 1969), 65–77. Samaran: Samaran, C., ‘Un imprimeur et un libraire à Bourges à la fin du XVe siècle, Guyon Calabre et Jean Coffin’, Bibliographie moderne, (1909), 342–346. Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie): Schlaepfer, H.-L., ‘Laurent de Normandie’, in Aspects de la propagande religieuse (Geneva: Droz, 1957), 176–230. Servais: Servais, V., ‘La librairie et l’imprimerie dans le Barrois du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle’, Mémoires de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de Bar-le-Duc, I (1871), 80–89. Silvestre: Silvestre, L.-C., Marques typographiques ou recueil des monogrammes, chiffres, enseignes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont exercé en France, depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie en 1470, jusqu’à la fin du seizième siècle (Paris: Renou et Maulde, 1867). Skora (Langres): Skora, S., ‘Les métiers du livre dans le diocèse de Langres (XVIe–XVIIe siècle)’, Cahiers haut-marnais, CCLXXI (2013), 3–73.

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Skora (Rouen): Skora, S., ‘Héritières et pionnières: les femmes et le livre à Rouen à l’époque moderne’ in A. Bellavitis, V. Jourdain, V. Lemonnier-Lesage and B. Zucca Micheletto (eds), Tout ce qu’elle saura et pourra faire: femmes, droits, travail en Normandie du Moyen âge à la Grande guerre (Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015), 67–82. Socard & Assier: Socard, A., and Assier, A., Livres liturgiques du diocèse de Troyes imprimés au quinzième et au seizième siècle (Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1863). Stein (Provins): Stein, H., ‘Recherches sur les débuts de l’imprimerie à Provins’, Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes, L (1889), 218–228. Stein (Selis): Stein, H., ‘Un atelier typographique à Selis au début du XVIe siècle’, Le bibliographe moderne, (1901), 334–335. Techener: Techener, L., Répertoire universel de bibliographie, ou Catalogue général, méthodique et raisonné de livres anciens, rares et curieux composant la librairie de Léon Techener, fils (Paris: Léon Techener, 1869). Teissier: Teissier, G.-F., Essai philologique sur les commencemens de la typographie à Metz et sur les imprimeurs de cette ville (Metz: C. Dosquet, 1828). Travers: Travers, É., Les premiers imprimeurs de Saint-Lo (Saint-Lô: F. Le Tual, 1895). TW: ‘Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke’, project hosted by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: http://tw.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/html/index.xql. USTC: Universal Short Title Catalogue, project hosted by the University of Saint Andrews, http://www.ustc.ac.uk. Valkema Blouw: Valkema Blouw, P., Dutch Typography in the Sixteenth Century: The Collected Works of Paul Valkema Blouw, edited by T. Croiset van Uchelen & P. Dijstelberge (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Vallentin: Vallentin, R., ‘Du taux de l’intérêt à Valence sous Charles VIII et sous Louis XII (1483–1515)’, Bulletin de la Société d’archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme, XXIX (1895), 50–72. Vallentin (Delphinalia): Vallentin, R., ‘Delphinalia. Ecrivain en lettres de forme, imprimeurs, libraires et relieurs valentinois (XV e et XVIe siecles). Rabelais et le Dauphiné. Cornelius Agrippa et Guillaume des Autelz’, Bulletin de la Société d’archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme, LIII (1919), 17–51 & 176–193. Vasseur: Vasseur, C., ‘Notes pour servir à l’histoire des livres à Lisieux’, Bulletin de la société des antiquaires de Normandie, VI (1874), 174–180. Vervliet: Vervliet, H. D. L., The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Vervliet (Conspectus): Vervliet, H. D. L., French Renaissance Printing Types. A Conspectus (London: Bibliographical Society, 2010). Vervliet (Low Countries): Vervliet, H. D. L., Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1968).

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Vervliet (Vine): Vervliet, H. D. L., Vine Leaf Ornaments in Renaissance Typography. A Survey (New Castle & Houten: Oak Knoll & Hes & De Graaf, 2012). Voet: Voet, L., The Golden Compasses. A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp (Amsterdam: Van Gendt and Co., 1972). Walsby (Brittany): Walsby, M., The Printed Book in Brittany, 1484–1600 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Walsby (Mobility): Walsby, M., ‘Printer Mobility in Sixteenth-Century France’, in B. Rial Costas (ed.), Print Culture and Provincial Cities in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 249–268. Weiss: Weiss, N., La chambre ardente. Étude sur la liberté de conscience en France sous François Ier et Henri II (1540–1550) suivie d’environ 500 arrêts inédits, rendus par le Parlement de Paris de mai 1547 à mars 1550 (Paris: Fischbacher, 1889).

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Booksellers, Printers, and Bookbinders of Provincial France, 1470–1600 1.  Abat, Bernard de Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice B iography: He was born in 1499 at Saint-Jean-de-Byryeleychon. He was an apprentice in Jacques Noguier’s workshop in 1511 for four years. Commercial partners: Jacques Noguier (Toulouse) Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 49v 2.  Abegou, Pierre  Active: 1598–1640  Name variations: Abegoul, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne Illustration 11  Role: Bookseller Signature of Pierre Abegou, 1598,  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’ B iography: He married Gailharde Cabat AD Gironde 3 E 14800 with whom he had twelve children and lived in the parish of Saint Éloi. He was named a burgher of the city of Bordeaux in 1616 and was succeeded by his son, also named Pierre.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1243v–1244r  References: Labadie p. 1; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 1; Bordeaux p. 2. 3.  Adam, Mathieu  Active: 1476–1479  Name variations: Also known as Ribe Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in a house near the old market and was the verger of the university of Poitiers. He had died before 1505.  Documents: AD Vienne G 379 & G 380  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 246

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4. Adenet, Jean  Active: 1498  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Jean.  Documents: AD Aube G 4217 f. 160r  References: Morin (Troyes) p. 312 5. Aenas Silvius (printer of)  Active: 1475–1480  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Types: TW ma01033 & ma03531  References: TW of0125 Agnet, see Ribiera, Agnet 6. Agoury, Étienne  Active: 1590–1622  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in 1559, he married Esther Lacoste. A Protestant, he was killed during the siege of Montpellier in 1622. He was also a paper-maker.  References: Clerc p. 28 7. Alabat, Guillaume Active: 1536–1541  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: Ambroise Firmin-Didot mistakenly confused him with the Parisian bookseller Guillaume Anabat. He was a burger of Bourges and was elected as an alderman of the city in 1541 and 1542. Mainly active as cloth merchant – attested between 1520 and 1557, his involvement with books was limited to a handful of years. He was also noted for organising a play which he later had printed in Paris.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Couteau (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 271  Motto: ‘Spes mea Deus’  References: RB XIII 26 n° 7; Boyer p. 51; Répertoire n° 34; P. Renouard, Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle. Tome premier (Paris: Service des travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1964) p. 29.

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8.  Alain, Pierre  Active: 1488–1532  Name variations: Alanus, Petrus  Location: Angoulême, Saintonge and Angoumois  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Philippe Montgeon, who died before 1540. The prototypographer of Angoulême, he initially worked in partnership with André Cauvin. The type used in their first imprints shows that it must have been acquired from the Paris printer Antoine Caillaut. He died before 6 August 1532.  Commercial partners: André Cauvin (Angoulême)  Types: TW ma03549, ma03550, ma03551, ma03552, ma03553, ma03554, ma03555, ma03556  Documents: AD Charente E 1162, E 1170; BnF Fonds français 24206  References: Muller p. 4; Desgraves (Angoulême) p. 931; Fleury, p. 4; TW of0338 9. Alaux, Jean  Active: 1553  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He took over Pierre Rigailh’s workshop in 1553. A namesake worked as an illuminator in 1524.  References: Claudin (2) p. 108 10.  Albert, Pierre  Active: 1554  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was Uguet’s brother and is known for a single work on the laws of Provence (USTC 80459).  Commercial partners: Uguet Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Jacques Marcaurelle (Aix-en-Provence); Barthélemy Bonhomme (Avignon)  References: RB XXVI p. 25; Muller p. 2; Henricy p. 2 11.  Albert, Uguet  Active: 1554  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was Pierre’s brother and is known for a single work on the laws of Provence (USTC 80459).

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 Commercial partners: Pierre Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Barthélemy Bonhomme (Avignon); Jacques Marcaurelle (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI p. 25; Muller p. 2; Henricy p. 2 12. Albi, Pierre d’  Active: 1549–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the quarter of Saint-Sernin and was in partnership with Jean Regis and Guillaume Lescuyer.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Lescuyer (Toulouse); Jean Regis (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (2) p. 106 13. Alençon, Guillaume d’  Active: 1554  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Pedlar  B iography: He had trained as a priest before converting to Protestantism and working as a pedlar of Calvinist books. Arrested in Montpellier, he was called a ‘libraire de Genève’ and was burnt as a heretic on 10 January 1554. His books were burnt with him, the executioner strangling him with a rope at the very moment when the Genevan books caught fire.  References: C. Devic & J. Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc (Toulouse: Édouard Privat, 1872) XII, 75; Mémoires de Félix Platter, médecin bâlois (Geneva: Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1866), 60. 14.  Alençon, Jean d’  Active: 1515  Name variations: Allanczon, Jean d’  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single work published for the local clergy (USTC 72711). It is unclear whether he was actually active in Vannes or elsewhere.  References: RB XIX p. 91; Muller p. 116; Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; Booton p. 230

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15.  Alexandre, Clément  Active: 1509–1537  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘vis à vis Saint Pierre et devant les écoles de l’université, à l’enseigne du chef saint Jean Baptiste’  B iography: The son of Jean, he married Perrine Coffin. He followed in his fa- Illustration 12 ther’s footsteps, taking over his shop and Signature of Clément Alexandre, becoming an official bookseller to the 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 university of Angers. He supplemented his income by also collecting the ‘deniers communs’ of Angers from 1522 until 1539 and, by 1524, was named keeper of the city’s chamber of accounts. As a publisher, he worked extensively with other booksellers and, in particular, the fellow Angevine Charles de Bougne whose material and books he appraised alongside Jean I Elis and Pierre Arnoul in 1537. He was named as godfather to the bookseller Jean Champion’s daughter in 1529. As a binder, he used two plaques representing Saint Maurice, the patron saint of the local cathedral, that were probably wrought in Paris. He died before September 1540.  Commercial partners: Mathurin Amat (Angers); Michel Angier (Angers); Jean Arnoul (Angers); Pierre Arnoul (Angers); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Antoine Cousteau (Paris); Galliot du Pré (Paris); Jean I Elis (Angers); Jean Le Roy (Angers); Jean Macé (Rennes); Jean Petit (Paris); Richard Picquenot (Angers); Philippe Pigouchet (Paris); Jean II Varice (Angers); Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1, 5 E 121  References: RB XXVI p. 86; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 55; Gid & Laffitte p. 228; Gruel p. 19; Répertoire n° 54 16.  Alexandre, Jean  Active: 1485–1505  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la chaussée saint Pierre’  B iography: He married Catherine Poisson with whom he had three sons and a daughter. One of the sons, Lancelot, studied law and became the court clerk of the ‘grands jours’ of Anjou. The official bookseller and librarian to the university of Angers as early as 1485, he maintained close

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links to Paris, and Josse Badius dedicated his edition of Battista Spagnoli’s Bucolica to his sons in 1502/3 (USTC 142790). He died on 24 January 1505. His son Clément succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Jean Alissot (Angers); Félix Baligault (Paris); André Bocard (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Jean Clein (Lyon); Jean de Coblencz (Paris); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Durand Gerlier (Paris); Jean Higman (Paris); André Hodian (Angers); Étienne Jehannot (Paris); Thielman Kerver (Paris); Jean de La Tour (Angers); Pierre Le Dru (Paris); Le Petit Laurent (Paris); Pierre Levet (Paris); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Enguilbert de Marnef (Paris); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Philippe Pigouchet (Paris); Jean Richard (Rouen); George Wolf (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 66, 284 & 611; Polain n° 1, 2 & 3; Meyer n° 1 & 2  Motto: ‘Dieu gart le Roy et la noble cité d’Angiers et l’Université’; ‘Laus, honor, virtus et gloria’  Types: TW ma03548  References: RB XXVI p. 75; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 52; TW of1204; Répertoire n° 55 17.  Alexandre, René  Active: 1549–1550  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was named as a witness in acts involving the Varice family and Charles de Bougne.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121 18.  Alissot, Jean  Active: 1485–1499  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1485–1486); Angers, Anjou (1499)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He began working as a printer and bookseller in Paris with Pierre Levet, before leaving to settle in Angers where he was active as a bookseller by 1499.  Commercial partners: Pierre Levet (Paris); Le Petit Laurent (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Jean Alexandre (Angers); Charles de Bougne (Angers)  Device: TW ma03548  References: Pasquier p. 72; Renouard p. 4

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19.  Alix, François  Active: 1582  Name variations: Allix, François; Alys, François  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 11 20.  Alix, Guillaume  Active: 1548–1576  Name variations: Allix, Guillaume; Alys, Guillaume  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’  B iography: A debt contracted in 1561 shows that he traded with Geneva.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 12 21. Allain, Gérard  Active: 1527  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lost his position as a bookseller to the university in 1527 to Girard Angier.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. xxxviii 22.  Allain, Guillaume  Active: 1580  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 73 23.  Allais, Noël  Active: 1551  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200

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24.  Allard, Jean  Active: 1543  Name variations: Vandosme, Jean  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des grases’  B iography: He lived in a house close to the cathedral and was both a goldsmith and a bookseller. His daughter Marguerite married the bookseller Antoine Amouroux. A rich landowner, he was elected consul on numerous occasions. As a publisher he is known for a single edition of a missal for local use that he had printed in Lyon (USTC 126126).  Commercial partners: Thibaud Payen (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 4; RB XVIII p. 107; Martin (Le Puy) p. 10; Rouchon p. 38 25.  Alline, Philippe  Active: 1595–1636  Name variations: Allinne, Philippe; Allyne, Philippe; Alyne, Philippe  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue écuyère, à l’ange d’or’  B iography: He became a master printer before 1597. One of his children died in 1595 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Jean of Rouen. In 1600 and 1619 he was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city. He was fined for the poor quality of his work in 1615. When he died in January 1636 his widow, Marie Carrel, took over his workshop and was active for a further twenty years.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6729  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 2; Lepreux III 44 26.  Amalberti, Anemond  Active: 1523–1532  Name variations: Amabert, Anemond; Amaberti, Anemond  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Bonin Balsarin (Grenoble)  Device: Silvestre n° 1103  References: Muller p. 18

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27.  Amat, Mathurin  Active: 1509–1518  Name variations: Amiat, Mathurin  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix where he had a daughter and a son baptised. He died before 1525.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Jean Arnoul (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers); Jean Le Roy (Angers); Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5E121  References: RB XXVI p. 83; Pasquier p. 73 28.  Amouroux, Antoine  Active: 1504–1525  Name variations: Amoureux, Antoine  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place Saint-Pierre-le-Monastier’  B iography: He married Marguerite Allard, the daughter of the bookseller Jean. He gave a receipt in 1514 for the sums that Henri Monestier had owed him. As a publisher, he is known for liturgical works for local use printed in Lyon. He died shortly before 1544.  Commercial partners: Julien Amouroux (Le Puy); Étienne Baland (Lyon); Henri Monestier (Le Puy)  References: Muller p. 4; RB XVIII p. 105; Martin (Le Puy) p. 8; Rouchon p. 37; Répertoire n° 108 29.  Amouroux, Julien  Active: 1511–1524  Name variations: Amoureux, Julien  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was originally from Saugues and married the daughter of a local merchant, Jean Lavastret. As a publisher, he is known for liturgical works for local use printed in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Antoine Amouroux (Le Puy); Étienne Baland (Lyon)  References: RB XVIII p. 105; Martin (Le Puy) p. 9

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30.  Anastaise, Étienne  Active: 1558–1572  Name variations: Anastasi, Étienne  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1558–1571); Nîmes, Languedoc (1572)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: Originally from Maringues, he was a Protestant and married the daughter of Robert Estienne and Perette Badius, Catherine, in July 1559. He was received as an inhabitant of Geneva in 1557 and became a bookseller before being received as a burgher the very next year. His career in Geneva was tumultuous, despite his family connections, and was beset by numerous lawsuits and difficulties with the authorities. It was perhaps this that persuaded him to leave and settle in Nîmes where he was in 1572. His career there was brief, however, as he died before 1574. He was survived by his wife who left for Paris where she remarried. Part of his stock was sold for 92 lt that year.  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 213; RIECH; Haag V 12; Répertoire n° 111 31.  Anastase, Bonet  Active: 1511–1513  Name variations: Natazi, Bonet  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–65 32.  Anceau, Jean  Active: 1534  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du sac’  B iography: He married Perette Courtin and lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Gosselin p. 93 33.  Ancelin, Édouard  Active: 1587–1599  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 B iography: He held the function of ‘dizainier’ of Saint-Sernin. As a bookseller he mainly traded with Lyon – not least with Thibaud Ancelin to whom he was probably related. He died with his wife when his house collapsed in January 1599.  Commercial partners: Thibaud Ancelin (Lyon); Abraham Cloquemin (Lyon); Raymond Colomiès (Toulouse); Antoine de Harsy (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 188; Baudrier IV 35; Blanc-Rouquette p. 177; Répertoire n° 114. 34.  Ancelin, Thibaud  Active: 1579–1611  Name variations: Ancelin, Thibault  Location: La Correrie, Dau­ phiné; Lyon, Lyonnais Illustration 13 Signature of Thibaud Ancelin, 1591, AD Gard 2 E 1 280  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: The official printer to the king in Lyon, where he had a long and fruitful career as a printer, he also briefly worked for the Carthusians of La Correrie in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (1587–1588).  Commercial partners: Guichard I Julliéron (Lyon); Édouard Ancelin (Toulouse)  References: RB XXI p. 20; Muller p. 15 35.  André, Antoine  Active: 1558  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la porterie, à l’enseigne de l’écu de Venise’  B iography: He is known for a single edition (USTC 23423) printed by Guyon Boudeville who also printed a reset version of the text for the Parisian bookseller Gabriel Buon the same year. This edition was shared with a Jean André who used the same address and to whom he was undoubtedly related.  Commercial partners: Jean André (Toulouse); Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 166 36.  André, Blaise  Active: 1589–1613  Name variations: Andrea, Blaise  Location: Nancy, Lorraine

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 Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was the official printer to the duke of Lorraine. He was still alive in 1624.  References: Muller p. 54; RB VII p. 42; Jacquot p. 8; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 64; Répertoire n° 122 37.  André, Jacques  Active: 1563–1575  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du palais’ (1563)  B iography: He married Peyronne Crosade on 16 May 1563 and had a daughter named Cebeilha baptised in the parish of La Dalbade on 16 July 1573 where they resided. By 1572 he was described as a master bookseller and resided in the parish of La Dalbade where he was godfather to the daughter of the bookseller Jean Rogier on 21 February and to the daughter of the bookseller Lancelot André on 19 October 1575. His son, Jean, was baptised on 4 October 1575. His wife must have died shortly after as he remarried Astrugue Rouberte on 6 November 1575.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 1 f. 13v, GG 2 f. 3v, 37v & 38v, GG 28 f. 57v, GG 220 f. 104r 38.  André, Jean  Active: 1558  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la porterie, à l’enseigne de l’écu de Venise’  B iography: He is known for a single edition printed by Guyon Boudeville who also printed a reset version of the text for the Parisian bookseller Gabriel Buon the same year. This edition was shared with an Antoine André who used the same address and to whom he was undoubtedly related.  Commercial partners: Antoine André (Toulouse); Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse) 39.  André, Lancelot  Active: 1573–1575  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He married Galharde Arnaulde on 25 October 1573 and resided in the parish of La Dalbade. The bookseller Jacques André was named godfather to their daughter Anne who was baptised on 19 October 1575.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 38v, GG 28 f. 35r 40.  Andrieu, Michel  Active: 1491  Location: Goupillières, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: A priest, he is known for a single edition of a book of hours for the use of Évreux.  Types: TW ma03634  References: Lepreux III 409; TW of0356 41.  Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques  Active: 1549–1551  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: Born circa 1510 in Paris, he died in around 1585 in the Swiss Confederation. His main roles were as an architect, writer and engraver, but he also oversaw the publication and distribution of some of his works.  References: RB X p. 75 42.  Andyé, Jean  Active: 1597–1601  Name variations: Andier, Jean; André, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie basse’  B iography: He married Jano Villeto/Biliete on 27 June 1597 and lived in the parish of Le Taur. In the registers he was referred to as ‘sire’ and as a merchant bookseller. His wife died on 9 May 1601.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 575 f. 96v, GG 696 f. 3r, GG 697 f. 1r 43.  Anequin, Antoine  Active: 1523–1534  Name variations: Anequini, Antoine  Location: Avignon, Papal States

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 Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Aux deux faucons’  B iography: He married Jeanne Girard who survived him. He slowly developed his business, renting a shop before acquiring it as trade thrived. He sourced his books in particular in Lyon, buying four bales of books worth 385 livres from Vincent de Portonariis in 1529. He died in 1534 and the shop was sold off by his brother, Bernardin, the following year.  Commercial partners: Vincent de Portonariis (Lyon)  References: Pansier II 33 44.  Angevin, François  Active: 1564  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single work celebrating the Council of Trent (USTC 35822).  References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 59; Lepreux II 365; Jacquot p. 8; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 74 45.  Angier, Girard  Active: 1527–1543  Name variations: Anger, Girard  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près du college de bois’  B iography: He was the nephew of Michel and it was thanks to his uncle’s intervention that he was named a bookseller on 13 March 1527. He remained his uncle’s associate until 1539.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Richard Hamillon (Rouen); Julien Macé (Rennes); Jean Macé (Rennes); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Jacques Macé (Rennes); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Bertrand Jago (Moncontour)  References: Delisle (Caen) p. xxxi 46.  Angier, Jean  Active: 1498–1507  Name variations: Boudin, Jean  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder

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 B iography: He was described as a bookbinder when he became a stationer to the university of Caen in 1498. It is unclear why he was sometimes also called Jean Boudin.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiii 47.  Angier, Michel  Active: 1500–1548  Name variations: Anger, Michel  Location: Caen, Normandy (1500–1548); Saint-Brieuc, Brittany (1505)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près le pont Saint-Pierre’ (until 1518); ‘Près du couvent des Cordeliers, à l’enseigne du Mont-Saint-Michel’ (after 1520)  B iography: Originally from Dénezé in Anjou, he married Isabeau Raison and then Marie d’Auge and lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He became an apprentice in the workshop of the Macé family in Caen in 1500. Throughout his career he maintained a close and fruitful relationship with the local university. He was initially rewarded by being named one of the institution’s official bookbinders (1514), to which he later added the title of bookseller. He also published books for the confraternity of Saint Nicolas. His business proved to be very successful and he was able to acquire numerous lands throughout his career. He also seems to have maintained a shop with Jean Macé in Rouen in 1508–1509 in the ‘rue du grand pont’. He was said to have risen to the position of alderman of the town in 1564 and to still be alive in 1566, though the last book to bear his name is dated 1548. He published works between 1527 and 1539 with his nephew, Girard. He seems also to have bound books with a plaque that featured Saint Michael in imitation of his publishing device.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Girard Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Denis Bouvet (Caen); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Étienne Dasne (Rouen); Jean du Moulin (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Richard Hamillon (Rouen); Wolfgang Hopyl (Paris); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Thielmann Kerver (Paris); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Michel Le Noir (Paris); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jacques Macé (Rennes); Jean Macé (Rennes); Julien Macé (Rennes); Richard Macé (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Jean I Petit (Rouen); Thomas Rayer (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris); Richard Rogier (Morlaix)  Device: Silvestre n° 200 & 1039; Delisle (Caen) n° XV–XVIII

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 Motto: ‘Spes nostra in Domino’; ‘Bonum est sperare in Domino’  References: Muller p. 10–11; RB XIX p. 83; Booton p. 239; Delisle (Caen) p. xxxi; Gid & Laffitte n° 161; Aquilon p. 307; Gruel p. 21; Répertoire n° 136

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48.  Angot, Pierre  Active: 1563–1601  Location: Montargis, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près la grande porte de l’église’  Documents: AM Montargis GG 1  References: Leloup p. 36 Angoulesme, Jean d’, see Bergier, Jean, and Lysée, Jean 49.  Anselme, Domergue  Active: 1500–1522  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Isabelle de Bisqueriis and, after her death, Marguerite de Farets. He started a career as a banker in 1491 and continued to have other roles alongside that of bookseller. Though he was never a printer, he did own Thomas des Cloches’s material that he sold on to Pierre Bochard. As a publisher, he was ambitious to a fault: in 1503 he was compelled to sell on over 2,000 unsold volumes of a large folio legal work (GW M38574) printed three years earlier in return for just 150 écus. He signed his last will on 8 October 1534 and died soon after.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bochard (Avignon); Thomas des Cloches (Avignon); Pierre Roault (Avignon)  Device: Polain n° 5; TW ma03567  Motto: ‘Espoir en Dieu’  Types: TW ma03563, ma03564, ma03565, ma03566  References: Pansier II 185; TW of0341

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Illustration 15 Device used by Domergue Anselme, 1500, GW M38574

Antesignanus Rapistagensis, see Davantès, Pierre II 50. Antoine, Michel  Active: 1524  Location: Avallon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is listed as owing money to a Parisian innkeeper in 1525 for a debt contracted a year earlier.  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII carton 10 f. 99 51.  Archambault, Jean  Active: 1545  Name variations: Arcanbault, Jean  Location: Grasse-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the brother of Pierre who set up shop in Paris.  Commercial partners: Jacques Bault (Santeny)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XI carton 7

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52.  Archambault, Jean  Active: 1588–1590  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was perhaps the same person as the Jean Archambault, bookseller, who witnessed a legal document for Jean Pillehotte in Lyon on 16 April 1584.  References: Audiat p. 42; Baudrier II 231 53.  Archibel, Charles  Active: 1516–1550  Name variations: Archinbel, Charles; Archimbel, Charles; Archimbaud, Charles  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. By 1550 he was described in the tax registers as being poor and living in a small house.  References: Claudin (1) p. 143; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 54.  Arlause, Jean  Active: 1560–1570  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 55.  Arlause, Ramond  Active: 1565–1574  Name variations: Arlance, Ramond  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He belonged to a modest family of booksellers that embraced Protestantism.  References: Conner p. 199; Haag IV 1058 56.  Arles, Honorat d’  Active: 1539  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Place saint Didier près le Collège saint Michel’  B iography: He is known for a single edition (USTC 13258).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 30 57.  Armandi, Pierre  Active: 1515–1532  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was originally from Saint-Montant. He sourced some of the books he sold in Lyon. He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier on the square in front of the church.  Commercial partners: Constant Fradin (Lyon); Jean du Poys (Aix-enProvence); Jean de Channey (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 36 58.  Armoynier, Philibert  Active: 1538–1550  Name variations: Lemonier, Philibert; Aumoynier, Philibert  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city before acquiring his own house in the same area.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12022 n° 119 f. 125r  References: Claudin (2) p. 13 59.  Arnauld, Étienne  Active: 1561  Location: Saint-Dié, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He visited the Lyon fair.  Commercial partners: Claude Ravot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 292 60.  Arnault, Mathurin  Active: 1549  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He married Jeanne Coussot and inherited in part the printer Jean Coussot’s material. The other part was owned by Jean Coussot’s

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widow until 1549. He resided in the parish of Saint-Grégoire. His output is known by a single imprint (USTC 58258).  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 492 61.  Arnoul, Jean  Active: 1509–1510  Name variations: Ernoul, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue bourgeoise, près du logis des Tourelles’  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Mathurin Amat (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers); Mathieu Latheron (Tours); Jean Le Roy (Angers); Georges Nicolet (Angers)  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 5; Pasquier p. 73 & 120 62.  Arnoul, Pierre  Active: 1528–1537  Name variations: Ernoul, Pierre  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: As a publisher he is Illustration 16 known for a single edition that he co- Signature of Pierre Arnoul, 1537, AD published with other local booksell- Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 ers (USTC 112256). Alongside Clément Alexandre and Jean I Elis, he appraised the material and books of Charles de Bougne in 1537. He and his wife had died by 1553.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Jean I Elis (Angers); Richard Picquenot (Angers)  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1  References: RB XXVI p. 84; Pasquier p. 74 63. Arnoullet, Balthazar  Active: 1540–1556  Name variations: Arnolet, Balthazar  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné (1552–1553); Lyon, Lyonnais (1540–1552 & 1553–1556)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: Born in 1517, the eldest son of the printer and bookseller Olivier, he learnt his trade in Lyon with Jean Barbou before marrying

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his daughter, Denise. He set up a workshop in Vienne in 1552 where he printed a series of works under the stewardship of Guillaume Guéroult. On all of these works, however, he inserted Lyon on the title page relegating Vienne to the colophon, presumably for commercial reasons. The exception to this rule was the Christianisimi restitutio of Michel Servet that he printed in some secrecy and without any indication of the printer’s name. Despite these precautions the material was recognised and he was arrested, whilst Guéroult was forced to flee to the relative safety of Geneva. He died after 20 November 1556.  Mottos: ‘Justo violentia cedit’; ‘Jubilo in extremis’  References: RB XXI p. 94; Muller p. 117; Baudrier X 91; Répertoire n° 194 64. Arnoux, Antoine  Active: 1592–1614  Location: Marseille, Provence  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was the official printer to the town of Marseille in 1600. Little of his probable original output seems to have survived. He disappeared before 1617 at which point there was no longer an active press in the city.  References: RB XXVI p. 85 n° 4; Bory p. 36; Billioud p. 262; Henricy p. 28 65.  Arras, Jean I d’  Active: 1562–1566  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He married Anne Le Maçon. A Protestant, he became a burgher of the city of Metz on 13 August 1563. He formed a partnership with Odinet Basset with whom he acquired the material they needed to print from a Genevan seller named Duchesne on 15 May 1563. It has been suggested that Jean Derbus worked in their workshop. Their smaller type had been cut by Pierre Haultin.  Commercial partners: Odinet Basset (Metz)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 4, 21, 217  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 25–26; Teissier p. 44; Cullière (Unicum); Cullière (Compléments); Cullière (Imprimeurs); Haag V 111; Répertoire n° 203

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66. Arras, Jean II d’  Active: 1597  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single work (USTC 5961).  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 189  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 33 67. Arseguel, Arnaud  Active: 1565–1566  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 213 68.  Arson, Antoine  Active: 1510  Location: Beauchastel, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is known for having bought books of a combined value of 15 lt from Jean Belon in Valence on 3 January 1510. He had paid 10 lt’s worth of his debt by 10 February.  Commercial partners: Jean Belon (Valence)  Documents: AD Drôme E 2556 f. 351  References: Vallentin p. 57 69. Arzer, Jean  Active: 1471  Name variations: Arzor, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He represented Nicolas Jenson at the fairs of Champagne.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Jenson (Venice) 70.  Aseville, Bonaventure d’  Active: 1600  Location: Calais, Picardy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single naval work which no longer survives (USTC 80609).  References: RB IX p. 65; Muller p. 7

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71.  Asselineau, Pierre  Active: 1500–1518  Name variations: Asselin, Pierre  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: In 1515 he was described as the librarian of the university.  References: RB X p. 9; Herluison p. 6; TW of1630 72. Astier, Jacques  Active: 1505  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 73.  Astis, Brunet d’  Active: 1506–1510  Name variations: Astys, Brunet d’  Location: Orthez, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Condor Damborgés. He enjoyed strong links to Spain and to Medina del Campo. This, however, does not seem to have guaranteed him sufficient income and he was also involved in the wool and hessian trade. He died before July 1510.  Commercial partners: Arnaud de Ponsaa (Orthez)  Documents: AM Orthez, C1 ff. 69 & 71; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques E 904  References: Cadier & Courtault p. 32–33; Dubarat (Bréviaire) p. LI–LII 74.  Astorg, Arnaud  Active: 1565–1595  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The son of Pierre I and also a Protestant, he married Jeanne Garin in 1565.  References: Conner p. 199; Haag IV 1059 75.  Astorg, Pierre I  Active: 1560–1577  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: Of Protestant faith, he married Lise Daniel and had two sons: Pierre (who died on 2 May 1577) and Arnaud.  References: Conner p. 199; Haag IV 1059 76.  Astorg, Pierre II  Active: 1566–1619  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199; Haag IV 1059 77.  Astruc, Antoine  Active: 1514  Location: Mende, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was named as the executor of the will of the bookseller Henri Monestier drawn up in case he died in Mende.  References: Martin (Le Puy) p. 7 78.  Auber, Guillaume  Active: 1597–1609  Name variations: Aubert, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He was described as a master printer in 1597.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 10 79. Auber, Henri  Active: 1562–1565  Name variations: Aubert, Henri  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy (1562); Caen, Normandy (1563); Rouen, Normandy (1563–1565)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: A protestant, he was godfather to a son of Jean Le Tondu on 23 November 1566.  Commercial partners: Louis Le Cordier (Caen); Étienne Desloges (Rouen); Simon Mangeant (Caen)  References: B. Normande p. 365; RB XXIV p. 69; Muller p. 10 & 104; Lepreux III 428

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80. Auber, Jean  Active: 1517–1529  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: His father’s name was also Jean. Guillaume I Bénard lent him 50 lt.  Commercial partners: Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 67 & 73; Beaurepaire p. 395 81. Auber, Richard  Active: 1577–1624  Name variations: Aubert, Richard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Gros Horloge, près Saint-Herbland, devant la Cigogne’ (1580); ‘Devant le Pélican’ (1590); ‘Devant le Lion d’or’ (1597)  B iography: He married Marie Valentin and their son, Laurent, was baptised on 1 October 1598. He was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city in 1597 and again in 1608. He was master of the community in 1603. He sued the printer Louis Blondel for having incorrectly printed one of his commissions in 1579. He seems to have published exclusively in French.  Commercial partners: Louis Blondel (Rouen); Jean Crevel (Rouen); Robert Mallard (Rouen); Guillaume Pavye (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 373–376; Mellot p. 11; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III (2) 79 82.  Auber, Robert  Active: 1551–1555  Name variations: Aubert, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Patrice. He used a mark rather Illustration 17 Signature of Robert Auber, 1551, AD than a signature on documents.  Commercial partners: Louis Pourchel Seine-Maritime 2E1 403 (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/403 f. 232r, 2E1/413 p. 331  References: Gosselin p. 74

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83.  Aubérée, Guillaume  Active: 1518–1520  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1518); Guillerville, Normandy (1520)  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Paroisse Saint-Maclou’  B iography: His father’s name was Jean. Nicolas I Mullot lent him 25 lt in 1520. He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Commercial partners: Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 75; Lepreux III 49 84. Aubert, Cornille  Active: 1538–1548  Name variations: Imbert, Cornille  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the La Daurade quarter of the city in 1538, but had moved to Saint-Sernin by 1544.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 12 85.  Aubert, Denis  Active: 1589–1592  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42 86. Aubert, Georges  Active: 1473–1482  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A priest, he was listed as one of the booksellers of the university of Caen.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxii 87.  Aubin, Jacques  Active: 1554–1600  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: A single edition is known to have been produced in his workshop (USTC 16266). He is not named as a publisher of the work.  Commercial partners: Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 83; B. Normande p. 326; Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 50

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88. Aubin, Jean  Active: 1559–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer Illustration 18  B iography: He married Signature of Jean Aubin, 1559, AD Florianne Rousselin and Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/426 p. 267  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 50 89.  Aubin, Nicolas  Active: 1556–1558  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He only worked as a printer at the behest of other members of the Rouen book trade – sometimes themselves printers – who acted as publishers.  Commercial partners: Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); Richard Petit (Rouen)  References: RB XXII p. 77; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 327; Lepreux III 50 90.  Aubinier, Julien  Active: 1572  Location: Le Mans, Maine; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Printer  B iography: A Protestant, he fled Le Mans in the aftermath of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and was received as an inhabitant of Geneva on 9 September 1572.  References: Haag I 553 91.  Aubinière, Julien  Active: 1593–1595  Location: Dinan, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Changes’  B iography: He worked for the Catholic League during the wars of the final decade of the sixteenth century. It seems unlikely that he should be the same person as Julien Aubinier who was a Protestant printer.

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 Commercial partners: Simon Savary (Dinan)  References: RB XVIII p. 57; Muller p. 16; Walsby (Brittany) p. 247 92. Aubry, Jacquette  Active: 1579–1580  Name variations: Guérineau, veuve Mathurin; ‘Jacquette la librairesse’  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: She married Mathurin Guérineau.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 47 93. Aubry, Jean  Active: 1584–1588  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer  B iography: He is only known for editions of emblem books. His role in their production and address is unclear and he was also involved in the printing of such works in Paris (USTC 89727).  References: Muller p. 52 94. Aucommer, Blaise  Active: 1538  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: Desgraves (Cahors) p. 940; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 133 95. Audebert, François  Active: 1585–1616  Location: Poitiers, Poitou (1585–1587); Saintes, Saintonge and Angoumois (1587–1616)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Originally from Loudun, he seems to have begun his career in Poitiers under the wing of Pierre II de Marnef, to whom he was probably related. He resided in Marnef’s house before moving to Saintes in 1587, perhaps for religious reasons.  References: Muller p. 105; RB II p. 89; Haag I 562; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 497

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96. Audiern, André  Active: 1488  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; Booton p. 220 97. Audignié, François  Active: 1495–1520  Name variations: Odin, François  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Mentioned as active in 1520 in the tax registers of Toulouse, he is probably to be conflated with the ‘Franciscus Odin’ who gave a copy of Silus Italicus’s Punicorum libri XVII in 1495.  Documents: BM Toulouse Inc Venise 156  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 98. Audouin, Nicolas  Active: 1552  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Nicole Chasseur, and lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. He had died before 1592, when his widow followed him into the grave.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 278 99.  Auger, Richard  Active: 1524–1529  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Perette Cappelle.  References: Gosselin p. 92; Lepreux III 51 100.  Augereau, Jean  Active: 1522–1523  Name variations: Augereau de Paris, Jean; Auguereau, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 264

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101.  Augereau, Michel I  Active: 1536–1558  Name variations: Ogereau, Michel  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne Cossot with whom he had a son, Guy, who was active in Paris notably as an engraver of letters, something Michel was also involved in. It has so far been impossible to identify any works that he might have printed.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 179 102.  Augereau, Michel II  Active: 1583  Name variations: Ogereau, Michel  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 46 103. Aurelle, Jean  Active: 1600  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne Mareschalle on 7 January 1600. They lived in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 696 f. 17r Ausel, Crespin, see Dusol, Crespin 104.  Ausmont, Jean  Active: 1555–1556  Name variations: Osmont, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maurice and married Jeanne Ernoul. The bookseller Pierre Jounot became godfather to his daughter Renée on 20 September 1555.  References: Pasquier p. 75

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105.  Auzoult, Richard  Active: 1495–1506  Name variations: Ausolt, Richard; Ausoult, Richard, Auzoult, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue estoupée’  B iography: A prolific printer, though not always named on his imprints, he worked for a wide variety of publishers and in particular for Robert I Macé in Caen. Delalain mistakenly attributed Robert’s device to him and declared him to be his successor. His type was similar to that of Pierre Levet in Paris and it has been suggested that he learnt his trade in his workshop.  Commercial partners: André Dorval (Sées); Noël de Harsy (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Robert I Macé (Caen); Andrew Myllar (Edinburgh); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Richard Rogier (Morlaix)  Device: Silvestre n° 87; Polain n° 180 & 180a  Types: TW ma13542–ma13546  References: RB XXII p. XIII-33; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 55–62; Lepreux III 51; TW of1281; Aquilon p. 306; Delalain p. 138; Répertoire n° 272 106. Avadrille, Robert  Active: 1565  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 25 107.  Avenel, Bertrand  Active: 1590  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married the bookseller Pierre Le Bret’s widow. A zealous Protestant, he was imprisoned on 6 June 1590 for selling a virulently anti-Catholic pamphlet and his shop was searched by the town authorities. He was sentenced to two years of exile and left for Paris. But he soon returned to Rennes where he was once more arrested and told to leave the city on 8 October 1590. He seems to have had little respect for the injunction as he was still there during the wars of the League. Noël du Fail described him in his tales as a ‘gentil libraire’ noting his tendency to narrate in his sleep the events of the previous day.

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 References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; Haag I 605 108.  Avenel, Olivier  Active: 1551–1572  Name variations: Advenel, Olivier  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’; ‘En la Illustration 19 Signature of Olivier Avenel, 1555, rue escuyère’  B iography: A Protestant, he resided in AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 415 the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He seems to have been a wealthy bookseller, being also described as a burgher of the city and a merchant. He received a payment of 210 lt following a ruling by the local authorities in 1555. According to Jean Crespin he was killed in the massacre of 17 September 1572.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200, 2E1/415 pp. 14 & 140  References: Gosselin p. 106; Haag I 606; Lesens p. 333 Aviset, Jean, see Croiset, Jean 109. Avril, Pierre  Active: 1590–1604  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He became an official bookseller to the university as well as to the king and to the bishopric, but he is not known to have published any books.  References: Pasquier p. 75 110. Aymar, Guille  Active: 1586  Location: Orange, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Bookseller  References: Leemans p. 458 111. Aymes, Jean  Active: 1531  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65

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112.  Babault, Théophile  Active: 1584–1623  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He also played a role in the Calvinist church, first as a precentor and later as a summoner to the local consistory.  References: Conner p. 199 113. Babou, Gabriel  Active: 1593  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller’s apprentice  B iography: Originally from Bourges, he was the son of Jacquine Foucquet and Pierre Babou. He undertook a two-year apprenticeship in Pierre Le Mesle’s workshop in Angers on 24 October 1593.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 114. Bacheti, François  Active: 1524  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 37 115. Bacquelier, Pierre  Active: 1506–1522  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Printer  B iography: It is unclear if he was actually in Grenoble or whether he was in fact active in Paris.  References: Muller p. 18 116. Bacquenois, Nicolas  Active: 1535–1572  Name variations: Bacquenoys, Nicolas  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1535–1553); Reims, Champagne (1553–1562); Verdun, Three Bishoprics (1559–1572)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Mercière’ (Lyon); ‘Rue Saint-Estienne’, ‘Au Lion’ (Reims)  B iography: He was born probably in around 1510 in the village of Beine near Reims. He worked in Lyon as a journeyman in 1535 and as a

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master printer between 1547 and 1552. He married Étiennette Lhéritier in Lyon, the widow of Jean Gaulme, and had a son named Étienne. At the Cardinal of Lorraine’s behest, he left for Reims in 1553 – though he only sold on his Lyon shop in 1559. Despite having worked on a protestant Bible when employed in Thibaut Payen’s workshop in 1548, he had no difficulty working for the Catholic Church. On his return to his home city he obtained a royal monopoly for liturgical works in the diocese of Reims (January 1552/3). He moved to Verdun in 1559 to become the official printer to the local bishop, Nicolas Psaume, and was a vital part of his attempt to implement Tridentine reform in his diocese. The daughter of Étiennette’s first marriage married Jean de Foigny who became his apprentice and took over his Reims workshop after Bacquenois’s departure for Verdun, initially working in tandem before selling the business to Foigny on 17 October 1561 for 2200 lt. His time in Verdun seems to have been only moderately successful: he was forced to ask the bishop for loans and also worked as an official of the bishopric. A journeyman known as Geoffroy was employed in his workshop in 1560. A very active and talented printer and publisher, he is known for over a hundred editions in Lyon, Reims and Verdun. His output was dominated by Catholic works and books produced for educative purposes. As a publisher, he ensured in 1554 that the local bookseller Arnoul Hubert only sold books of hours for the use of Reims that came of his presses. He also attended the Frankfurt fair in 1565. He died in March 1572 or between May and August 1571. Martin Marchant, who had been an apprentice and then a journeyman printer in his workshop, succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Gérard Collebert (Reims); Jean de Foigny (Reims); Arnoul Hubert (Reims); Sébastien Nivelle (Paris); Thibaut Payen (Lyon); Mathieu Viaudey (Langres)  Motto: ‘Sequitur fortuna laborem’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 140  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AM Reims Carton 802 liasse 175  References: RB XVII p. 63–71; Muller p. 93; Jadart (Bacquenois); Lepreux II 216 & 365; Jacquot p. 9; Baudrier VIII 3; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 67; Répertoire n° 306 117.  Bacquenois, Pierre  Active: 1587  Name variations: Bacquenoys, Pierre  Location: Reims, Champagne

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 Role: Bookseller  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Lepreux II 216 118. Badel, Durand  Active: 1577–1607  Name variations: Durand-Badel  Location: Pau, Béarn  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: A Protestant, he was originally from Cahors but had settled in Pau by 1577. He worked in partnership with Jean I Saugrain with whom he had signed an official agreement in 1580 for ten years – an agreement only broken by Saugrain’s death in 1586. The terms of the document showed that both partners were to share profits equally, though Saugrain appeared clearly to be the senior partner. He worked extensively as a bookbinder for local institutions and was described as the bookseller of the chamber of accounts of Pau in 1588.  Commercial partners: Jean I Saugrain (Pau)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2963, B 3117, B 3200, B 3418, E 344, E 2003, E 2005, E 2006, E 2010, E 2022  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 183; Haag I 688; Lacaze p. 42 119.  Badidald, Hubald  Active: 1576  Location: Vitry-le-François, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was a fictitious printer whose name was used to publish a satirical text (USTC 206868).  References: RB XVII p. 129; Muller p. 118; Lepreux II 221 120. Badius, Conrad  Active: 1545–1562  Name variations: Bade, Conrad  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1545–1548 and 1562); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1549–1562); Orléans, Orléanais (1562)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The son of Josse, he was born in Paris in 1520 and married Roberte. After the death of his father in December 1535, he learnt his trade as an apprentice in the some of the most prestigious Parisian workshops under the guidance of Robert I Estienne, Jean de Roigny and Michel de Vascosan, his brothers-in-law. By 1545 he had followed in his father’s

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footsteps by becoming a master printer, keeping the same sign. With the rising persecution of the Protestants in the city, he fled to Geneva in 1549 where he was received as an inhabitant in 1550 and became a burgher five years later. A prolific publisher, printing mainly in French, he also trained as a Protestant minister and it was because of this that he chose to move back to France in March 1562, settling in Orléans, then a city under the influence of the prince of Condé. However, his time there was limited as he died in October of the same year. His device and motto were handed on to Éloi Gibier. Louis Rabier started an apprenticeship in his workshop in 1562.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Devices: Silvestre n° 758 & 867  Mottos: ‘In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo’; ‘Des creux manoirs et pleins d’obscurité, Dieu par le temps retire vérité’  References: Renouard p. 14; RIECH 121. Baignoux, Jacques  Active: 1567  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Apprentice bookseller  B iography: He began his career as an apprentice in Barthélemy Guillot’s shop on 5 May 1567.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 48 122.  Baillif, Abel I  Active: 1539–1540  Name variations: Bellif, Abel I; Belef, Abel I  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 352 123. Baillif, Abel II  Active: 1552–1578  Name variations: Bellif, Abel II  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was described as too poor to pay tax in the 1552 municipal tax registers. He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233  References: Turquois p. 352

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124.  Baillif, veuve Abel I  Active: 1548  Name variations: Bellif, veuve Abel I  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: She lived in the Comporte quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232  References: Turquois p. 352 125.  Bala, Jean de  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Borc near Moulins, he was an apprentice in Jean Grandjean’s workshop in 1508.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 126. Bâle, Jacques de  Active: 1493  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place Saint-Didier’  B iography: He was originally from Basel and rented a shop and a room opposite the church of Saint-Didier on 287 October 1493.  References: Pansier I 146 127. Bâle, Jean de  Active: 1482–1492  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Jean Sibert’s agent in Avignon and served as a messenger to the Pope.  Commercial partners: Jean de Bloumestoc (Lyon); Joachim de Rome (Avignon); Jean Sibert (Lyon)  References: Pansier I 146 128.  Ballenseaux, Alain  Active: 1568–1571  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281

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129. Ballhac, Léonard  Active: 1505  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 130.  Ballicorne, Richard  Active: 1600–1623  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He became a master printer in 1600. No imprints from his workshop have yet been identified. He died in 1623, the year that he had been chosen as warden of the community of booksellers and printers.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 12; Lepreux III 53 131.  Bally, Étienne  Active: [1492]–[1503]  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Notre-Dame en Vaux, près la grosse tête’  B iography: He is known for his Gothic type edition of Les dictz des oyseaux, which betrays a limited grasp of the art of printing.  Motto: ‘Sola fides sufficit’  References: RB XVII p. 7; Muller p. XIII; Lepreux II 222; Lhote p. 1 132.  Balsarin, Bonin  Active: 1515–1532  Location: Lyon, Lyonnois (1515); Grenoble, Dauphiné (1523–1532)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près du parlement’  B iography: Originally from Lyon where he was described as a bookseller, he settled in Grenoble in the 1520s as a printer. There, he published a number of editions for the local legal community.  Commercial partners: Anemond Amalberti (Grenoble)  Motto: ‘Ne quid nimis’  Documents: AM Lyon CC 24  References: Muller p. 18; RB XIII p. 53–54; Maignien p. XXII; Baudrier I 15

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133.  Baluze, Étienne  Active: 1566–1578  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Corrèze B 65 134.  Baluze, Jean  Active: 1536–1537  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of Pierre.  References: Clément-Simon, p. 82–84 135.  Baluze, Pierre  Active: 1493–1495  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Redole-Peire’  B iography: He married Hélys de Verge and was the father of Jean. He died before 1536.  Commercial partners: Damas de Tel (Lyon)  References: Clément-Simon, p. 82–84 136. Baragnon, Février  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was condemned to death in 1562.  References: Haag I 761 137. Barba, Pierre  Active: 1554  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne and married Danysa Alamande in April 1554.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 26 f. 49r 138. Barbaret, François  Active: 1516  Location: Romans, Dauphiné

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 Role: Bookseller  References: Perrossier p. 313 139. Barbazan, Jean  Active: 1521–1523  Name variations: Barbaram, Jean  Location: Nevers, Nivernais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He had breviaries and other religious works printed for the use of the local diocese.  Commercial partners: Didier Maheu (Paris); Nicolas de La Barre (Paris); Nicolas Higman (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 8 f. 204  References: Coyecque X p. 123 140. Barbey, Nicolas  Active: 1489  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He bought Étienne Colon’s house in 1489.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 215 H 49 141.  Barbey, Yvon  Active: 1535  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: An inhabitant of the parish of Saint-Patrice, Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer. None of his works have yet been identified.  References: Gosselin p. 94; Lepreux III 53 142.  Barbier, Bertrand  Active: 1527  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from Saint-Denis-le-Thiboust, he had settled in the parish of Sainte-Croix Saint-Ouen in Rouen. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer. None of his works have yet been identified.  References: Gosselin p. 91; Lepreux III 53

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143.  Barbier, Jean  Active: 1598–1608  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He initially worked as a journeyman bookseller in Simon Millanges’s workshop in 1598. He had become a master bookseller by 1603 and was named a burgher of the city of Bordeaux on 28 July 1604. In 1608, he was included in the list of a master booksellers of the city.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 991r & 1406r  References: Labadie p. 5 & 123; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 36; Bordeaux, 15. 144.  Barbou, Hugues  Active: 1558–1600  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1558–1566); Limoges, Limousin (1567–1600)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place Fontaine-Saint-Michel’; ‘Près Saint-Michel’; ‘Rue Ferrerie’  B iography: Born on 24 January 1538 in Lyon, his godfather was the Lyon printer Hugues de La Porte, and he was the son of the printer Jean Barbou and Guillemine Rivoire. He married the widow of Charles de La Nouaille, Jeanne Bridier, who previous to that was the widow of Bastien Morin. Jacques was their son and Balthazar Arnoullet his brother-in-law. After having learnt his profession as an apprentice in François Fradin’s workshop in Lyon, he moved to Limoges on 7 September 1567. There, he bought Charles de La Nouaille’s material and became the official printer to the bishopric, to the king, and to the local Jesuit college. His success enabled him to become an important figure in local society: he was named captain of the canton of La Ferrerie in 1589 and again in 1592 and became consul of Limoges in 1592. He was also the administrator of the hospital of Saint-Gérald in 1593. He fought a lawsuit against Michel Le Moyne between 1597 and 1599. He died on 29 November 1603 at which point his son Jacques succeeded him.  Commercial partners: François Budier (Bordeaux); Nicolas Courtois (Poitiers); Étienne Dalvy (Tulle); Gilles Degoys (Périgueux); Antoine de Harsy (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 901 & 1242  Motto: ‘Meta laboris honor’; ‘De long travail, fruict et honneur’; ‘Longo labore eximius honor’  Documents: AD Haute-Vienne B 221, D 89  References: Muller p. 21; RB III p. 37–42; Baudrier V 3; Ducourtieux; Répertoire n° 420

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145. Barbou, Jacques  Active: 1598–1605  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was the son of Hugues and was born on 22 July 1570. He married Jannette Desflottes in 1587. He worked in his father’s workshop and represented him in his lawsuit against Michel Le Moyne in Paris. He took over his father’s workshop at his death, but died just two years later on 20 May 1605.  Commercial partners: Aymard Dalvy (Périgueux)  References: Ducourtieux & Bourdery 146.  Bardin, Jean  Active: 1508  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  B iography: He was the secretary of the archbishop. An ambiguous note in the accounts of the Cathedral seems to suggest that he was simultaneously a printer.  References: Labadie p. 5; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 40 147.  Bardin, Noël  Active: 1555–1588  Location: Autun, Burgundy (1556); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1555– 1588); Montargis, Orléanais (1571)  Role: Pedlar, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du chastel’ (Montargis)  B iography: Originally from the Gâtinais, he was born in 1508. He was arrested near Autun with Robert Cottereau for peddling Protestant books in September 1556. Théodore de Bèze recounts that they were simply whipped and freed, many of their books having been given back to them or bought. Having survived this ordeal, he fled to Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant of the town. He married Verène Mirallin with whom he had a daughter, Marie, who married an engraver named Claude Danon. He sought to set up shop durably in Montargis in 1571, renting a shop for three years. His later return to Geneva seems to indicate that this was not the success that he had hoped. His son, also named Noël, succeeded him.  References: Haag I 811; Leloup p. 36; Bèze p. 110; RIECH

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148.  Bardoc, Léonard  Active: 1503–1512  Name variations: Bardon, Léonard  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne (1503); La Réole, Guyenne (1512)  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He was active in Périgueux in 1503 where he was described as a bookseller, though he was close to the local printer, Jean Carant: he was witness to an exchange of land involving the latter. It is only in La Réole that he appears as a printer. There, he is known for a single commission to print copies of royal ordinances produced for a bookseller of Bordeaux (USTC 80577).  Commercial partners: Michau Maritain (Bordeaux)  References: Muller p. 95; RB II p. 80; Dujarric-Descombes p. 11; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 42 149.  Bardot, Jean  Active: 1565–1566  Name variations: Bardant, Jean  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1565); Metz, Three Bishoprics (1565); Jametz, Holy Roman Empire (1566)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The son of a farmer, he converted to Protestantism and fled his home village near Verdun to seek refuge in Geneva where he learnt the trade. He left in 1565 to sell books first in Metz and then in Jametz. During a visit to his home village he was arrested and imprisoned in Verdun where he was accused of heresy in 1566.  Documents: AD Meuse 11 F 100  References: RIECH 150. Baret, Philippe  Active: 1495–1499  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Guillaume Boysson’s factor in 1499.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Boysson (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 13 151. Bargues, Jean de  Active: 1480–1486  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He worked as an illuminator and a scribe, but also bound books.  References: Rondot p. 49; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 278 152. Barilhard, Lucas  Active: 1551–1577  Name variations: Barilliard, Lucas  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1551); Agen, Guyenne (1566–1577)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près de la maison de ville’  B iography: He was originally from Saint-Paul in Dauphiné but moved to Toulouse where he married Jeanne Delrieu in May 1551 at which point he was already described as a master bookseller and resided in the parish of Le Taur. He was Pierre and Jeanne’s father. When he moved to Agen, his shop was at least in part stocked with books bought from Simon Millanges in Bordeaux and Étienne Michel in Lyon. He owed money to both at the time of his death – at some point before 1578 – when his shop was taken over by his son-in-law, Guillaume Vergnes.  Commercial partners: Étienne Michel (Lyon); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Lot-et-Garonne 2 E 141/3; AM Toulouse GG 26 f. 7v  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 5; Marboutin p. 21 153.  Barilhard, Pierre  Active: 1581–1619  Name variations: Barilliard, Pierre  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller Illustration 20 Signature of Pierre Barrilhard, 1598,  Address: ‘Rue Garonne’  B iography: He was the son of AD Gironde 3 E 14800 Lucas. He took over the shop of his brother-in-law Guillaume Vergnes at his death in 1581 at which point it contained close to 700 different titles of a very diverse nature, including Protestant works. He was bookseller to the town and supplied books to the local clergy. He was captured by Protestants in 1590 and taken to a local stronghold before being released. Like his father before him, he maintained close commercial relations with both Bordeaux and Lyon as well as Toulouse. He made the Bordeaux bookseller Jacob Virevaloys his proxy in 1598 to retrieve 43.5 écus he was owed by Abraham Bonjour

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at the latter’s death. He was also in debt to the Parisian bookseller Abel L’Angelier in 1610. He died in 1619.  Commercial partners: Abraham Bonjour (Bordeaux); Antoine de Harsy (Lyon); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon); Jacob Virevaloys (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1112r, 1326r & 1809v; AM Agen CC 325, CC 327, FF 39  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 6; Balsamo & Simonin p. 428 154.  Baro, Jean  Active: 1588  Location: Sisteron, Provence  Role: Bookseller  B iography: His daughter married Claude Monteil.  Commercial partners: Claude Monteil (Grasse-en-Provence); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 237 Barra, see Thomas, Louis 155. Barrac, Jean  Active: 1557–1562  Name variations: Barratz, Jean; Barrach, Jean; Barac, Jean  Location: Nantes, Brittany; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Pedlar  B iography: A Protestant, he fled to the safety of Geneva but continued to send books to Brittany. He worked on these occasions with colleagues such as Jean Rivery with whom he undertook a trip to Blois. He was arrested in Nantes in 1562.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva); Jean Rivery (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève, Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 401  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 197–200; Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie); Chaix p. 144 156. Barraud, Isaac  Active: 1578–1607  Name variations: Barault, Isaac  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 B iography: He married Marguerite Ardon with whom he had four children and resided in the parish of Saint-Didier. He was godfather to Jean II Citoys’s son in 1597. He started his career as an apprentice in Louis Contis’s workshop on 26 January 1578. He completed his apprenticeship and used the title of bookseller before 1588. As a publisher he worked with other members of the book trade and did not publish alone. He died before February 1609.  Commercial partners: veuve Gabriel Buon (Paris); André Citoys (Poitiers); Pierre de Marnef (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 296; Clouzot (1907) p. 47 157. Barrey, Humbert  Active: 1528–1530  Location: Longeville-en-Barrois, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle G 1136 158.  Barrier, Dominique  Active: 1565  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du palais’ (1563)  B iography: He married Jeanne de Monfera on 16 February 1565.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 220 f. 153r 159.  Barrier, Louis  Active: 1561–1586  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: His success in Avignon encouraged the municipal authorities of the neighbouring town of Aix-en-Provence to reach an agreement and make him sign a contract to settle there in 1572. The agreement stipulated that he was to be paid 50 lt a year and given the use of a house, but he reneged on the agreement. He was also the keeper of the university’s keys (1583). He sold his workshop to Jacques Bramereau in 1586.  Motto: ‘Bonum eventum’  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 49; Pansier II 106; Billioud p. 262; Henricy p. 5

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160.  Barrier, Louis  Active: 1590  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Simonne Duval with whom he had a son, also named Louis, who was baptised on 19 September 1590. They lived in the parish of Saint-Martin.  References: Porcher p. 87. 161.  Barriere  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Perhaps related to Antoine (or indeed the same person), he was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  References: C. Devic & J. Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc (Toulouse: Édouard Privat, 1872) XII, 21. 162. Barrière, Antoine  Active: 1511–1544  Name variations: Barrier, Antoine; Barrieur, Antoine; Barriera, Antoine; Barrié, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice, bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: Originally from Cahuzac, he was an apprentice in Jean Chabron’s workshop in 1511 for four years. By 1523 he was referred to as a bookbinder and as a bookseller in 1529. He became the administrator (bayle) of the corporation of booksellers and printers in 1533. He worked alongside Simon Tarsis in 1537.  Commercial partners: Jean Chabron (Toulouse); Simon Tarsis (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 45  References: Claudin (1) p. 148; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64–65 163. Barriet, Nicolas  Active: 1591  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 49 164. Barril, Jean  Active: 1531–1535

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was described in all surviving imprints simply as a merchant, but published a number of different imprints produced in Toulouse, all probably on the presses of Jacques I Colomiès.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  Device: Silvestre n° 279  References: RB XX p. 105; Muller p. 112 165. Barrillet, Berthommé  Active: 1540–1568  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier. In 1555 he lived with Nicolas and declared that he was poor and had to look after twelve children. This situation improved as by 1568 he was taxed 10 sous and lived once more alone.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 267 166.  Barrillet, Nicolas  Active: 1555–1588  Name variations: Barriet, Nicolas  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Anne Coupeau and had a son named René. In 1555 he lived with Berthommé and declared that he was poor and had to look after twelve children. Despite this inauspicious situation, his career was a successful one. By 1568 he was taxed 30 sous and he was a verger of the university of Poitiers in 1575. He rented out a farm to another bookseller, Joseph Lavesré, in 1588.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 267; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 502 167.  Barro, Jacques  Active: 1586  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint – an edition of Ronsard (USTC 20411).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 53; Pansier II 108

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168. Bartault, Barthélemy  Active: 1529–1541  Name variations: Barthaud, Barthélemy; Berthault, Barthélemy  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne de la Fleur de Lys’; ‘Près le cimetière saint Pierre le Pueillier’  B iography: He was considered by contemporaries as the richest bookseller of Bourges with 10,000 lt. He was also the official stationer to the university. His career as a publisher, however, was limited and consisted of a handful of works for the local clergy and members of the legal profession.  Commercial partners: Simon de Colines (Paris); Simon du Bois (Paris); Michel Fezandat (Paris); Jean Garnier (Bourges); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Ponce Roffet (Paris); Pierre de Sartières (Bourges); Pierre Vidoue (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/13 f. 536  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII 26 n° 5; Coyecque XV p. 172; Boyer p. 48; Répertoire n° 765. 169. Barthelot, André  Active: 1512  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Orléans, he was an apprentice in Jean Grandjean’s workshop in 1512.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 170.  Barthier, Claude  Active: 1519–1550  Name variations: Barbier, Claude  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city in the house of the bookseller Henri Court in 1532 before moving to another house in the same quarter the following year. In 1546 he moved once more, this time to the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 2

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171.  Basilhie, Pierre  Active: 1504  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He died in 1504.  References: Pansier II 37 172. Basset, Odinet  Active: 1562–1566  Name variations: Molet, Odinet  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He formed a partnership with Jean I d’Arras with whom he acquired the material they needed to print from a Genevan seller named Duchesne on 15 May 1563. It has been suggested that Jean Derbus worked in their workshop.  Commercial partners: Jean I d’Arras (Metz)  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 25–26; Teissier p. 44; Cullière (Compléments); Cullière (Imprimeurs); Cullière (Unicum) 173.  Bassillon, Jean I  Active: 1506–1514  Name variations: Bassalon, Jean  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in 1478, he married Agnès Bonhomme.  Documents: AD Yonne E 411, E 480  References: Ribière p. 113 174.  Bassillon, Jean II  Active: 1529–1549  Name variations: Bassalon, Jean; Bassillon le jeune, Jean  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne with whom he had a son named Pierre who also entered into the trade.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AD Yonne E 382, E 415; AM Auxerre GG 123

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175.  Bassillon, Pierre  Active: 1570  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of Jean II and was baptised on 19 January 1541/2.  Documents: AD Yonne E 393, E 409; AM Auxerre GG 123 176.  Batailhe, Gaillard  Active: 1531–1549  Name variations: Batalher, Gaillard  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms from the bookseller Henri Court in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 11 177. Batailhe, Pierre  Active: 1585  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  B iography: He married Jeanne Majorine on 2 June 1585 and resided in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 221 f. 162v & GG 574 f. 166r 178. Batas, Jacques  Active: 1540–1554  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He took over François Texier’s workshop and initially worked in tandem with Marc Batas as a printer, though he seems to have continued his stationer’s activities separately.  Commercial partners: Marc Batas (Périgueux)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 145 n° 283  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 68; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 648; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 201; Répertoire n° 514; Etchechoury p. 9 179.  Batas, Marc  Active: 1540–1561

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 Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He took over François Texier’s workshop and initially worked in tandem with Jacques Batas. In 1549 he sought another strategic partnership, this time with the bookseller Guérin Boyau to whom he offered half of his belongings if he came to work with him in his shop in Périgueux. In his publications, he used a woodcut device representing saint Mark.  Commercial partners: Jacques Batas (Périgueux); Guérin Boyau (Périgueux)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/33 f. 610v; AD Gironde 1 B 227 n° 132  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 68; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 648; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 202; Répertoire n° 515; Etchechoury p. 9 180.  Batereau, Étienne  Active: 1554–1585  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1554–1560); La Rochelle, Aunis (1585)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Originally from Anjou, he sought refuge in Geneva in September 1554 where he was described on arrival as a bookseller. It is not known when he left the city, but he was still active there in 1560. He had settled in La Rochelle by 1585. References: Audiat p. 42; Haag I 961; RIECH; Chaix p. 49 181.  Batereau, Pierre Active: 1580 Location: La Rochelle, Aunis Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was a witness to the will of the peddler Jean de Campa­ non in January 1580. References: Droz (Campanon) p. 145 182. Bauchu, Jean  Active: 1591–1615  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1591–1595); Poitiers, Poitou (1606–1615)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: A fictitious printer whose name is appended to editions in Rouen and Poitiers of Jean Tabourot’s Bigarrures. The editions ascribed

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to him were probably printed in the workshop of the Lyon printer Pierre Chastain, also known as Dauphin.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Goyet p. LVII 183. Baudin, Nicolas  Active: 1541–1555  Location: Longeville-en-Barrois, Lorraine  Role: Bookbinder  References: Servais p. 86 184. Baudin, Simon  Active: 1524  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2528, G 6800 185. Baudouin, Jean  Active: 1514  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  B iography: In the sole document that records his presence in Bordeaux, Baudouin is also called ‘Pierre’. Pierre David lent him a press for a year ‘avecques les lettres et aultres choses servant à ladite presse’ for 32 lt.  Documents: AD Gironde G 2289 ff. 15–24  References: Labadie p. 5; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 54 186. Baudouyn, Jean  Active: 1517–1525  Location: Nantes, Brittany (1517–1518); Rennes, Brittany (1524–1525); Angers, Anjou? (1531)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près des carmes’ (Nantes)  B iography: There is nothing to tie in this Jean Baudouyn with his namesake who worked in Bordeaux a few years earlier. He printed in Nantes for the local clergy and then in Rennes where he worked with the powerful local bookseller Jean Macé – though it is clear that the local bishop, Yves Mayheuc, was instrumental in encouraging the arrival of his press. A 1531 Angers imprint is said to bear his name but no extant copy is known. As his material later resurfaced in Rennes, this seems unlikely. There was

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a strong Parisian influence in the material he employed: in some of his editions he used as device a copy of the printer’s workshop woodcut used by Jose Bade and his ornate letters were copied on those previously used by Parisian typographers such as Berthold Rembolt and André Bocard.  Commercial partners: Jean Macé (Rennes)  Device: Silvestre n° 1153  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; RB XIX p. 17 & 44–46; Muller p. 54 & 94; Booton p. 231; La Borderie I p. 49; Granges de Surgères n° 5; Lepreux IV 19 & 210 187. Bauldet, Mathieu  Active: 1522–1523  Name variations: Mathieu le libraire  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He rented a room from the cathedral chapter close to the cloister square. He bound books for the local Church.  Documents: AD Côte-d’Or E cart. 76–77 f. 195, G 1523 f. 12, 19, 58  References: Skora (Langres) 188. Bault, Jacques  Active: 1545  Location: Santeny, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Archambault (Grasse-en-Provence)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XI 7 189. Bavent, Guillaume  Active: 1527–1546  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux grands degrés’  B iography: He only published missals for the use of Rouen as part of various consortia involving other local booksellers. He also worked as a parchment maker.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Claude Le Roy (Rouen); Pierre Lygnant (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prévost (Paris); François Regnault (Rouen)

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 References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 283–284; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 569 Baylet, Mathelin, see …, Mathelin 190. Bazin, Cardin  Active: 1518  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Paroisse saint-Laurent’  References: Gosselin p. 74 191. Bazoche, Andrieu  Active: 1546–1547  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  B iography: He worked in Vincent de la Vacquerie’s bookshop and was arrested along with his master for selling banned books. In the sentence passed on 20 August 1547 it is unclear whether he was to share La Vacquerie’s fate of three years exile.  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 287; Weiss p. 13 192. Beau, Bernard  Active: 1555  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Aulaye.  Commercial partners: Claude Fontaine (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 55 193. Beauchesne, Jean  Active: 1519  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Apprentice bookseller  B iography: The son of Pierre, he originally came from the parish of Bourg-en-Anjou. He was taken on as an apprentice by Charles de Bougne in Angers on 2 April 1519 n.s. for a period of 6 years at which point he was thought to be aged 18.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121

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Beaumont, Antoine, see Lesmont, Antoine 194. Beauvais, Romain de  Active: 1585–1642  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le grand portail Notre-Dame’  B iography: He married Marguerite Mirey. He was a member of the ‘Societas typographica librorum officii ecclesiastici’ and was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city in 1598, 1613 and 1624. As a publisher, he was particularly active and avoided specialisation, having books printed in a wide variety of domains, though virtually always in French and in the smaller formats. When he died, at some time in 1642 or 1643, his widow remarried Richard III Lallemant (January 1644).  Commercial partners: Nicolas Loyselet (Rouen); Jean Osmont (Rouen); Théodore Reinsart (Rouen)  Motto: ‘Omnia Deo patescunt’; ‘Successum labor excipiat’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3452  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 13; Lepreux III 16 & 53; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 593 195. Beauvoir, Guillaume  Active: 1558  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Hantet’s factor.  Commercial partners: Jean I Hantet (Bourges)  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 870 196. Bec, Jean  Active: 1533–1546  Name variations: Biet, Jean; Bel, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 16; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 197. Begon  Active: 1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married in 1598.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 60 198. Behotte, Jacques  Active: 1548  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou. Lepreux considers him to be a journeyman printer. He is not associated to any known imprints.  References: Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 55 199. Belis, Bonaventure  Active: 1553–1575  Name variations: Bélis, Bonaventure; Bellis, Bonaventure  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher Illustration 21 Signature of Bonaventure Belis,  Address: ‘Devant la porte de la cour 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 446 d’église’ (1553–1558); ‘rue de la grosse Horloge près saint Herbland, devant la Cigogne’ (1573–1575)  B iography: He published in two spurts, between 1553 and 1558 at one address and fifteen years later in a different location, mainly in smaller formats (octavo and sextodecimo) and solely in French. In 1566, he appointed a representative to force the bookseller Jean Le Pryme to honour an agreement made five years earlier.  Commercial partners: Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Jeanne de Burges (Rouen); Jean I Crevel (Rouen); Robert de La Motte (Rouen); Jean Le Pryme (Saint-Lô); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Robert Mallard (Rouen); Thomas I Mallard (Rouen); Robert Masselin (Rouen); Guillaume Pavie (Rouen); veuve Jean I Petit (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3436, 2E1/446 f. 29v  References: Muller p. 96–103; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 630 200. Bellac, Guillaume  Active: 1498  Location: Nantes, Brittany

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Françoise.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; Booton p. 225; Granges de Surgères n° 9 201. Bellamis, David  Active: 1595–1597  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 202. Bellard, Jean  Active: 1565  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He held a shop between the court of law and the gate of Saint-Michel in 1565 which was owned by Jeanne La Haie, for which he was also obliged to clean the audience chambers of the court and maintain the pavement.  Documents: AD de Loire-Atlantique B 2190 203. Bellenger, Abel  Active: 1539  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Jeanne Hébert and resided in the parish of Saint-Nicaise. Lepreux considers him to be a journeyman printer.  Device: Silvestre n° 283  References: Gosselin p. 94; Lepreux III 62 204. Bellemère, David  Active: 1539  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Originally from Limoges, he was received as a member of the Protestant church in Nîmes in 1593.  References: Haag II 231 205. Bellescullée, Pierre  Active: 1484–1495  Location: Rennes, Brittany (1484–1485); Poitiers, Poitou (1490–1495)

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 Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘près l’église de Saint Germain’ (Rennes)  B iography: Probably originally from the Poitou, he appears for the first time alongside a partner simply named Josses in Rennes in 1484 where he became the city’s prototypographer. His career there was short, however, and by 1490 he had returned south and was working in Poitiers. Along with Jean Bouyer, he printed a book of hours for the use of Angers.  Commercial partners: Jean Bouyer (Poitiers); Josses (Rennes)  Device: Polain n° 179; Silvestre n° 283; Meyer n° 167 & 170; TW ma03721  Types: TW ma03720  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 247; Booton p. 240; TW of1315; Lepreux IV 24 206. Bellier, Gabriel  Active: 1597–1630  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Renelle, à l’image Saint Martin’  B iography: He was a master printer before 1597.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 17 207. Belloy, Arnaud  Active: 1589  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice  B iography: He was Gilles’s brother and became an apprentice bookseller in Pierre Cabat’s workshop for two years in 1589.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 63 208. Belloy, Gilles  Active: 1589  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice  B iography: He was Arnaud’s brother and became an apprentice bookseller in Pierre Cabat’s workshop for two years in 1589.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 63 209. Belon, Claude  Active: 1523  Location: Dijon, Burgundy

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in front of the church of Saint-Étienne.  References: AM Dijon LL 164 210. Belon, Jean  Active: 1503–1522  Location: Privas, Languedoc (1503); Valence, Dauphiné (1504–1522); Ro­ mans, Dauphiné (1518)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: At the start of his career he was referred to as a citizen of Lyon, suggesting that he had probably learnt his trade in the city. He was mainly involved in the production of books such as missals and breviaries for the local clergy, but was also close to the university and was described as a councillor of that institution in 1508. The last dated book we know he printed in Valence was published in 1514, but he also produced a placard welcoming a celebrated professor in 1522. Despite working in Romans in 1518, he was still referred to as a printer of Valence underlining that this was a temporary arrangement. He is known to have produced works in various formats; his short De regulis juris of 1514 was, for instance, printed in a narrow duodecimo for ease of use and demonstrated his skill as a printer. He was still active in 1522, when he was described as a citizen of Valence.  Commercial partners: Antoine Arson (Beauchastel); Barthélemy Bertholet (Grenoble); Pierre de Mole (Valence); Louis Olivel (Valence); François Pichat (Grenoble)  Device: Silvestre n° 255  Documents: AD Drôme E 2553, E 2556 f. 351; AM Valence CC 34  References: RB XXI p. 79 & 83; RB XXV p. 71–72; Muller p. 1, 93, 96 & 116; Brun-Durand I 87; Vallentin (Delphinalia) p. 27 211. Belon, Paul  Active: 1500  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  References: Skora (Langres) 212. Belot, Jean  Active: 1493–1512  Location: Lausanne, Swiss Confederation (1493–1495); Grenoble, Dauphiné (1497); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1497–1512)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 B iography: He was originally from Rouen, but worked mainly in the Swiss Confederation. His activity in France seems to have been limited to a single edition of a missal for the use of Grenoble (GW M24398).  Device: Silvestre n° 254 & 1101  Types: TW ma03637–ma03638  References: Maignien p. XXI; TW of0358 213. Belrepaire, Raymond de  Active: 1538–1543  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. He was described as poor in the tax registers of the city in 1543.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 89 214. Bénard, Guillaume I  Active: 1491–1521  Name variations: Bernard, Guillaume; Benardus, Guilielmus; Besnard, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le portail des libraires’, ‘Rue Saint Romain’  B iography: He was the father of Guillaume II, Colette and Perrette – the latter married the bookseller Jean Lenu. He was also the son-in-law of the bookseller Jean Huvin. Described as a printer by Gosselin, Lepreux asserts that he was only a publisher which is consistent with the manner in which he was described on the imprints with which he was involved. He worked mainly with the printer Martin Morin and, later, Pierre Olivier. He was certainly very active in the trade, lending money to Jean Auber (50 lt) and to Jean Poutoulain (10 lt). He also had a lawsuit involving Jean I Richard in 1497. He published religious works, mainly for the use of the local clergy but also for sale in England. As a binder, he used a number of plaques featuring the crucifixion, Saint Michael, and Pentecost, as well as possibly others simply signed with his initials. He resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas and died before May 1522.  Commercial partners: Jean Auber (Rouen); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Poutoulain (Rouen); Jean I Richard (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 246; Meyer n° 171

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2525  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 34–35; Gosselin p. 66; Lepreux III 63; TW of1317; Duff p. 11; Beaurepaire p. 398: Gid & Laffitte n° 69, 162 & 173; Aquilon p. 306 215. Bénard, Guillaume II  Active: 1516–1543  Name variations: Bernard, Guillaume; Benardus, Guilielmus; Besnard, Guillaume; Benard, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He was the son of Guillaume I and resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  Commercial partners: Jacques Renault (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 66; Lepreux III 64 216. Bénard, Jacques  Active: 1517–1521  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Près la porte de la maison Sainte-Catherine’  B iography: Originally from Gouy, he was the son of Pasquier Bénard and Perrette and resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 67; Lepreux III 65; Beaurepaire p. 398 217. Bénard, Jean  Active: 1509  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiv 218. Benart, André  Active: 1527  Name variations: Also known as Joseph.  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le couvent des Cordeliers’

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 B iography: He is known for a single edition.  Commercial partners: Jean Joussant (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 265 219. Bergier, Antoine  Active: 1528–1533  Name variations: Vergier, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (1) p. 157 220. Bergier, Étienne  Active: 1533–1546  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64–65; Claudin (2) p. 1 221. Bergier, Jean  Active: 1513–1528  Name variations: Berge, Jean; also known as Angoulesme  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He was originally from Angoulême.  Commercial partners: Pierre Crozet (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 23; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 222. Bergier, Pierre  Active: 1511–1524  Name variations: Berges, Pierre; Breugnier, Pierre; Vergier, Pierre; Bergeria, Pierre de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: Originally from Angoulême, he lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511 before becoming the corporation’s administrator in 1515 and 1522. In a contract with Lyon and Toulouse publishers signed in 1511, it was stipulated that he would ensure their books were distributed in Auvergne. He also bought large

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quantities of books on his own: he acquired over 900 lt’s worth from the Lyon bookseller Dominique de Portonariis. He died in 1524 at which point his shop was taken over by his heirs.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Dominique de Portonariis (Lyon); Jean Robion (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 41; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 23; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–62; Blanc-Rouquette p. 22 223. Bernard, Antoine  Active: 1570–1571  Location: Troyes, Champagne (1570); Paris, Île-de-France (1571)  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He probably learnt his trade in Paris as a journeyman printer, leaving to work in Troyes where he was in 1570 alongside Claude Regnault with whom he probably worked and who was part of the same network of Parisian journeymen printers. He was once more in Paris in 1571 where he worked as a journeyman printer for Pierre des Hayes for six months.  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII carton 56  References: Turquois p. 352 224. Bernard, Arnaud de  Active: 1589  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was the brother of Louis Rabier’s wife. He is probably the same Arnaud Bernard who, in his youth in 1554, worked for the bookseller Pierre Tournier in Toulouse and was caught taking banned books to a client.  References: RB XVIII p. 125; Muller p. 116; Mentzer p. 138 225. Bernard, François I  Active: 1537–1556  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Auprès de la trésorerie’  B iography: He was the father of Raymond, François II and Pierre, the sons of his second marriage to Antonie de Leuzière. He had previously been married to Béatrice de la Font. A fervent Protestant, he wrote his

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will on 21 September 1556 and probably died later that year – he was certainly dead before 1561. An enterprising bookseller, he built up a considerable business with three branches in Nîmes, Montpellier and Uzès whose management he left to his three sons.  Commercial partners: Denis de Harsy (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gard 2 E36/320, 2 E36/597, 2 E37/84  References: RB XXIV p. 41; Haag II 359; Puech (Jaquy) p. 211 226. Bernard, François II  Active: 1557–1561  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of François I and brother of Pierre and Raymond. He married Firmine de Leuziere. He seems to have started his career in his father’s shop, being handed the management of the Nîmes branch by the time of his father’s death in 1556. He was named a member of the general and extraordinary council of the town of Nîmes in 1561 in which year he signed an agreement with his brother Pierre that resolved outstanding issues that related to their father’s inheritance.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 37/84, 2 E 36/597  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 212 227. Bernard, Guillaume  Active: 1596  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He died before 1596 at which point his succession was the subject of a lawsuit between François Bernard, a local official, and his sisters.  Documents: AD Gironde 4 J 360 228. Bernard, Guillaume Active: 1599–1622 Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Barbe Estas and later Guillaumette Bouchet and lived in the parish of Saint-Rémy. References: Labadie p. 8; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 66

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229. Bernard, Jacques Active: 1595 Location: Reims, Champagne Role: Bookseller Address: ‘Rue de barbastre, à l’enseigne de Saint Christophe’ References: Duchénoy p. 255 230. Bernard, Jean Active: 1554 Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne Role: Bookseller  B iography: He bought 20 lt of books from Claude Fontaine in 1554. Commercial partners: Claude Fontaine (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 67 231. Bernard, Melchior  Active: 1599–1622  Location: Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was the printer to the duke of Lorraine, and the local university’s official printer. He used the device of the Jesuits on some of the works he printed for the college. His son, Jean, followed him into the trade.  Mottos: ‘Sapiens denominabitur astris’  References: Muller p. 93; RB IV p. 44; Jacquot p. 9; Répertoire n° 740 232. Bernard, Pierre  Active: 1556–1563  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of François I and brother of François II and Raymond. He seems to have started his career in his father’s shop, being handed the management of the Montpellier branch by the time of his father’s death in 1556. Lingering issues over the inheritance were finally resolved with his brother François II in 1561. It is possible this is the same Pierre Bernard who was a bookseller in Lyon between 1571 and 1595, though this seems unlikely.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 37/84  References: Baudrier I 35; Puech (Jaquy) p. 211

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233. Bernard, Raymond  Active: 1554–1563  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc (1554 & 1563); Uzès, Languedoc (1556)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of François I and brother of François II and Pierre. He married Louise Varlenoux on 19 October 1554. He seems to have started his career in his father’s shop, being handed the management of the Uzès branch by the time of his father’s death in 1556. He seems, however, to later have returned to Nîmes.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 36/597, E 737  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 211 234. Berne, Pierre  Active: 1587  Location: Tournon, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He died before 18 August 1587.  Commercial partners: Louis II Cloquemin (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 62 235. Bernhardi, Guillaume  Active: 1599  Location: Champ-le-Duc, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  References: RB XVIII 38 n° 2 236. Berthault, Jacques  Active: 1563–1567  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was taxed 60 livres in 1567.  Documents: AD Cher E 1152  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 871 237. Bertheaut, Étienne  Active: 1554  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné  Role: Printer

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 B iography: He was the son of the Lyon printer Thomas Bertheaut. In 1554 he married Florine Chastellard, the daughter of an innkeeper, who brought him a dowry of 800 lt. He predeceased her.  Documents: AM Lyon Archives hospitalieres B 55  References: Baudrier I 39 238. Berthelot, Jacques  Active: 1527–1540  Location: Caen, Normandy (1527–1534); Rennes, Brittany (1534–1540)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au bout de cohue, à Saint-Jean l’Évangéliste’ (Rennes)  B iography: He married Marie Robin, who was active in the trade after his death. He began his career as a bookseller in Caen where he worked alongside the Angiers before moving to Rennes where the print industry was still in its infancy. He took over what was left of Jean Baudouyn’s workshop and reinvented himself as a printer. By 1535 he was printing in his own name for local booksellers and he might well have begun printing earlier. His books were carefully produced, often with rubrication. After his death in around 1541, his widow took over his workshop.  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume Chevau (Rennes); Georges Cleray (Rennes); Richard Hamillon (Rouen); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Jacques Macé (Rennes); Jean Macé (Rennes); Julien Macé (Rennes); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes);  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 248; RB XIX p. 47; Muller p. 10–11 & 94; Lepreux IV 29 239. Berthier, Edme  Active: 1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 352 240. Berthier, Jean  Active: 1595–1597  Name variations: Berthiez, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 275

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241. Bertholet, Barthelémy  Active: 1508–1516  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Palais’  Commercial partners: Jean Belon (Valence); François Pichat (Grenoble);  References: Muller p. 18; RB XIII p. 51; Maignien p. LXXI 242. Berthomieu  Active: 1497–1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Étienne.  References: Claudin (1) p. 17 243. Berton, Barthelémy  Active: 1558–1573  Location: Limoges, Limousin (1558); Marennes, Aunis (1563); La Rochelle, Aunis (1563–1573)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The son of Paul, he married Françoise Pierre. He began his career in Limoges before moving to a safer city for a Protestant. A well-equipped printer, he owned four sizes of Roman type and was able to print music. He borrowed Jean de Minières’s ornate letters for his imprints and his material was also used by Jean Portau. When necessary, he sought help from investors outside the trade to finance some of his editions: Pierre Chefdorge, a merchant of Tours invested in one work (USTC 60452) in 1561, whilst Jean Rocquet, a merchant of the town in another. Hendrik and Leonard van der Loe and Robert du Parc worked on his presses in 1564. He took on Louis Raymond as an apprentice in 1563 when his father, Antoine, was working for him as a journeyman. On his imprints, he sometimes used the pseudonyms Willhem Hopper and Pieter Vuallemand in Basel. His Protestant output included an unpublished series of sermons by Calvin in 1567 that resulted in a stinging response from Geneva that accused such printers to be worse than Catholics. His wife took over his shop after his death in the autumn of 1573.  Commercial partners: Jean de La Place (Lyon); Jean de Minieres (Angoulême); Olivier de Minières (Angoulême); Antoine Vincent (Lyon);  Device: Silvestre n° 864  Motto: ‘Povreté empesche les bons espritz de parvenir’

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 Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 123, 290, 292  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E 9 / 13  References: RB XVIII p. 93; RB XVI p. 7–16 & 32; Muller p. 51 & 95–96; Audiat p. 10; Droz (La Rochelle) I; Jostock p. 83; Répertoire n° 784. 244. Berton, Jean  Active: 1495–1523  Name variations: Barton, Jean  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Château de Limoges’ (1495); ‘Près l’église Saint-Pierre-de-Queroix’ (1505–1517)  B iography: Originally from Tours, he moved to Limoges in the late fifteenth century and in 1504 lived in a house situated in the ‘rue fourie’. He mainly worked for the bishop of Limoges producing a series of breviaries and missals. He died before 1530 and was succeeded by his son Paul.  Types: TW ma03644–ma03652  References: Muller p. 21; RB III p. 15–16; Guibert p. 5; TW of0360 245. Berton, Martin  Active: 1519–1520  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près la basilique Saint-Martial’  B iography: He worked with Claude Garnier when he first set up his workshop in Limoges but was no longer associated with him by 1522.  Commercial partners: Jean Chausseys (Poitiers); Claude Garnier (Limoges)  References: RB III p. 25 246. Berton, Paul  Active: 1518–1552  Name variations: Barton, Paul; Brethon, Paul  Location: Montauban, Languedoc (1518); Limoges, Limousin (1519–1552)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’église Saint-Pierre-de-Queroix’ (1519–1529 & 1544); ‘Rue Fourie’ (1538)  B iography: He was Jean’s son and Barthelémy’s father. He succeeded his father, lived in his house ‘rue fourie’ and was a very prolific printer in his early years. Though he is known to have printed over forty editions

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before 1544, his output seems to have been increasingly erratic after 1530. His father had been close to the local Catholic establishment and printed for the bishop and Paul initially followed in his footsteps, producing a number of liturgical works. However, he converted to Protestantism and he was arrested and condemned in April 1551 with Jean Croiset to be punished by amende honorable and exile for having printed forbidden books. The books were burnt and he was still in prison the following February. He died before 1558.  Commercial partners: Léonard Fardelet (Aurillac); Jacques Ferrot (Bourges); Enguilbert de Marnef (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Louis Rostelin (Bordeaux); Pierre de Sartières (Bourges); Étienne Thoulouse (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 109 n° 24, 1 B 111 n° 159  References: Muller p. 21 & 52; RB III p. 17–24; RB IV p. 7; Guibert p. 8; Droz (La Rochelle) I 10; Patry p. 107 & 109; Portal p. 32 247. Bertrand, Guillaume  Active: 1578  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint of one of Laurent Joubert’s medical works (USTC 54221).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 51; Pansier II 109 248. Bertrand, Thomas  Active: 1584–1586  Location: Tournon, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: As a publisher he is known for a single work printed in Lyon for the local Jesuit university (USTC 110631).  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: RB VII p. 59; Muller p. 113; Baudrier II 232; Gallier p. 340 249. Besson, Jean  Active: 1502  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 14 250. Besson, Jean  Active: 1569

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 Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 286 251. Besson, Jean  Active: 1575  Location: Carpentras, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AM Lyon CC 1248 252. Besson, Pierre  Active: 1488–1529  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne; La Réole, Guyenne (1503)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: As far as we are aware, he only printed in La Réole in 1503, working as a bookseller in Périgueux. In La Réole he was described as printing with a local canon, Étienne Blactet.  Commercial partners: Étienne Blactet (La Réole)  References: Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 644; Muller p. 95; RB II p. 79; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 76; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 205 253. Betz, Jacques  Active: [1501]  Location: Larrivour, Champagne  References: Skora (Langres) 254. Bevilacqua, Simone  Active: 1485–1518  Name variations: Bevilaqua, Simon  Location: Venice, Italian States (1485–1487 and 1492–1506); Vicenza, Italian States (1487–1491); Saluzzo, Italian States (1506); Cuneo, Italian States (1507–1510); Novi Ligure, Italian States (1512); Savona, Italian States (1514); La Correrie, Lyonnais (1516–1517); Lyon, Lyonnais (1516–1518)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: An itinerant printer, he was mainly active in the Italian states before moving to the kingdom of France where he briefly worked in La Correrie for the Carthusians.  References: RB XXI p. 19; Edit16 CNCT 690; Répertoire n° 848

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255. Beyron, Guillaume  Active: 1502  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Siméon.  References: Labadie p. 8; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 78 256. Bezanceau, Jacques  Active: 1494–1498  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais à l’enseigne de la teste noire’  B iography: He is known for two editions commissioned in Paris: a philosophical treatise and a book of hours for the use of Saintes.  Commercial partners: André Bocard (Paris); Thielmann Kerver (Paris); Jean Philippe (Paris)  References: TW of1902 257. Bezanceau, Jean  Active: 1508–1522  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 253 258. Bicheti, Jean  Active: 1492  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  References: Pansier I 147 259. Bichon, Guillaume  Active: 1584–1627  Name variations: Bichón, Guillermo  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1584–1594 & 1599–1627); Nantes, Brittany (1594–1598); Madrid, Spain (1605–1615) Illustration 22 Signature of Guillaume Bichon,  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was initially active in Paris 1598, AN MC LXXIII 149 where he had learnt his trade in the workshop of his brother-in-law,

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Michel Sonnius, before setting up his own business in 1584. He married Madeleine Rousseau. Closely associated with the League during the wars, he published radical Catholic tracts and distributed books to Leaguer cities. He was forced to leave Paris after the city’s submission to Henry IV in 1594. He initially sought refuge in Nantes where he was still working in 1598 when he bought over 766 écus’s worth of books from the Sonnius brothers. Despite this activity, he returned to Paris in 1599, in the aftermath of Mercoeur’s capitulation, though he no longer ventured into publishing. His difficulties seem to have continued and he resided for a while in Madrid, though it is in Paris that we have the last reference to the bookseller in 1627.  Commercial partners: Michel & Jean Sonnius (Paris)  Mottos: ‘Nunc fugiens, olim pugnabo’  Documents: Minutier Central étude LXXIII carton 149  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 248; Renouard p. 33; Répertoire n° 867 260. Bidault, Érard  Active: 1523  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 261. Bideau, Henri  Active: 1513–1529  Name variations: Bedeau, Henri  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Grande rue’  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean and worked with local ecclesiastical institutions.  References: Turquois p. 353; Assier p. 98; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279 262. Bienvenu, André  Active: 1506  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Apprentice  B iography: He was originally from Meslay-du-Maine and was born in around 1488. He began an apprenticeship in Raoullet Jouan’s bookshop in Chartres on 1 March 1506. However, by June of the same year it

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was clear that he was not willing to continue in this role and Jouan was compensated.  References: Jusselin p. 8 263. Bigin, Nicolas  Active: 1554  Name variations: also known as Morin  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single liturgical edition for the use of Verdun (USTC 116168) that was co-published by the Parisian bookseller Guillaume Merlin. It was financed by the bishop of the city, Nicolas Psaume, and sold by Bigin in Verdun. He was a member of the local Church and nothing else is known of his activity in the book world. The following year he was endowed with a prebendary which he held until his death on 15 December 1561.  Commercial partners: Jean Amazeur (Paris); Guillaume Merlin (Paris)  References: Muller p. 117; N. Robinet, Pouillé du Diocèse de Verdun (Verdun: L. Laurent, 1888–1910) I 105 264. Bigot, Benoît  Active: 1485  Location: Salins, Franche-Comté  Role: Printer  B iography: He is known for a single imprint produced in partnership with the Lyon-based itinerant printer Jean du Pré (GW M24279).  Commercial partners: Claude Bodram (Salins); Jean du Pré (Salins)  References: RB XXIV p. 21 265. Bilhon, Antoine  Active: 1561  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Described as an ‘entrepreneur in mercery and books’, he was sent into exile in 1561 for selling copies of banned texts (USTC 267 and a lost edition of Antoine Marcourt’s Articles veritables sur les horribles grandz et importables abuz de la messe papalle). The books were burnt.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 227 n° 28  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 82

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266. Billeroy, Denis  Active: 1582  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 253 267. Binet, Mathurin  Active: 1512  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  References: BVH Minutes 268. Bissac, Jean  Active: [1550]–1577  Location: Noyers, Burgundy; Geneva  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He converted to Protestantism and fled to Geneva before 1555, where he continued to work. He married Antoinette Guy on 23 June 1555 and died in 1577.  References: RIECH 269. Bissac, Nicolas  Active: [1550]  Location: Noyers, Burgundy; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Jeanne. A Protestant, he fled to Geneva in 1551, where he stopped printing.  References: RIECH 270. Bissac, Pierre  Active: [1550]  Location: Noyers, Burgundy; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Printer  B iography: A Protestant, he fled to Geneva in 1551.  References: RIECH 271. Blactet, Étienne  Active: 1503  Location: La Réole, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher

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 B iography: A canon of the local Church, he was described as having printed with Pierre Besson.  Commercial partners: Pierre Besson (La Réole)  References: Muller p. 95; V. Scholderer, ‘A book printed at La Reole in 1503’, Gutenberg Jahrbuch, XXXV (1960) p. 165–166 272. Blaireville, Pierre de  Active: 1554–1567  Name variations: Deblaireville, Pierre  Location: Chaumont, Champagne (1554); Lausanne, Swiss Confederation (1555–1567)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Originally from Bar-sur-Aube, as was his wife, Pernette Faultrey, he had settled in Chaumont. A Protestant, he felt compelled to flee to Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant of the city in September 1554. By 14 March 1555 he had moved on to Lausanne where he still seems to have been active in the trade in 1567.  References: Haag II 594 & V 184; H. Aubert et al. (ed) Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze (Geneva: Droz, 1976) VIII n° 536 273. Blaix, Antoine de  Active: 1512–1514  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 22 274. Blanc, Antoine  Active: 1571–1621  Name variations: Candidus, Antonius; Bianchi, Antonio  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1571–1584); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1584– 1598); Montpellier, Languedoc (1596 and 1608–1613); Grenoble, Dauphiné (1599 and 1615–1621)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près le couvent des Jacobins’  B iography: Born in Lyon in 1546, the son of the printer Michel Blanc, he married in 1564 in Paris, but returned to Lyon where he worked as a printer mainly for other publishers. Having converted to Protestantism, Lyon became an increasingly difficult place to work and he moved to Geneva. However, his penchant for polemical material frequently led

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him to use pseudonyms such as Jean Joyeux in Montelimar or Pierre Chaubert and Jean Gazaud in Embrun. This was the source of disquiet in Geneva where he was condemned in 1592 for his activities. This, alongside some financial problems, led to him trying to settle elsewhere, adopting a semi-nomadic lifestyle. He remarried in 1612 to Jeanne Chatal in Montpellier before leaving for Grenoble where he was condemned for a pamphlet in 1616. He was still active in 1621.  Motto: ‘Mors et vita’  References: Muller p. 18; RB XIII p. 58–59, XXIV p. 32; Maignien p. XXV; RIECH; Clerc p. 283; Répertoire n° 961 275. Blanc, Michau  Active: 1585  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie basse devant Saint Quentin’  B iography: He married Marguerite du Faur on 13 February 1585.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 102 f. 5v 276. Blanc, Pierre  Active: 1562  Location: Aurillac, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was murdered during a Catholic massacre on 2 September 1562.  References: Haag II 595 277. Blanchard, Antoine  Active: 1514–1535  Name variations: Blanchardi de Gressa, Antonius; Blanchardus, Antonius  Location: Limoges, Limousin (1514); Lyon, Lyonnais (1523–1535)  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from Limousin, he married Lucas Lanelier. He seems to have begun his career in the workshop of Richard de La Nouaille in Limoges, but by 1523 he had moved to Lyon where he was to spend the rest of his career working for numerous local booksellers. He died in late 1535 or early 1536. Jean Flajollet married his widow and used his material.  Commercial partners: Richard de La Nouaille (Limoges)  References: Muller p. 21; Baudrier V 92; Répertoire n° 963

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278. Blanchard, Jean  Active: 1590  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was a journeyman bookseller in Claude Cottereau’s workshop in 1590.  References: Feyel p. 593 279. Blanchard, Louis  Active: 1581  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is included by Jacques Betz in the Répertoire bibliographique and in Muller’s dictionary on the basis of an undated imprint that was thought to have been printed in 1581. This however is a much later reprint of an older text: Louis Blanchard was active in the late seventeenth century.  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 79; Lepreux II 75 280. Blanchet, Jean  Active: 1587–1605  Name variations: Blancetus, Joannes; Blanchetus, Joannes  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près le Gros Horloge’  B iography: He married Catherine Mesnier, the daughter of Pierre and widow of Jacques Royer. It is possible that he started his career in the workshop of the Bouchets and he seems to have used some of their material in his own imprints. He was an official printer to the king and to the university, but unlike his contemporaries in Poitiers, he published more ambitious works rather than a steady diet of edicts and ordinances. He died in 1605 and his widow succeeded him.  Device: Silvestre n° 492 & 1258; BaTyR n° 2987  Motto: ‘Intus ut in cute albus’  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 123–125; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 226; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 498; Répertoire n° 969 281. Blanchet, Nicolas  Active: 1573–1581  Name variations: Also known as Judas

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 Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Catherine and then Lucas Lanelier (who outlived him). The bookseller Nicolas Bonfils was godfather to one of the children in 1573.  Commercial partners: Richard de La Nouaille (Limoges); Barthélemy Trot (Lyon)  References: Herluison p. 36 282. Blea, Étienne I de  Active: 1544–1567  Name variations: Blay, Étienne  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Himself the son of a bookseller, he married Agnès Chandon in 1551. He worked extensively for the local municipality, mainly as a stationer. He seems to have died before 1569, at which point his wife received a payment. He lived in the Sainte-Foix quarter of the town.  References: Guiraud p. 647; Clerc p. 291 283. Blea, Étienne II de  Active: 1574–1603  Name variations: Bleac, Étienne de  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: A Protestant, he had a son named Pierre in 1574. He worked mainly as a bookbinder and bookseller to the local municipality. He lived in the ‘rue de Lagulherye’ in the Sainte-Foix quarter of the town in 1600.  Documents: AM Montpellier CC 75 f. 191r  References: Guiraud p. 647 284. Blea, veuve Étienne I de  Active: 1569  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: She seems to have carried on her husband’s activity after his death some time between 1567 and 1569.  References: Guiraud p. 647

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285. Blieux, Guiot de  Active: 1520  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 286. Blondel, Jean  Active: 1541–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: Louis I’s nephew, he worked alongside his brother, Romain, until 1550. At that point, he resided in the parish of Saint Maclou.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/1302 f. 29r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 78; Lepreux III 84

Illustration 23 Signature of Jean Blondel, 1550, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 1302

287. Blondel, Louis I  Active: 1520–1552  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: Romain and Jean’s uncle, he initially resided in the parish of Saint-Vivien before perhaps relocating to Saint-Ouen. He died without children and left his workshop to the sons of his brother, Robert.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 78; Lepreux III 84 288. Blondel, Louis II  Active: 1555–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: His relationship to the other Blondels of Rouen is unclear. He was sued for having printed incorrectly a text for the bookseller Richard Auber in 1579 and was fined one écu.  Commercial partners: Richard Auber (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime E 490  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 85

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289. Blondel, Romain  Active: 1541–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Louis I’s nephew, he worked alongside his brother, Jean, until 1550. At Illustration 24 that point, he resided in the parish of Saint Signature of Romain Vivien. After his marriage to Marion Vatras Blondel, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 414 he set up shop in the parish of Saint-Maclou. After the death of his wife, he remarried Marguerite Legay (1 October 1561). Romain appears to have been successful, notably lending money to the printer François Vergnault (10 écus).  Commercial partners: Georges Loyselet (Rouen); François Vergnault (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/414 p. 167, 2E1/1302 f. 29r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 78; Lepreux III 84 290. Blondet, Martin  Active: 1586  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single polemical work on the economic difficulties of the Wars of Religion and their social impact in late sixteenth-century France (USTC 75433). 291. Blot, Gabriel  Active: 1536–1539  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He had died by 1540.  References: Claudin (2) p. 9 292. Bochard, Claude  Active: 1584  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He visited the Lyon fair in 1584.  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 181

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293. Bochard, Pierre  Active: 1485–1553  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le collège de Jujon’ (1493)  B iography: Originally from Saint-Voir, he married Glaudie Besson, a farmer’s daughter on 26 June 1485, then Jeanne Bolhaud. Jean Girard was his nephew. He was initially described as a bookbinder (1486) then as a bookseller (1493). He was wealthy enough to acquire his own shop in 1493 as well as another house ten years later that he was to let out to the bookseller Jean Veysselier in 1520. His financial success is demonstrated by the expansion of his real estate, buying the house contiguous to his own in 1517. As a publisher, he worked in association with the printer and publisher Jean de Riparia, sharing the investments and profits. However, he mainly worked a bookseller, sourcing books in Lyon or from other booksellers such as Domergue Anselme, and selling them on to students attending the local university as well as to its staff and to the local clergy. Poncet Glanet was one of his apprentices (5 October 1503). He died in 1553 and was succeeded by his nephew.  Commercial partners: Domergue Anselme (Avignon); Constantin Fradin (Lyon); Jean Girard (Avignon); Étienne Gueynard (Lyon); Jean Hurissoni (Avignon); Jean de Riparia (Avignon); Pierre Valet (Lyon); Jean Veysselier (Avignon)  References: RB VI 14 n° 3; Baudrier III 23; Pansier II 37 294. Bocquillon, Arnoul  Active: 1493–1498  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Pellechet thought that one of the dates of his imprints ought to be read as being 1503, but this hypothesis is refuted by Lepreux who suggested 1493 instead. He seems to have used woodblocks owned by Jean du Pré.  Commercial partners: Jean du Pré (Paris)  Types: TW ma03604  References: RB XVII p. 8; Muller p. XIII; Lepreux II 227; TW of0349; Lhote p. 3

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295. Bode, Jean  Active: 1566–1568  Location: Champtercier, Provence  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He imported books from Geneva and frequented the Lyon fair.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 332  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) 296. Bodet, Pierre  Active: 1515–1521  Name variations: Boudet, Pierre; Baudet, Pierre; Bode, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Gratianne de Nyort who succeeded him. He was sufficiently successful to lend a small amount to the bookbinder Antoine Truchet. He set up a business partnership with fellow booksellers Louis Maritain and Louis Rostelin, who had probably previously worked for him. They had agreed to share equally their stock and profits to maximise sales. At the time of his death in 1521, his third of the stock was thought to be worth 500 lt.  Commercial partners: Louis Maritain (Bordeaux); Louis Rostelin (Bordeaux); Antoine Truchet (Bordeaux).  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 286v–288r.  References: Labadie p. 9; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 53, 88, 90 & 113 297. Bodin, André  Active: 1567–1576  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près les Jacobins’  B iography: He married Thenette Gentys. He was imprisoned in 1567 and owed 57 lt to Pierre Vaslet in 1573 for various goods. As a printer he is known for having published royal edicts and ordinances.  Commercial partners: Pierre Vaslet (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 101; Clouzot (1907) p. 46; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 493

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298. Bodin, Étienne  Active: 1552  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 180 299. Bodin, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for having printed a single judicial ruling (USTC 67561).  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 102 300. Bodin, Pierre  Active: 1518–1526  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Carmes, vis à vis de l’écu de Bretagne’  B iography: As a publisher, he is known for having commissioned, along with other local booksellers, works for the local market.  Commercial partners: Jean Adam (Paris); Jean Bienayse (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Enguilbert de Marnef (Paris); Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes); Richard Picquenot (Angers)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 8 f. 426  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 248; La Borderie I p. 57; Granges de Surgères n° 9 301. Bodineau, Hilaire  Active: 1542–1547  Location: Blois, Touraine (1542–1547); Bourges, Berry (1542)  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He married Nicole Regnard, the daughter of a local merchant. He was active in Bourges until 1542 when he sold his books to the L’Angelier brothers, Jean and Julien. He then relocated to Blois, where in 1547 he was arrested for blasphemy and tried by the Chambre ardente in Paris on 16 May. He was released with a simple caution.  References: Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 30; Daubignard p. 8; Weiss p. 5

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302. Bodineau, Jean  Active: 1525  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He had 600 copies of a book of hours printed in Tours in 1525 though no copy of the edition seems to survive.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Chercelé (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/28  References: BVH Minutes 303. Bodram, Claude  Active: 1485  Location: Salins, Franche-Comté (1484)  Role: Printer  B iography: He is known for a single imprint produced in partnership with the Lyon-based itinerant printer Jean du Pré (GW M24279).  Commercial partners: Benoît Bigot (Salins); Jean du Pré (Salins)  References: RB XXIV p. 21 304. Boesce, Étienne  Active: 1549  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single work of half a sheet (USTC 40662). The imprint is of poor quality and Desgraves speculates that his material may well have come from Limousin.  References: Muller p. 11; RB II p. 43 305. Boet, Jean  Active: 1540  Location: Castres, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 78 306. Boguerel, Antoine  Active: 1556  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He married Catherine with whom he had Jérôme who followed him into the trade. They lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  References: Skora (Langres) 307. Boguerel, Jérôme  Active: 1578–1588  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in 1556, he was the son of Antoine and Catherine. He married Catherine Seurey with whom he had three sons: Antoine (1578), Richard (1580) and Jérôme (1588). It is probably this last son, rather than the father, who was responsible for the diurnal published by a Jérôme Boguerel, bookseller in Langres, in 1610.  References: Skora (Langres) 308. Boissaye, Jean  Active: 1551  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: His sister, Jeanne, married Jean Lesturgeon, a Parisian printer.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XI/31 309. Boisseneau, Jean  Active: 1507–1527  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Sur le pont de Battant’ (1507)  B iography: He was the father of Richard and a burgher of Besançon. His will is dated 1527.  References: A. Guenard, Besançon, description historique des monuments et établissements publics de cette ville (Besançon: Baudin, 1860) p. 329. 310. Boisseneau, Richard  Active: 1530–1551  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: The son of Jean, he married Catherine Basauld. He acted as a publisher for two editions of the local missal – the first of which was done in 1530 with the added investment of a banker, Claude Charpillet,

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and a local merchant, Jean Valiquet. He was arrested on 2 August 1538 for having left the city without leave. His excuse of having gone to buy wine did not prevent him from being jailed, tried, convicted of sedition and sentenced to 50 years banishment on 28 August, but not before he had insulted the governors and hit a captain. The banishment was finally fully rescinded in 1551 by which date he had already resumed publishing liturgical works for local use. He seems to have died that same year as a lawsuit was launched against his heirs.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); François Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AM Besançon BB020 42v and 75v; AD Doubs 7 E 3925; AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 15  References: Muller p. 8; RB XIII p. 10; Répertoire n° 1036 311. Boisset, Jean  Active: 1555–1557  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des cordeliers’  B iography: He rented a house for three years from the chapter of SaintSymphorien in 1557.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 106 312. Boisson, Nicolas  Active: 1552–1555  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of La Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 313. Boivin, Pierre  Active: [1540]  Location: Sens, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He died before 20 June 1542.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 27 f. 73

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314. Boizateau, François  Active: 1555–1567  Name variations: Boisateau, François; Boyzateau, François  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue des Jacobins’  B iography: He married Louise Gabillaud, with whom he is known to have had two daughters. They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Grande. As a printer, he was known to copy texts previously published in Paris. He died before 1585 and was survived by his wife.  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 96; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 191 315. Boizateau, Pierre  Active: 1570–1588  Name variations: Boisateau, Pierre; Boyzateau, Pierre  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Jacobins, près le palais’ (1570); ‘Au Marché Vieil à la Samaritaine’ (1573–1583).  B iography: He married Jeanne Thévenet with whom he had a son also named Pierre in 1588. The booksellers Jean Main and Simon Frère were his godfathers. He was the official printer to the king and to the university.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Chaudière (Paris); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers)  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 178  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 97–98; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 193; Répertoire n° 1045 316. Bolet, Gervais  Active: 1521  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Journeyman bookseller  B iography: He worked with Pierre Motin.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 61 317. Bolzman, François  Active: 1484–1485  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Bookbinder  References: Booton p. 223

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318. Bombart, Jacques  Active: 1599–1601  Name variations: Bonnard, Jacques  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Catherine de Sainct Laurent on 7 January 1600 at which point they lived in the parish of Le Taur, but by January 1601, when their daughter Jeanne was born, they were parishioners of Saint-Pierre. Her godfather was the bookseller Raymond Cabat.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 223 f. 145v, GG 524, GG 696 f. 17r 319. Bon, Claude  Active: late 15th century  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He was described as a printer in a contract in which he acknowledged a debt to Jean Parix.  Commercial partners: Jean Parix (Toulouse)  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 16 320. Bon, Guillaume  Active: 1555–1562  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer  B iography: The printer to the archbishop of Avignon, he is known for having printed a number of placards to be distributed throughout the diocese.  Documents: AD Vaucluse G 125 f. 68  References: Muller p. 6–7; Pansier II 109 321. Bon, Pierre  Active: 1600–1647  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Madeleine Collot.  References: Herluison p. 84 322. Bonart, Louis de  Active: 1594  Location: Tours, Touraine

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327. Bonhomme, Antoine  Active: 1532  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known solely for a history of Rome of which no copy is now known (USTC 110528).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 29; Pansier II 103 328. Bonhomme, Barthélémy  Active: 1553–1557  Name variations: Bonome, Barthélemy  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux Changes’  B iography: He was Macé’s brother. Macé opened a bookshop in Avignon in 1542. Initially simply an outlet for other people’s editions, a printer’s workshop was added in 1552. Barthélemy took over the day-to-day running of the business after it had been set up – all the imprints we know of bear his name. The shop remained, however, under the ultimate control of his brother. He sold his material to Jean Tramblay, Denis Bourgeois and Pierre Roux in 1557, the year of his death.  Commercial partners: Pierre Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Uguet Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Macé Bonhomme (Avignon); Jean Luquet (Nîmes); Jacques Marcaurelle (Aix-en-Provence)  Device: Silvestre n° 581  Motto: ‘Virtute et fortuna’; ‘Spes mea Deus’; ‘J’espère en Dieu qu’il m’aidera’  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 34–36; Pansier II 109 329. Bonhomme, Macé  Active: 1535–1571  Name variations: Bonhomme, Mathieu; Buonhomo, Masseo  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1535–1540) and (1542–1571); Vienne, Dauphiné (1541–1542); Avignon, Papal States (1552–1557)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près les Célestins’ (Lyon); ‘Près la table ronde’ (Vienne); ‘Aux Changes’ (Avignon)  B iography: Barthélemy’s brother, he learnt his trade and came to prominence in Lyon, though he was perhaps originally from Paris. During the fallout of the great strike of Lyon, he temporarily relocated his activity to Vienne. Though this was not a commercial success, it seems that this

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encouraged him to have a more ambitious vision outside of Lyon, and he owned a bookshop in Avignon as early as 1542, choosing to use one of the shops that had a history of successful bookselling. He set up a press there in 1552 and appointed his brother to oversee it the following year.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Bonhomme (Avignon); Claude Bouquet (Avignon); Benoît Brun (Lyon); Barthélemy Molin (Lyon); Hector Penet (Lyon); Jean Senneton (Lyon)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 242  References: RB VI & XXI p. 91–92; Muller p. 117; Pansier II 110; Baudrier X 185; Répertoire n° 1080 Boniau, Guérin, see Boyau, Guérin 330. Bonjour, Abraham  Active: 1592–1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was asked to confirm that Simon Millanges had dispatched books to the Lyon bookseller Jean Gabiano in January 1598. He died later that same year. He had contracted a debt of 126 écus that he owed to the Lyon bookseller Thomas Soubron, and left many other outstanding debts throughout the southwest which led to much legal wrangling. At his death, he was working in association with the bookseller Jean Lacaze.  Commercial partners: Pierre Barilhard (Agen); Jean Dache (Bordeaux); Pierre Jagourt (Toulouse); Jean Lacaze (Bordeaux); Thomas Soubron (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 98 331. Bonmer, Pierre  Active: 1599–1619  Name variations: Bonnier, Pierre; Bomère, Pierre; Bommer, Pierre  Location: Nantes, Brittany (1599–1600); Bordeaux Guyenne (1608–1619)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in Joué, near Nantes, he married Madeleine Bonneau, the daughter of a cooper of Tours. The contract was signed on 16 October 1600. He is mentioned in acts as being active in that city at the end of the sixteenth century, at which point he was in business with the Antwerp engravers Philips Galle and Adriaen Collaert, though the relationship seems to have been fraught. He was described as a bookseller in

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Bordeaux a few years later, but once more linked to the sale of engravings – this time the merchant was the Parisian Nicolas de Mathonnière who sold him thirty reams of paper to be sold on in Pamplona and other Spanish cities. His sister, Laurence, married the Bordeaux bookseller Jean Castera.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXV carton 57; Stadsarchief Antwerp N 3569 f. 102r, 123v & N 3570 f. 27r, 83v  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 248; BVH Minutes; Jurade II 439 332. Bonnemère, Jeanne  Active: c. 1565  Name variations: Lepelletier, veuve Nicolas  Location: Autun, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au-dessous des degrés de la porte des marbres’  B iography: She married Nicolas Lepelletier whom she succeeded after his death. The cathedral chapter voted to allow her to use her shop free of rent for a year in order to undertake her business as a bookbinder and bookseller.  References: Abord p. 282 333. Bonnemont, Jean de  Active: [1520]  Location: Narbonne, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Isla de la viscomtat’  References: Cros-Mayrevieille p. 53 334. Bonnot, Élie  Active: before 1529  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Mathive Ardit.  References: Guibert p. 8 335. Bontemps, Joachim  Active: 1590  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: This is probably a fictitious bookseller known only for an edition of Claude de Trellon’s La muse guerriere (USTC 75377).

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336. Borbon, Jean  Active: 1538  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 13 337. Borbon, Vincent  Active: 1498–1515  Name variations: Borbo, Vincent  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  References: Lançon p. 208 338. Bordalet, Guillaume  Active: 1514  Location: Laval, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Mathieu du Mont (Toulouse); Pierre Muret (Bortles-Orgues)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 339. Bordalier, Pierre  Active: 1513  Name variations: Bordalerius, Petrus  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known only for an edition of French and Latin verses (USTC 30155) printed by Jean Grandjean.  Commercial partners: Jean Grandjean (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 31 340. Bordarie, Jean  Active: 1503–1504  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was witness to two exchanges of land involving the printer Jean Carant in 1503 and 1504.

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 References: Dujarric-Descombes p. 11 341. Bordaut, Jean  Active: 1472  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Cahors) p. 940 342. Borde, Jean  Active: 1582–1643  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Philippe Boucher and resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle. His sons Claude and Jacques followed him into the trade.  References: Herluison p. 66 343. Borde, Jean  Active: 1599–1603  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from Allaiz-en-Comminges, he married Jeanne Belsaude/Bersiaud, widow of an Antoine de la Faye on 29 December 1599. They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite and had a number of children.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 244; Clouzot (1907) p. 46 344. Bordeaux, Jean de  Active: 1533  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the house of the bookseller Antoine Maurin in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city in 1533.  References: Claudin (2) p. 4 345. Bordes, Marsal  Active: 1525–1535  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais’

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 B iography: He is known for having published an edition of royal ordinances (USTC 64618) in conjunction with Antoine Lesmont with whom he seems to have shared a shop. He obtained in a ruling by the local Parlement in 1535 that Jean David relinquish in his favour a bookshop built with the permission of the court between the pillars of that institution close to the main hall.  Commercial partners: Antoine Lesmont (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 28 f. 162  References: RB XX p. 63 Bories, Antoine, see Laborie, Antoine 346. Bornet, Raymond  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: The son of a farmer of Auzeville, he became an apprentice in Laurent Carrière’s workshop in 1511 for six years.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 54v 347. Bosc, Pierre  Active: 1552  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The Répertoire bibliographique mistakenly attributes a sixteenth-century edition of Raymond Mailhat’s writings to Pierre Bosc (active 1617–1653). The edition was in fact published in 1652.  References: RB XX p. 164; Répertoire n° 1150 348. Boterines, Paul de  Active: 1490  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: Originally from Verona, he died in 1490. The post mortem inventory reveals that his shop contained some 1500 volumes, for the most part unbound. He also owned a bookbinder’s workshop that conjoined his bookshop. He was undoubtedly the most active bookseller of fifteenth-century Avignon.  References: Pansier I 148

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349. Bouchard, Antoine  Active: 1557  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is only known for a single imprint on handwriting (USTC 47052).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 38; Pansier II 118 350. Bouchard, Méry  Active: 1522–1532  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He bought a house in Traversonne in 1525 before selling it on seven years later. He also sold another property in 1532 for 140 livres. He lived in the parish of Sainte-Opportune.  Documents: AD Vienne G 1428, G 1584  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 264 351. Bouchard, Thomas  Active: 1564–1566  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He left Caen for Saint-Lô at the request of a Protestant pastor, settling in the town where he worked with Jacques Le Bas in 1565 and 1566. His material came in part from letters cut by Pierre Haultin. He maintained connections to the wider Norman Protestant network and owed Louis Lavanne money in 1565. He might be the Thomas Bouchard originally from Landalles in Normandy who became an inhabitant of Geneva in 1559.  Commercial partners: Louis Lavanne (Orléans); Jacques Le Bas (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 1228  Motto: ‘Quelle chose ay-je deu faire à ma vigne, que je ne luy aye faite? Isaie 5.4.’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 21, 165, 166, 194; Vervliet p. 279 n° 34  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/444 f. 30v  References: RB XXIV p. 70–71; Muller p. 104; Travers p. 4–7; Lepreux III (2) 9; Répertoire n° 1185; Haag II 961 Bouché, see Vouges

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352. Boucher, François  Active: 1573–1599  Name variations: Bouscher, François  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Described as a notary in 1586, he was also one of the booksellers of the university. He was also engaged in the secondhand book trade and sought to buy with Pierre Doriou the considerable collection of Pierre Le Gallo in 1592. He married Henriette Le Caillabou and resided in the parish of Saint-Denis. Their daughter, Madeleine, baptised in May 1574, married the bookseller Nicolas de Heuqueville. He sought to profit from the lucrative student market by undercutting local printers by having the books the students needed printed by cheaper workshops in other cities. This led to a lawsuit involving Pierre Doriou and Vincent Hucet. In October 1599, François was shot and killed by thieves near Nozay on the road between Rennes and Nantes. He was survived by his second wife, Jeanne Lambert, who died in 1614.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Chesneau (Paris); Pierre Doriou (Nantes)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/203; AM Nantes CC 86/16, CC 126, GG 692; AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 228  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Le Page; Granges de Surgères n° 10 353. Boucher, Pierre  Active: 1582  Location: Montivilliers, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 8381 354. Boucheron, Claude  Active: 1566–1609  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics (1567–1568 & 1609); Phalsbourg, Holy Roman Empire (1575)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He imported books from Geneva and signed a contract with the bookseller Jean I Martin in 1566. Following the terms of their agreement, Boucheron was to keep two-thirds of the profits but also had to bear all the costs. However, it appears that he never paid Martin his part; his Genevan counterparts were still trying to recover what he owed them in 1585. Though Metz seems to have been his base, he appears to have

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moved to avoid persecution by the Catholic authorities. In a letter sent to him on 3 June 1575, he was described as a bookseller of Phalsbourg, a town founded by George John I, Count Palatine, a few years earlier for Protestant refugees. However, the town ended up being sold to the duke of Lorraine in 1590 and Boucheron undoubtedly returned to Metz. The certificate of baptism of his daughter, Sara, produced after his death in 1609, describes him as a bookseller of Metz.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva); Jean I Martin (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 342– 343; BnF Fonds français nouvelles acquisitions 27000 f. 166  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) p. 186; RIECH 355. Bouchet, Benoît  Active: 1552–1555  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier in 1552, but by 1555 had relocated to La Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 278 356. Bouchet, Crapaye  Active: 1551–1552  Name variations: Bouchas, Crapaz  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  Commercial partners: Rémy Brasset (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII/44  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 278 357. Bouchet, Guillaume I  Active: 1491–1519  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘À la celle’; ‘Ouvroir devant l’église des Cordeliers’  B iography: He worked as a junior partner in association with Jean Bouyer for most of his career, printing independently only in 1515 when Buyer died. His work alone was modest, mainly printing thousands of placards for local consumption. He prepared his succession by working

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with Jacques I Bouchet with whom he shared a publisher’s device. He wrote his will on 12 July 1519.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Jean Bouyer (Poitiers)  Device: Polain n° 177–178a; Meyer n° 168–169. References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 7–12; Richard (Bouchet) p. 545; Peach; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 481; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 1 358. Bouchet, Guillaume II  Active: 1552–1594  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: Born in around 1514, he was the son of Jacques I and the brother of Jacques II. He owned the land of Brocourt. He published in association with Jacques II often simply branding their imprints ‘Bouchetz freres’. They maintained close ties to the Marnefs. He was also an author and a celebrated poet as well an important figure in the local community, serving as judge of merchant affairs in 1583. He died in 1594.  Commercial partners: Jacques II Bouchet (Poitiers); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers)  Motto: ‘L’un après l’autre’  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 67–72; Richard (Bouchet) p. 550; Peach; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 34 359. Bouchet, Jacques I  Active: 1520–1550  Name variations: Bouchetus, Jacobus  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle’; ‘Devant les Cordeliers’  B iography: He was Jacques II and Guillaume II’s father. He married Jeanne Boisseau, who survived him and with whom he had two daughters. Guillaume I Bouchet was his uncle and it was in his workshop that he learnt his trade and first came to prominence. He used the device that featured both their names throughout his career. At Guillaume’s death, he took over the business and continued to print in Saint-Hilairede-la-Celle, selling books in his shop situated next to the convent of the Cordeliers. He was printer to the university of Poitiers and worked in close cooperation with the Marnefs. He introduced Roman letters into his imprints in the early 1540s having previously exclusively printed in

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Gothic type. He seems to have had a successful career, acquiring land and seeing the local tax bill rise from 35 sous in 1540 to 15 livres payable by his widow in 1552. He died in late 1550.  Commercial partners: Guillaume I Bouchet (Poitiers); Jean Coussot (Poitiers); Claude Garnier (Limoges); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Nicolas I Pelletier (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Jean II Varice (Angers)  Device: Silvestre n° 1186 & 1267; BaTyR n° 2832  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 162  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 56–66; Peach; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 5; Cappellen (Ni) n° 1; Répertoire n° 1197 360. Bouchet, Jacques II  Active: 1552–1588  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: The son of Jacques I and brother of Guillaume II, he had a daughter named Esther. He published in association with Guillaume II often simply branding their imprints ‘Bouchetz freres’. They maintained close ties to the Marnefs, and Jacques was chosen to be the guardian of Jean III de Marnef’s underage children. He died before 1593.  Commercial partners: Guillaume II Bouchet (Poitiers); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers)  Motto: L’un après l’autre  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 67–72; Richard (Bouchet) p. 550; Peach; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 34 361. Bouchevreau, René  Active: 1542  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He died on 20 August 1542.  References: Pasquier p. 94 362. Bouchier, Pierre I  Active: 1567–1583  Name variations: Bouclier, Pierre; Boucher, Pierre  Location: Bourges, Berry

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 Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘À l’écu de Basel, au dessous des grandes écoles’  B iography: He was the father of Pierre II and Marc Guérin’s son-in-law. He married Marie Guérin in 1558, who survived him. He was a witness at the marriage of the daughter of the bookseller André Chartier in 1574. He began as a bookseller but became a printer in 1569–1570. He was successful in the trade, publishing books for local students, becoming the official printer to the university by 1573 and then to the town of Bourges by 1576, though he had already undertaken commissions for the municipality as early as 1574. His importance to the local book world was illustrated by the will of the regent of the university of Bourges, Louis Roussard, who left him over a thousand lt for the pleasure and services the bookseller had rendered. He rented with Jean Lauverjat a stall situated in the parish of Saint-Ursin ‘devant les six maillets’ for an annual rent of 4 lt in 1567. Lucas Poupart was a journeyman in his workshop in 1583. The end of his career seems to have been marked by financial difficulties, he was in debt and his relations with the Lyon publisher Antoine Tardif were the object of a lawsuit after his death. He died before March 1583 and his belongings were sold. The inventory shows that he owned musical notes, Greek and Italic type as well as more habitual Roman type and ornate letters.  Commercial partners: Ambroise Brillard (Bourges); Michel Grand (Bourges); Jean Lauverjat (Bourges); Antoine Tardif (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 410; BaTyR n° 28632  Documents: AD Cher 14 G 236, E 1160, E 2226 f. 9, E 2371 f. 165v & 198; AM Bourges CC 350 p. 83  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 32–36; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 861; Jenny (Topographie) p. 29; Jenny (Notes) p. 879 363. Bouchier, Pierre II  Active: 1594–1596  Name variations: Bouclier, Pierre; Boucher, Pierre  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘À l’écu de Basel, au dessous des grandes écoles’  B iography: The son of Pierre I, he was too young to take over his father’s business at his death in 1583. He seems to have started to print in his own right in 1594, being named the official printer to the king in Bourges the following year.  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 37–38; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 899; Jenny (Notes) p. 898

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364. Boudet, Guillaume I  Active: 1552–1553  Name variations: Bodet, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Jeanne Bernardin in May 1552, but this was a short-lived marriage as in June of the following year he remarried. He resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 573 f. 15v & 23v 365. Boudet, Guillaume II  Active: 1573–1576  Name variations: Bodet, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du Peyron’  B iography: His family life seems difficult to reconstruct from the registers of the parish of Saint-Sernin where he lived. He is given as the father of a son named Jean who was baptised on 20 November 1573, perhaps the bookseller publishing in the city as early as 1607 with the spelling Jean Boudé – the Répertoire suggests that this was done by a 16-year-old Jean Boudé who would have gone on publishing for a further 77 years, which seems unlikely. In the marriage registers, Guillaume is given as marrying Salbio Pouchaude on 2 May 1574, just a few months after Jean’s birth, and then remarrying on 22 January 1576 to Guine Dangel.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 554 p. 129, GG 574 f. 66r & 81v 366. Boudet, Jean I  Active: 1571–1573  Name variations: Bodet, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du Peyron’  B iography: He married Galharde de Saint Po on 20 May 1571 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 554 p. 131, GG 574 f. 36v 367. Boudeville, Guyon  Active: 1539–1562  Name variations: Bodavila, Guion; Boudevillaeus, Guido; Boudevilla, Guydo; Boudeville, Guy de

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de Villeneuve, près la maison commune’ (1541); ‘Devant le collège de Foix’ (1541–1545); ‘Devant l’église du Taur’ (1545–1562)  B iography: Originally from the parish of Jouy-sous-Thelle in the diocese of Rouen, he married Marie Verdière. He was active as a journeyman printer from 1539 to 1541 in the workshop of Nicolas Viellard before setting up his own business, buying the material of his late master for 60 livres. His son-in-law, Michel Méchard, worked in his shop that employed four journeyman printers in 1556. A skilled printer, he produced over 160 titles including works using Greek type. A sworn printer to the municipality and the university, he worked extensively for them, printing and binding books. His range also extended to works of poetry and joyful literature. He was given a privilege by the local parlement to print and sell all religious edicts in 1543. Such Catholic business opportunities did not, however, prevent Boudeville from converting to Protestantism, probably in around 1560. During the repression led by Blaise de Monluc he was arrested and hanged for his faith on 20 May 1562. His trial took place one week after his execution. At his death, his materials were bought by Jacques I Colomiès for 120.5 livres.  Commercial partners: Antoine André (Toulouse); Damien Boysson (Toulouse); Gabriel Buon (Paris); Jean II Chazot (Toulouse); Jean Clément (Bordeaux); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Pierre Dupuis (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean de Fleurs (Toulouse); Jean Guyart (Bordeaux); Arnaud de La Borde (Toulouse); Jean Molinier (Toulouse); Jean Perrin (Toulouse)  Device: Silvestre n° 180, 720 & 1051; BaTyR n° 3039  Motto: ‘Si tost l’ung que l’autre’; ‘Hic fugit illa volat nequerunt optata teneri’  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 37 f. 77  References: RB XX p. 124–148; Muller p. 112; Bessis; Claudin (2) p. 90; Répertoire n° 1211 Boudin, Jean, see Angier, Jean 368. Boudrot, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He was the son of Louis.  References: Skora (Langres)

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369. Boudrot, Louis  Active: 1595  Location: Bourbonne-les-Bains, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Françoise Silvestre and was the father of Jean.  References: Skora (Langres) 370. Bouet, Marie  Active: 1585–1588  Name variations: Lauverjat, veuve Jean; Bouc, Marie  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux grandes écoles’  B iography: After the death of her husband she was at the head of the workshop, working with her second son, Jean, and styling their publications ‘widow and inheritors of Jean Lauverjat’.  Commercial partners: Germain Lauverjat (Bourges)  References: Arbour p. 324; Jenny (Levez) p. 11 Bouges, Simon, see Vouges, Simon de 371. Bougne, Charles de  Active: 1494–1547  Name variations: Debougne, Charles; Bongne, Charles de; Debongne, Charles; Bouget, Charles  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la porte Angevine’; ‘À la Illustration 25 Signature of Charles de Bougne, chaussée Saint-Pierre’ (1494–1530); ‘À 1537, AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1 l’enseigne de Saint Nicolas’  B iography: He first married Thomyne Dutour, the mother of Nicole who was also godmother to the bookseller Jean Champion’s daughter in 1529. After her death he remarried to Françoise Delahaye, the widow of Philippe Bourgoignon’s father. His daughter then married Philippe Bourgoignon. He was the official bookseller to the university of Angers, and also sold books in Tours. His links to the university were strong, and he was the keeper of their library in 1525. Jean Beauchesne started a six-year apprenticeship in his bookshop on 2 April 1519 n.s. at which point Charles was living on university

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premises. In a document dated 2 January 1549 n.s. he was simply referred to as a merchant, though the bookseller René Alexandre was one of his witnesses. He was a very active publisher, working often in wider partnerships and having books printed in Paris and Rouen. As a businessman he was successful: he owned land in the parishes of Saint-Fort near Château-Gontier and Juigné-sur-Maine and lent considerable sums out – on one occasion 170 écus to a grain merchant in 1517.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Jean Alexandre (Angers); Jean Alissot (Angers); Michel Angier (Caen); André Bocard (Paris); Pierre Bodin (Nantes); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Pierre Cochery (Le Mans); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Antoine Cousteau (Paris); Macé des Bois (Paris); Galliot du Pré (Paris); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Jacques Hoys (Orléans); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Jean de La Tour (Angers); Le Petit Laurent (Paris); Julien Lunel (Paris); Jean Macé (Rennes); Richard Macé (Rouen); Guy Marchant (Paris); Jacques I Mareschal (Lyon); Enguilbert de Marnef (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Romain Morin (Lyon); Jean de Moylin (Lyon); Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prévost (Paris); Martin I Siffleau (Tours); Jean II Varice (Angers); Mathieu Vaucelles (Le Mans); Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  Motto: ‘Dieu gart le roy et la noble cite d’Angiers et l’universite’  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121, 5 E 1; AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 1, XXXIII 8 f. 426  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 2; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 94 & 111; Répertoire n° 1218 372. Bouguer, Jean  Active: 1481  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He was characterised as a scribe and a bookbinder when he took on Étienne Ferrant as an apprentice in 1481.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E8/285  References: BVH Minutes 373. Bouguereau, Maurice  Active: 1588–1596  Name variations: Bougereau, Maurice  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘À la Petite Fontaine du Carroi de Beaune’; ‘Rue de la Scellerie, près la Trinité’ (both 1594)  B iography: He worked as a royalist during the wars of the Catholic League. On Jamet Mettayer’s departure in 1594 to return to Paris, he bought his workshop and some of his material – two presses and type – as well as at least one manuscript that he later printed (USTC 10470). He also acquired from him some 255 écus’s worth of books. The two years that followed represent the major part of his activity, publishing both literary and polemical texts, using both a traditional and a copper-engraving press. In his masterpiece, Le theatre françois, he worked with at least five different engravers. He died in 1596.  Commercial partners: Louis de Bonart (Tours); Vincent Le Febvre (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 135–137; Muller p. 113; Lepreux I 33; Répertoire n° 1219 374. Bouhier, Dominique  Active: 1575  Name variations: Bonifier, Dominique  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Pedlar  B iography: He was ordered to cease roaming the streets of Besançon with his family and leave the city on 4 August 1575 by the municipal authorities. He seems to have ignored the order since he was forcibly expelled a month later on 17 September when he was described as a ‘vagabond estrangier et incogneu’. If he returned, he was to be strangled and hanged.  Documents: AM Besançon BB 35 f. 275r & 304r 375. Boulanger, Guillaume  Active: 1549–1567  Name variations: Le Boullengier, Guillaume  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1549–1567); Pau, Béarn (1563)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Pierre en la maison de la Sirène’  B iography: He seems to have begun his career in Bordeaux, at which point he was close to the peripatetic printer and bookseller Jean Clément, who left most of his possessions to him in his 1550 will. He published edicts and ordinances in Bordeaux using royal arms on his title pages and enjoyed a ten-year privilege for their sale. This led him into conflict

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with another member of the Bordeaux book world, the printer François Morpain, who challenged his right to print an edict. Despite this advantageous position, he also indulged in the sale of banned books some of which were found in his bookshop and were seized and burnt in 1559. He seems to have spent some time in Pau where he was both a bookseller and a salt retailer. He is referred to as a printer by Desgraves and others, but it is somewhat unclear whether he was directly responsible for any imprints: one of his works was clearly printed in Angoulême for him (USTC 61625), despite this being a very simple twelve leaf quarto imprint, and his other editions indicate that he commissioned works from other printers.  Commercial partners: Jean Clément (Bordeaux); Michel Garnier (Limoges); Jean de Minières (Angoulême)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 112 n° 34, 1 B 115 n° 158, 1 B 134 n° 34, 1 B 137 n° 244, 1 B 185 n° 41, 1 B 177 n° 93, 1 B 200 n° 232, 3 E 848; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques E 1998  References: Muller p. 9; RB I p. 24–25; Labadie p. 11; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 117; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 159; Lacaze p. 36 376. Boulhon, Jean  Active: 1588  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  References: Guibert p. 44 377. Boullenc, Jean  Active: 1551–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder Illustration 26 Signature of Jean Boullenc, 1560, AD  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He worked for vari- Seine-Maritime 2E1 430 ous local institutions. His binding work done for the chapter of Rouen in 1556 was checked by three other booksellers, including Raoulin Boullenc. He resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2553, G 2556–7, G 2824, G 3200, G 6886, 2E1/ 430 p. 533  References: Beaurepaire p. 398

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378. Boullenc, Randolphe  Active: 1551  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200 379. Boullenc, Raoulin  Active: 1551–1566  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He mostly published in as- Illustration 27 sociation with other local booksellers. Signature of Raoulin Boullenc, He resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. 1560, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 430 In 1566, he appointed a representative to force the bookseller Jean Le Pryme to honour an agreement made five years earlier.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Jean Le Pryme (Saint-Lô); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Thomas I Mallard (Rouen); Robert Masselin (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2824, G 3200, 2E1/ 430 p. 533, 2E1/446 f. 29v, 2E1/447 f. 226v  References: Muller p. 96–103; Beaurepaire p. 398; Aquilon p. 307 380. Bounhol, Jacques  Active: 1586–1602  Name variations: Boniol, Jacques  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He provided stationery to the local municipality.  Documents: AD Tarn 4 EDT CC 268, C 428  References: Portal p. 37 381. Bouquet, Claude  Active: 1539–1558  Name variations: Boquet, Claude  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1539); Avignon, Papal States (1543–1558)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  B iography: Originally from Saint-Rambert, his brothers Timothée and Basile were booksellers in Lyon. He seems to have begun his career in Toulouse where he was asked, but declined, to go to Bordeaux to pass judgement in the case opposing Nicolas Castel and Michel Parmentier in 1539. In May of that year, he was condemned by the local parlement for having sold Protestant books. Those he had already sold to a merchant of Montauban, Jean Vayssière, were burnt in front of his shop. He was banished from the city and had settled in Avignon by 1543 where he was able to develop his business. He was the father-in-law of the Avignon bookseller Mathieu Vincent who married his daughter in 1556. Jacques Volo was one of his apprentices until 1543, after which he set up his own shop, buying books from his old master. His press is known for a single surviving imprint – a papal bull (USTC 14507), though he also published with Jean Tremblay and Pierre Roux.  Commercial partners: Macé Bonhomme (Lyon); Guillaume Dalier (Carpentras); Pierre Roux (Avignon); Jean Tramblay (Avignon); Mathieu Vincent (Avignon); Jacques Volo (Avignon)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 32 f. 360  References: Roudié & Desgraves n° 3–4 & 6; Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 37; Pansier II 118 382. Bouquet, Théophile  Active: 1573–1575  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He avoided including his name on his imprints, preferring either anonymity or the even greater safety of false addresses, in such cases employing the names of Martin Cousin and Pierre Wallemand in Basel. He married the widow of Barthelémy Berton, Françoise Pierre.  References: RB XVI p. 36–40 383. Bourberain, Anselme  Active: c. 1500  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  References: Skora (Langres) 384. Bourdault, Bonaventure  Active: 1568  Location: Mézières-en-Drouais, Orléanais

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 Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir E 3821 385. Bourdet, Christophe  Active: [1515]  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He is not known to have printed for anyone other than François Regnault.  Commercial partners: François Regnault (Paris)  References: RB VIII p. 30; B. Normande p. 257; Répertoire n° 1248 386. Bourdet, Guillaume  Active: 1490–1493  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  References: Beaurepaire p. 395 387. Bourdin, Simon  Active: 1589–1591  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He was employed by Jean Bourrelier in Vannes to print a breviary for the local Church. The large number of corrections he had to make to the edition led him alongside his co-worker, Pierre Brenouzet, to request an extra payment.  References: BnF (Fichiers des autorités) 388. Bourdon, Guillaume  Active: 1559  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. Gosselin described him as a printer as well as a bookseller.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/426 p. 198  References: Gosselin p. 106

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389. Bourdon, Matthieu  Active: 1566  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 2490).  References: Muller p. 6; RB VI p. 11 390. Bourgeat, Guillaume  Active: 1553–1561  Name variations: Bourgea, Guilielmus  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près Saint-Martin’  B iography: He was the official printer to the town of Tours, replacing Jean Rousset in that role. He specialised in the publication of official commissions and legal works. He seems to have called on other printers when he wished to publish more substantial works.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Chercelé (Tours); Zacharie I Griveau (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); Jean Rousset (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 1028 & 1029  References: RB XXIII p. 55–56; Muller p. 113; Grandmaison p. 326; Répertoire n° 1552 391. Bourgeois, Denis  Active: 1557–1586  Location: Avignon, Papal States (1557); Lyon, Lyonnais (1571–1586)  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from Lyon, he was named alongside Jean Tremblay and Pierre Roux as one of the printers ready to buy Barthélemy Bonhomme’s material in 1557. He sold his stake to his two associates a few months later and seems to have decided to return to Lyon where he pursued an undistinguished career and was routinely described as a journeyman printer.  Commercial partners: Jean Tremblay (Avignon); Pierre Roux (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 121; Baudrier I 62 392. Bourgogne, Jean  Active: 1491  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the house of an Étienne Mercadier and was exempt from taxation.  References: Egullion p. 97 393. Bourgoignon, Philippe  Active: 1535–1559  Name variations: Bourguignon, Philippe  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher Illustration 29  B iography: He was the son of a Signature of Philippe Bourguignon, 1558, Jean Bourgoignon and of Françoise AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 2 de La Haye, who later remarried to the bookseller Charles de Bougne, whose daughter, Nicole, he himself married. They lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He was the librarian and official bookseller to the university of Angers and succeeded Charles de Bougne, coming into his inheritance in 1537 after having reached an agreement with his father-in-law. He also sold his books in Nantes and Rennes, where he worked with the local bookseller Thomas Mestrard, commissioning editions of the customs of Brittany and other works in Paris and Poitiers. His involvement in Brittany was such that he was able to obtain a monopoly on the printing of the parlement’s decisions in 1552, and of royal edicts in the province in 1553 – dispositions that were renewed in 1554 and 1556. His device that featured a dragon was later used by the Parisian bookseller Claude Gaultier (see Silvestre n° 447 and 853). He died before August 1559.  Commercial partners: Étienne Caveiller (Paris); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes); Pierre Varice (Angers); André Wechel (Paris)  Motto: ‘Vigilanti’  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 5 n° 1, 1 Bf 1588 f. 27v; AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121, 5 E 1  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 16; Muller p. 3; Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Pasquier p. 94; Répertoire n° 1256 394. Bourgonh, Jean  Active: 1537–1540  Name variations: Bonegoum, Jean

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms from the bookseller Henri Court in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city in 1537.  References: Claudin (2) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 395. Bourguet, Baptiste  Active: 1495–1515  Location: Abbeville, Picardy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: It has been suggested that this printer was active in either Paris or Rouen between 1495 and 1499 (see Claudin and Renouard), but the only firm location we have for him is in Abbeville in 1515 when he was authorised to build a stall to sell his books next to the market near Saint-Vulfran.  Device: Polain n° 181.  Motto: ‘Ecce filius meus dilectus’  References: Renouard p. 50; F.-I. Darsy, Bénéfices de l’église d’Amiens (Amiens: E. Caillaux, 1871), II, 374. 396. Bourignan, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He was a witness at the wedding of Jean Rival.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 575 f. 79v 397. Bourreau, Jean  Active: 1563  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He worked in partnership with Olivier Tafforeau with whom he published edicts and ordinances.  Commercial partners: Olivier Tafforeau (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 64 398. Bourrel, Pierre  Active: 1552–1578  Name variations: Borrel, Pierre, Burelli, Pierre  Location: Romans, Dauphiné

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He worked for the local municipality on a number of occasions.  Documents: AD Drôme E 11308; AM Romans CC 80, CC 84, CC 85, CC 90, CC 92, CC 337, CC 343 399. Bourrelier, Jean  Active: 1589–1597  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: He published only during the wars of the Catholic League, but concentrated on large volumes for the local clergy and reflective texts rather than obviously polemical material. Pierre Brenouzet and Simon Bourdin were employed as journeymen printers in his workshop. He also provided stationery and bound books for the local clergy. His material passed on to the printer Joseph Moricet who was active in the first decades of the seventeenth century.  Device: Silvestre n° 1030  Motto: ‘In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo. Genes. 3’  References: RB XIX p. 93; Muller p. 116; Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Répertoire n° 1262 400. Bousquet, Antoine  Active: 1518–1543  Name variations: Bosquet, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the same house as the printer Agnet Ribiera in 1533 in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He was described as poor in the 1540 register of taxation of the town.  Commercial partners: Pierre Crozet (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 157; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62–65 401. Bousquet, Jean  Active: 1537  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 11

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402. Bousquet, Pierre  Active: 1499  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Georges Lunder 403. Boussac, Auguste  Active: 1507–1516  Name variations: Bossat, Auguste  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Marguerite’s brother and brother-in-law to Nicolas Mestrès.  References: Claudin (1) p. 17; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 404. Boutard, Blaise  Active: 1580–1622  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre-Dame devant les Trois Écus’; ‘Aux Heures dorées’  B iography: He married Anne Mitantier before 1589 and, after her death, Marie Le Clerc, his second wife, in 1610. Two of his daughters, Marie and Jeannette, married printers: the first was betrothed to Jacques Carteron of Lyon and the second to Pierre Sourdet of Troyes. He took over Pierre Mitantier’s shop and resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. He is only known to have printed in 1601–1602. At his death in 1622, his shop contained a large number of books of hours. He is known to have sold books in Reims in a cooper’s shop. His wife survived him and married the printer Claude de Villiers in 1623 and, after his death, the Lyon printer Claude de Murs.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265, F 272, F 276, GG 7 15 f. 17v  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 77; Lepreux II 78; Turquois p. 252; Turquois (Molière) p. 152; Morin (Heures) p. 148; Répertoire n° 1274 405. Boutat, Pierre  Active: 1563–1589  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He married Esclarmonde Vergiere on 21 May 1563 in the parish of Saint-Étienne. He was still active in 1589 when he was godfather to a Jeanne Pinhol.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 220 f. 101r, GG 556 p. 197 406. Boutaud, Jean  Active: 1521  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  References: Guibert p. 41 407. Boutet, Pierre  Active: 1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 120 408. Boutin, Mathieu  Active: 1581  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Marie Deraisnes with whom he had a son, also called Mathieu, who was baptised on 25 October 1581.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Granges de Surgères n° 11 409. Bouton, Jérôme  Active: 1576–1596  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place saint-Didier’  References: Pansier II 122 Bouttellier, Pierre¸ see Schenck, Peter 410. Bouttevillain, Adrien  Active: 1598–1611  Location: Montivilliers, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He paid 15 livres a year to Saint-Sauveur in Montivilliers.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 8381

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411. Bouvet, Denis  Active: 1541–1590  Location: Caen, Normandy (1541– 1548); Rouen, Normandy (1554– 1590) Illustration 30  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher Signature of Denis Bouvet, 1561, AD  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ Seine-Maritime 2E1 431 (Rouen)  B iography: The son of Louis, he began his career in Caen where he worked in association with Michel Angier until at least 1548. At the death of his father in 1543, he inherited some of his ongoing affairs alongside his mother, Gillette Le Forestier, who continued to be active in the trade. By 1554, he had returned to Rouen where he served as treasurer of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas in 1558 and worked regularly for the local archdiocese. He seems to have diversified his business, selling other products such as ashes, for instance. He was generally described from the late 1560s onwards as a merchant and his wider success was shown by his elevation to the status of burgher of the city.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Richard Hamillon (Rouen); Guillemette de La Vigne (Paris); Gillette Le Forestier (Rouen); Robert Masselin (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Oudin Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2171, G 2546, G 2548, G 2558, G 2568, G 2576, G 3203, G 8749, 2E1/417 p. 670, 2E1/431 p. 362, 2E1/444 f. 301r  References: B. Normande p. 296; Muller p. 10–11; Gosselin p. 90; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 1283 412. Bouvet, Jean  Active: 1531  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: The brother of Louis, he seems to have been much less active, though he also undertook small tasks such as the printing of royal letters in 1531.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 234 413. Bouvet, Louis  Active: 1504–1543  Name variations: Bonnet, Louis  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘près la grande église notre Dame devant le portail aux libraires’ (1525), ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1510); ‘à Saint Amand en la rue des prêtresses à l’image notre Dame devant le coq’ (1510)  B iography: He married Gillette Le Forestier with whom he had a son named Denis who followed him into the trade. Jean was his brother. Along with Jean I Petit, he had a dispute with Pierre Lynant over the publication of an antiphonary. He served as a proxy for Jean Morin, the son of Martin Morin in 1534. As a publisher, his trade was concentrated on religious works, often commissioned in Paris as one part of wider ephemeral publishing partnerships with other Norman booksellers. He seems only to have printed short, simple imprints in his own workshop, though sometimes for large print runs of 2000 copies. His activity in the trade is emphasised by the fact that he asked the Parisian bookseller Jean Petit to chase down his debtors for him in 1519 when one individual alone owed him just shy of a thousand livres. He died before 1544 at which point his workshop had been taken over by his widow.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Anabat (Paris); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Galiot du Pré (Paris); Jean Foucher (Évreux); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Abraham Guénet (Rouen); Gilles Hardouyn (Paris); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Pierre Lynant (Rouen); Didier Maheu (Paris); Jean I Petit (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prévost (Paris); François Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 118–120, G 123, G 125, G 130, G 220–222, G 2154, G 2520, G 2522, G 2524, G 2525, G 2526, G 2530, G 2536, G 3200, G 6270; AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/4 f. 296v  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 66–72; B. Normande p. 254 & 294; Gosselin p. 89; Lepreux III 87; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 1284 414. Bouvier, Claude  Active: 1586–1587  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He visited the Lyon fair in 1588.  Commercial partners: Jean Patrasson (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 190 415. Bouyer, Jean  Active: 1479–1515  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Près l’église Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle’  B iography: He was the parish priest of the Resurrection in Poitiers. It is unclear when he began his career in the book industry, though books have been attributed to him from as early as 1479. What is certain is that he joined up with Pierre Bellesculée when he relocated to Poitiers before working as the senior partner with Guillaume I Bouchet for the rest of his career. He was the uncle of Jean Joussant who served as his apprentice, but whom he disinherited in his final will for having demonstrated his ‘ingratitude’. He left his material to his partner, Guillaume Bouchet, for his lifetime – stipulating that it should go to his nephew and nieces after Bouchet’s death. He died on 24 June 1515.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bellesculée (Poitiers); Guillaume I Bouchet (Poitiers); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Paris)  Device: TW ma03712–ma03716; Polain n° 174–178a; Meyer n° 165–169.  Types: TW ma03679–ma03711, ma01798–ma01805, ma12555, ma13180  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 7–12; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 481; La Bouralière (Vienne); TW of0422 416. Bouyn, Jean  Active: 1514  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au carrefour de Mauconseil’  B iography: He is known for a single undated Gothic edition of the 1514 compilation of custom laws for La Rochelle (USTC 23205).  References: RB XVI 127 n° 1 417. Boyau, Guérin  Active: 1549–1576  Name variations: Boniau, Guérin  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne (1549); Soissons, Île-de-France (1559–1576)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près de Saint Gervais’ (Soissons)  B iography: He seems to have started his career in Périgueux where he entered into an association with Marc Batas whereby he agreed in 1549 to work in Batas’s shop in return for the possession of half of his goods. The outcome of this partnership is unknown, but by 1559, Boyau had relocated to Soissons where he spent most of his career. There, he worked closely with local ecclesiastical institutions, sometimes acting as an intermediary to have texts printed. He might be related to the bookbinder and bookseller Guillaume Boyau active in Paris in 1589.

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 Commercial partners: Marc Batas (Périgueux); Jean de Foigny (Reims)  Documents: AM Soissons Hôtel Dieu 445 & 448; AN MC ét/XXXIII/33 f. 610v  References: Muller p. 107; RB VI p. 83; Delalain p. 140; Renouard p. 52; Lepreux I 199 418. Boyer, Guillaume  Active: 1559  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He fled to Geneva in November 1559.  References: RIECH 419. Boynard, Claude  Active: 1599–1601  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Léger Delas (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XVIII/131 fol. 734 420. Boynard, Olivier  Active: 1576–1619  Name variations: Boinard, Olivier  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivinerie, au cloitre de Sainte Croix, à l’enseigne de la librairie’  B iography: He married Jeanne Giraud in 1576 and was the father of Jeanne who married the bookseller Jean Nyon. He was godfather to Robert Hotot’s daughter on 15 August 1598. In 1577 he lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle before moving to the ‘librairie’ of the university, ‘rue de l’écrivinerie’, on a life-long lease. He was expected to hold books that had a combined estimated value of at least 100 écus. A fervent Catholic, he sided with the League after 1589. He died in 1619 and was buried in the church of Bonne-Nouvelle on 26 September.  Commercial partners: François Girault (Orléans); Jean Nyon (Orléans)  Device: Silvestre n° 989  Motto: ‘Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi quia per sanctam crucem redemisti mundum’  References: RB X p. 85–87; Muller p. 56–57; Herluison p. 37; Bimbenet p. 266; Répertoire n° 1305

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421. Boynier, Laurent  Active: 1599–1628  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 422. Boys, Mathieu  Active: 1488–1507  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had an on-going dispute with the abbey of Saint-Hilairede-la-Celle. He had died by 23 February 1506/7.  References: La Bouralière (Vienne) p. 35 423. Boysilier, Jean  Active: 1514  Location: Autun, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean de Channey (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 65 424. Boysse, Jacques  Active: 1504  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookbinder  References: Desgraves (Cahors) p. 941; Gruel p. 40 425. Boysseron, André  Active: 1518  Name variations: Boysseroni, André  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 40 426. Boysson, Damien  Active: 1529–1547  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au capitoulat de la Daurade’  B iography: He originally lived in the Saint-Étienne quarter of the city, moving to that of La Daurade by 1533. The Bordeaux bookseller Jean

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Laurens was his brother-in-law and, in 1539, he made Laurens his proxy to retrieve debts he was owed in the city. He worked with Lyon booksellers, importing books produced by Gilles Huguetan in 1539, but also representing Hector Penet and Nicolas Petit and recovering debts owed to them by booksellers in the surrounding area. He adapted Sébastien Gryphe’s trademark griffin device (BaTyR n° 2856), replacing the animal with a unicorn, the block of stone with a book and adding a cherub’s face to the winged ball. He had died by 1549.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jean Girard (Toulouse); Gilles Huguetan (Lyon); Jean Laurens (Toulouse); Hector Penet (Lyon); Nicolas Petit (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 850  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65–67; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 123; Claudin (2) p. 2 427. Boysson, Guillaume  Active: 1475–1515  Name variations: Boisson, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’ (1512)  B iography: He married Antoinette Frère. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. Guillaume Gaultier and Jean Julian served as apprentices in his shop for two years in 1511–1513 and 1512–1514 respectively. He is known to have sold books to local law students, obtaining the volumes they required from Lyon publishers.  Commercial partners: Wolf Appeutiger (Constance); Philippe Baret (Toulouse); Guillaume II Carles (Toulouse); Guillaume Gaultier (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12003 n° 45  References: Claudin (Toulouse); Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 428. Boysson, Pierre  Active: 1532–1549  Name variations: Boyssa, Pierre  Location: Cahors, Languedoc (1532); Toulouse, Languedoc (1538–1549)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was described as a bookseller of Cahors in 1532 but seems to have returned to Toulouse a few years later.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 & 72; Claudin (2) p. 91

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429. Boysson, Simon  Active: 1538  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 430. Boyvin, Jean  Active: 1487–1488  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He petitioned for the right to use the stall next to the Cathedral that was rented by Gaillart Le Bourgeois in June 1488, but it was conceded to Guillaume Le Délié who had requested it a month earlier. He died before 1492 at which point his widow had taken over the running of his stall.  References: Lepreux III 240; Delaunay p. 126 431. Boyvin, Robert  Active: 1487–1502  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, illuminator  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: Born circa 1470, he was mainly an illuminator, working for instance for the cardinal Georges d’Amboise in 1502–1503. It is thought that he was initially also a bookseller, though by 1534 he was working solely as an illuminator.  References: Delaunay p. 126; Deville p. 443 432. Boyvin, Thomas  Active: 1479  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: His wife succeeded him after his death, some time before 1484.  References: Delaunay p. 216 433. Boyvin, veuve Jean  Active: 1492

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près de la cathédrale’  B iography: She succeeded her husband at some point between 1488 and 1492 and held her stall for Jean Richard.  References: Delaunay p. 126 434. Boyvin, veuve Thomas  Active: 1484–1490  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: She took over the stall of her husband at his death.  References: Delaunay p. 216 435. Bracconier  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was hanged for being a Protestant on 29 May 1562.  References: Haag III 69 436. Brachot, Pierre  Active: 1540–1546  Name variations: Brachote, Pierre  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was bookseller to the university of Dole. As a publisher he is known for editions of imperial ordinances printed in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Jean Pidié (Lyon); Georges Regnault (Lyon)  References: RB XXI p. 47 437. Bralhe, Jacques  Active: 1541  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (2) p. 91

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438. Bramereau, Jacques  Active: 1578–1606  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place Saint-Didier’  B iography: Born in Avignon, the son of a miller, he had set up shop in his home city by 1578. He was the father of Jean who succeeded him. He was the official printer, bookseller and keeper of the keys to the university in 1587 with wages of 15 florins. He bought Louis Barrier’s print shop along with all his material in 1586. His success allowed him to renew his material in 1598, having a new press brought from Lyon. The town was eager to keep him in the city and offered him a monthly payment of one écu if he continued to print in Avignon in 1588. In a demonstration of the growing importance of his press, he took a copy of his edition celebrating the entry of the queen into Avignon in 1600 to the court of France for which the municipality – that undoubtedly saw how the city could profit from this – gave him 40 écus. He published a variety of texts ranging from theology to literature, including some with fully engraved title pages. His son took over the running of his workshop in 1603, but Jacques continued to be active for a few years at least. He was still alive in 1617.  Documents: AD Vaucluse D 188  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 54–56; Pansier II 122; Répertoire n° 1332 439. Brault, Jacques  Active: 1567  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne Vivier who was born in 1517 and lived in the parish of Sainte-Opportune. He was buried on 15 May 1567. He was survived by his wife for at least 33 years, but she does not seem to have kept the shop.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 285 440. Brault, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Mathurine Symonnet. He died sometime before 1597.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 285

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441. Brayer, Jean  Active: 1520–1528  Name variations: Brayde, Jean  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Bezat quarter of the city. He stocked books that he received from Lyon and Toulouse.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse)  Documents: AM Agen CC 15  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 11; Marboutin p. 21; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 69 442. Brayne, Aubry de  Active: [1506]–1547  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’horloge du prévôt’  B iography: He married Perrette Bailly with whom he had three children two of whom, Geoffroy and Hugues, followed him into the trade. As a publisher, he organised the publication of works for the local clergy that he had printed in Paris. He died before 29 March 1548.  Commercial partners: Martin Alexandre (Paris); Gauthier du Boys (Châlons-en-Champagne); Jacques Nyverd (Paris)  References: RB XVII p. 9; Lhote p. 7 443. Brayne, Geoffroy de  Active: 1553–1586  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in around 1530, he was the son of Aubry. He married Jeanne Rigollet.  References: Lhote p. 7 444. Brayne, Hugues de  Active: 1548–1574  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la poissonnerie’

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 B iography: Born in around 1520, he was the son of Aubry. He married Anne Marchant, the daughter of a bargeman. The contract was drawn up on 29 March 1548. They had four children, of which Pierre, who followed his father into the trade. He died in 1574.  References: Lhote p. 12 445. Brayne, Pierre de  Active: 1585–1633  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue des Lombards, près Saint-Alpin’  B iography: Born in around 1560, he was the son of Hugues. He married Agnès Bourgeotte, the widow of the bookseller Jacques du Boys. The contract was drawn up on 28 December 1586. They lived in the parish of Saint-Germain. Earlier that same year he bought part of his father’s inheritance that had fallen to the Châlons-born Venetian bookseller Pierre Bourdon. Baryne also worked as a bookbinder, in particular for the local Church. He died in 1633.  References: Lhote p. 17 446. Brayre, Jean  Active: 1533  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 121 447. Bredin, Philippe  Active: 1503  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/18  References: BVH Minutes 448. Bredin, Thibault  Active: 1482–1506  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jacquette Barrée, who died before 1505, with whom he had children. They resided in the parish of Saint-Hilaire. He was also sometimes referred to as an illuminator and his business seems

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to have been somewhat precarious. He sold a house to the Parisian bookseller Antoine Vérard on 17 July 1505 which was partially paid for by the debts he had incurred towards Vérard for printed books (106 lt). He also owed 110 lt to his daughter, Jeanne, the same year.  Commercial partners: Antoine Vérard (Paris)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/20, 3E1/21  References: BVH Minutes; Grandmaison p. 283 Brelha Vincha, Guillaume, see Vieillevigne, Guillaume 449. Brenouzet, Jacques  Active: 1587–1634  Name variations: Brenouset, Jacques; Brénouzet, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy; Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Froide-Rue à la cour de Sens’ (Caen)  B iography: Born in 1567, he was condemned in 1589 for having printed a leaguer tract.  Commercial partners: David Julian (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 444; Gosselin p. 154; Lepreux III 431; Répertoire n° 1375 450. Brenouzet, Pierre  Active: 1566–1591  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1566– 1575); Vannes, Brittany (1589–1591)  Role: Bookseller, publisher, journeyman printer  Address: ‘En la rue Escuyere à l’ensei- Illustration 31 Signature of Pierre Brenouzet, 1566, AD gne du G couronné’  B iography: He married Barbe Seine-Maritime 2E1 447 Verel, the widow of a purse-maker, in 1566. They lived in the parish of Saint-Jean. Active in Rouen where he published popular works, he seems to have fallen on hard times and he (or a namesake) was employed by Jean Bourrelier in Vannes to print a breviary for the local Church in 1589. The large number of corrections the edition necessitated led him and the other journeyman printer, Simon Bourdin, to request an extra payment.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/447 f. 249v  References: Gosselin p. 106; BnF (Fichier des autorités)

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451. Brenouzet, Robert I  Active: 1527–1528  Name variations: Brenouset, Robert; Brénouzet, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue écuyère’  B iography: He published mainly short newsbooks, often without signing his work.  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 42; B. Normande p. 282; Lepreux III 89; Aquilon p. 306 452. Brenouzet, Robert II  Active: 1578–1579  Name variations: Brenouset, Robert; Brénouzet, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou. He signed a contract to work for the printer Pierre Desnoyers, his son-in-law, in 1578 for 6 years. As part of this deal he brought his own press and material and received in return full board as well as one livre a week.  Commercial partners: Pierre Desnoyers (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 115–116 453. Bresme, Hugues de  Active: 1548  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204 454. Bretel, Pierre  Active: 1568–1589  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: In his 1586 edition of the customs, he used the device and motto of Julien du Clos. Lepreux argued that his name was simply an anagram of Pierre Le Bret, but this makes little sense for a publisher who mainly produced uncontroversial editions. It is unclear whether he was related to the Parisian bookseller René Bretel active in the early seventeenth century.

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 Commercial partners: Nicolas des Marestz (Rennes); Blaise Petrail (Rennes)  References: RB XIX p. 76; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Lepreux IV 31 455. Brideau, Joachim  Active: 1550  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de Cahernan’  B iography: He was bookseller to the university. As a publisher, he is known for a single short imprint: a decision of the parlement of Toulouse (USTC 77902).  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 124 456. Briden, Claude  Active: 1592–1639  Name variations: Bridain, Claude  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He was the son of Nicolas and Claude Boutard and the brother of Edme and Joachim. He represented the trade at a municipal meeting in 1603. He died before 15 February 1649.  References: Lepreux II 82; Turquois p. 352 457. Briden, Edme  Active: 1590–1635  Name variations: Bridain, Edme  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au nom de Jésus, rue Notre-Dame’  B iography: He is the oldest member of a dynasty of Troyes booksellers and printers. He was born in Troyes, the son of Nicolas and Claude Boutard, and resided in the Croncels quarter. He married Thiennette Hardy, who survived him. His brothers, Claude and Joachim were booksellers. No books are known to have been produced in his workshop before the end of the sixteenth century. He died in 1635 and an inventory of his stock was carried out the following year.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274  References: Muller p. 114–115; Lepreux II 81; Turquois p. 352; Morin (Heures) p. 150; Répertoire n° 1406

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Brienne, Jean de, see Thierry, Jean 458. Brière, Louis  Active: 1596–1601  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer  B iography: One of his daughters died in 1596 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Jean of Rouen. At that point he was described as a bookseller, but in 1601 he included on the list of printers of the city.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6729  References: Mellot p. 33 459. Brillard, Ambroise  Active: 1579–1581  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne de l’ancre’  B iography: As a publisher he is known for just two works, both published by the Bouchier press.  Commercial partners: Pierre I Bouchier (Bourges)  Device: Silvestre n° 317  Motto: ‘Sic propere cunctandum’  References: Muller p. 10; Boyer p. 49. 460. Brindeau, Étienne  Active: 1546  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grand rue Saint-Julien’  B iography: He is known for having co-published an edition of a missal for local use (USTC 112489).  Commercial partners: Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); François Cochery (Le Mans); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans)  References: RB XXVIII 83 n° 8; Répertoire n° 1420 461. Brioche, Gobille  Active: 1588  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près la porte cochoise’

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 B iography: This name only appears on one imprint (USTC 9629) and is undoubtedly a pseudonym.  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 57; B. Normande p. 448; Lepreux III 90; Répertoire n° 1424 462. Briolio, Huguet de  Active: 1513  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 463. Brion, Pierre  Active: 1533–1534  Name variations: Bryon, Pierre  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Paul and was born in the first years of the sixteenth century.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 266 464. Brion, Pierre  Active: 1552–1562  Name variations: Brun, Pierre  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was thought to be a Protestant and lived in the parish of Saint-Oûtrillet.  Documents: AM Bourges CC 5 p. 115  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; BVH Minutes 465. Briselet, Jean  Active: 1599–1634  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He was described as Louis Costé’s brother in 1599. He became a master printer the same year, but only seems to have acted as a publisher in the latter part of his career.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 34

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466. Brisson, Edme  Active: 1579–1580  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was declared to be poor and thus avoided paying taxes in 1580. He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261  References: Turquois p. 353 467. Brisson, Gui  Active: 1470–1489  Name variations: Brisson, Guillot; Brissonet, Guyot  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Jacques Maistre bought his house in 1482. He was a stationer to the university and was the object of a petition by the illuminators to stop him encroaching on their profession.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 215 H 47  References: Claudin (2) p. 273 468. Brisson, Pierre  Active: 1480–1483  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He died before 1484 at which date his heirs paid what he had owed to the town of Toulouse.  References: Claudin (1) p. 3–5 469. Brochart, Charles  Active: 1525–1533  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 470. Brossart, Michel  Active: 1558  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 249; Baudrier VII 78

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471. Brouscon, Guillaume  Active: 1543–1550  Location: Le Conquet, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: A noted cartographer and printer of maps, he produced almanacs that mixed rubricated print and manuscripts, often printed on vellum. He was succeeded in Le Conquet by Jan Troadec.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 250 472. Bru, Jean  Active: 1542  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer’s apprentice  B iography: The son of a ploughman named Bertrand from the parish of Merville, he entered the workshop of Jacques I Colomiès as an apprentice on 10 June 1542 for a period of four years.  References: Corraze (Colomiès) p. 123 473. Bru, Jean  Active: 1508–1524  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue neuve-basse’  B iography: He died before 1531.  References: Lançon p. 208 474. Bruchereaulx, Pierre  Active: 1492  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He is known because the bookseller Jean Turgis was sentenced to pay a fine of ten livres in 1492 when he admitted to beating the bookbinder.  References: Castan p. 47 475. Brugnet, Jean  Active: 1481–1511  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Also described as an ‘escripvain’, he held a stall on the cathedral square. He married Catherine Picard, who succeeded him.  References: Pouy p. 201; Labarre p. 42

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476. Brunel, Guillaume  Active: 1535  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: As a publisher, he is known only for an edition of a missal co-financed with the Papolins in Nantes. He died before 1547. Jean was probably his son.  Commercial partners: Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris)  References: RB XIX p. 92; Muller p. 116; Walsby (Brittany) p. 250; Booton p. 225 477. Brunel, Jean  Active: 1547  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He fled arrest in September 1547 when he was stopped with an accomplice, a mercer named Jean Dagouero, with a consignment of heretical books near Mauléon. He was probably Guillaume’s son.  References: Jules de La Martinière, ‘Un certificat de catholicité. Octobre 1547: épisode de l’histoire du protestantisme’, Bulletin de la société polymathique du Morbihan, (1912) 9–19. 478. Brunel, Jean  Active: 1495–1500  Location: Valence, Dauphiné  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Documents: AD Drôme E 2552 f. 93  References: Vallentin p. 53; Vallentin (Delphinalia) p. 27. 479. Brunet, François  Active: 1585–1592  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He married Guillaume Gaubert and had a daughter named Jeanne in 1585. At that point they resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin, in Matabiau street. But by 1592 he had remarried to Madeleine Casal and had another daughter, named Catherine who was baptised on 19 July. At this juncture, he was simply described as a printer.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 555 p. 313, GG 556 p. 319

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480. Brunet, Jean  Active: 1551–1553  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281. 481. Brunet, Louis  Active: 1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Commercial partners: Jean Petit (Paris)  References: Beaurepaire p. 395 482. Bruneval, Claude  Active: 1575–1595  Location: Melun, Île-de-France (1593–1595); Paris, Île-de-France (1575– 1592)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He married Denise Le Sueur. He began his career in Paris where he worked mainly for other better-established publishers. During the conflict that surrounded the rise of the Catholic League, he became a partisan of Henry IV and settled in Melun, which had been taken by royalist forces in April 1590. There, he published a number of royalist tracts – without including his name on the title pages. He died before September 1595.  References: RB XXV p. 37–39; Muller p. 52; Renouard p. 61 483. Bruolio, Nicolas de  Active: 1516–1518  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 40 484. Bruyère, Quancien  Active: 1562  Location: Gien-sur-Loire, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known because of the edition of a Protestant tract that he published with a short preface of his own composition in 1562

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(USTC 41952). The imprint uses outmoded type and woodcut letters that make the identification of the printer difficult.  References: RB XVIII p. 69; Muller p. 18 485. Budier, François  Active: 1598–1607  Name variations: Budert, François; also known as Le Lacquest  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Collège-de-Guyenne’ (1600); ‘Ruelle Puimaubin’ (1606)  B iography: He married Peyronne Richart. Their daughter, Barbe, married the journeyman printer Pierre de La Court. He was an apprentice in Pierre de Ladime’s workshop and, after 1598, in Simon Millanges’s shop – though he still contracted a debt that year in his own name to Hugues Barbou in Limoges. He was still described as a journeyman printer in 1600, year in which he set up his own workshop in partnership with Arnaud du Breil, an association that was to last for under three years. In order to do this, they borrowed together 100 lt from the bookseller Jacques Thoulouse. They were helped in their endeavours by the backing of the Cardinal de Sourdis allowing them to claim to be his official printers on the title pages of their publications. Clément Bureau began an apprenticeship in the workshop on 28 December 1600. Other apprentices followed during the seventeenth century as well as a number of imprints that stand testimony to the vitality of his shop until its closure in 1607.  Commercial partners: Hugues Barbou (Limoges); Arnaud du Breil (Bordeaux); Barthélemy Rome (Bordeaux); Jacques Thoulouse (Bordeaux)  References: Labadie p. 16; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 140; Desgraves (Bordelais); Répertoire n° 1531; Ducourtieux & Bourdery p. 41 486. Buffe, Marin  Active: 1559  Location: Dieppe, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: A Protestant, he fled to Geneva in May 1559. He was described as a bourgeois of Geneva in 1570.  References: RIECH; Haag III 385

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487. Buisson, Jean  Active: 1553  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 488. Buisson, Michel  Active: 1562  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 489. Buraudier, Jacques  Active: 1542–1559  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Thommyne. The bookseller Tite Corroyer, with whom he published an edition, was godfather to one of his daughters. Thommyne was godmother to the daughter of the bookseller Guillaume Lambert on 25 January 1542. He published religious works that he had printed in Paris and Rouen and shipped to Angers.  Commercial partners: Jean Amazeur (Paris); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Jean I Elis (Angers); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); René Montel (Angers); Claude Piverd (Angers)  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 19; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 102 490. Bureau, Clément  Active: 1600  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Brun in Saintonge, he began an apprenticeship in the joint workshop of Arnaud du Breil and François Budier on 28 December 1600.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 140

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491. Burges, Jean I de  Active: 1503–1534  Name variations: Bourges, Jean I de; Bruges, Jean I de  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1503), Rouen, Normandy (1504–1534)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue de grand pont à l’enseigne de la serayne’ (1511–1518), ‘Près le pont de robec au moulin saint Ouen’ (1521–1534)  B iography: The son of painter Guillaume, he was Nicolas’s brother and the father of Jean II and Robert I. He was arrested in 1534 for having sold a banned book. As a publisher he generally worked alone and just as readily produced rutters for mariners and historical works as the more tried and tested ordinances and religious titles. He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen.  Commercial partners: Jean II de Burges (Rouen); Jean Caillard (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Guillaume Hamel (Rouen); Pierre Huvin (Rouen); Guillaume de la Motte (Rouen); Jacques Le Gentil (Rouen); Richard Macé (Rouen); Charles Mallet (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Poutoulain (Rouen); Antoine Vérard (Paris)  References: RB XXII p. 72; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 272; Gosselin p. 83; Aquilon p. 307; Renouard p. 63; Répertoire n° 1584 492. Burges, Jean II de  Active: 1525–1541  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le moulin saint Ouen à l’image Saint-Jean-Baptiste’  B iography: The son of Jean I, he also resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen. He married Marguerite Pinchon and was

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of Protestant faith. He adapted the device of the Parisian bookseller Jean I Frellon (BaTyR 27772) for his own use (see Silvestre n° 198). He co-published an edition with his father in which he used the same address.  Commercial partners: Jean I de Burges (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 198 & 431  References: RB XXII p. 72; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 272; Gosselin p. 83; Lesens p. 333 493. Burges, Jeanne de  Active: 1553–1566  Name variations: Mallard, veuve Jean I  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘au portail des libraires, la plus prochaine de l’église’  B iography: She married Jean I Mallard with whom she had two sons Thomas and Jean, who both went into the trade. She succeeded her husband at his death in 1553 and published a book of hours, probably the very same year (USTC 34277) and continued to work as a retail bookseller, selling a missal to the cathedral. A Protestant edition of the Bible published in 1566 bears her name and a device used by Olivier Mallard with Geoffroy Tory’s motto ‘Non plus’, but without any indication of location or address (USTC 5783).  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); veuve Jean I Petit (Rouen)  References: Arbour p. 363; Beaurepaire p. 399; Skora (Rouen); Répertoire n° 6564. 494. Burges, Nicolas de  Active: 1537–1550  Name variations: Bourges, Nicolas de  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près du palais devant le pélerin’ (1540), Près du neuf marché devant le pélerin’ (1543)  B iography: The brother of Jean I, he married Marguerite Godet and has been described as being of Protestant faith. He resided in the parish of Saint-Laurent. As a publisher he was mainly interested in the production of poetical works, having all his books printed in the small (and cheap) sextodecimo format.

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 Commercial partners: Guillaume de la Motte (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen)  References: RB XXII p. 73–74; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 310–311; Gosselin p. 83; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 306 495. Burges, Robert I de  Active: 1548  Name variations: Bourges, Robert I de  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was the son of Jean I, father of Robert II and Isaac, a bookseller in London. He married Marguerite Pinchon in around 1530 and resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen. He died before 1555.  References: Gosselin p. 84 496. Burges, Robert II de  Active: 1555–1579  Name variations: Bourges, Robert de  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was born in 1533 and was the son of Robert I. He married Esther Lefez. He was described as a bookseller in 1561, when he served as a proxy for Robert Valentin, but as a journeyman printer in 1579.  Commercial partners: Robert Valentin (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/431 p. 400  References: Gosselin p. 84; Lesens p. 333 497. Burteau, Isabelle  Active: 1600–1611  Name variations: Des Planches, veuve Jean II  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer  B iography: She was the wife of Jean II des Planches. She served alongside her son Jean III as the king’s printer in Dijon after 31 December 1602 though she is never named on the imprints.  References: Skora (Langres); Arbour p. 189; Clément-Janin p. 18–19 498. Busquet, Girard  Active: 1579–1610

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 Name variations: Bucquet, Girard; Buquet, Girard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was master of the confraternity in 1597 and warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1610.  References: Mellot p. 36; Gosselin p. 116 499. Busquet, Pierre  Active: 1597–1607  Name variations: Bucquet, Pierre  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He became a master printer before 1597.  References: Mellot p. 36 500. Busson, Jean  Active: 1563  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was executed for being a Protestant.  References: Bèze II 529 501. Busson, Julien  Active: 1561–1600  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Renée Nevon who died on 19 January 1600.  References: Pasquier p. 104 502. Busson, Mathurin  Active: 1550  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 103 503. Buveron, Jacques  Active: 1598–1610  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, mercer  B iography: He married Barbe Boynard. He was initially described as a mercer before becoming a full-fledged bookseller. The bookseller Jean

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de La Place was godfather to his son Alexander who followed him into the trade.  References: Herluison p. 83 504. Buxo, Melchior de  Active: 1558  Name variations: Bulso, Melchior de; Du Buys, Melchior  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is only known for two works that he published for the local clergy and had printed in Limoges.  Commercial partners: Guillaume de La Nouaille (Limoges)  References: Muller p. 11; RB II p. 44 505. Buyault, Pierre  Active: 1533  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 143 506. Bye, Jacques  Active: 1526  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII 1041 507. Cabardos, Vidal  Active: 1599  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 177 508. Cabat, Bellanger  Active: 1571–1598  Name variations: Cabas, Bélengon  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  B iography: He married Lizette Couston with whom he lived in the parish of La Dalbade. They had at least two sons named Jean, baptised on

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3 November 1573, and Raymond, baptised on 13 October 1576. The latter followed him into the trade. He was godfather to a carpenter’s daughter in 1571. He had significant debts towards the Parisian publisher Pierre L’Huillier from whom he had received books. L’Huillier sought to recover the sums owed or the books that had been handed over in 1585. In 1598 he took part in legal proceedings over the seizure of the harvest of certain lands and the payment of taxes.  Commercial partners: Pierre L’Huillier (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/201; AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 9r & 54v, GG 554 f. 34r; AD Haute-Garonne 2 B 2262 509. Cabat, Pierre  Active: 1587–1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had Arnaud and Gilles de Belloy as apprentices for a period of two years in 1589. He died in 1598.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 144 510. Cabat, Raymond  Active: 1596–1601  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was the son of Bellanger and was baptised on 13 October 1576. He is mainly known thanks to four imprints all relating to the parlement of Toulouse and printed in 1596. But he was also an active bookseller, and was named godfather to Jacques Bombart’s daughter in January 1601.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 524, GG 2 f. 54v  References: RB XX p. 151 n° 68 511. Cabron, Jean  Active: 1561  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 145 Cachard, see Le Forestier

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512. Cadrille, Robert  Active: 1549–1603  Name variations: Cadrilme, Robert; Cadrilhe, Robert  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1549); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1567–1603)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’  B iography: He was born in Saint-Quentin-sur-Coole near Châlonsen-Champagne in around 1529. He began his career as an apprentice for two years in the Parisian workshop of the printer Pierre Sermigny in April 1549. In Bordeaux, he was active as early as 1567. He died in 1603 at which point he had at least two granddaughters.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/34 f. 103, XXXIII/198 and XXXIII/201  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 146; Renouard p. 63 513. Caieu, Martin  Active: 1551  Location: Troyes, Champagne; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He left Troyes for Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant of the city on 31 August 1551.  References: Haag III 439 514. Caillard, Jean  Active: 1511–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘près l’église de saint Michel du vieux marché au bout de la rue escuyère’, ‘Aux quatre fils Aymon’  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Michel. As a publisher he was mainly involved in the production of religious books such as missals and books of hours, some for the English market.  Commercial partners: Jean I Bruges (Rouen); Jean Gachet (Hereford); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Eustache Hardy (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 255–256; Duff p. 21; Aquilon p. 306 515. Cailler, Léon  Active: 1500–1512  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘À la place neuve’  B iography: He married Philippe with whom he had three children between 1505 and 1513. He was a fellow (suppôt) of the university of Angers.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Mathurin Amat (Angers); Jean Arnoul (Angers); Mathieu Latheron (Tours); Jean Le Roy (Angers); Georges Nicolet (Angers); Jean Petit (Paris)  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 6; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 104 516. Caillot, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274 517. Calabre, Guyon  Active: 1485  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He was associated to Jean Coffin who was found guilty of writing a fake receipt with his help. Jenny noted that the text of the remission that mentions him did not indicate explicitly that the printer was active in Bourges.  Commercial partners: Jean Coffin (Bourges)  Documents: AN JJ 211 n° 721  References: Samaran; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 869 518. Calles, Pierre  Active: 1599–1643  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue aux juifs, près la grand-porte du palais’  B iography: Elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers in 1604, he was buried on 18 August 1643. As a publisher, he produced poetry and works of literature as well as more serious medical and religious texts.  Motto: ‘Fide et taciturnitate’  References: Mellot p. 43; Lepreux III 101; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 1652

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519. Calmels, Jean  Active: 1550–1588  Name variations: Also known as Tabardel  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au Terral’  References: Lançon p. 208 520. Calvet, Antoine  Active: 1500–1526  Name variations: Chalvet, Antoine  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’église de notre-dame de grâce’  B iography: Established in the city as early as the late fifteenth century, he is known for a liturgical work printed in Lyon for local use and an edition of the synodal statutes.  Commercial partners: Jacques Mareschal (Lyon)  References: RB XXIV p. 11; Muller p. 15; Egullion p. 100 521. Calvez, Jean  Active: 1499–1512  Location: Tréguier, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The second printer to settle in the episcopal city, his output was varied ranging from major undertakings such as the first trilingual dictionary, the Catholicon, to single sheet items, all for the local market. He also printed and painted a series of imprints representing Anne de Bretagne’s heraldic symbol when the duchess entered Tréguier so that they could be distributed in the streets of the city. A series of ordinances of Saint-Brieuc were wrongly attributed to him by Léopold Delisle. He used a canting device with carpenter’s tools on his imprints.  Device: Silvestre n° 19; Polain n° 201; Meyer n° 185; TW ma04107  Types: TW ma04104–ma04106  References: RB XIX p. 87; Muller p. 114; Walsby (Brittany) p. 250; Booton p. 233; TW of1338

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Illustration 32 Device used by Jean Calvez, 1499, USTC 57340

522. Caly, Robert  Active: 1551–1566  Name variations: Caley, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1551); London, England (1553–1566)  Role: Printer, publisher, bookbinder  B iography: An English Catholic, he fled into exile in France where he was described in March 1551 as a ‘booke bynder’ by the Catholic bishop of London’s servant William Seth who met him in Dieppe. His career in Rouen is documented by a single known imprint (USTC 150736), that was printed in English like the rest of his output and which he reissued in 1553 with his English address. The type is that of Nicolas Le Roux in whose workshop Caly probably worked. He returned to England at the start of Mary’s reign where, using Richard Grafton’s material, he established himself as a militant Catholic printer. His religion caused him problems after Mary’s death, buying a pardon and ceasing all publishing activity but still having to flee London in 1566 for organising a mass. He does not seem to have returned to France.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen)  References: Blayney p. 770; Duff p. 21

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523. Campagne, Jean  Active: 1582  Location: Vesoul, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 126 524. Campes, Jean  Active: 1527  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou and was the son of a shoemaker. Lepreux suggests that he was a journeyman printer. In 1553, a Jean Campies witnessed an act of Jeanne Roger, the widow of Jean I Petit, suggesting he might still have been active and could have been working in the Petit workshop.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/407 p. 4  References: Gosselin p. 91; Lepreux III 101 Camps, Jean, see Girard, Jean 525. Camus, Christophe  Active: 1585–1596  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 526. Canal, Adrien  Active: 1547  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Pedlar  B iography: He was arrested in Langres and accused of carrying scandalous books along with Étienne Mulart. They were taken to be tried by the Chambre ardente in Paris where they were heard on 17 August 1547.  References: Weiss p. 13 Candidus, Antonius, see Blanc, Antoine 527. Candos, Guillaume  Active: 1504–1509  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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property and lending money. He died before 1529 and was succeeded by Jean Texier.  Types: TW ma03667–ma03677  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 65; Dujarric-Descombes; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 641; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 206; TW of1314; Etchechoury p. 8 531. Cardan, Pierre  Active: 1591–1627  Name variations: Cardin, Pierre; Cardonne, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Éloi.  References: Labadie p. 123; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 159 & 161 532. Careu, Aventin  Active: 1545–1546  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He is known for having bound books for the local cathedral.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 533. Carles, Bernard  Active: 1587–1600  Name variations: Carlier, Bernard  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au nom de Jésus’, ‘Au palais’  B iography: He published mainly in partnership with the printer Pierre Jagourt. Close to the Jesuits, he donated a manuscript of Petrus Riga’s Aurora to the college of the order in Agen in 1599.  Commercial partners: Pierre Jagourt (Toulouse); Étienne Michel (Lyon); Adrien Perier (Lyon); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 110 f. 190; AD Rhône 3 E 393; AD HauteGaronne B 104, B 185 f. 400  References: RB XX p. 181; Répertoire n° 1715 534. Carles, Guillaume I  Active: 1497–1498  Name variations: Carle, Guillaume

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539. Carrière, Laurent  Active: 1511–1522  Name variations: Cariera, Laurent; Carière, Laurent  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Naudine’s brother and Jean Chabron’s brother-in-law. He was the administrator (bayle) of the booksellers’ corporation in 1518. In 1511, he took on Raymond Bornet as his apprentice for six years.  Commercial partners: Raymond Bornet (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Guillaume de Clauso (Toulouse); Antoine Lesmont (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 56; Claudin (1) p. 23 & 62; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62 540. Cascailh, Bernard de  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Sancto Cyrico near Aire, he was an apprentice in Jean Grandjean’s workshop in 1511.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 541. Cassin, Fiacre  Active: 1548–1557  Name variations: Castin, Fiacre; Tassin, Fiacre  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 233, F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 542. Cassin, Pierre  Active: 1595–1600  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He resided in the Saint-Jacques quarter, the poorest of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274, F 276 543. Castel, Nicolas  Active: 1532–1549  Name variations: Catel, Nicolas

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546. Caura, Pierre  Active: 1598–1620  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He worked as a journeyman printer in the workshop of Simon Illustration 33 Signature of Pierre Caura, 1598, AD Millanges in 1598.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. Gironde 3 E 14800 1271r–1272r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 170; Labadie p. 123 547. Cauvin, André  Active: 1488–1523  Name variations: Calvinus, Andreas; Chauvin, André  Location: Angoulême, Saintonge and Angoumois  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was born in Angoulême. The prototypographer of the city, he initially worked in partnership with Pierre Alain. The type used in their first imprints shows that it must have acquired from the Paris printer Antoine Caillaut. Cauvin died before 6 August 1532.  Commercial partners: Pierre Alain (Angoulême); Claude Garnier (Limoges); Richard de La Nouaille (Limoges)  Types: TW ma03549, ma03550, ma03551, ma03552, ma03553, ma03554, ma03555, ma03556  References: Muller p. 4; Desgraves (Angoulême) p. 931; Fleury p. 4; TW of0338 548. Cavalier, Guillaume  Active: 1529  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 549. Cavallier, Melchior  Active: 1538–1541  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He sold books that he sourced in Lyon, buying books on three separate occasions from the Gabianos.

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 Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VIII 79; Pansier II 41 550. Cavallis, Vas  Active: 1540–1554  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grand salle du Palais’  B iography: He married Marie d’Herbes, who took over his shop at his death, sometime before 1559. As a publisher he worked with Lyon printers and produced breviaries and works for the local legal market.  Commercial partners: Thibaud Payen (Lyon); Pierre de Sainte Lucie (Lyon); Pierre de Tours (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 628  Motto: ‘Vas pretiosum, labia scientiae’  References: RB XXVI 2 n° 2; Muller p. 2; Henricy p. 2; Répertoire n° 1782 551. Cavellier, Jacqueline  Active: 1594–1604  Name variations: Levez, veuve Nicolas  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: She worked alongside her son Maurice after the death of her husband, Nicolas Levez, in 1594. Together they developed the workshop with investments for which they were indemnified by the town.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Thorin (Bourges)  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 39–42; Arbour p. 350; Jenny (Levez) p. 5 Cayron, Antoine, see Queyron, Antoine 552. Cazolas, Jean  Active: 1558  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Marguerite Moysagne in May 1558 and lived in the parish of La Dalbade.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 26 f. 94r

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553. Celles, Claude  Active: 1574–1586  Name variations: Sales, Claude  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Anne Crusade on 25 April 1574 and resided in the parish of La Dalbade. He was condemned for having falsified documents of the university of Toulouse in 1586.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 28 f. 41r, II 48/27 554. Cellon, Denis  Active: 1548  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232  References: Turquois p. 352 555. Cephalius Duromontanus, Pierre  Active: 1561  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known from the colophon of a single imprint (USTC 111267), but this was in fact produced in Germany.  References: Muller p. 18; VD16 ZV 1193 556. Certa, Jean de  Active: 1529  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The father of Pierre, he sent his son to become an apprentice in Jean Guyart’s workshop in Bordeaux.  References: Delpit p. 62; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 19 557. Certa, Pierre de  Active: 1529  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice  B iography: The son of Jean, he was an apprentice in Jean Guyart’s workshop in 1529.  References: Delpit p. 62; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 174

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558. Certain, Gratien  Active: 1575–1580  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: He married Noëlle, the daughter of the bookseller Gabriel Le Plat, with whom he had a daughter named Gabrielle in May 1575. His father-in-law was the child’s godfather. Gratien made and bound the luxurious ‘livre doré’ for the town of Nantes that recorded the names of the mayors and aldermen of the city, for which he was paid in December 1580.  Documents: AM Nantes CC 126  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 250; Granges de Surgères n° 18 559. Chabron, Jean  Active: 1497–1533  Name variations: Chambron, Jean; Chaubron, Jean; Chevron, Jean; Chauvon, Jean; Chebron, Jean; Chauron, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He married Naudine Carrière, who was the sister of Laurent, and lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. Antoine Barrier and Antoine Squirot both served as apprentices in his shop. Bernard Mathey also worked there. He died before 1535.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487  References: Claudin (1) p. 11 560. Chabron, Pierre  Active: 1529  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 158 561. Challoneau, Michel  Active: 1534  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: His daughter Guyonne was baptised at the church of SaintPierre on 28 October 1534.  References: Pasquier p. 104

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562. Chalot, Michel  Active: 1489–1490  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: He acted principally as a binder, but also sold copies of the breviaries printed for the use of Chartres.  References: Jusselin p. 2–3 563. Chalumeau, Marin  Active: 1567–1582  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Printer, bookseller; publisher  Address: ‘Devant la chappelle du gué de Mauny, près le Palais’  B iography: He was the official printer to the king in Le Mans and to the local bishop. He printed mainly edicts and short newsbooks but was also responsible for the publication of songs and poems.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Vaucelles (Le Mans)  Motto: ‘Qui non laborat non manducet’  Documents: AD Sarthe G 561  References: RB XXVIII 83 n° 12; Cauvin p. 314 564. Cham, Claude  Active: 1549–1551  Name variations: Chan, Claude  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 131 565. Champ, Jean  Active: 1526–1537  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 179 566. Champaigne, Jean  Active: 1516–1543  Name variations: Campagne, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is mainly known for having published edicts that were printed by Jacques I Colomiès for which he obtained privileges from the

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local parlement. He also ordered single sheet items from Jean Domaysel that no longer survive.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Domaysel (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 34 f. 307, B 36 f. 361  References: RB XX p. 123; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 567. Champion, Jean  Active: 1529  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had a daughter named Françoise in 1529 whose godfather was the bookseller Clément Alexandre and whose godmother was Charles de Bougne’s wife.  References: Pasquier p. 104 568. Champion, Pierre  Active: 1599  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He bound and repaired books for a local ecclesiastical institution.  Documents: AD Sarthe G 689 569. Champorel, Guy  Active: 1536–1561  Name variations: Chambouret, Guy  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne Laurens then Jeanne Joffroy. He received a payment from the journeyman bookseller Guillem Hyvernay in 1536.  Commercial partners: Guillem Hyvernay (Bordeaux); Pierre Rigault (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 177 & 182 570. Champoret, Jean  Active: 1542–1556  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 183

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571. Champy, Claude de  Active: 1595–1599  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was a sworn printer to the university of Toulouse by 1595 and undertook printing jobs for the Estates of Languedoc.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne C 700, C 701; AM Toulouse GG 557 p. 55 572. Champy, Gaillard  Active: 1595  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He was a witness at the wedding of Jean Rival.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 575 f. 79v 573. Chanadel, Jean  Active: 1497–1503  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He acted on behalf of Hans Koberger. His business seems to have been successful as his taxation was more than doubled between 1498 and 1503.  Commercial partners: Hans Koberger (Lyon)  References: Claudin (1) p. 11 574. Chancelier, Laurent  Active: 1562–1577  Location: Orléans, Orléanais (1562 & 1577); Paris, Île-de-France (1564–1574)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was born in 1543 and married Catherine Sertenas, the daughter of the Parisian printer Vincent Sertenas. He seems to have gone to Paris where he assisted Sertenas’s widow, Jeanne Bruneau, after his death. He held a shop in Paris and had books published with a Parisian address in 1567 and 1573 and was still active in 1574. He died before 1579 at which point his widow placed their daughter Claude as an apprentice in a tailor’s shop – neither could read or write.  Documents: AN Y 134 f. 329 & Y 5251 f. 187; Minutier central étude XXIII carton 131  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 287; Pichon & Vicaire p. 130 & 193

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575. Channey, Jean de  Active: 1505–1540  Name variations: Chauny, Jean de  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1505–1510); Avignon, Papal States (1511–1540)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des deux faucons’ (1513); ‘Rue saunerie’ (1520–1525); ‘Place Saint-Didier’ (1525–1540)  B iography: Originally from Montferrat, he married Michellette du Cayre, Jacques Arnoullet’s widow. He began his career in Lyon in Arnoullet’s workshop which he managed after his master’s death. He bought Thomas des Cloches’s material in 1522. Thomas Frayn, son of the Lyon bookseller Florent, became his apprentice on 16 July 1523. Jean and Michel Luysart were both employed in his workshop in Avignon. During his time in Avignon he printed numerous indulgences, but also undertook more substantial religious works such as breviaries. He worked when necessary as an engraver. His relative importance for Avignon can be seen in the impact of some of his imprints: his edition of a treatise by the local professor Joannes de Ripa led him to sue a counterfeit edition in 1524. He is thought to be the first printer to use cursive notes in music in 1532 (USTC 110521). He died before 29 November 1540.  Commercial partners: Pierre Armandi (Avignon); Jacques Arnoullet (Lyon); Olivier Arnoullet (Lyon); Martin Boullon (Lyon); Jean Boysilier (Autun); Jean Luysart (Orange); Bertrand Petit (Avignon)  Device: Silvestre n° 149 & 702  Types: Jennings p. 251  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 20–28; Pansier II 60; Baudrier X 191 576. Chantelde, Guillaume  Active: 1595  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer  B iography: He was entered into the register of the profession in 1595, though no works are known to have been printed on his press.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 250; Lepreux IV 34 577. Chanut, Grégoire  Active: 1528  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Maignien p. LXXIII

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578. Chapelle, Thomas  Active: 1516  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Perrossier p. 313 579. Chappelet, Jean  Active: 1597  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 275 580. Chappitre, Enguilbert  Active: 1558  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he wrote a letter to Sebastian Castellio in November 1558 in which he asked for correspondence to go via the Lyon printer-bookseller Godefroy Beringen. His first name suggests a close relationship with the Marnefs.  Commercial partners: Godefroy Beringen (Lyon)  Documents: Universitätsbibliothek Basel, G2 I 23f f. 12  References: Haag IV 141; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 502 581. Chappitre, Hilaire  Active: 1525–1574  Name variations: Chapitre, Hilaire  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1525); Poitiers, Poitou (1538–1574)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘rue Notre-Dame-la-petite’ (Poitiers)  B iography: He seems to have started his career in Bordeaux where he witnessed a notarial act in 1525, but by 1538 was active in Poitiers. He was probably a Protestant. His daughter, Jeanne, married Pierre Dasnières in 1561.  Documents: AD Vienne G 630  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 266; Clouzot (1907) p. 46; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 186

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582. Chappuis, Nicolas  Active: 1565  Location: Gy, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AD Haute-Saône 282 E dépôt 110 583. Charbonnet, Léger  Active: 1580–1615  Name variations: Charbonnier, Léger  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: A printer of little means, he avoided paying tax in 1585 and 1591, being described in 1585 as poor. His business had recovered sufficiently for him to pay seven and a half sous in 1600. He resided in the Croncels quarter and died before 1616.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265, F 272, F 276  References: Turquois p. 352 584. Chariot, Pierre  Active: 1540  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272 585. Charlot, Robert  Active: 1490–1505  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Colette de Troyes, who died before 1490, with whom he had children.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/17, 3E1/20  References: BVH Minutes 586. Charpillet, Claude  Active: 1526–1530  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He seems also to have acted as a local banker.  Commercial partners: François Regnault (Paris)  References: RB XIII p. 8

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587. Chartier, André  Active: 1574–1596  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Pierre I Bouchier was a witness at the marriage of his daughter in 1574 and he helped choose the tutors of Bouchier’s children after the latter’s death in 1583.  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 887; Jenny (Notes) p. 881 588. Chartrain, Étienne  Active: 1589  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  B iography: He was employed in Simon Millanges’s workshop.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 194 Chartres, see Claret, Jean 589. Chassat, René  Active: 1578  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He took on Daniel Meusnier as an apprentice in 1578.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 504 590. Chassignat, Antoine  Active: 1566  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: His son, Claude, became an apprentice shoemaker in 1566.  Documents: AD Cher E 2370 f. 138 591. Chastellain, Guillaume  Active: 154.  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 197 592. Chastillon, Jean  Active: 1522–1525

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 81 593. Chaubert, Pierre  Active: 1568  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  References: Haag IV 241 594. Chaubert, Pierre  Active: 1586  Location: Embrun, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: This name and address were used as a pseudonym for the Lyon and Geneva printer Antoine Blanc for the publication of one of Pierre de Belloy’s polemical works (USTC 6325).  References: RB XXV p. 27; Muller p. 17 595. Chauderier, Hugues  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice bookseller  B iography: He was born in Dijon in 1487. Jean Faure took him on as his apprentice in 1511 for four years.  Commercial partners: Jean I Faure (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 6187 f. 173v 596. Chaudière, Claude  Active: 1549–1562  Name variations: Calderius, Claudius  Location: Reims, Champagne (1551–1557); Paris, Île-de-France  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: The son of the Parisian printer Regnault Chaudière and Geneviève Higman, he was born in around 1516. He married Anne Cremillier. He was employed in Simon de Colines’s workshop and bought his materials in 1546. Described as a bourgeois of Paris in 1552, he had in fact left for Reims where he became the official printer to the Cardinal of Lorraine who lent him a house called ‘le petit saint Martin’. His

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activity seems to have been limited there, and by 1558 he was once more in Paris.  Motto: ‘Te stante virebo’  Documents: AN KK 286 f. 141, M 97, S 904 f. 178, Y 3471 f. 152, Minutier central étude XXXIII/37 f. 129 & 154v, Minutier central étude XX/44  References: RB XVII p. 62; Muller p. 93; Renouard (Documents) p. 48–49; Lepreux II 238; Duchénoy p. 221 597. Chausseys, Jean  Active: 1519–1527  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près de Notre-Dame-la-petite’  B iography: The uncle of Jean I Citoys, with whom he published, he lived in the parish of Saint-Paul.  Commercial partners: Martin Berton (Limoges); Jean I Citoys (Poitiers); Claude Garnier (Limoges)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XXIII & XXIV  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 76; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 253 598. Chauveau, Denis  Active: 1568–1589  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He bought a consignment of books directly from Christophe Plantin in 1568, which he paid for promptly. He also got his stock from Antoine Gryphe in Lyon for which he still owed money in 1583 when the debt was passed to Jean de Tournes and Symphorien Béraud. This was not because he had retired from the trade, as he was still active in 1589 when he was furnishing paper to the court of Navarre.  Commercial partners: Antoine Gryphe (Lyon); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 3050; MPM Antwerp Arch 17 f. 98v & Arch 46 f. 226v  References: Audiat p. 41; Cartier p. 151 599. Chauveau, Gaspard  Active: 1577  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42

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600. Chauvetet, Jean  Active: 1597–1633  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘en la rue Lambert Payen’  B iography: He married Jeanne Deschaney with whom he had a daughter Jeanne born in 1597. They resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He was the official printer to the town of Langres and mainly specialised in printing for the local authorities. He died in 1633 and was succeeded by his widow.  References: Muller p. 20; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 341; Daguin & Frionnet p. 174 601. Chauvigné, Mathurin  Active: 1527  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix.  References: Pasquier p. 105 602. Chauvin, Arthur  Active: 1554–1574  Location: Bourdeilles, Guyenne (1554); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1554–1574)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Suzanne Colladon in 1573. A Protestant, he fled Bourdeilles in 1554 where he was a bookseller, and was received in Geneva on 22 May. There he seems to have worked for local members of the trade until 1560 when he began publishing in his own name. He was denied the right to found his own printer’s workshop in the city but was nevertheless very successful.  References: Patry p. 153; RIECH 603. Chauvin, Jean  Active: 1529  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 105

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604. Chauvin, Jean  Active: 1572  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He was employed in Le Coq’s workshop, in the ‘rue Notre-Dame’ in Troyes.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/188 605. Chazot, Étienne  Active: 1580–1609  Name variations: Chasot, Étienne; Cazotes, Étienne  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He sourced some of his books in Lyon. He had a young daughter buried in the cemetery of the Carmelite convent on 18 February 1609.  Commercial partners: Louis I Cloquemin (Lyon)  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 32, GG 555 p. 100, 223  References: Baudrier IV 61 606. Chazot, Jean I  Active: 1521–1536  Name variations: Chasot, Jean; Chussot, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. He died in 1536.  References: Claudin (1) p. 143 607. Chazot, Jean II  Active: 1546–1551  Name variations: Chasot, Jean; Chussot, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  B iography: He was Raymond’s brother and lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter. He is mainly known for having published religious books for which he on occasion obtained privileges from the local parlement. He also published in partnership with Jacques I Colomiès.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Raymond Chazot (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Claude Sanson (Toulouse)

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 Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 39 f. 233, B 44 f. 22  References: RB XX p. 155; Claudin (1) p. 143; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 134; Répertoire n° 1986 608. Chazot, Jean III  Active: 1573–1585  Name variations: Chasot, Jean, Chasotes, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Marie Vile on 25 November 1573 and lived in the parish of Le Taur. By 1584, he was living in the parish of Saint-Pierre where he had a daughter, Marguerite, baptised on 16 April. Marguerite de Molinier was the godmother. The following year, he had another daughter, Françoise, whose godfather was a card-maker.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 523, GG 556 p. 25, GG 574 f. 62r 609. Chazot, Raymond  Active: 1546–1565  Name variations: Chasot, Raymond  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1546), Montauban, Languedoc (1565)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was Jean II’s brother, with whom he published.  Commercial partners: Jean II Chazot (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 159; Conner p. 199 610. Chedeville, Lucas de  Active: 1524–1527  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre-l’Honoré before relocating to Sainte-Croix-des-Pelletiers.  References: Gosselin p. 89 611. Chedeville, Matthieu  Active: 1564–1565  Name variations: Chefdeville, Matthieu  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was born in around 1543 and lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.

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In 1564, in partnership with Philippe Verdure, he bought 100 lt’s worth of books from the Genevan bookseller of Norman origin, Louis Lavanne, who had, in turn, bought his books from Laurent de Normandie. He continued to buy books from Lavanne when he settled in Orléans the following year. Chedeville’s probable protestantism was confirmed by an edition of Calvin’s commentaries on the book of Joshua that he published the following year. That year, he was sharing his accommodation with his elder brother, Nicolas.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Chedeville (Rouen); Louis Lavanne (Geneva & Orléans); Philippe Verdure (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/438 p. 120, 2E1/442 f. 38r 612. Chedeville, Nicolas  Active: 1565  Name variations: Chefdeville, Nicolas Illustration 35  Location: Rouen, Normandy Signature of Nicolas Chedeville, 1565, AD  Role: Bookseller Seine-Maritime 2E1 442  B iography: He was Matthieu’s elder brother and resided with him in the parish of Saint-Jean. In 1565, they bought stock from the Protestant bookseller Louis Lavanne.  Commercial partners: Matthieu Chedeville (Rouen); Louis Lavanne (Ge­ neva & Orléans)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/442 f. 38r 613. Chedeville, Robert  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 614. Chenu, Nicolas  Active: 1496–1499  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He is known to have worked for the local cathedral.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279

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615. Chercelé, Mathieu  Active: 1515–1555  Name variations: Chercelaeus, Matthaeus; Chercelee, Mattheus; Chersalle, Mathieu  Location: Tours, Touraine (1515–1555); Beaumont-lès-Tours, Touraine (1543)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Filles-Dieu’ (1522–1531); ‘Rue de la Sellerie, devant les Cordeliers’ (1531–1555)  B iography: Born in Tours in 1498, he was the son of a carpenter. He was probably the printer of a breviary for the abbey of Beaumont-les-Tours in 1543 printed within the abbey walls. He worked on occasion for the city. His brother, Jean, a mason by trade, bought Mathieu Latheron’s material in 1522, undoubtedly for Mathieu Chercelé’s use.  Commercial partners: Jean Bodineau (Blois); Guillaume Bourgeat (Tours); Martin I Siffleau (Tours); Pierre Siffleau (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); Michel Richard (Tours); Jean Richart (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 603  References: RB XXIII p. 38–45; Muller p. 113; Grandmaison p. 324; BVH Minutes; Répertoire n° 1997 616. Cheron, Pierre  Active: 1597–1602  Name variations: Chéron, Pierre  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Jeanne Serreau with whom he had two sons, Abraham and Léonard, as well as two daughters, Jeanne and François, respectively baptised on 9 February 1597, 8 November 1598, 14 April 1600 and 23 December 1601. They lived in the parish of Saint-Honoré. On his imprints, he described himself as printer and bookseller to the king. He died on 30 March 1602.  Documents: AN Y 136 f. 338v; AM Blois GG 5 f. 109r, 151r, 179v, 209r  References: Muller p. 8; Renouard (Documents) p. 288; Porcher p. 97; Daubignard p. 15–16 617. Chesnaye, Jean  Active: 1561–1565  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He married Madeleine Le Roux and lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/433 p. 10, 2E1/434 p. 221  References: Gosselin p. 106 618. Chesneau, Claude  Active: 1594–1614  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 105

Illustration 36 Mark of Jean Chesnaye, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 433

619. Chesneau, Guillaume  Active: 1594–1646  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘à la chaussée Saint-Pierre’  B iography: Born in 1564, he married Renée Brillet with whom he had six sons, two of whom – Pierre (born in 1600) and Louis (born in 1604) – became booksellers. He lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre and died on 30 June 1646.  References: Pasquier p. 106 620. Chesneau, Jean  Active: 1553–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 621. Chesneau, Nicolas  Active: 1595–1649  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Michel’  B iography: He married Françoise Brillet, with whom he had five children. He was the godfather of Guillaume Chesneau’s second son, also

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named Guillaume, in 1595, and his wife was godmother to Guillaume the elder’s third son, Nicolas, in 1598. He lived in the parish of Saint-Maurille.  References: Pasquier p. 106 622. Chesneau, Pierre  Active: 1545–1548  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Printer  Commercial partners: Jean Gemyn (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 6 and 11 623. Chesneau, Thomas  Active: 1556–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He lived in the Croncels quarter.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 352 624. Chevalier, Jacques  Active: 1549  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Pedlar  B iography: He was arrested for selling prohibited books printed by Parisian publishers such as Jérôme de Gourmont and Jean Rueil. He was tried by the Chambre ardente in Paris on 26 March 1549, which decided to confiscate and burn his books in front of him. The publishers were to be summoned whilst he was to be released.  References: Weiss p. 350 625. Chevalier, Joachim  Active: 1575–1579  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 289 626. Chevau, Guillaume  Active: 1539–1565  Name variations: Cheveau, Guillaume

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 Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la cour’; ‘Près du bout de Cohue’ (1550)  B iography: He was arrested and imprisoned in 1565 for having published an unauthorised edition of a decision given by the Parlement of Brittany against the bishop of Cornouaille and the inhabitants of Quimper-Corentin. His canting device featuring Pegasus was copied from the design used by the Wechels in Paris and later in Frankfurt. His bookshop was taken on after his death by Pierre Le Bret.  Commercial partners: Jacques Berthelot (Rennes); Jean Georget (Rennes); Pierre Le Bret (Rennes)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XLIX 50  References: RB XIX p. 59; Muller p. 94; Walsby p. 250; Lepreux IV 34 627. Chevilhardi, Benoît  Active: 1518  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was described as a bookseller of Bourg-en-Bresse living in Avignon in 1518.  Commercial partners: Bernard Lescuyer (Lyon)  References: Pansier II 41 628. Chevillot, Jean  Active: 1597  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He resided in the Saint-Jacques quarter, the poorest of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 275 629. Chevillot, Pierre  Active: 1578–1635  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1578–1594); Troyes, Champagne (1594–1635)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la crosse près Saint-Denis’ (1595); ‘Rue Notre-Dame, devant la Petite Tannerie’ (1600)  B iography: He married the widow of Jean Huqueville, Jeanne du Tac, with whom he had a difficult relationship; they separated in 1586, though

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this was later revoked, and then reinstated in 1595. His career began in Paris, where he was a printer who worked both for his own benefit and for other publishers. During the wars of the Catholic League he ceased publishing, having adopted a loyalist stance, resuming only after the fall of Paris with a celebratory imprint published in the city. In that same year, however, he relocated to Troyes, immediately using the title of ‘king’s printer’ that he had obtained by letters of 5 March 1594. In this regard, it is unsurprising to see that, as part of a consortium of booksellers, he opposed a privilege that was given to Jean II Collet in 1594. He was finally confirmed official printer to the king on 20 March 1596, but despite the privileged position this title conferred, he lived in the poorest area of Troyes, the Saint-Jacques quarter. He was condemned on 24 April 1598 for issuing a book with the false imprint ‘Parisijs apud Ioannem de Hucqueville’. He maintained his connections in the capital, printing for Parisian booksellers.  Commercial partners: Pierre Berthold (Paris); Michel Gadoulleau (Paris); Jean Le Bouc (Paris); Jean I Moreau (Troyes); Jean II Oudot (Troyes); Gilles Vatard (Troyes)  Devices: Renouard (Marques) n° 184  Mottos: ‘Victori proponitur’, ‘Manet ultima coelo’, ‘Pietate et justitia’  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XI/82 f. 166, S 1655 f. 148, X/1b 712; AM Troyes AA 40 n. 37, F 274  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 89; Troyes p. 54; Renouard (Documents) p. 271; Lepreux II 88; Turquois p. 352; Renouard p. 83; Pallier p. 500–1; Morin (Ligue) p. 29; Répertoire n° 2022. 630. Cheyrou, Claude  Active: 1539  Name variations: Cheyron, Claude  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  References: Guibert p. 42 631. Cheze, Mathelin  Active: 1547–1594  Name variations: Cheze, Mathurin  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1547); Pau, Béarn (1554–1594)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder

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 B iography: He married Jeanne de Coturat. In 1547 he rented rooms in Bordeaux and was already described as a bookseller, but it was in Pau that he spent the vast majority of his career. In 1554, he was asked to oversee the binding of no fewer than two thousand copies of the Los fors et costumas de Bearn – a considerable undertaking. He also worked for the town of Pau.  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 162; Lacaze p. 35; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 211 632. Choan, Mathurin  Active: 1545  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines.  References: Claudin (2) p. 99 633. Chobert  Active: 1569  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was killed in 1569.  References: Haag IV 343 634. Chollim, Jean  Active: 1579–1584  Name variations: Chollain, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Pedlar, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue la cour d’église, près l’archevêché’  B iography: He began his apprenticeship of three years in the workshop of Nicolas II du Gort on 20 September 1579 and was described as a pedlar. By around 1582, he seems to have set himself up more durably near the archbishop’s palace and published an undated edition of the precepts of Plutarch. On this and another now lost edition he had his name printed ‘Chollim’.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485  References: Mellot p. 79; Aquilon p. 307

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635. Chomat, Annemond  Active: 1540  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 79 636. Choquenot, Nicolas  Active: 1598  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 58 637. Chouen, Alexandre  Active: 1532–1554  Name variations: Chenou, Alexandre; Chouan, Alexandre  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint Julien, à la Licorne’  B iography: He was the father-in-law of Louis Gaignot and married Madeleine Cochery. As a publisher he worked initially with Parisian printers and later with Denis Gaignot when he developed his press in Le Mans. He mainly commissioned works of local interest in conjunction with other booksellers of the city. He was described as a bookseller of the university of Paris in a privilege of 1534 and it has been suggested that he might have worked in that city.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Étienne Brindeau (Le Mans); Nicolas Buffet (Paris); Pierre Cochery (Le Mans); Nicolas Cousteau (Paris); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Jean Haultin (Le Mans); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Mathieu Vaucelles (Le Mans)  Motto: ‘Espoir en Dieu. Pense à la fin’  Documents: AD Sarthe H 1421 f. 114; AN Minutier Central étude XLIX carton 13  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 316; Renouard p. 84; Répertoire n° 2036 638. Chouen, Jean  Active: 1565–1585  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had a number of children, all baptised in the parish of Le Crucifix.

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 Documents: BnF Fonds français 24976 f. 92v  References: Chardon p. 63 639. Chouen, Pierre  Active: 1583  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Sarthe G 561 640. Chouet, Jacques  Active: 1572–1607  Name variations: Chuet, Jacques  Location: Dijon, Burgundy (1572); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1572–1607)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: A Protestant, he was born in Colmier-le-Sec in around 1530, the son of Hugues Chouet. As a bookseller in Dijon, he resided in the parish of Saint-Médard. He married Gabrielle Des Planches (sister of Jérémie and daughter of Jean I), though the marriage was an unhappy one – Chouet accused his wife of being a drunkard and mentally unstable. He fled to Geneva in 1572. His brother, Pierre, was also in the trade in Geneva whilst his nephew, François, had settled as a bookseller in Montpellier by 1602.  Device: Silvestre n° 863  Motto: ‘In nocte consilium’  Documents: AM Dijon LL 201 f. 260v; AD Hérault 2E 57 / 104  References: RIECH; EDIT16 CNCT 6456; Répertoire n° 2037 641. Chouin, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: A fictitious printer: the name was used as a pseudonym by Jean Portau (see USTC 34937).  References: Muller p. 9; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 207 Chouppes, see Rousseau, Jean 642. Chouquet, Pierre  Active: 1544–1558  Location: Lisieux, Normandy

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was described as a burgher of the town and resided in the parish of Saint-Jacques.  References: Deville (Lisieux) p. 204 643. Chrestien, Antoine  Active: 1584–1596  Name variations: Crestien, Antoine  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was a witness to the will of the bookseller Géraud Raignac in 1584 and married his daughter, Bourguine, on 15 October 1587. He partially took over the shop of his late father-in-law that same year after signing a three-year profit-sharing agreement with his mother-in-law, Béatrice de Lestrade. At this point the stock was valued at just over 625 lt. This was renewed for a further two years in 1591, and again until the end of 1594 at which point it was decided that Chrestien would take over the running of the entire shop. He held the rank of corporal in the local watch.  Commercial partners: Béatrice de Lestrade (Agen)  Documents: AM Agen FF 42  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 25; Marboutin p. 21 644. Christiaensz, Albert  Active: 1565–1570  Location: Vianen, Low Countries (1565–1566); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1567); Emden, Holy Roman Empire (1567); Norwich, England (1568–1570)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Of Protestant faith, he first appears in Vianen where he was entrapped by a spy who reported that he stocked and purveyed forbidden titles in 1566. At this point he had become a printer for the Dutch Revolt, a dangerous role that led him to emigrate to Sedan where he was active in 1567 in Lenaert der Kinderen’s workshop. He then followed the press to Emden later that year, but soon moved on when an opportunity arose in Norwich. As a printer, he often left one third to half of the bottom half of the title page blank, using the same types in rapid decrescendo over the first three lines. He seems to have kept the same material throughout his career.  Types: Vervliet (Low Countries) T3, T12 & T30, IT8  References: Valkema Blouw p. 753

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645. Chuppin, Antoine  Active: 1555–1587  Name variations: Choupin, Antoine; Chupin, Antoine; Chopin, Antoine; Couppin, Antoine  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1555–1564); Paris, Île-de-France (1565–1572); La Rochelle, Aunis (1575–1585); Lausanne, Swiss Confederation  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: Born in Paris, he was the son of Jean I Chuppin. He converted to Protestantism and left for Geneva in April 1555. There, he became a bookseller in 1565 and a burgher of the city in 1576. He held a stall in Paris until 1572 and printed works in La Rochelle and Lausanne.  References: RB XVI p. 41–42; Audiat p. 32; Muller p. 95–96; Colvelle p. 299 646. Chuppin, Jean  Active: 1594  Location: Béziers, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Gard E 787 647. Cibault, François  Active: 1562–1571  Name variations: Cibot, François; Cybot, François  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Nicole Yver on 26 February 1571 and lived in the parish of Saint-Didier. He held a stand at the fair of Niort before 1571 and owned cabinets, tables and trestles that had belonged to Jacques Bouchet. He also had a shop near the entrance to the ‘palais’. Somewhat surprisingly for a bookseller, he did not know how to sign his name. He died before 2 July 1579.  Commercial partners: Marin Villepoux (La Rochelle)  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 5; Desgraves, La Rochelle p. 763; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 648. Citoys, André  Active: 1576–1607  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 B iography: The son of Louis I Citoys, he married Renée Joubert and was the father of eight children, including Louis II who followed him into the trade and Françoise who married the printer Antoine Mesnier. He was asked to assess the value of Jean IV de Marnef’s stock after his death in 1592 and lent money to the bookseller Simon Frère. He became adjudicator and judge of the lex mercatoria in 1593 and 1599. He took René Huet on as an apprentice in 1601.  Commercial partners: Isaac Barraud (Poitiers); Simon Frère (Poitiers); Pierre II de Marnef (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 117; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 258; Clouzot (1907) p. 47; Beauchet-Filleau II 498; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 499 649. Citoys, Jean I  Active: 1522–1567  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue de l’Aiguillerie’ (after 1540)  B iography: He had a daughter named Marguerite. He is thought to be the Jean Citoys who was active in Lyon (1550–1557). He was the nephew of Jean Chausseys, with whom he published, and was still active in March 1567.  Commercial partners: Jean Chausseys (Poitiers); Claude Garnier (Limoges)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XXIII & XXIV  References: RB V 115 n° 14; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 253; BeauchetFilleau II 498 650. Citoys, Jean II  Active: 1597–1608  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Suzanne de La Haye with whom he had four children, Louis in 1599, Pierre in 1600, Jacques in 1608 and Louis in 1612. The last of these children was born after his death. They lived in the parish of Saint-Didier.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 262; Beauchet-Filleau II 498 651. Citoys, Louis I  Active: 1548–1580  Location: Poitiers, Poitou

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 Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He had married a Renée with whom he had a daughter, Perrette, who married Jean III de Marnef, and a son, André. They lived in the parish of Saint-Didier. He was warden and librarian to the town by 1548. In 1561, he agreed in association with Jean III de Marnef and the Lyon publisher Antoine Vincent to have the Psalms printed.  Commercial partners: Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  Documents: AD Vienne 4 E 27/8  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 258; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 501 652. Citoys, Louis II  Active: 1600–1612  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The son of André, he was baptised on 22 November 1573 and married Françoise Darsay with whom he had at least five daughters. He was a judge and adjudicator of the lex mercatoria in 1611.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 261; Beauchet-Filleau II 498 653. Claret, Jean  Active: 1497–1528  Name variations: Clerat, Jean; Cleret, Jean; Clereau, Jean; also known as Chartres  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  References: Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–65 654. Claudet, Nicolas  Active: 1593–1600  Location: Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known as a publisher for a single imprint: a large two volume work by a local law professor, Pierre Grégoire (USTC 110281). He maintained commercial relations with the Plantin press in Antwerp from whom he ordered books.  Commercial partners: Jan I Moretus (Antwerp)

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 Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 110, 172 f. 50v  References: Muller p. 93; RB IV p. 43; Jacquot p. 10 655. Clauso, Guillaume de  Active: 1513–1528  Name variations: Clausa, Guillaume de; Clauza, Guillaume de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was the brother of Jean.  Commercial partners: Laurent Carrière (Toulouse); Antoine Lesmont (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 57; Claudin (1) p. 22 656. Clauso, Jean de  Active: 1509–1543  Name variations: Classe, Jean de; Del Claus, Jean; Clausa, Jean de; Clauza, Jean de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la porterie’  B iography: The brother of Guillaume, he lived in the quarter of SaintSernin. He was elected to represent the profession locally in 1533. Arnauld Guilhem du Boys worked with him after 1526. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535. Alongside his long-term business partner, Jean Robion of Lyon, he published a number of classical Latin texts either printed in Lyon or in Toulouse. With Robion he also established a partnership with Jean Faure with whom they produced a series of mainly legal works between 1512 and 1515 printed on Jacques Mareschal’s press in Lyon. He played an important role in the distribution of books in the south-west of France with a wide network of booksellers. He died before 1544.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bergier (Toulouse); Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean Brayer (Agen); Barnabé Chaussard (Lyon); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Fracuier (Montauban); Jean Grandjean (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Jean Labadie (Nogaro); Jean de la Place (Lyon); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Raymond Malescot (Agen); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Jacques

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Mareschal (Lyon); Pierre Mareschal (Lyon); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Jacques Molinier (Toulouse); Jacques Myt (Lyon); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Jean Robion (Lyon); Jean Thomas (Lyon); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Simon Vincent (Lyon); Jean de Vingle (Lyon)  Documents: AM Toulouse FF 22; AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12003 f. 21  References: RB XX p. 24–25; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 19; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Blanc-Rouquette p. 30 657. Clauso, Pierre de  Active: 1503  Name variations: Clausa, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 15 658. Claustro S. Justi, (Printer) In  Active: 1491  Location: Narbonne, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Dans le cloître saint Juste’  B iography: The identity of this printer, the prototypographer of Narbonne, remains unknown.  Types: TW ma03664–ma0366  References: TW of1567 659. Clavet, Claude  Active: 1597–1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He was an inhabitant of Lyon but was employed in the workshop of Simon Millanges from February 1597 to work on the printing of what was described as a large song book. On 12 June of the following year, following paper shortages, he indicated that he wished to withdraw from his contract with the master printer. At that point he declared not knowing how to sign his name.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 11800 f. 991r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 210

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660. Clebat, Stephan  Active: 1488–1491  Name variations: Cleblat, Stephan; Cleblatt, Étienne; Klebat, Stefan  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he was probably a typecaster. He initially worked with Johannes Parix before printing directly at the behest of other figures, such as the merchant Hugues de Cossio. He used a canting device featuring a clover. He lived in the Saint-Étienne quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Johannes Parix (Toulouse);  Device: Silvestre n° 302; Polain n° 198 & 199; Meyer n° 180–181.  Types: TW ma04088–ma04092  References: Claudin (1) p. 8; Blanc-Rouquette p. 18; TW of0184 661. Clémence, Abel  Active: 1556–1567  Name variations: Clément, Abel  Location: Lisieux, Normandy (1556); Geneva, Swiss Confederation; Rouen, Normandy (1561–1567)  Role: Printer, typesetter, bookseller, publisher  B iography: Born in Lisieux, he became a Protestant and left for Geneva in 1556 where he became a typesetter. He returned to Rouen in 1560 or 1561 where he produced Protestant works and, in particular, editions of the Psalms and works of religious controversy mainly in French but with also some Dutch and English editions. It was only in a Dutch edition that he included a mention of the city in which he was printing. His 1561 edition of the Bible became the model for the editions produced in Normandy over the following years. As a printer, his interest in publishing the Psalms led him to invest in new single mensural music type: he was the first to use both Pierre Haultin’s second great primer in 1561 and his first double pica the following year. He was succeeded by his widow, probably in 1567.  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 4, 21, 123, 217, 247; Vervliet p. 276 n° 29, p. 278 n° 31  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 55–56; B. Normande p. 361–364; Lepreux III 103; G. Clutton ‘Abel Clemence of Rouen: A Sixteenth-Century Secret Press’, The Library, XX (1939) 136–153; Répertoire n° 2084.

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662. Clémence, Guillaume  Active: 1556  Name variations: Clément, Guilaum  Location: Lisieux, Normandy; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in Lisieux, he was a Protestant and left for Geneva in June 1556.  References: Haag IV 419 663. Clémence, Jean I  Active: 1547–1578  Location: Lisieux; Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: He bound books for the local Cathedral and published a missal for the use of Lisieux in association with Guillaume Duval.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Duval (Pont-Audemer)  References: RB XXII p. 7; Muller p. 96–103; Vasseur p. 176 664. Clémence, Jean II  Active: 1597–1608  Location: Lisieux; Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: Charles Vasseur, based on a mathematical error, suggested that Jean I and Jean II were one and the same person. He bound books for the local Cathedral.  References: RB XXII p. 7; Muller p. 96–103; Vasseur p. 176 665. Clémence, Pierre  Active: 1571–1597  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1571); Lisieux, Normandy (1578–1597)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He bound books for and sold books to the local Cathedral.  References: Vasseur p. 176 666. Clémence, veuve Abel  Active: 1567–1571  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: She probably succeeded Abel in 1567 but seems to have abandoned her late husband’s militant printing. She is only known for a

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safely Catholic work commissioned by the bookseller Richard I Lallemant (USTC 61321).  Commercial partners: Richard I Lallemant (Rouen)  References: RB XXII p. 78–79; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 364; Arbour p. 139 667. Clémenceau, Jean  Active: 1498–1510  Location: Moutiers-sur-le-Lay, Poitou (1508–1510)  Role: Bookseller, printer  B iography: He married Isabeau Voyneau, lady of La Touche, in January 1498 with whom he had two sons, François and Jacques, neither of whom stayed in the book trade. He is said to have been trained as a printer in the Marnef workshop in Poitiers, before benefitting from the patronage of the bishop of Luçon, Pierre de Sacierge, and setting up his own press in the bishop’s stronghold of Moutiers-sur-le-Lay. However, he was already active as a bookseller in Moutiers as we know from a letter of remission given in July 1498 when one of his servants was killed. On 5 February 1510, he was exempted from all taxes by Louis XII. He died between 1520 and 1523.  Documents: AN JJ 230 n° 124 f. 65  References: Beauchet-Filleau II 517; ‘Les familles Clémenceau et Gautreau’, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, LXXVIII (1929) 440–444. 668. Clémens, Jean  Active: 1552  Location: Marseille, Provence  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is perhaps the same person as the Jean Clément active in Lyon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.  References: Billioud p. 265 669. Clément, Charles  Active: 1592  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353

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670. Clément, Domenge  Active: 1519–1524  Name variations: Grandjean, veuve Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: She had married Jean Grandjean, whom she succeeded.  References: Claudin (1) p. 149 671. Clément, Henri  Active: 1521  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 63 672. Clément, Jean  Active: 1534–1550  Name variations: Mentcle de Sonlu, Jean; Mentele, Jean; also known as Vatan  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1534–1535); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1544); Toulouse, Languedoc (1550)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, printer, publisher  B iography: Originally from Lusson to the south west of Vatan in the diocese of Bourges, he seems to have begun his career in Lyon. There, under the verlan anagram Jean Mentcle de Sonlu, he published two issues of a single edition (USTC 53113 and 53786). He then embarked on a peripatetic career, based mainly in Bordeaux where he is noted in the archives under his real name, Clémens, in 1544. In this city, he published a further undated edition using his pseudonym (USTC 13301). But he seems to have spent much of his time travelling to a number of towns in southwestern France including to Poitiers, Limoges, Lescar and Orthez, but also in Paris, contracting debts in each of these cities, on each occasion leaving bales of books and printer’s material as security. In his will drawn up in 1550, he was described as a bookseller and bookbinder, but owned an array of typographical material that ranged from lead type to a variety of woodcuts. At the time of his will, he was ill and was being looked after in Bordeaux, though it seems that he was at that point active in Toulouse. He worked with Guillaume Boulanger to whom he left most of his possessions. It is unclear whether or not he recovered and thus whether he should be identified as his namesake active in Marseille two years later.

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 Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Guillaume Boulanger (Bordeaux); Étienne Groulleau (Paris); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Pierre Turpin (Bordeaux)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 265.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 848  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 212 & 546; Muller p. 9; RB I p. 17; Baudrier I 274 673. Clément, Jean  Active: 1581–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 674. Cleray, Georges  Active: 1539–1565  Location: Vannes, Brittany; Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la porte saint Michel’, ‘Près la court de Rennes’ (Rennes)  B iography: Originally active in Vannes in 1539, he later established himself in Rennes. As a bookseller, Cleray was known to be mainly interested in the sale of romances rather than the more profitable school books – something echoed by his use of a device that represented Saint George slaying the dragon in a setting typical of the woodcut illustrations of this type of work. He still held a shop between the court of law and the gate of Saint-Michel in 1565, for which he was obliged to clean the audience chambers of the court and maintain the pavement.  Commercial partners: Jacques Berthelot (Rennes); Jean Georget (Rennes); Jean Lermangier (Rennes); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes)  Device: Silvestre n° 666.  Documents: AD de Loire-Atlantique B 2190  References: RB XIX p. 58; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 250. 675. Clerc, Jean  Active: 1509–1512  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 21

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676. Cloet, Benoît  Active: 1597–1598  Name variations: alias L’Hermite  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He was an inhabitant of Lyon but was employed in the workshop of Simon Millanges from the 29 September 1597 to work on the printing of what was described as a large song book. On 12 June of the following year, following paper shortages, he indicated that he wished to withdraw from his contract with the master printer. At that point he declared not knowing how to sign his name. Desgraves, presumably because of a typographical error, suggested his career begin in 1507 rather than in 1597.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 11800 f. 991r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 213 677. Cloquemin, Louis II  Active: 1593–1607  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1593–1595, 1598–1607); Toulouse, Languedoc (1596)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: The son of Louis I and brother of Abraham, both active Lyon printers and publishers, he was, like them, a Protestant and married Catherine Marc. He started his career in Lyon in his brother’s workshop before taking over the shop of Étienne Brignol that had been bought by his mother, Françoise de Combes. However, he seems also to have had interests in Toulouse where for a while he ran the workshop of the widow of Jacques II Colomiès.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne C 701  References: Baudrier IV 63 678. Clou, Jean  Active: 1573–1579  Name variations: Cloud, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1579)  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from the Low Countries, he married Pierre Courant’s sister and was controversially elected as a master printer in around 1579 thanks to Thomas Mallart’s complicity as this was a way of

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undermining the position of local journeymen printers. He had, by then, over six years of experience of working in the trade.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489 679. Clouet, Antoine  Active: 1600  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single edition of a Jesuit work (USTC 88930). 680. Cloustier, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: It is possible that this is a variant of Jean Clou’s name.  References: Gosselin p. 116 681. Cochery, François  Active: 1544–1554  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au Soleil d’Or’  B iography: He married Marie Pecatte and succeeded Pierre Cochery. He published works of local interest as part of consortia with other Le Mans booksellers. Despite having published Catholic works, he converted to Protestantism and participated in the Huguenot takeover of the city in 1562. The return of Catholic power forced him to flee and he was condemned to death in absentia.  Commercial partners: Étienne Brindeau (Le Mans); Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Jean Haultin (Le Mans); Macé Vaucelles (Le Mans)  References: RB XXVIII 83 n° 7; Cauvin p. 316; Chardon p. 62; Répertoire n° 2121 682. Cochery, Pierre  Active: 1500–1543  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher, bookbinder  Address: ‘En la grande rue Saint Julien’

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 B iography: He was the first bookseller of Le Mans to act as a publisher at the very end of the fifteenth century. He also acted as a bookbinder, working for local religious institutions. He was succeeded by François.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); Nicolas Cousteau (Paris); Macé des Bois (Paris); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Thielmann Kerver (Paris); Jean Haultin (Le Mans); Pierre Le Dru (Paris); Julien Lunel (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prevost (Paris); Mathieu Vaucelles (Le Mans)  Documents: AD Sarthe H 187, H 1418 f. 153; AN Minutier Central étude XLIX carton 13  References: RB XXVIII 83 n° 1; Bouton p. 440; Répertoire n° 2122 683. Cochet, Vincent  Active: 1583–1586  Name variations: Couchet, Vincent  Location: Romans, Dauphiné (1583–1586); Tournon, Languedoc (1586)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was initially active in Romans where he paid his tax and had a son, André, baptised on 15 August 1585 in the parish of Saint-Barnard. However, the very next year he was described as a bookseller of Tournon when he bought books from Lyon booksellers to be sold retail locally.  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon); Jacques Pons (Lyon)  Documents: AM Romans CC 94, GG 20 f. 11v  References: Baudrier I 351 & II 233 684. Coffin, Jean  Active: 1484–1489  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was originally from Morlac and was the first official bookseller to the university of Bourges. He received letters of remission in March 1485 to forgive him for having produced a false document when he was asked to pay a second time for goods that had been delivered to him by Guyon Calabre.  Commercial partners: Guyon Calabre (Bourges)  Documents: AD Cher E 1214; AN JJ 211 n° 721  References: Samaran

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685. Coffin, Vincent  Active: 1548  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is only known for an edition of Rabelais’s Quart livre described in a seventeenth-century manuscript simply as ‘Rouen, ches Vincent Coffin’ (USTC 9950). However, this attribution to an unknown bookseller carefully gives the date as ‘CIↃ IↃ XLVIII’, a manner of representing M and D that only made its appearance in France over twenty years later. This, alongside the suspicious use of Greek lettering (not present in other versions), means that the copy seen was probably a fake.  References: S. Rawles & M. A. Screech, A New Rabelais Bibliography: Editions of Rabelais before 1626 (Geneva: Droz, 1987) p. 229. 686. Cohin  Active: 1501  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  References: Frogier p. 310 687. Coignat, Philippe  Active: 1600–1624  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Printer  B iography: He married the daughter of Jean Courraud by a contract signed on 27 August 1600. He seems from this date at least to have worked with his father-in-law, though he only appeared on the title pages of their works from 1605. He succeeded him in 1617 but died a few years later in 1624. He was survived by his wife who sold the business to Jean Roize on 2 September of that year.  References: Billioud p. 266; Henricy p. 14 688. Colanne, Gilles  Active: 1533–1550  Name variations: Coullant, Gilles  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the quarter of Saint-Sernin. He was described as bookseller to the university in 1537.  References: Claudin (2) p. 5

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689. Colas, Jean  Active: 1546–1547  Location: Mâcon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was arrested for possession of banned books and condemned to death by strangulation.  Documents: AN X/2 A 102  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 288 690. Coleau, Étienne  Active: 1546  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place Saint-Didier’  References: Pansier II 42 691. Colet, Jean  Active: 1503–1507  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Devant Nôtre-Dame’  Documents: AM Dijon LL 683, 685  References: Skora (Langres) 692. Colines, Simon de  Active: 1520–1546  Name variations: Collinaeus, Simon  Location: Paris, Île-de-France; Meaux, Champagne (1521–1522)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married the widow of Henri I Estienne, Guyonne Viart, and worked with Robert I Estienne (1522–1526). An official bookseller to the university of Paris, he inherited Henri I Estienne’s shop. Claude Chaudière was employed in his workshop and bought his materials in 1546. He was also a type founder. His passage in Meaux was brief: he seems to have sought to profit from the presence of Jean Lefèvre d’Étaples and of the patronage of the bishop, Guillaume Briçonnet. He died before June 1546.  References: RB XVIII p. 97; Muller p. 51–52; Répertoire n° 2163

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693. Colini, Johannes  Active: 1481–1482  Location: Trier, Holy Roman Empire (1481); Metz, Three Bishoprics (1481–1482)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was also a Carmelite monk and worked in association with Gerhard von Neustadt in both Trier and Metz.  Commercial partners: Gerhard von Neustadt (Metz)  Types: ma06328–ma06330  References: Teissier p. 7; TW of0365; Répertoire n° 2165 694. Collé, Pierre  Active: 1577  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  Commercial partners: Jacques Bouché (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 214 695. Collebert, Gérard  Active: 1557  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Commercial partners: Nicolas Bacquenois (Reims)  References: RB XVII p. 72 696. Collemier, Jean  Active: 1548  Name variations: Collenier, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Morin; Lepreux II 91 697. Collemier, Nicolas  Active: 1577–1595  Name variations: Collenier, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: He was the second richest printer of Troyes in 1580 after Jean Moreau, paying 5 lt in tax. As befitted this status, he lived in the wealthiest part of the city, in the Beffroy quarter.

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 Documents: AM Troyes F 261  References: Turquois p. 353; Morin; Lepreux II 91 698. Collemier, Ythier  Active: 1548–1587  Name variations: Collenier, Ythier  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city with his wife and a son named Barthelémy.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 235, F 236, F 247, F 265, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Morin; Lepreux II 91; Turquois p. 353 699. Collet, Éloi  Active: 1520–1535  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Grant rue’  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  References: Morin p. 424; Turquois p. 353; Assier p. 98 700. Collet, Guyon  Active: 1567–1591  Name variations: Coletz, Guyon  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, bookbinder  B iography: The son of Jean I, he was Jean II’s brother and Jean III’s father. He married Anne Fergent, who succeeded him. They lived in the Croncels quarter of the city and had a son named Jean baptised in the parish of Saint-Jean on 8 March 1591. After his death, Anne married the bookseller Jean du Ruau in 1597. Guyon carried out work for the church of Saint-Jean between 1587 and 1590 and represented his profession at municipal gatherings between 1581 and 1587.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265, F 272, GG 7 15 f. 65r  References: Turquois p. 352; Morin p. 425; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281. 701. Collet, Jean I  Active: 1537–1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder

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 B iography: He married Guyonne and was the father of Jacquette, Guyon and Jean II. They lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes. An important figure in the local trade, he represented its members at town council meetings between 1541 and 1556. He was present at the States General in 1560. He was a particularly active bookbinder and is known for over a hundred bindings executed for local ecclesiastical institutions.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 235, F 236, F 247, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353; Morin p. 424; Socard & Assier p. 48; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279. 702. Collet, Jean II  Active: 1578–1609  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la Belle-Croix, près la Sirène’ (1578–1593); ‘Rue Notre-Dame, au coin de la Petite Tannerie, devant Illustration 37 Signature of Jean Collet, 1596, AM l’Orange d’or’ (1594–1595)  B iography: He was the second son of Troyes Boutiot AA 43 6 Jean I and brother of Guyon. He was the official printer to the king and bishopric as well as printing at the behest of the municipality of Troyes. An important figure of the local trade, he represented his colleagues at municipal meetings between 1579 and 1601. Pierre Chevillot, Jean I Moreau, Jean II Oudot and Gilles Vatard participated in a trial against him on the issue of printing royal edicts. In a document of 1595, however, he described Jean II Oudot as his associate. Like his father, he also bound books for local ecclesiastical institutions.  Commercial partners: veuve Nicolas du Ruau (Troyes); Jean Griffard (Troyes); Jean II Oudot (Troyes)  Documents: AM Troyes AA 40 n. 37, F 261, F 265, F 274, F 275, F 276, AA 43 6e liasse 3; AN X/1b 712  References: Turquois p. 352; Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 74–76; Troyes p. 56; Corrard de Breban p. 25; Morin p. 426; Lepreux II 92; Socard & Assier p. 48; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279; Morin (Ligue) p. 28; Répertoire n° 2171. 703. Collet, Jean III  Active: 1600–1618  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: The son of Guyon Collet and Anne Fergent, he married Marie Deheurles and lived in the parish of Saint-Jacques. He was the official bookseller to the king in the city.  Commercial partners: Jean Griffard (Troyes)  References: Morin p. 432; Lepreux II 92 704. Collet, Nicolas  Active: 1579–1601  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Françoise Munié. He was the official printer to the king in Troyes in 1601.  References: Morin (Troyes) p. 422 705. Collet, Simon  Active: 1580–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 706. Collin, Nicolas  Active: 1548  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 79 707. Collot, Robert  Active: 1595  Name variations: Collo, Robert  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivinerie, près sainte Croix’  B iography: He had a work printed in Sens in 1595, presumably by Jean Savine the only typographer active there at that time (USTC 57444).  References: RB X p. 101 708. Colombiers, Jacques  Active: 1564  Location: Château-Salins, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher

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 B iography: He is known for a single work of which no copy is known to survive (USTC 80145).  References: RB XXI p. 11; Muller p. 14 709. Colombiers, Pierre de  Active: 1578  Location: Orange, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was the nephew of Simon and the son of a merchant of the town of Orange. He set up his workshop in 1578 in association with his father (Jean) and Sébastien Jaquy – each owning a third of the enterprise. The principal of the college of the town, Antoine de Vessodès, undertook to act as a corrector in their workshop. The business, which was named as the official press to the prince, does not seem to have been very successful: only one work is known (USTC 3747). Jaquy left the very year in which the partnership was set up to settle in Nîmes. Pansier mistakenly believed this to be a fictitious press.  References: Leemans p. 458; Pansier II 132 710. Colombiers, Simon de  Active: 1574–1575  Location: Orange, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He was probably originally from Orange, his brother Jean, the father of Pierre, was a merchant of the town. He was established in Orange by the summer of 1573, though he was first mentioned as a printer the following year. He was given an annual stipend of 150 lt by the local parlement. His workshop was formed by two compositors, two pressmen and a corrector. He acquired his own material, though he was given 300 lt in order to buy Latin and Greek type. He was named the official printer to the prince on 14 October 1574. There is, however, no further trace of Simon after 1575.  References: Leemans p. 457

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711. Colomiès, Arnaud  Active: 1567–1593  Name variations: Colomiez, Arnaud  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de Saint-Orens’ (1567)  B iography: He was the son of Jacques I, whose business he inherited with his brother Jacques II in 1568, and was the father of Raymond, who followed him into the trade, and Pierre, born in 1573. He married Jeanne de Boerii or Boyer on 21 December 1567 in a double marriage with his brother at which point he was already described as a printer. He resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin and was a printer of the university. As well as working on his own, he printed on occasion with his brother between 1569 and 1585, sharing commissions from the Estates of Languedoc.  Commercial partners: Jacques II Colomiès (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 1 J 866, C 693; AM Toulouse GG 574 f. 18v, GG 554 p. 71, 102 & 113, GG 555 p. 12, 19, 135, 219, 225; GG 556 p. 25, 42  References: RB XX p. 172; Muller p. 112 712. Colomiès, Gilles  Active: 1531–1568  Name variations: Colona, Gilis  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1531); Valladolid, Spain (155–1553); Lyon, Lyonnais (1563); Salamanca, Spain (1563–1565); Barcelona, Spain (1565–1568)  Role: Printer’s apprentice, compositor  B iography: The nephew of Jacques I, he was taken on by his uncle as an apprentice at the age of 14 for a period of four years but soon fled his uncle’s workshop before being arrested at the master printer’s request. He nevertheless continued in the trade as a he later worked as a printer in Valladolid, then as a compositor in Lyon and in Salamanca (both in 1563), before moving to Barcelona where he worked for Pierre Régnier with whom he had a dispute over back-pay.  References: C. Griffin, ‘La primera imprenta en México y sus oficiales’, in I. García and P. Rueda (eds), Leer en tiempos de la colonia: imprenta, bibliotecas y lectores en la Nueva España (Mexico: UNAM, 2010), 3–19; Griffin (Spain) p. 85 & 144; Morisse n° 89; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65. 713. Colomiès, Jacques I  Active: 1525–1568

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 Name variations: Colomiez, Jacques; Colomerius, Jacobus  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1525–1568); Castelsarrasin, Languedoc (1534–1549); Carcassonne, Languedoc (1538); Lescar, Béarn (1541)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue d’Agulhères’, ‘Au parlement’ (Toulouse)  B iography: Probably born around 1495, he was the father of Jacques II and Arnaud. He took over the workshop of Jean Faure’s widow Mondete Guimbaude whom he married before remarrying to Françoise Dumas in around 1535. His children came from this second marriage. He seems to have contracted a final marriage with Anne Dembat in February 1567, though the date of the actual wedding is not given. He had a long and successful career, developing his press into one of the most powerful in southwestern France with commercial relations with booksellers in the surrounding cities such as Albi and Rodez. Within the city, he strengthened his position by opening a book stall at the local parlement in 1532 to complement his workshop. He became the official printer to the university and to the academy of Toulouse. He also profited directly from the downfall of a major competitor, Guyon Boudeville, buying his material from the city on 6 July 1562. His nephew, Gilles, was an apprentice in his workshop as were Jean Laborn in 1536 and Jean Bru in 1542 and Antoine de la Bastide. Though he started printing with Gothic type, he decided in 1537 to change to the more fashionable Roman type, commissioning from Charles Malet an entire new case of letters. The woodcuts he employed in his early imprints in particular were heavily influenced by those commonly used in the Lyon book world. He used a canting device with dual references to Saint James the Greater and doves.  Commercial partners: Blaise Aucommer (Toulouse); Jean Barril (Toulouse); Jean Champaigne (Toulouse); Jean II Chazot (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Henri Court (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean de Fleurs (Toulouse); Pierre Gavaldan (Bordeaux); Jean Girard (Toulouse); Gilbert Grosset (Montauban); Jean II Grosset (Toulouse); Jean Guyart (Bordeaux); Jean Jagourt (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Guillaume Pichon (Rodez); Antoine Queyron (Montpellier); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Jean Richard (Albi); Pierre Rossignol (Albi); Claude Sanson (Toulouse);

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Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Arnaud de Visa (Toulouse); Louis Yvernage (Toulouse)  Device: Silvestre n° 117  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 1 J 866, 3 E 12026 f. 75v, 3 E 6610 f. 411v; AM Toulouse GG 1937 f. 34, GG 220 f. 201v  References: RB XVIII p. 25, 33, 85 & XX p. 65–102; Muller p. 12, 21 & 112; Claudin (1) p. 153; Blanc-Rouquette p. 28; Corraze (Colomiès); Répertoire n° 2202. 714. Colomiès, Jacques II  Active: 1569–1593  Name variations: Colomiez, Jacques; Columbier, Jacques; Colmerius, Jacques; Colmier, Jacques; Colomerius, Jacobus; Coulombier, Jacques  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue d’Agulhères, devant Saint-Orens’  B iography: He was the son of Jacques I, whose business he inherited with his brother Arnaud in 1568. He married Marguerite de Molinier in a double marriage with Arnaud on 21 December 1567, at which point he was not yet described as a printer and resided in ‘rue Saint-Orens’, where he was still five years later. He was Raymond’s uncle and had a daughter, Françoise, who was baptised on 12 October 1572. He was named godfather to Marguerite, the daughter of the printer Nicolas d’Estey in 1590, as well as to many other children of parents of other trades. He printed with his brother between 1569 and 1585. He was the official printer to the university and also regularly undertook jobs for the Estates of Languedoc, typically in print runs of 200 to 250 copies that were then distributed throughout the province. His widow took over his workshop after his death in 1593.  Commercial partners: Arnaud Colomiès (Toulouse); Raymond Colomiès (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 1 J 866, C 693, C 696; AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 115r, GG 574 f. 18v, GG 554 f. 6r, 25v & 79r, GG 555 p. 39, 197, GG 556 p. 42, 112, 216, 218, 262  References: RB XX p. 168–171 & 173–179; Muller p. 112; Répertoire n° 2203. 715. Colomiès, Raymond  Active: 1588–1631

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 Name variations: Colomiez, Raimond; Colomerius, Raymundus; Colomiès, Ramond  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc; Cahors, Languedoc (1589); Vénès, Langue­ doc (1603)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’église du Taur’  B iography: The nephew of Jacques II, whose business he inherited, he was the son of Arnaud. He married Jeanne de Poncet in 1601 and after her death, Catherine Duclos in 1620. He lived in the parish of Le Taur. He was the official printer to the king and to the university in Toulouse. During the wars of the Catholic League he published virulent Leaguer pamphlets, sometimes adding the perhaps false address of Cahors as well as adopting the name of the invented printer Antoine Fabricieux of Lyon. Despite the defeat of his faction, he resumed printing as early as 1595 and enjoyed a long career that extended into the second quarter of the seventeenth century. He was named godfather to Marie, the daughter of the bookbinder Pierre Molinier, on 18 March 1602, and to Françoise, the daughter of the bookseller Antoine Molinier, on 1 March 1603. His shop was visited in 1619 and a few books were seized. He died on 3 June 1631.  Commercial partners: Édouard Ancelin (Toulouse); Jacques II Colomiès (Toulouse); Marguerite de Molinier (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 1 J 866, 1 G 410 bis n° 13; AM Toulouse GG 104 f. 43v, GG 524, GG 557 p. 163 & 253  References: RB XX p. 183–187; Muller p. 112; Répertoire n° 2204. 716. Colon, Étienne  Active: 1487–1508  Name variations: Colani, Étienne  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Raimonde and was a bookseller to the university.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 215 H 49; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 717. Colonge, Jean  Active: 1566  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  B iography: He was originally from Nîmes and married Isabeau Ferron in 1566.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 217

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718. Combal, Jacques  Active: 1492–1499  Name variations: Combalh, Jacques  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 10 719. Combe, Jean  Active: 1584  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon); Nicolas Chesneau (Paris)  References: Baudrier IV 365 720. Combes, Hélie de  Active: 1593–1606  Name variations: Decombes, Hélie  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 225 721. Conche, André  Active: 1585  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He frequented the fairs at Lyon.  Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 366 722. Condeminat, Étienne  Active: 1579–1584  Name variations: Condeminal, Étienne  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 179

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723. Conrard, François  Active: 1580–1595  Name variations: Conrardo, François  Location: Nice, Italian states (1580–1595); Entrevaux, Provence (1581– 1583); Marseille, Provence (1583)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: Originally from Brussels, he settled in Nice though he also ventured into southeastern France and printed for the bishop of Glandèves, Hugolin Mastelli, in Entrevaux. He sourced his material in Lyon and used the city on his imprints between 1581 and 1583, though he never seems to have printed there.  Motto: ‘Matt. XI’  References: RB XXVI 85 n° 1; EDIT16 CNCT 2324; Baudrier V 137; Répertoire n° 2250. 724. Conroux, Guiraud  Active: 1534  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 7 725. Constant, Nicolas  Active: 1573–1585  Name variations: Coustant, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city and represented the community of booksellers and printers in 1576. A different Nicolas Constant was active in Reims at the start of the seventeenth century (Répertoire n° 2252).  Documents: AM Troyes F 247, F 261, F 265  References: Turquois p. 353; Morin (Troyes) p. 318 726. Contis, Louis  Active: 1568–1583  Name variations: Conty, Louis; Contys, Louis  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite and married Françoise Caron. Isaac Barraud was his apprentice. Nicolas Courtois was his son’s godfather.  Commercial partners: Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Bertrand Noscereau (Poitiers); Jean II Saugrain (Poitiers)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 285; Clouzot (1907) p. 47 727. Contrières, Joachim de  Active: 1561–1573  Name variations: Courtières, Joachim de; Des Constières, Joachim;  Location: Saint-Lo, Normandy (1561); Illustration 38 Caen, Normandy (1563–1564); Alençon, Signature of Joachim de Contrières, 1561, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 436 Normandy (1564–1573)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Froide-Rue’ (Caen)  B iography: Originally from the diocese of Coutances in Normandy, he was of Protestant faith. He took refuge in Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant of the city in June 1555. It is unclear whether he learnt his trade there but by 1561 he had returned to the province of his birth and was active in Saint-Lo. He was described at that point by the notaries of Rouen as a ‘merchant printer’ and had signed an agreement with the Protestant Lyon bookseller Antoine II Vincent. However, he did not stay in Saint-Lo, leaving the town for Caen where he was in 1563 and early 1564. At this stage he was linked to his fellow Protestant printer Robert Le Crosnyer and was godfather to his son Jael on 4 February 1564. Later that month, on 25 February 1563/4 he signed a contract whereby he was to be paid 250 lt by the local protestant community in Alençon ‘pour l’aider à le secourir à lever l’estat de imprimerie’. A second sum was paid the following year. Having relocated to that city he worked mainly with the local notable and ertswhile bookseller Jacques Legendre who commissioned most of the works he printed with Robert Le Crosnier. By 1573, he was described as a burgher of the city.  Commercial partners: Robert Le Crosnier (Alençon); Jacques Legendre (Alençon); Antoine II Vincent (Lyon)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 298  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/436 p. 168  References: RB XXV p. 14; Muller p. 2; Despierres p. 22; Calviniana II 1092; Lepreux III (2) 41; Haag IV 613; Lart I 50.

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728. Coquet, Jean  Active: 1476–1501  Name variations: Cocquet, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was from a family of booksellers. A namesake, probably his father, was described as bookseller in the accounts of the Cathedral in 1447 and 1452. He resided in and was the treasurer of the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2131, G 2518, G 2519, G 2917  References: Gosselin p. 60; Beaurepaire p. 395 729. Coral, Mathieu  Active: 1509  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 18 730. Corde, Jean  Active: 1532–1538  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 731. Corlet, Jean  Active: 1515–1525  Location: Senlis, Île-de-France  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Barbe Hastier and died before 1526 at which point his widow sold their house known as ‘Le Jason, sise au carrefour Saint-Hilaire’. Stein suggested that he was active as early as 1515, but the basis of this conjecture is unclear.  Documents: AD Oise G 617  References: RB XXV p. 67; Muller p. 106; Stein (Senlis); Lepreux I 178 732. Cormier, Thomas  Active: 1520–1530  Name variations: Courmyer, Thomas  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne

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 Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: According to Labadie he was already alive in the fifteenth century. He seems mainly to have worked as a bookbinder.  References: Labadie p. 26; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 223 733. Corne, Guillaume  Active: 1517  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: Originally from Glos, he resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou in Rouen. Lepreux suggests that he was at most a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 73; Lepreux III 104 734. Cornier, Pierre  Active: 1553  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Though Lepreux doubted his existence, he did sign an edition of Clément Marot’s translations, imitations and inventions (USTC 60897), a copy of which has now been located.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 104. 735. Corola, Jean  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60. 736. Corroyer, Tite  Active: 1528–1543  Name variations: Conroyer, Tite; Courroyer, Tite  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place Sainte-Croix’  B iography: He had at least one son, Balthasar – whose godfather was the bookseller Pierre Trousseau –, and one daughter, Renée. He was godfather to one of the daughters of the bookseller Jacques Buraudier with whom he also published an edition printed in Rouen. A sworn bookseller of the university of Angers, he is only known as a publisher for two works,

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both produced with other local booksellers, though he is also attributed the publication of La legende joyeuse maistre Pierre Faifeu (USTC 94531) in 1532 on the basis of the initials TC appearing in an ornate frame dated 1526.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Jacques Buraudier (Angers); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); René Montel (Angers); Jean II Varice (Angers); Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  References: RB XXVI 6 n° 14; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 107; Répertoire n° 2300. 737. Cortoys, Luc  Active: 1513  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was originally from Lyon.  References: Pansier II 42. 738. Costalle, Jean  Active: 1548–1549  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (2) p. 104. 739. Costé, Louis  Active: 1597–1620  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue écuyère, aux trois croix couronnées’  B iography: He married Marguerite and was described as Jean Briselet’s brother in 1599. He became a master printer before 1597 and warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1599. He published a number of short, light-hearted pieces. His son, also named Louis, served as his apprentice in 1601.  Motto: ‘Tu est sortie de son coste’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 45; Lepreux III 104; Aquilon p. 306 740. Costé, Philippe  Active: 1500–1510  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Au pont de robec’  B iography: He is mentioned as a purveyor of books to the castle of Gaillon in 1502. As a publisher he is known solely for having taken part in various consortia of local booksellers to have books of hours and missals printed in either Paris or Rouen. He was sometimes described on the imprints as a parchment maker.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Anabat (Paris); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Gilles Har­ douyn (Paris); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Pierre Lygnant (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Jean I Richard (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 65; B. Normande p. 185; Duff p. 33; Aquilon p. 307 741. Costel, Guillaume  Active: 1534  Name variations: Costil, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: Thomas’s brother, he resided in the parish of Saint-Hilaire. Lepreux suggests he was just a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 93; Lepreux III 108 742. Costel, Thomas  Active: 1534–1551  Name variations: Costil, Thomas; Coste, Thomas  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1534–1546); Sens, Champagne (1551)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He was Guillaume’s brother and married Radegonde de Fresnes with whom he had a daughter named Claude. He was well integrated into the Parisian book world: the booksellers Louis Noël and Claude Mabille were his brothers-in-law as they had married Radegonde’s sisters. He received Guillaume Luce as an apprentice in 1542, Robert Balin in 1543 and Antoine Musnier in 1545. In 1543 he rented a shop in front of the ‘collège des Cholets’ for an annual rent of 23 lt. He was also described as a bookbinder in 1542. By 1551 he had relocated to Sens.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 26 f. 364–5, XXXIII 27 f. 55, 67, 170 & 377, XXXIII 28 f. 213 & 349, XXXIII 30 f. 111 & 118, XXXIII 32 f. 238 & 305, XXXIII 36 f. 140, XXXIII 38 f. 193  References: Renouard p. 96

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743. Costerauste, Pierre  Active: 1589–1630  Location: Riom, Auvergne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: In 1589 he requested from the local municipality a hundred écus and an exemption from local taxes so that he could go to Lyon to acquire a press – this was duly granted. He was described at that point simply as a bookseller. The exemption was confirmed in 1611. As a publisher he produced a series of short works in small formats variously using a woodcut of the king’s arms and his own publisher’s device on the title pages. His wife had succeeded him by 1637 and, later, another Pierre Costerauste.  Device: Silvestre n° 1071  Motto: ‘Virtutes continet omnes’  Documents: AC Riom BB 10, BB 27, CC 117 bis  References: RB XVIII p. 113; Muller p. 95; Egullion p. 113 744. Costes, Trente  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  References: Haag II 58 745. Cotard, Jean  Active: 1573  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for the publication of a single edition (USTC 64433) that he had printed in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Pierre Roussin (Lyon)  References: RB XXI p. 52 746. Cotin, Uriel  Active: 1519–1540  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He married Marie, who was godmother to the children of the booksellers Jean Le Roy in 1540 and André Girard in 1544. He lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix. His son Jean had the booksellers Jean Varice

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and Mathurin Chauvigné as godfathers in 1527. He bound books for local religious institutions.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire E 69  References: Pasquier p. 110 747. Cotte, Jean  Active: 1562  Location: Aurillac, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Born in Aurillac, he converted to Protestantism and was murdered during a Catholic massacre on 2 September 1562.  References: Haag II 595

748. Cottereau, Claude  Active: 1585–1625  Name variations: Cottereau de Chevillon, Claude  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Changes, près de la tour du roi’  B iography: The son of Richard, he was born on 31 December 1551 and married the daughter of an apothecary, Françoise Drappier, in around 1584. She had inherited the lordship of Chevillon. Together they had seven children and resided in the parish of Saint-Martin-le-Viandier. After his first wife’s death in 1605, he remarried to Gratienne Beaudouin a year later. He became the official printer and bookseller to the city of Chartres in August 1585, to the bishopric (1585) and to the king (1592–1595). By 1587 he was described as a burgher of the city. He was also a wood-engraver

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and signed some of his typographical ornaments. Lubin Peigné in 1587 as well as Jean Massot and Jean Blanchard in 1590 were journeymen in his workshop. He died on 24 September 1625 and was succeeded by Pierre, the son of his first marriage, who was then aged 33.  References: RB XXVIII 40 n° 10; Feyel p. 573; Répertoire n° 2326. 749. Cottereau, Martin  Active: 1571–1591  Name variations: Chostereau, Martin  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grand rue’  B iography: Born in Chartres in around 1546, he was Richard’s son. He married the daughter of Philippe Hotot, Anne, in around 1569. Together they had twelve children, two of whom followed him into the trade: Philippe succeeded his father whilst Joseph, born in 1583, set up shop as a bookseller in Paris. Martin converted to Protestantism when he was about 30, but his wife remained a Catholic and smuggled their children to the local Catholic church to have them baptised without his consent. They initially lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin before moving in 1575 to that of Sainte-Foy. He left for Geneva in 1585, probably in the aftermath of the edict of Nemours signed on 7 July, leaving his family behind – though he was able to return by 1587. With the rise of the Catholic League he was forced to flee once more in early 1589. Despite all these difficulties, his business was successful; he was considered to be one of the wealthiest inhabitants of the city in 1589. He had taken over his father’s shop and used the latter’s privileges as his own. He died before the end of 1591 and was survived by his wife. An edition of the customs of Chartres is recorded as being produced by his workshop in 1600 (USTC 80156), but no copy of this version survives and is probably a ghost created from a flawed reference to his 1587 edition (USTC 38252).  References: RB XXVIII 40 n° 9; Feyel p. 564 750. Cottereau, Philippe  Active: 1591–1627  Location: Chartres, Orléanais (1591–1602); Blois, Touraine (1603–1627)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grand rue’ (Chartres)  B iography: Born on 7 April 1571, he was the son of Martin whom he succeeded. On 3 August 1591 he married Anne Gaudeau who died on

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16 March 1611. Together they had seven children including Jacques (born in 1594) and Michel (born in 1603) who, in partnership, succeeded their father in 1627. He was initially active in Chartres in his father’s shop in the parish of Sainte-Foy, but in 1602 he left for Blois where he took over Pierre Cheron’s business and became the official printer to the king.  Motto: ‘Non plus’  References: RB XXVIII 40 n° 11; Feyel p. 567; Porcher p. 100; Répertoire n° 2329. 751. Cottereau, Richard  Active: 1547–1578  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Grande rue’ (1550); ‘Devant la porte du Cloître notre dame, à l’enseigne du pot cassé’ (1574)  B iography: He married Marie Poperon with whom he had four children of whom Martin and Claude both followed him into the trade. He later remarried Jeanne Menant in around 1570 and together they had five further children, including Anne (1573) who married the printer Lubin Peigné. Richard succeeded Nicolas Ouzeille, perhaps as early as 1546, and lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin. He used the material of Geoffroy Tory including his device and sign that he had obtained from Olivier Mallard or his heirs. In 1547, he took on Robert Fidefame as apprentice for three years. He was sued alongside his associates by the widow of Jean Pisson for an edition of the local synodal statutes printed in 1555. He died on 25 November 1583 and was survived by his second wife who died in 1587.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Chrestien (Paris); Philippe Hotot (Chartres); Simon Picquot (Chartres)  Device: Silvestre n° 929  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir 1 E 145, E 2044, E 2130  References: RB XXVIII 40 n° 3; Feyel p. 561 752. Coubard, Mery  Active: 1496  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix.  References: Pasquier p. 110

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753. Couillard, Guillaume  Active: 1552  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of La Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 754. Coullin, Edmond  Active: 1595–1600  Name variations: Solin, Edmond  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274, F 276 755. Coulomb, Antoine  Active: 1569  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Suspect works were seized in his shop following a search carried out by order of the consuls of the city in 1569. The books were later burnt.  References: Guiraud p. 360 756. Courant, Pierre  Active: 1571–1610  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Dinanderie, près le Pot de cuivre’ (1586–1595), ‘Rue Dinanderie, près l’Image Notre Dame’ (1571 & 1595–1600); ‘Au haut de la rue écuyère, près le Grand Hôtel’ (1608–1610)  B iography: The father of Julien and Nicolas, who continued to work in the trade after his death, he was also Pierre Philippe’s uncle. Jean Clou married his sister. He was elected warden of the community in 1588, 1602 and 1603 as well as master of the confraternity in 1600, despite having been a controversial figure in the Rouen book world. He was, indeed, sued for having printed songs that were deemed scandalous in 1578 and others that were considered defamatory in 1579. That same year he was condemned for duplicating a passage from a book of hours and in 1597 for printing without permission. During the last decade of the Wars of

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Religion, he sided with the Catholic League for whom he printed pamphlets. He rented a shop from the parish of Saint-Jean in 1592 and was no longer active after 1610. He sometimes used the rose of the Parisian printer Jean Dallier as a device on his works. He published exclusively in French and specialised in copying texts already published in Paris. He took on Jean Machuel as an apprentice in 1603.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483, 5 E 489, G 6729  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 48; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 109; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 2349. 757. Courraud, Jean  Active: 1594–1617  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: As soon as he began printing in 1595, he was a very active figure in the local bookworld, acting as the official printer to the town of Aix (1595–1600) and using the king’s arms on his title pages. In that capacity, he produced local laws, edicts and ordinances, but his output is characterised by the diversity of works he published including drama. He bought the material of Guillaume Maillou after the town intervened to stop Maillou’s widow selling the type and press to a merchant who was to take it to Marseille. The town’s goodwill was, however, lost by 1598 at which point the authorities called on a better printer, Jean Tholosan, to replace him. He nevertheless continued to be active in the city and from 1600 he worked with his son-in-law Philippe Coignat with whom he published after 1605 and who eventually succeeded him. He reused the thistle device of Pierre Roux in some imprints, whilst in others he employed a device featuring a classical warrior similar to that of Jean Savine in Sens who shared the same motto.  Motto: ‘J’espère en Dieu qui m’aidera’  References: RB XXVI 2 n° 12; Muller p. 2; Billioud p. 266; Henricy p. 11; Répertoire n° 2360. 758. Court, Henri  Active: 1497–1535  Name variations: Cort, Henri; Courd, Henri  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller

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 B iography: He had married Jeanne Fors, who survived him. He was described as a bookseller in 1499. Bernard de la Forga worked in his shop for one year in 1510. He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. He had died before 26 October 1539.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 11, 112 H 84  References: Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Blanc-Rouquette p. 30 759. Courtois, Jacques  Active: 1598–1600  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of Nicolas Courtois and Marguerite de La Porte and married Marie Paully on 4 June 1598. They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. Raymond Moulinier placed his son-in-law, René Huet, as an apprentice in his shop in 1598.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 281; Clouzot (1907) p. 47; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 499 760. Courtois, Nicolas  Active: 1572–1585  Name variations: Courtoys, Nicolas  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Marguerite Cailleteau and was godfather to a son of Louis Contis and a son of Jean IV de Marnef. He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier. Verger of the university of Poitiers, he also served as an adjudicator and judge of merchant affairs in 1583. He was the official bookseller to the university of Poitiers.  Commercial partners: Hugues Barbou (Limoges)  Device: Silvestre n° 711  Motto: ‘Ficus. Bene-facere nihil pollicitante’  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 118; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 280 761. Courtois, René  Active: 1552–1568  Location: Poitiers, Poitou

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier and died before 1576.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 279 762. Courtot, Michel  Active: 1591  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A bookseller of very limited means, the municipality of Troyes deemed him too poor to pay tax in 1591.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272 763. Cousin, Guillaume  Active: 1504–1512  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  References: Répertoire n° 2370. 764. Cousin, Jacques  Active: 1503–1537  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1521), ‘près les cordeliers’ (1521–1534)  B iography: The son of Guillaume, a glass-maker, he married Marion Huvin, the daughter of Jean, and was the Rouen bookseller Guillaume I Bénard’s brother-in-law. He resided at various times in the parishes of Saint-Vincent and Saint-Nicolas. His output as a publisher centered on the production of ecclesiastical books such as missals and books of hours, mostly for export to England. In 1534 he was no longer described as a bookseller, but he was indicated as having published an edition for the English market as late as 1537. His device featured the arms of the city of Rouen.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Jean I Burges (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Pierre Huvin (Rouen); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Nicolas Le Cour (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prévost (Paris); Antoine Vérard (Paris)  Motto: ‘In te Jesu spes mea’

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 References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 71; Coyecque XIII p. 43; Beaurepaire p. 395; Duff p. 34; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 2370. 765. Cousin, Jean  Active: 1579–1600  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: His daughter Jeanne married the Reims printer Nicolas Constant. He is known for a very small number of works, one of which was printed for a local official of the city, Henri Basin, in 1600. He had died before 1613.  References: RB XVII p. 123; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 242; Jadart (Reims) p. 109 766. Coussot, Jean  Active: 1518–1525  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près saint Grégoire’  B iography: He married Hilaire Deschamps, who survived him. His material was inherited by Mathurin Arnault. He is known for having printed a couple of religious works for local use.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Nicolas I Pelletier (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 75; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 168 767. Coustelle, Guillaume  Active: 1583  Location: Mayenne, Maine  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Ambroise Cousin with whom he had a number of children all baptised in the parish of Notre Dame between 1566 and 1582, though it is only on the register of the following year that his occupation is explicitly given. It was probably his son, Guillaume, baptised on 2 May 1569, who was active as a bookseller in the town in 1613.  Documents: AM Mayenne GG 2, GG 3  References: Angot I 799

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768. Crés, Jean  Active: 1484–1494  Location: Bréhan-Loudéac, Brittany (1484–1485); Lantenac, Brittany (1487–1494)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: The Breton prototypographer, he initially worked with Robin Fouquet in Bréhan in central Brittany, probably as a junior partner. The first press seems to have been set up at the behest of the local lord, Jean de Rohan, lord of Le Gué de L’Isle, in 1484. After an initial flurry of activity involving the production of a number of ephemeral imprints and a book of custom law, all activity ceased. Crés returned, alone, two years later in 1487 in the nearby location of Lantenac, close to a monastery which was undoubtedly seen as a suitable source of patronage. However, within a few years he seems to have completely stopped his typographical activity. The works Crés produced seem to have been modelled on existing Parisian editions – at least two of his imprints were taken from those of Antoine Caillaut. The type used suggests there was also another influence at work as it most resembles that used by Arend de Keyser in Oudenaarde circa 1480.  Commercial partners: Robin Fouquet (Bréhan-Loudéac)  Device: Silvestre n° 173; Polain n° 28; Meyer n° 20; TW ma03643  Types: TW ma03585, ma03639, ma03640, ma03641, ma03642  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 250; Booton p. 233; TW of0344 769. Crespin, Bertin  Active: 1573  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 41 770. Crespis, Philippe de  Active: 1486  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier I 149

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771. Crevel, Jean I  Active: 1562–1592  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher Illustration 39 Signature of Jean Crevel, 1570, AD  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ Seine-Maritime 2E1 474  B iography: He was the son of a Binet and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He was treasurer of the parish church in Rouen in 1584. He printed occasionally but mainly acted as a publisher using other workshops. He was one of a number of Rouen booksellers who sought to profit illicitly from Parisian editions. Along with Robert Mallard, he was confronted by Gilles Beys and Denis du Val for having counterfeited a psalter in 1578 (though in this instance the challenge was unsuccessful) and was sued the following year by Jacques Kerver for having falsified his device. He also used the device of another Parisian publisher, Jean Foucher.  Commercial partners: Richard Auber (Rouen); Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Jean Desnoyers (Rouen); Henri Le Mareschal (Rouen); Robert Mallard (Rouen); Guillaume Pavie (Rouen)  Motto: ‘Ne que qui plantat, neque qui rigat est aliquid, sed qui incrementum dat Deus’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200, G 3464, G 6617, G 7330, 2E1/442 f. 47r, 2E1/474 f. 15r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 119; Aquilon p. 307 772. Crevel, Jean II  Active: 1586–1607  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was the father of Jean III. He was master of the confraternity in 1594 and warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1603.  Commercial partners: Raphaël du Petit-Val (Rouen); Martin III Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 49

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773. Crevel, Jean III  Active: 1591–1623  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: The son of Jean II, he had a son named Nicolas. He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1604 and 1618, and master of the confraternity in 1610. He died in 1623  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 49 774. Crofft, Laurent  Active: 1494–1505  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Porte-Jaune’  B iography: He was an official bookseller to the university of Bourges.  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 867 775. Croiset, Jean  Active: 1551–1552  Name variations: Adviset, Jean; Avisé, Jean  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he was condemned to be whipped along with Paul Berton in 1551 for having printed banned texts and was then banished from Limoges.  Commercial partners: Paul Berton (Limoges)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 109 n° 24  References: Guibert p. 14; Droz (La Rochelle) I 10. 776. Crousi, Antoine  Active: 1487–1488  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He resided in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (1) p. 7 777. Crousille, Jean  Active: [1560]  Location: Angers, Anjou

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 Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 110 778. Crozet, Guillaume  Active: 1507  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  References: Claudin (1) p. 148 779. Crozet, Pierre  Active: 1498–1535  Name variations: Croset, Pierre; Crosect, Pierre; Cornet, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1498–1527); Lyon, Lyonnais (1533–1535)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was a syndic of the corporation of booksellers in 1515. Along with some of his colleagues in Toulouse, he disseminated the books of the Lyon publisher Martin Boillon in the south-west. It has been suggested that he died in 1529, but he in fact moved to Lyon where he was described as a printer and bookseller. His son Jacques followed him into the trade and maintained his connections in Toulouse.  Commercial partners: Jean Bergier (Toulouse); Pierre Bergier (Toulouse); Martin Boillon (Lyon); Antoine Bousquet (Toulouse); Jean Brayer (Agen); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Jean Labadie (Nogaro); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Raymond Malescot (Agen)  References: Claudin (1) p. 12; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Baudrier I 113 Curia, Andreas de, see La Cour, André de 780. Curtin, Jean  Active: 1575  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married the widow of Pierre Trepperel, Noëlle Privert or Privelle. A burgher of Orléans, he is described as a merchant in a 1575 document that infers that he was also a bookseller.  Documents: AN S 1653 f. 223  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 292 781. Cyreulde, Jacques  Active: 1534  Name variations: Sireulde, Jacques

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 Commercial partners: Claude Bouquet (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 119 786. Dalvy, Aymard  Active: 1593–1612  Name variations: Dalny, Eymard  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, printer Illustration 41  B iography: Originally from Tulle, he married Signature of Aimard Dalvy, Antoinette Verguette (or Thonie Vasquete). He 1599, AM Périgueux GG 32 was the father of Pierre who followed him into the trade, and of Thonie, who was baptised on 29 June 1594 – Pierre was her godfather. They lived in the parish of Saint-Front. He was named godfather to Pierre Dalvy’s daughter, Jeannette. He bought books from the Barbous in Limoges and from Simon Millanges in Bordeaux. He owed the Barbous 125 lt in 1608 and continued to buy books from their shop over the following years. He sold books in batches to the local Jesuit college which was described in 1609 as occurring on a yearly basis. He had acquired Gilles Degoys’s material during the early seventeenth century. He died in 1612.  Commercial partners: Jacques Barbou (Limoges); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AM Périgueux CC 104, CC 29 f. 36v, CC 32 f. 49r, CC 33 f. 30v, CC 40 f. 64v  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 209; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 559; Ducourtieux & Bourdery n° 3, 13 & 15. 787. Dalvy, Étienne  Active: 1560–1605  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The contents of his shop were seized before October 1571 following an order issued by a judge in Brive and his key confiscated. At that point the contents of his shop were estimated to be worth 2,000 lt. He struggled to regain possession of his stock and received the backing of the local Parlement, though they only issued their ruling in July 1572, almost a year later. He seems to have continued despite such difficulties as he is documented in 1600 and was still active in Tulle five years later.  Commercial partners: Hugues Barbou (Limoges)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 222 n° 175, 1 B 361 n° 172  References: Ducourtieux & Bourdery n° 3

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788. Dalvy, Pierre I  Active: 1598–1614  Name variations: Dalby, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1598); Illustration 42 Périgueux, Guyenne (1599–1614) Signature of Pierre I Dalvy, 1598, AD  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher Gironde 3 E 14800  B iography: He seems to have been the brother of Aymard and married Hilaire, daughter of the printer Gilles Degoys. Together, they had two daughters named Jeannette and Toinette, baptised on 9 January 1600 and on 31 October 1604, as well as a son, Gilles, baptised on 8 July 1601. The two families became closely connected. Degoys’s wife was Jeannette’s godmother, Aymard Dalvy her godfather, whilst Degoys himself was godfather to Gilles, his daughter Jeanne being his godmother. The first trace we have of Pierre’s career was in Bordeaux where he was initially a journeyman bookseller in the Millanges shop. He had moved to Périgueux by 1599 where he worked with Gilles Degoys in the early seventeenth century, taking over the latter’s shop. He acted both as a bookseller and as a printer, living in the parish of Saint-Front. Desgraves conflates the two Pierres and gives the improbable date of 1661 as marking the end of his activity.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 11800 f. 991r; AM Périgueux GG 29 f. 36v, GG 32 f. 57r, GG 33 f. 30v  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 238; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 215 789. Dalvy, Pierre II  Active: 1594  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  B iography: The son of Aymard, he was named as godfather of Thonie, his sister, on 29 June 1594. Illustration 43 Desgraves and others conflate the different book- Signature of sellers and printers named Pierre, and their ca- Pierre II Dalvy, 1594, AM reers are hard to separate. The signatures of Périgueux GG 29 Pierre I and II were, however, markedly different, though the 1594 signature is close to that of the Pierre who married Marie Farnieras and had children in the parish of Saint-Front between 1611 and 1630 – she died the following year and was buried on 2 April 1631. Their son Jean, born in 1618, followed him into the trade. A Pierre Dalvy was also active in Cahors between 1601 and 1605 and might well have been the same person.

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Documents: AM Périgueux GG 29 f. 36v, GG 32 f. 57r, GG 40 f. 64v  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 215 790. Damian, Jean  Active: 1568  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: His name is only known for the publication of the edict of pacification of 1562 printed in 1568 and copied on an earlier Parisian edition. The text survives in four different editions, which seems unlikely for a provincial printer. Further doubt on his existence is cast by the fact that he does not appear in the tax registers for the town and by the strange orthography of the town, spelt ‘Troys’. The arms and woodcut representation of Charles IX on his imprints were used by the prolific Lyon printer Benoît Rigaud on a number of his editions and other material can be sourced to the same printer.  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 42; Lepreux II 94; Louis Morin, ‘Un imprimeur troyen apocryphe. (Jean Damian, 1568)’, Le bibliographe moderne, XII (1908), 171–176; Morin (Ligue) p. 22. Damus, Jean, see Mes, Jean de 791. Dangicourt, Antoine  Active: 1550  Name variations: Angicourt, Antoine d’  Location: Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou  Role: Printer  Address: ‘À l’angle de la rue Pousse-Penil, près le palais’  B iography: He was the son of Pierre and the father of Jacques. His device was inspired by the engravings on the title page of Jacques Kerver’s edition of the Songe de Poliphile.  Motto: ‘Ange y court’  References: Muller p. 18; Fillon p. 148 792. Dangicourt, Jacques  Active: 1598–1624  Name variations: Angicourt, Jacques d’  Location: Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher

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 B iography: A Protestant, he was the son of Antoine. He married Catherine Salmon and, after her death, Suzanne Estouard, who survived him and remarried to the bookseller Martin Giroul. His son, Paul, followed him into the trade and set up shop in Saint-Jean-d’Angély. Jacques printed a few small works, but mainly prospered as a bookseller. The importance of his business is illustrated by the fact that by 1603 he owed Thomas Portau 750 lt for books he had been sent and by 1607 he owed Simon Millanges 380 lt for the same reasons.  Commercial partners: Simon Millanges (Bordeaux); Thomas Portau (Saumur)  Documents: AD Vendée 3 E 37/272, 3 E 37/397, 3 E 37/305  References: RB XVIII p. 65; Muller p. 18; Fillon p. 148 793. Dangicourt, Pierre  Active: 1515–1541  Name variations: Angicourt, Pierre d’  Location: Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the father of Antoine. The Parisian printer Antoine Augereau was the son of his sister-in-law.  References: Fillon p. 148 794. Danhat, Guiraud  Active: 1559  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du palais’  B iography: He married Beatrix de la Strada on 10 September 1559. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 220 f. 22v Danhault, see Pisson 795. Daniel, Jean  Active: 1552  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: This was a pseudonym used by the Genevan printer Jean Crespin on the title page of some copies of his 1552 Bible (USTC 5629).  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 146  References: Chambers n° 163

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796. Danoux, Hugues  Active: [1530]–1562  Name variations: Danour, Hugues; Danoux, Huguenin; Danoin, Heuguenin  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Notre Dame’ (1532–1539); ‘À la porte du palais’ (1544–1545)  B iography: In 1553, he resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre, close to the church, and is known to have bound and sold books to local ecclesiastical institutions. As a publisher he was mainly responsible for editions of the customs of Burgundy as well as edicts and ordinances. His publications are mostly undated.  Commercial partners: Jean Pidié (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Sans mal penser’  Documents: AM Dijon LL 687, LL 691, MM 91 f. 149, MM 94 f. 95; AD Côte-d’Or G 1526 f. 25 & 87  References: RB XXI p. 26–27; Muller p. 16; Skora (Langres) 797. Danoux, Jean  Active: [1503]–1535  Name variations: Danou, Jean; Rupt, Jean de; Danoz, Jean; Davot, Jean; Du Rup, Jean  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame. He stocked and sold a wide variety of books sent by the Parisian publisher Jean Petit though mostly, it would seem, in single copies. He obtained a reduction of four gros on the tax he owed in 1507. The brother of Mongeot, he handed over with his wife his shop in the halles in Dole to him in 1535. It is possible that he might be the Juan Danot ‘Burgunyon’ who was active in Zaragossa in the early 1540s.  Commercial partners: Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Doubs B 2011 f. 588v; AM Dijon G 46, LL 683  References: Skora (Langres); Clément-Janin p. 102; Morisse n° 103 798. Danoux, Mongeot  Active: 1535–1554  Name variations: Rupt, Mongeot de; Dano, Monio; Dano, Mongeot; Danot, Mongeot  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté

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 Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: The brother of Jean, he married Perrette Roy, who was active in the trade after his death (which occurred before 1562). He took over Jean’s shop in the halles of Dole in 1535.  Commercial partners: Jean I des Planches (Dijon); Barthélemy Frein (Lyon); Nicolas Ravel (Dole)  Documents: AD Doubs B 2011 f. 588v  References: RB XXI p. 45–46; Muller p. 16 799. Daon, Guillaume  Active: 1557  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He succeeded Robert II Macé as the official bookbinder of the university of Caen in 1557.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. lxvi 800. Darays, Jean  Active: 1589–1594  Name variations: Darais, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Jeanne Millouet and resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre in 1594.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 5  References: Pasquier p. 110 801. Daré, Thomas  Active: 1597–1618  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la Grosse Horloge, devant le Pélican’ (1597); ‘À la rue des Juifs, près la grande porte du Palais’ (1599–1600); ‘Dans la cour du Palais’; ‘Au bas des degrés du Palais’ (1600); ‘Rue aux Juifs, devant l’Espérance’  B iography: He was born in around 1563 and married Anne Percheron, a Protestant. After the death of Anne in 1609, on 4 February 1610, he married Madeleine Auber. He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1608. He published mainly entertaining and popular texts in cheap, easy to handle formats (duodecimo and smaller). He was condemned in 1605 for having sent copies to be bound despite the fact

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that neither a privilege nor a printer’s name was indicated in the edition. He died on 15 July 1618 and was initially succeeded by his wife. His son, Robert, followed him into the trade.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Loyselet (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485, 5 E 489  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 50; Lepreux III 121; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 306; Gosselin p. 125; Répertoire n° 2555. 802. Dasne, Étienne  Active: 1529–1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He seems not have been a publisher but to have worked for established booksellers such as Michel Angier.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 43–44; B. Normande p. 285–286; Lepreux III 123 803. Dasnières, Pierre  Active: 1561–1597  Name variations: Asnières, Pierre d’  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of Louise Fauvelle and Laurent, a shoemaker. He married Jeanne, the daughter of the bookseller Hilaire Chapitre, on 27 September 1561 and Madeleine Peraud on 12 June 1567. He bought the house of Jean IV de Marnef in 1571. He had died before July 1597.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 297; Clouzot (1907) p. 46; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 507 804. Dauberville, Guillaume  Active: 1496  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the grandfather of Nicolas.  References: Gosselin p. 81 805. Dauberville, Hector  Active: 1483–1502  Name variations: Auberville, Hector d’

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was mentioned as purveying books to cardinal Georges d’Amboise and binding volumes for his newly built castle of Gaillon in 1502.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2517, G 2519  References: Beaurepaire p. 395; Deville p. 437 806. Dauberville, Nicolas  Active: 1508–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the grandson of Guillaume.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2523, G 6881  References: Gosselin p. 81 807. Daubet, Martin  Active: 1515–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Isabeau Michel on 21 January 1522 at which time he resided in the parish of Sainte-Marie la Petite. The only work that he is known to have printed was a missal for the use of Sarum produced for Pierre Guérin.  Commercial partners: Pierre Guérin (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 74; B. Normande p. 260; Gosselin p. 81; Lepreux III 124; Duff p. 37 808. Daugario, Pierre  Active: 1533  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice printer  B iography: Originally from the diocese of Aire, he began an apprenticeship in the workshop of Jean Domaysel on 4 January 1533 for two years.  References: Corraze (Domaysel) p. 99 809. Daulnois, Jacques  Active: 1551  Location: Toul, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Place Saint-Gengoult’  B iography: He is known as the publisher of a single imprint (USTC 110630).  Commercial partners: Jean II Palier (Metz)  References: Ronsin (Lorraine) p. 45–49; Répertoire n° 2569. 810. Dauphin, Jean  Active: 1581–1587  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for having published a book reprinted in Paris and elsewhere in a number of different issues and editions, although no copy of the original is known. However, Dauphin seems to have been a genuine printer as he appears in the registers of the municipal archives in 1584.  References: Turquois p. 353; Lepreux II 95; Morin (Ligue) p. 27. 811. Dauphin, Nicolas  Active: 1537  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Germaine Thévenier and lived in the parish of Saint-Germain.  References: Lhote p. 10 812. Daure, Bernard  Active: 1529  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 813. Daury, Nicolas  Active: 1596–1652  Name variations: Aury, Nicolas d’; Dauray, Nicolas  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Anne Brugeiron in 1596. He was close to the Jesuits to whom he gave many of his belongings at this death in 1652. He was buried in the college chapel.  Documents: AD Haute-Vienne D 13, D 14, D 160

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814. Davantès, Pierre II  Active: 1561–1602  Name variations: Antesignanus Rapistagensis  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1563–1573); La Rochelle, Aunis (1573–1602?)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: The son of Jean, he was born in Rabastens in Gascony and seems to have begun as a bookseller in Geneva in 1561, notably buying and selling books from the Frankfurt fairs and other important local figures such as Laurent de Normandie. Audiat suggests that he took over the Berton workshop in La Rochelle, but gives little proof. It is plausible that he was active in the city as a bookseller, though it seems unlikely he was a printer. His name was deceptively used for a Caen edition by Pierre Le Chandelier in 1572 with a Basel address and for Jacob Stoer in Geneva in 1573 with a La Rochelle address. Though it is possible that he had helped finance the editions or that he allowed his name to be used for commercial reasons, it is clear from the material used that he did not print either.  References: RB XVI p. 33; Muller p. 95–96; Droz (Fausses addresses) p. 379; Audiat p. 17; RIECH; Gilmont p. 223–226; Bremme p. 245–246; Chaix p. 166 815. David, Étienne  Active: 1598  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is assigned a 1598 imprint by the Répertoire bibliographique, but in reality only began his career in Aix-en-Provence over a decade later – the imprint in question is undated.  Commercial partners: Jean Tholosan (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI 2 n° 15; Muller p. 2 816. David, Germain  Active: 1521–1560  Name variations: Davy, Germain  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He married Perrette Morieult, and was the father of Toussaint, who succeeded him. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étiennela-Grande-Église and died before 1562.

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2543, G 3200, G 6245, G 6558, G 6728  References: Gosselin p. 80 817. David, Jean  Active: 1530–1535  Location: Aurillac, Auvergne (1530); Toulouse, Languedoc (1535)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: Active in 1530 in Aurillac where he was a consul of the city, he seems to have sought to ply his trade in Toulouse. In 1535 he was forced by a ruling by the local Parlement to relinquish in favour of Marsal Bordes a bookshop built with the permission of the court between the pillars close to the main hall.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 28 f. 162  References: Bouange II 238 818. David, Joseph  Active: 1600  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du collège à l’enseigne du roi David’  B iography: He was cited as the official printer to the king in an imprint dated 1600 on the baths of Aix-en-Provence. This is, however, a false date as is clear from the much later type and ornaments.  Commercial partners: veuve Charles David (Aix-en-Provence); Jean Tholosan (Aix-en-Provence) 819. David, Pierre  Active: 1514  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  B iography: He is known for having lent a press to Jean Baudoin.  Documents: AD Gironde G 2289 ff. 15–24  References: Labadie p. 29; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 249 820. David, Thomas  Active: 1573–1575  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À la Magdelaine, près le pont’  References: Maignien p. LXXVII

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821. David, Toussaint  Active: 1562–1564  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was the son of Germain and resided, as his father had, in the parish of Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église. He had taken over his father’s business by 1562, but by 1564 he was in bad financial trouble and had to take out a loan because of his ‘great necessity’. He was unable to sign the notary’s minute, appending simply a cross below the text.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200, G 6801, 2E1/438 p. 301 822. David, veuve Charles  Active: 1600  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du collège à l’enseigne du roi David’  B iography: She is cited on the title page of a book dated 1600 on the baths of Aix-en-Provence. However, this is a false date as is clear from the much later type and ornaments.  Commercial partners: Joseph David (Aix-en-Provence); Jean Tholosan (Aix-en-Provence) 823. Daviot, Léonard  Active: 1525–1535  Name variations: Daniot, Léonard; Daviot, Bernard; Dunyot, Léonard  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was present at the marriage of the daughter of Aymeric Preurauld on 20 November 1535. Louis Lombard worked for him in 1532. He had 400 breviaries printed the following year. He was buried in the cemetery of the Augustins in Nîmes before 1556.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 1/214, 2 E 1/540, 3 E 36/181, 2 E 36/202, E 668 824. Davodeau, Antoine  Active: 1563  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer  References: Belle p. 493 Davot, Jean, see Danoux, Jean

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825. Decourtaneuve, Antoine  Active: 1593–1603  Name variations: Courteneuve, Antoine de  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1593); Toulouse, Languedoc (1603)  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Limoges, he was an apprentice in the workshop of Simon Millanges from 8 June 1593. But by 1603 he had left for Toulouse where he printed the works of Guillaume de Nautonier alongside Raymond Colomiès.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 227 826. Decourtaneuve, Gabriel  Active: 1598–1606  Name variations: Courtaneuve, Gabriel de  Location: Bergerac, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He settled in Bergerac in 1598 when the town promised him a house and decent wages. He soon started printing for the town as well as producing works of local interest. However, he seems to have struggled financially and at his death in 1606, his widow and son Jean were forced to ask for help from the town council.  References: Muller p. 8; RB II p. 38; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 105 827. Degoys, Gilles  Active: 1572–1607  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher Illustration 44  B iography: He married Jeannette Signature of Gilles Degoys, 1592, AM Soulier and was the father of two Périgueux GG 28 daughters, Jeanne and Hilaire, who married Pierre Dalvy. They resided in the parish of Saint-Front. As a printer-publisher, he seems to have produced only short editions of the edicts and ordinances of his time that would have been of local interest. In 1572, he obtained a privilege from the Parlement of Bordeaux to print the rulings of the court of the ‘Grands jours’ held in Périgueux. The limits of his business are also highlighted by a transaction he had made with Hugues Barbou in 1594 of a little over 11 écus that was never settled, leaving Hugues’s heirs to consider the sum irretrievable in 1605. In the early seventeenth century, he worked on occasion with his son-in-law who succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Hugues Barbou (Limoges)

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 Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 360 n° 86, C 4018; AM Périgueux GG 28 f. 14r, GG 29 f. 2r, GG 31 f. 50r, GG 32 f. 43r, GG 33 f. 30v, GG 34 f. 16r.  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 70; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 650; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 217; Etchechoury p. 9 828. Degoys, Pierre  Active: 1599–1604  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller  B iography: He married Marthe Boucherelle Illustration 45 with whom he had a son, also named Pierre, Signature of Pierre Degoys, who was baptised on 23 April 1599. They lived 1599, AM Perigueux GG 32 in the parish of Saint-Front. He was godfather to Thonie, the daughter of Pierre Dalvy, on 31 October 1604.  Documents: AM Périgueux GG 32 f. 20r, GG 33 f. 13v & 30v, GG 34 f. 45v. 829. Dehors, Robert  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 830. Delabarre, Nicole  Active: 1548–1565  Name variations: La Barre, Nicole de  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The son of Pierre, he married Agnès Michel, the daughter of a stained-glass painter. Their marriage contract was dated 7 October 1545 and stipulated that the dowry would be of 50 lt or books of an equivalent value. After her death, he remarried to Jeanne Ducrot. The marriage contract was dated 7 March 1564. He did not receive the title of bookseller before 1548.  Documents: AD Yonne E 390, E 499, 3 E7 332 n° 73; AM Auxerre GG 123  References: Ribière p. 113 831. Delabarre, Pierre  Active: 1541–1548  Name variations: La Barre, Pierre de  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy

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 Role: Bookseller  B iography: The father of Nicole, he married Jeanne de Baye. He was described as a merchant after 1548.  Documents: AD Yonne E 389, E 499; AM Auxerre GG 123  References: Ribière p. 113 832. Delacourt, Antoine  Active: 1572–1577  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He printed with Aimé Mesnier between 1572 and 1577 and is not known to have pursued a separate career.  Commercial partners: Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 213 833. Delacourt, Jacques  Active: 1582  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  B iography: He was godfather to the son of Jean Main in 1582.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 213 834. Delahe, Guillaume  Active: 1580–1588  Name variations: Lahaye, Guillaume  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au Terral’  B iography: He married Élisabeth Guasquet with whom he had two sons, Jean (1584) and Guillaume (1587). He worked with local institutions, furnishing the school with prize books in 1580, and binding the municipal tax register in 1587. He bought books from the Lyon publisher Antoine Gryphe to whom he still owed money in 1583 when the debt was passed on to Jean de Tournes and Symphorien Béraud. His second son followed him into the trade and took over his shop after his death.  Commercial partners: Antoine Gryphe (Lyon)  References: Lançon p. 208; Cartier p. 151

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835. Delamare, Guillaume I  Active: [1589]–1632  Name variations: La Mare, Guillaume de  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He married Judith Le Cousturier and was buried on 7 April 1632 in the parish of Saint-Jean.  References: Mellot p. 56 836. Delaulne, Jeanne  Active: 1586–1614  Name variations: Du Ruau, veuve Jean I; Delaulne, Anne; Duriot, veuve Jean I  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame’  B iography: She married Jean I du Ruau and was the mother of Jean II and Pierre. She took over the running of her husband’s shop when he died in 1586 and continued to trade as a bookseller and, on occasion, as a publisher. She lived in the parish of Saint-Jean in the Comporte quarter of the city. She was able to build on the success her husband had made of the workshop. She also republished one of Jean II’s successful titles (USTC 16790). By the end of the century, she was paying more tax than any other member of the book trade in Troyes. At her death in 1614, her shop stocked over 12,000 books of hours. Most of her material was bought by her son, Pierre.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272, F 276  References: Turquois p. 352; Troyes p. 61; Arbour p. 214; Lepreux II 101; Morin (Heures) p. 147 837. Deleaue, Jean  Active: 1524  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  References: Labarre p. 49 838. Delise, Jean  Active: 1600  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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843. Delugré, Étienne  Active: 1548–1568  Name variations: Lugré, Étienne de  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: A Protestant, he married Jacquette Régnault who succeeded him and with whom he had at least two sons – neither of whom seem to have followed him into the trade. He resided in the parish of Saint-Porchaire. He was arrested and condemned to be burnt alive for heresy in 1548 but escaped from the Conciergerie in Paris. Recaptured, he was sent to Poitiers where he was pardoned. He continued to reside in the city where he was also active as an author, contributing epistles that were added to an edition of Tixier de Ravisi’s letters (see USTC 13541), that was perhaps initially published locally in 1554. In 1563, he rented a stall at the palais in Poitiers. He died before 31 July 1572.  Commercial partners: Pierre Moine (Poitiers)  Documents: AD Vienne G 1293  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 275; Weiss p. 296 844. Demays, Antoine  Active: 1516  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Perrossier p. 313 845. Dembat, Bernard  Active: 1574–1588  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had married Astrude Canude and lived in the parish of La Dalbade. He had a son, Jean II, and a daughter, Jeanne, probably from an earlier marriage, since Jean II was already established when the couple had a son, also named Jean. His brother and sister were named as his godfather and godmother on 3 March 1574. Four more children were baptised in the parish: Bernard, on 15 January 1577, Arnaud on 27 May 1578, Jeanne, on 4 October 1582, and another Jean on 23 février 1588.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 17r, 60r, 163v, GG 6 f. 6r. 846. Dembat, Jean I  Active: 1533–1549  Name variations: Dambert, Jean; Ambat, Jean d’

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He lived in the quarter of La Daurade in 1547. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535, but as a publisher he is known for a religious imprint produced with Jean II Chazot (USTC 111896). His son-in-law was arrested as a Protestant during the 1562 purges.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jean II Chazot (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Poncet Le Preux (Paris); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 160; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Haag II 49; Répertoire n° 2852. 847. Dembat, Jean II  Active: 1574  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was Bernard’s son and was named godfather to his brother, also named Jean.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 17r 848. Démon, Guillaume  Active: 1600  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single work (USTC 80225).  References: RB XVII p. 47; Muller p. 20; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 343; Daguin & Frionnet p. 174 849. Demongeot, François  Active: 1599  Name variations: Demonjot, François; Demonzot, François  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller

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 B iography: He was, if Turquois is to be believed, the son of Laurent Demonjot and Marie Béjart. However, the marriage is dated 23 September 1582, which makes the suggested connection improbable. Turquois also described Laurent as a bookseller, but the act simply describes him as a ‘praticien’, which generally means that he practiced law.  References: Turquois p. 352; Turquois (Molière) p. 152. 850. Denis, Jean  Active: 1502–1535  Name variations: Denys, Jean; Danys, Jean; Dionis, Jean; Dionyse, Jean; Dangio, Jean; Dumas, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535.  Commercial partners: Poncet Le Preux (Paris); Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jean II Chazot (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 215 H 44  References: Claudin (1) p. 21; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130 851. Derbus, Jean  Active: 1564  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer  B iography: He was a Protestant and was married on 6 February 1564. Teissier speculates that he was a journeyman printer working for Jean I d’Arras and Odinet Basset.  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 24; Teissier p. 44 852. Des Champs, Étienne  Active: 1548–1549  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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863. Des Marestz, Nicolas  Active: 1586–1596  Name variations: Desmarais, Nicolas  Location: Rennes, Brittany (1586); Nantes, Brittany (1588–1596)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au logis de l’Eraudiere’ (1588); ‘Près le carrefour saint Nicolas’ (1589–1591)  B iography: Active in Rennes in 1586, where it has been presumed that he ran Julien du Clos’s workshop, he left the city for Nantes before the assassination of Henry III. There, he set up a workshop where he initially worked on his own, printing broadsheets and other ephemera for the municipality. After the outbreak of war in 1589, he formed a partnership with the local bookseller François Faverye printing a series of pamphlets and a variety of mostly short works for the Catholic League. He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas, probably in Faverye’s house.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bretel (Rennes); Michel des Marestz (Nantes); François Faverye (Nantes)  Documents: AM Nantes CC 86, CC 127, CC 128, CC 134  References: RB XIX p. 24–28; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 251; La Borderie I p. 83; Granges de Surgères n° 21; Le Page; Lepreux IV 44 & 215; Répertoire n° 2903. 864. Des Murs, Thibaut  Active: 1576  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Brunet identified Des Murs as a fictitious printer and suggested that the texts that bear his name were actually printed in Geneva. Powerful attacks against Henry III and Catherine de Medici, they were reprints of previously issued works certainly printed by a Protestant press. The type is the same as that used by the Genevan printer François Perrin prior to his death in 1571, however, it is unclear who inherited his material at his death.  References: RB X p. 84; Herluison p. 65; Brunet p. 188; Répertoire n° 2904. 865. Desnoyers, Georges  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer

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 B iography: He worked with Jean Desnoyers in 1579.  References: Gosselin p. 116 866. Desnoyers, Jean  Active: 1551–1612  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  B iography: He took on Vincent Larche­ Illustration 46 vesque as an apprentice in 1578. He was Signature of Jean described as a journeyman printer in 1579 Desnoyers, 1569, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 462 and worked with Georges Desnoyers. In the same year, he was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers – a position he held once more in 1606. He was master of the confraternity in 1604. He was wealthy enough to pay off a string of debts incurred by his brother Nicolas, a draper, in 1569. He resided in the parish of Saint-Vivien. He is only known to have signed two books of hours produced for Jean Crevel, neither of which were dated.  Commercial partners: Jean I Crevel (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3188, 2E1/462 f. 66r, 2E1/464 f. 65v  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 84; B. Normande p. 377; Mellot p. 68; Gosselin p. 106 & 114; Lepreux III 129 867. Desnoyers, Pierre  Active: 1578–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: Robert II Brenouzet was employed in his workshop as of 1578. He lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 115–116 868. Despax, Salomon  Active: 1585  Name variations: Des Pect, Salomon; Des Paict, Salomon, Despaix, Salomon  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was named as godfather to the son of a ‘Gayssat’, perhaps the bookseller Jean Gaissat, on 11 August 1585 in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 523

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869. Des Planches, Jean  Active: 1561–1565  Location: Rouen, Normandy Illustration 47  Role: Bookseller Signature of Jean des Planches, 1561, AD  B iography: He was prob- Seine-Maritime 2E1 433 ably related to the Jean I des Planches active in Dijon as their signatures contain certain similarities. They are, however, distinct and done in different hands. At the time of this Des Planches’s activity in Rouen, Jean I was publishing in Dijon. In 1561, he was described as a resident of the parish of Saint-Maclou of Rouen in the local notary minutes. He sourced some of the books he sold in Paris from Robert Bréart. He probably had Protestant sympathies as both Bréart and another of his commercial partners, Jesse Le Sellier, described here as merchants, had previously fled to Geneva before returning to France. In 1565, a similar transaction linked him to Louis Lavanne, one of the habitual clients of the Genevan Laurent de Normandie. By then he had moved to the parish of Saint-Herblanc.  Commercial partners: Robert Bréart (Paris); Louis Lavanne (Orléans)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/433 p. 247, 2E1/442 f. 37v  References: Gosselin p. 106 870. Des Planches, Jean I  Active: 1542–1593  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À Saint-Etienne sous les Tillotz’  B iography: He married Élisabeth and had two sons, Jérémie and Benjamin, and a daughter, Gabrielle, who married the book- Illustration 48 seller Jacques Chouet. His personal address Signature of Jean I des was given in the tax registers as being in the Planches, 1557, AM Dijon L 111 quadrangle of the house of the late president Regal. In 1549, he rented a space in the cemetery between the churches of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Médard, building a stall between two flying buttresses and the pillars of the churches where there had previously been a tool shed. Clearly this was an astute move: he later applied to have the right to expand the stall. A Protestant during part of his early career, he was investigated for an epistle inserted in his edition of a text of Lactentius published in 1556. Following this he seems to have momentarily stopped publishing, resuming only in 1560. His son Jérémie, who followed him into the trade, left for

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Geneva in order to continue to live in the Protestant faith, but Jean converted to Catholicism before 1568 and stocked and sold Catholic works, though he was still treated with suspicion by the local authorities a couple of years later. At the beginning of the wars of the League, he was considered untrustworthy and his name was included on the list of suspects to be imprisoned. He printed for the League in 1590 and seems to have become a committed Catholic by the time of the wars. Nevertheless, the deliberations of the town for 1593–1594 noted that he had been banned from the city and that, having returned to live in the suburbs, he was told to leave on pain of being hanged and strangled. During his career, he was the most important, and often only, printer active in Dijon and worked on a number of occasions for the local municipality. He was the official bookseller of the court of Parlement (1589). He was described as a bookseller in 1553, but as a printer after 1580. A considerable proportion of his output was published in quarto, producing works in this format that other workshops would have printed in octavo. Tabourot described him as ‘gaillard et jovial’. It is worth noting that the register of burghers of Geneva listed Jérémie as being the son of the late Jean des Planches of Dijon in 1583.  Commercial partners: Mongeot Danoux (Dole); Perotte Roy (Dole)  Device: Silvestre n° 1034  Documents: AM Dijon B 186, B 194 f. 212, B 207, B 226, B 231, B 3801, B 4579, C 2087 f. 354, C 2434, C 3071 f. 89v, C 3389 ff. 172 & 175, E 20, LL 111, LL 192–3, LL 201, LL 206 1 & 2, MM 91 f. 139; AD Côte-d’Or Cart. 84 f. 127, E 2210 f. 65, G 1516 f. 9 & 128, G 1526 f. 117  References: RB XXI p. 28–41; Muller p. 16; Clément-Janin p. 13; Belle p. 489; Skora (Langres); Covelle p. 314; Répertoire n° 2964. 871. Des Planches, Jean II  Active: 1593–1600  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: He married Isabelle Burteau, who succeeded him at his death in 1600. He bound books for the local cathedral chapter.  Documents: AD Côte-d’Or G 597 f. 117  References: RB XXI p. 42; Clément-Janin p. 17 872. Des Planches, Maximilien  Active: 1588–1602  Location: Dijon, Burgundy

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 Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He married Bénigne Millière. He was invited to settle in Dole in 1588 by the city’s aldermen. However, he seems to have stayed in Dijon from which he was briefly exiled after having been included on the list of names of those who were to be imprisoned or banned from the city because of their political leanings on 16 January 1589. A month later, it was also resolved that the books that he sought to import into the city from Lyon be checked by the authorities to ascertain the nature of their contents. He bound books for the chapter of the Sainte-Chapelle.  Documents: AM Dijon B 226 f. 209v, B 9, LL 111; AD Côte-d’Or G 1530 f. 55 & 82  References: Clément-Janin p. 113; Franche-Comté p. 76 873. Des Preyz, Jean  Active: 1582–1604  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Proche l’église Saint Mammes’ (1589); ‘Derrière Saint Mammes’ (1590); ‘Au dessus de la rue des pilliers’ (1592); ‘Rue des merciers dites les pilliers’ (1596–1598)  B iography: The son of a ploughman, he married in 1591. He learnt his trade from the canon Jean Tabourot who nurtured him as a child and later gave him his material in 1591 (while retaining usufruct thereof until his death in 1595). He initially worked in Tabourot’s house before setting up his own shop. He was the official printer for the schools of Langres from 1582 and may have been a pedlar of books in Paris in 1587, as is suggested by Pallier but this seems unlikely. His printing activities were initially limited to books of theology and prayers, but in 1590 he successfully applied to be allowed to print edicts, ordinances and other official texts. In January 1598 a theological text that he printed was considered to contain errors and all copies were seized by the bishopric. Des Preyz was forced to defend himself and was warned that henceforth he should have all works officially approved before printing or selling them. His son, Jean II, settled in Chalon-sur-Saône where he began printing in 1601.  Commercial partners: Paris du Mollet (Langres); Jean Tabourot (Langres)  Device: Silvestre n° 1187  Motto: ‘Telle est la gloire des hommes’  Documents: AD Haute-Marne B Langres 231, 2 G 16 f. 359v; AN X/1a 9261 f. 144  References: RB XVII p. 35–39; Muller p. 20; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 343; Pallier p. 67; Daguin & Frionnet p. 171; C. Boquillon, ‘Jean des Preys et son temps’, in P. Choné (ed.), Bêtes édifiantes. Le divertissement d’un ingénieur

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langrois du XVIe siècle, Joseph Boillot (Langres: Conservation des musées de Langres, 1995), 29–35; Répertoire n° 2906. 874. Des Rives, Trophime  Active: 1560  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: Undoubtedly a fictitious printer: he is known for a single work published in two different editions using the same type but completely reset. The real printer was careful to anonymise the appearance of the text by excluding all woodcuts headers and initials. The compositorial practices are reminiscent of Parisian rather than Lyonese practices.  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 48; Pansier II 138 875. Des Rosieres, Jean  Active: 1506–1541  Name variations: Rouzier, Jean de  Location: Montargis, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue perdue, à l’enseigne de la boule’  B iography: He rented a house near the ‘four des barres’ in 1506. He wrote his will on 7 April 1541.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XI carton 2  References: Leloup p. 36 876. Destadens, Blaise  Active: 1559–1608  Name variations: Esradens, Blaise d’  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’  B iography: He was arrested along with Guillaume Fontaine in 1579 for having offered for sale the second edition of the Memoires de l’estat de France sous Charles IX. Initially fined and condemned to amende honorable and banishment from the town, this was commuted on appeal to a simple fine. The books were burnt, but he was able to continue in the trade in which he was active for another thirty years.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 438 n° 64, 3 E 14800 f. 1271r  References: Labadie p. 31; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 270; Loirette (Arrêt) p. 52–53

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877. Destadens, Jean  Active: 1568–1569  Location: Niort, Poitou; La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Catherine Nicodon. Of Protestant faith, he left for La Rochelle where he wrote his will on 15 December 1569.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 6 878. Desvallées, Jean  Active: 1560  Location: Vitré, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the father-in-law of the bookbinder and bookseller Adrien Edelyne who was active in Vitré in 1605.  References: Paris-Jallobert I 167 & 203. 879. Dies, Julien  Active: 1557–1561  Name variations: Diais, Julien  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Perrine Bourbon. In 1559 he submitted a request with other Nantes booksellers to have the exclusive right to print and sell the decisions of the court, replacing Philippe Bourgoignon as the official printers to the Parlement. No imprints survive, however, bearing his name as publisher.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Garnier (Nantes); Gabriel Le Plat (Nantes); Mathurin Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 5 n° 1  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 251; Granges de Surgères n° 24 880. Doge, Jean  Active: 1542–1543  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (2) p. 93 881. Domaysel, Jean  Active: 1520–1550  Name variations: Damoisel, Jean; Domayseu, Jean; Damoysel, Jean

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  B iography: He married Marguerite Giroude on 18 December 1529. The bookseller Eustache Mareschal attended. He lent money to the printers Arnauld Guilhem du Boys and Jean de Guerlins on 17 January 1520. In 1526, he bought a house outside the walls of the city. His business seems to have been successful since he was able to acquire a second house six years later close to the ‘Porte neuve’ – a property he expanded further in 1534. He also owned other properties. He printed principally for his own account and mainly in Latin, though on occasion he worked with local booksellers and, in particular, in partnership with Eustache Mareschal. Together with Mareschal, he also administered the confraternity of Saint John the Evangelist between 1525 and 1529. He also acquired a set of four types with Mareschal and Arnauld Guilhem du Boys which was valued at 300 lt when Du Boys sold his stake in 1526. Pierre Daugario was an apprentice in his workshop in 1533. He died in late 1550 and was buried in the Augustinian convent of Toulouse on 31 December. He was survived by his wife who died in 1553.  Commercial partners: Jean Champaigne (Toulouse); Mathieu Du Mont (Toulouse); Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 53–55; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 158; Corraze (Domaysel) 882. Dominique, Antoine  Active: 1587–1620  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1587); Dole, Franche-Comté (1587–1620)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Mont-Rolant au près du collège’  B iography: His workshop was prolific, producing a wide variety of books ranging from broadsheets to large folios that required over 500 sheets of paper. Prior to settling in Dole, he bought his materials in Lyon in 1587 where he printed a first book for a consortium of local booksellers. On moving to Franche-Comté, he became the official printer and bookseller of the university of Dole and purveyor of books to the Jesuit college. His edition of Louis Gollut’s Mémoires historiques (USTC 6345), produced for the author was banned in the nearby city of Besançon in 1593. He died in 1620.  Commercial partners: Jean Poyvre (Dole); Jean Ravoillot (Dole)

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 Documents: AD Doubs G 179 f. 30, G 502; AM Dole 78/18 bis f. 165v; AM Besançon BB 43 f. 85v  References: RB XXI p. 55–59; Muller p. 16; Baudrier I 129; Franche-Comté p. 79; Répertoire n° 3064. 883. Donadieu, Philippe  Active: 1520–1525  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Puech Amadenc near the schools. His shop was an outlet for the books of the Lyon publisher Martin Boillon before being replaced in Albi by Jean Richard.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 69; Portal p. 115 884. Donati, Jean  Active: 1481  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He was an illuminator as well as a bookbinder. In 1481, he entered into a partnership with the bookseller Joachim de Rome.  Commercial partners: Joachim de Rome (Avignon)  References: Pansier I p. 133 885. Doriou, Jean  Active: 1597–1601  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des Cordeliers’  B iography: He married Louise Clément.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 298; Clouzot (1907) p. 47 886. Doriou, Pierre  Active: 1588–1638  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue Saint Pierre’ (1597)  B iography: He married Marie Rames with whom he had a daughter named

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Catherine in January 1590 who was later to marry the printer-booksellers Pierre Février in 1617 and Hilaire Mauclerc in 1623. He resided in the parish of Saint-Denis. His second wife was Julienne Rousseau who bore him two sons, Jean (1592) and Pierre (1599). On 16 June 1603, he married Renée Salbert, his third wife, who succeeded him at his death on 19 February 1638. Their son, Sébastien, succeeded her in 1666. Pierre was close to François Faverye; his third wife was godmother to François’s daughter, Thiennette in 1604. He was also close to Nicolas de Heuqueville as he was his daughter’s godfather in 1603. Originally simply a bookseller who supplied the municipality in paper, he became a printer after the departure of Nicolas des Maretz in 1597 as the wars of the Catholic League drew to a close. The official printer and bookseller of the university of Nantes, he was also the king’s printer in the city after 1598. He was also engaged in the secondhand book trade and sought to buy with François Boucher the considerable collection of Pierre Le Gallo in 1592. His involvement with the university led him to seek to have the institution ban local booksellers who sought to profit from the lucrative student market by undercutting the price of his books by having the texts the students needed printed by more competitive workshops in other cities. He refused to lower his own prices, however, stating that he would prefer to wipe his posterior with his imprints than sell them cheaper. His device copied the pelican woodcut used by the Marnef family.  Commercial partners: François Boucher (Nantes); Théodore Reinsart  Documents: AM Nantes CC 86/16; CC 141, CC 348, GG 45, GG 47, GG 195, GG 418, GG 692; AD Loire-Atlantique B 5649 n° 7  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 251; RB XIX p. 29–30; Muller p. 54; La Borderie I p. 111; Arbour p. 196; Granges de Surgères n° 25 & 26; Le Page; Lepreux IV 216; Répertoire n° 3076. 887. Dorval, André  Active: [1500]  Location: Sées, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He was the brother of Henri, a merchant parchment seller in Sées in 1493, at which time André was a student in Paris. He is known as a publisher for a single undated edition (GW M4153420).  Commercial partners: Richard Auzoult (Rouen); Noël de Harsy (Rouen)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XIX 8  References: RB XXII p. 83

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888. Dreux, Jean  Active: 1508–1518  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He seems to have been mainly active as a bookbinder, using a plaque with the arms of the local bishops François and Philippe de Luxembourg that was undoubtedly fashioned in Paris.  References: Bouton p. 441; Gid & Laffitte p. 225 889. Drindron, Pierre  Active: 1576  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: The existence of this printer is based on a false imprint (USTC 67867) which was in fact printed with Lyon material and compositorial habits. The floral device on the title page is the one later used by Jean Pillehotte (Baudrier’s n° 8).  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 131; Baudrier II 275; Répertoire n° 3114. 890. Drobet, Georges  Active: 1579–1596  Name variations: Robet, Georges de  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1579–1588 & 1595–1596); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  B iography: He started his career in Paris where he became bookbinder to the king in 1587 – a title that he sometimes used on the books he published. Only one of his bindings has as yet been identified and he has left more tangible evidence as a bookseller-publisher. He fled Paris after the Day of the Barricades in 1588 and settled in Tours. The books he published there were exclusively duodecimos of verse texts that seem to have been aimed at the royal court. He declared on an act of 1591 that he could not sign his name. He died in 1596 and was succeeded by his widow.  Commercial partners: Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Marc Orry (Tours); Jean Richer (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252  References: RB XXIII p. 139; Muller p. 113; Giraudet p. 18; Renouard p. 119; Gruel p. 67

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891. Droyni, Jean  Active: 1511  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He was originally from Le Mans.  References: Pansier II 42 892. Droz, Jean  Active: 1570  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for two editions of ordinances commissioned by the Lyon printer Pierre Roussin.  Commercial partners: Pierre Roussin (Lyon)  References: RB XXI p. 50 893. Du Bois, Jean  Active: 1495  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: There is no absolute proof that he was active in Auxerre, but this seems probable.  Device: TW ma13252  References: TW of1917 894. Du Bois, Nicolas  Active: 1582  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1582)  Role: Printer  B iography: This printer is known for a single polemical piece (USTC 60251). Lepreux suggests this might be a pseudonym.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 132 895. Du Bois, Simon  Active: 1525–1535  Name variations: Du Boys, Simon; Sylvius, Simon  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1525–1529 & 1534–1535); Alençon, Normandy (1529–1534)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue Judas’ (Paris)

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 B iography: Originally from near Soissons, he first established himself in Paris. He left for Alençon to be under the protection of Marguerite de Navarre, the king’s sister, in 1529. There, as the town’s prototypographer, he produced a series of evangelical works, mostly printed without address or easily identifiable characteristics. On 13 October 1529 he took on Denis Le Mesle as an apprentice for three years. He returned to Paris in 1534 but was declared a heretic and vanished in 1535. He also printed with the false address of Basel, Thomas Volff.  Commercial partners: Galiot du Pré (Paris); Pierre Lasne (Le Mans); Pierre Roffet (Paris); Geofroy Tory (Paris); Antoine Vérard (Paris); Chrestien Wechel (Paris)  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 20  References: RB XXV p. 8–12; Muller p. 2; Despierres p. 11; Lepreux III (2) 44; Renouard p. 121; Tricard, A., ‘La propagande évangélique en France. L’imprimeur Simon du Bois (1525–1534)’, in G. Berthoud (ed.), Aspects de la propagande religieuse (Geneva: Droz, 1957) 1–37; Répertoire n° 3139. 896. Du Bosc, Antoine  Active: 1505–1507  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: François Ruffy was a ‘valet de librairie’ in his shop for three years in 1507.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2752 f. 297  References: Cassagnes-Brouquet (Stationnaires); Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 897. Dubois, Jacques  Active: 1598–1637  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived close to the church of Saint-Rémy.  References: Labarre p. 49 898. Dubois, Jean  Active: 1555  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 105

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899. Dubois, Jean  Active: 1588  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer  References: Guibert p. 32 900. Dubois, Pierre  Active: 1570–1574  Location: Pau, Béarn  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue près du temple’  B iography: He was the father of Jean and Guillaume neither of whom seem to have followed their father into the trade. He completed tasks assigned by Jeanne d’Albret who had also enabled him to have a small shop strategically placed close to the Protestant temple. He died on 23 October 1574 and was succeeded by Jean II Saugrain. His two sons were placed with a local pastry maker and the shop was sold.  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques E 2002  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 177; Lacaze p. 37 901. Du Boys, Arnauld Guilhem  Active: 1520–1527  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’ (1522–1523)’; ‘À Lostal de Savada’ (1527)  B iography: He seems to have begun his career working with Jean de Guerlins with whom he borrowed money from the printer Jean Domaysel on 17 January 1520, leaving some of their material as security. He printed between June 1522 and December 1523. In this role, he seems to have worked in partnership with Jean Domaysel and Eustache Mareschal, to whom he sold his stake in the press and the four types that they co-owned in 1526 for 100 lt. At this point he seems to have gone to work for Jean de Clauso.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean Domaysel (Toulouse); Mathieu Du Mont (Toulouse); Jean de Guerlins (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 59; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 146; Corraze (Domaysel)

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902. Du Boys, Gauthier  Active: 1519–1521  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Crespine Rousselet. A single work bearing his name, a book of hours for the use of Châlons, has been identified (USTC 72842). Printed in Paris, the contract stipulated that it would have a print run of 800 copies, but none survive. He was Gauché Preta’s nephew.  Commercial partners: Aubry de Brayne (Châlons-en-Champagne); Jacques Nyverd (Paris)  References: RB XVII p. 11; Muller p. XIII; Lhote p. 10 903. Du Boys, Jacques  Active: 1577–1585  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of Rémi and married Agnès Bourgeotte in 1577, at which point he was described as a journeyman printer. The following year he was characterised as a merchant bookseller, though his career was short: by December 1586 he had died and his widow remarried to the bookseller Pierre de Brayne.  References: Lhote p. 15 904. Du Boys, Jean  Active: 1561  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for having printed some of the sermons of Jean de Monluc.  References: Pansier II 133; RB XXIX 14 n° 17 905. Du Boys, Marie  Active: 1594  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: She lived in the parish of Saint-Alpin.  References: Lhote p. 29 906. Du Boys, Nicolas  Active: 1548–1589

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 Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: His second wife was Marie Prioux whom he married in 1588 and lived in the parish of Saint-Germain. Though he is attested as a bookseller and bookbinder, he was not a printer-publisher, as has been suggested: two imprints did appear with one declaring that it was printed by Du Boys, another for him, but in both cases these polemical pamphlets were printed in Troyes by Jean Moreau. It is highly unlikely that a Châlons bookseller would be involved in the publication of Leaguer tracts as the city had chosen Henry IV’s faction.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204  References: RB XVII p. XIII; Muller p. 13; Lepreux II 253; Lhote p. 14 907. Du Boys, Pierre  Active: 1589  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: The sole book with which he is associated (USTC 20324) was a Leaguer pamphlet printed with the material of the Troyes printer Jean Moreau. As there is no other known proof of his existence, unlike for Nicolas du Boys, he must be considered to be a fictitious printer.  References: RB XVII p. 14; Muller p. XIII; Lepreux II 253; Lhote p. 19 908. Du Boys, Rémi  Active: 1542–1560  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married Barbe Leblef, the contract is dated 25 April 1553, with whom he had three children. His son Jacques succeeded him, whilst one of his daughters, Magdeleine, married the bookseller Germain I Nobilly. The family lived in the parish of Saint-Alpin. He imported books from Paris.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204  References: Lhote p. 11 909. Du Breil, Arnaud  Active: 1598–1620  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne

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 B iography: He was a Protestant and the father of Jean whom he had baptised at the Calvinist church of nearby Vitré. He had married Jeanne Jouan in the same church on 24 November 1561. Despite his faith, he was the official printer to the king and to the Parlement of Brittany as early as 1565. He never let his religion interfere with his publications although he did publish a book in the Protestant stronghold of Vitré, becoming the town’s prototypographer. His early career is not well known, but he may well be the ‘Julien du Cloz’ who worked as a journeyman with Nicolas Duchemin in Paris on 2 March 1556. Certainly, he was influenced by the Parisian style of printing and used royal arms copied on those that feature on the title pages of Nicolas Bonfons. Though he had initially acquired some of the material of Pierre Le Bret on arriving in Rennes, he was also a punch cutter, devising his own types, though he sometimes used common existing types such as Robert Granjon’s ‘Gros Cicéro’. He also appears to have used the pseudonym ‘Jean Le Gascon’. As a publisher, he proved to be ambitious and unafraid to take on the might of powerful Parisian booksellers such as Jacques du Puys when they obtained conflicting privileges in 1580.  Commercial partners: Jean Goderon (Rennes); Bertrand Jochault (Rennes); Pierre Le Bret (Rennes)  Device: Silvestre n° 1102  Motto: ‘Lampeite kaieite’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 75, 124, 182, 296, 299  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 B a 9 f. 56, C 2642, C 2884, C 2892, 3 E 377; AN Minutier central étude LXXIII carton 49  References: RB XIX p. 63–69; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 251; Paris-Jallobert I 41 & 82; Lepreux IV 46; Répertoire n° 3163. 919. Ducquet, Jean  Active: 1456–1480  Name variations: Duquet, Jean  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des Soufflets’  B iography: He lived in the cathedral quarter of the city.  Documents: AD Somme G 1455  References: Labarre p. 48

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920. Ducros, Jean  Active: 1497–1515  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  B iography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  References: Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–61 921. Ducros, Philippe  Active: before 1580  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: His widow, Jeanne Varlet, remarried to a Mathieu Clauchie by contract of 3 September 1580.  Documents: AD Gard 3 E 37/47 922. Dufaur, Pierre  Active: 1573  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  B iography: He married Jeanne Gravillaque on 4 June 1573 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 574 f. 55r Dufern, Thomas, see Fert, Thomas de 923. Dufour, Gilles  Active: 1509  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He acted as a proxy for the Rouen bookseller Martin Morin in the lawsuit that opposed Morin to Jean Laurens in 1509.  Commercial partners: Martin Morin (Rouen)  Documents: AM Amiens FF 33 f. 53v  References: Labarre p. 337 924. Dufour, Guillaume  Active: 1509  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He had a stall on the cathedral square. He died before 1518 at which point the stall had passed on to his heirs.  References: Labarre p. 46 925. Du Four, Pierre  Active: 1577  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He bought a small consignment of mainly religious books directly from Christophe Plantin in 1577.  Commercial partners: Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch 17 f. 467 926. Dufour, Madeleine  Active: 1597  Name variations: Mallard, veuve Thomas II  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais, à l’homme armé’  B iography: She married Thomas II Mallard and, after his death, took over the running of the shop, publishing at least one edition under her own name (USTC 6713). She remarried to Théodore Reinsart in 1597 at which point her new husband described her as ‘une femme de bien et de tresbonne reputation’ and emphasised her prudence. She remained actively involved in the trade, writing to Jan I Moretus about their debts in August 1599. She died before 1615.  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 453–461  References: Arbour p. 363; Lepreux I 368; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6567. 927. Dufour, Thomas  Active: 1501–1519  Name variations: Du Four, Thomas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He obtained a privilege from 13 February 1517 to print, ‘à prix modéré’, ordinances on hunting passed by the Parlement of Rouen. He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2519, G 2520  References: RB XIV p. 73; B. Normande p. 259; Gosselin p. 77

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928. Du Gort, Guillaume  Active: 1596–1634  Name variations: Du Gord, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: The son of Jean I, the brother of Nicolas II and Jean II, he was of Protestant faith. He died in 1634.  References: Mellot p. 79; Lesens p. 333 929. Du Gort, Jacques  Active: 1523–1546  Name variations: Du Gord, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was the father of Robert I and Jean I and resided successively in the parishes of Saint-Lô and Saint-Maclou. He was also described as an illuminator in 1545–1546. His son Robert succeeded him.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2824  References: Gosselin p. 88; Beaurepaire p. 396 930. Du Gort, Jean I  Active: 1543–1560  Name variations: Du Gord, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He was the second son of Jacques, the brother of Robert I, and the father of Jean II, Guillaume and Nicolas. He married

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Jeanne Theroulde, the widow of Pierre Osmont, who died in 1557. Jean I died three years later. Both were buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Rouen where they had resided. Lesens describes him as a Protestant. As a publisher, he worked extensively with his brother between 1544 and 1554 producing a mix of mainly religious and often facetious literary works.  Commercial partners: Jacques Aubin (Rouen); Nicolas Aubin (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Jean Houdin (Rouen); Robert Le Houé (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Robert Masselin (Rouen); Richard Petit (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); veuve Jean I Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 376  Mottos: ‘De gort en gort’; ‘Qui en prent unc tourjous pesche’  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 19, 44, 110, 112, 133, 173, 188; Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 146  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200, G 7329, G 8749  References: Gosselin p. 88; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 306; Muller p. 97; Répertoire n° 3175. 931. Du Gort, Jean II  Active: 1587–1614  Name variations: Du Gord, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le palais’  B iography: The son of Jean I, he was the brother of Nicolas II and Guillaume. He was of Protestant faith.  References: Mellot p. 79; Gosselin p. 88; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 306 932. Du Gort, Nicolas  Active: 1569–1609  Name variations: Du Gord, Nicolas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En Erbanne, près l’image Saint Romain’ (1587), ‘Près le grand aître Notre Dame’ (1606)  B iography: He was the son of Jean I and the brother of Guillaume and Jean II. Jean Chollain began a three-year apprenticeship in his workshop in 1579, another apprentice, Jacques Marion, started in 1586. As a publisher he is known for a single work of joyful literature that resulted in a condemnation by the parlement of Normandy following a complaint

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made on behalf of the cardinal of Bourbon in 1587. The work was described as scandalous and his shop was visited by the local authorities. He was of Protestant faith as was most of his family, but still seems to have been master of the confraternity in 1608. His position at the heart of the Rouen book trade is underlined by the fact that he served on no fewer than four occasions as warden of the community of booksellers and printers between 1588 and 1603.  Commercial partners: Louis Petit (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483, 5 E 485, 5 E 489, 1 BP 9361  References: Mellot p. 79; Gosselin p. 88; Lesens p. 333 933. Du Gort, Pierre  Active: 1569–1572  Name variations: Du Gord, Pierre Illustration 50  Location: Rouen, Normandy Signature of Pierre du Gord, 1569,  Role: Bookseller AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 463  Address: ‘Près les trois cygnes’  B iography: He was the son of Robert I and uncle of Robert II. He married Jeanne Annart and lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne-de-la-grand e-église. A Protestant, he was killed along with his wife in the massacre of 17 September 1572 that followed the Parisian Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.  Commercial partners: Louis Petit (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/463 f. 72r  References: Gosselin p. 88; Haag IV 725; Lesens p. 333 934. Du Gort, Robert I  Active: 1539–1563  Name variations: Du Gord, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des Libraires’  B iography: He was the eldest son of Jacques and the brother of Jean I. He married Collette du Bust; Pierre was their son. They resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou in his father’s house. As a publisher, he worked extensively with his brother between 1544 and 1554 producing a mix of mainly religious and often facetious literary works.  Commercial partners: Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert Le Houé (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen);

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Robert Masselin (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); veuve Jean I Petit (Rouen); Guérault Sebire (Rouen); Florent Valentin (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 376  Mottos: ‘De gort en gort’; ‘Qui en prent unc tourjous pesche’  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 19, 44, 110, 112, 133, 173, 188; Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 146  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 88; Répertoire n° 3176. 935. Du Gort, Robert II  Active: 1572  Name variations: Dugord, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près Saint Lo’  B iography: He was the nephew of Pierre. A Protestant, he was killed in the massacre of 17 September 1572 that followed the Parisian Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.  References: Haag IV 725; Lesens p. 333 936. Dujardin, Jean  Active: 1524–1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1524); Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy (1524–1526)  Role: Printer  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Vivien in Rouen before settling in Lyons-la-Forêt in 1524. It has thus far been impossible to identify any works produced on his press and he probably worked anonymously for other publishers.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 89; Lepreux III 144 937. Du Lac, Louis  Active: 1572  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He had a daughter named Françoise who was baptised on 13 July 1572, at which point he resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 554 67r

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938. Dulouvre, Guillaume  Active: 1510–1511  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Denis.  References: Gosselin p. 69 939. Dumas, Jean  Active: 1556  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Saint-Christol in the diocese of Le Puy, he began a two-year apprenticeship with the bookseller Antoine Gouzet on 30 April 1565.  References: Puech (Apprentissage) p. 58 940. Dumesnil, Jean  Active: 1486–1493  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was mainly described as a scribe. He lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin.  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir E 2038; Jusselin p. 4 941. Du Molin, Sébastien  Active: 1584–1618  Name variations: Du Moulin, Sébastien; Moulin, Sébastien Illustration 51  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1584– Signature of Sébastien du Molin, 1591 AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 1590); Tours, Touraine (1591–1618)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la court de parlement’ (1594); ‘En la grande rue’ (1596–1600); ‘En la grande rue devant Saint Julien’ (1600)  B iography: He married Catherine Motheron with whom he lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin, and later remarried to Isabeau Duperray. Initially active in Paris, he attempted to stay in the capital after the rise of the Catholic League, publishing up until 1590. But in October he felt compelled to leave, his assets were seized, and he settled in Tours. There, he

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published systematically with Mathieu Guillemot between 1591 and 1594, but when the latter returned to Paris, Sébastien stayed in Tours printing independently. There he continued to produce high-quality books, using rubrication and, on occasion, Civilité type. He was last mentioned as alive in March 1621.  Commercial partners: Georges Drobet (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Marc Orry (Tours); Jean Richer (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252, 3E5/270, 3E5/259; AN Minutier central étude XXIII/218 f. 268  References: RB XXIII p. 140–143; Muller p. 113; Giraudet p. 18; BVH Minutes; Grandmaison (Registres) p. 346; Ardouin-Weiss p. 14; Répertoire n° 7100. 942. Du Mollet, Paris  Active: 1585  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint, a high-quality book of hours co-produced with Jean des Preyz in Langres (USTC 16357).  Commercial partners: Jean des Preyz (Langres) 943. Du Mont, Adam  Active: 1573–1574  Name variations: De Monte, Adamus  Location: Orange, Holy Roman Empire (1573); La Rochelle, Aunis (1574)  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: This is a fictitious address: the imprints were from the presses of Michel Schirat in Heidelberg.  Device: Silvestre n° 588  References: RB XVI p. 35 & XXV p. 59; Muller p. 95–96 944. Du Mont, Antoine  Active: 1529–1531  Name variations: Du Monde, Antoine; Del Mont, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city but had changed occupation by 1533 and was no longer a bookseller.

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 Commercial partners: Mathieu du Mont (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 161 945. Du Mont, Gilles  Active: 1543  Name variations: Montanus, Ægidius  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is only known through a provenance inscription in a book bought in Verdun in May 1543.  Documents: BM Verdun 17067 946. Du Mont, Jean  Active: 1525  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiv 947. Du Mont, Mathieu  Active: 1510–1543  Name variations: Du Monde, Mathieu; Del Mont, Mathieu; Mundo, Mat­ hieu de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher, bookbinder  B iography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He acted as a factor first for Simon Buyer then for the Lyon bookseller Simon Vincent. As such he handled large quantities of books, buying from the latter over 1400 lt of merchandise in 1518. He was elected to represent the profession in 1533. He also regularly bound books for the local parlement, on one occasion binding 40 registers for the court. As a publisher, he is known for a single work (USTC 64622).  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bordalet (Laval); Simon Buyer (Lyon); Jean Domaysel (Toulouse); Antoine du Mont (Toulouse); Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Pierre Muret (Bort-les-Orgues); Simon Vincent (Lyon)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 20 f. 277, B 29 f. 276, B 32 f. 216, B 33 f. 144  References: RB XX p. 58; Claudin (1) p. 20; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64–65 948. Dumouchel, Guillaume

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 Active: 1578–1617  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue beauvoisine, près du gallon’ (1606)  B iography: He was described as a journeyman printer in 1578 and 1580 then as a master printer in 1597. He was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city that same year. The only known surviving edition by him was printed during the early seventeenth century for Nicolas II du Gort.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 87; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 155 949. Dumouchel, Jean  Active: 1578–1588  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He served his apprenticeship in the workshop of an unidentified printer named Nicolas Sevestre (it is unclear when or where). He was described as a journeyman printer in 1578. He unsuccessfully attempted to become a master printer without producing a master piece in 1588.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485, 5 E 489  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 87; Lepreux III 156 950. Du Moulin, Jean  Active: 1508–1520  Name variations: Moulin, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la seille, près l’éperon’  B iography: He principally seems to have worked as a printer for other publishers. He lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Richard Macé (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 258  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 156; Aquilon p. 307 951. Du Moulin, Jean  Active: 1517

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 Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la Scille’  B iography: He is known for a single imprint celebrating the baptism of Francis I’s eldest son (USTC 80244).  References: RB XXIII p. 37 952. Du Moustier, Olivier  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 953. Du Parc, Robert  Active: 1562–1564  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1562); La Rochelle, Aunis (1564)  Role: Journeyman printer  B iography: He married Agnès de Saint-Estienne. He was a journeyman printer originally from Darnetal, near Rouen, where he learnt his trade. He left for Paris in around 1548 where he worked as a journeyman printer for a number of different masters. However, he struggled to find sufficient work and in 1561 he had temporarily abandoned his career as a printer, serving as a soldier in July 1562. On 12 October of the same year he was tried for having used his knowledge of printing to produce counterfeit money and for having participated in a murder. During his interrogation, it was also alleged that he had defended Protestant ideas. Two days later, he was condemned to two years’ service on a galley, during which he had an ear cut off for having incurred the wrath of the captain. His freedom was bought by Barthélemy Berton in 1564 after his ship accosted in La Rochelle. Berton paid 200 lt to free him, establishing that he would retrieve the sum from the wages he would have paid for him to work on his presses.  Documents: AN X/2b 34  References: Droz p. 13; Renouard p. 130; Guérin p. 68–69 954. Du Perrier, Guillaume  Active: 1518

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Illustration 52 Device used by Raphaël du Petit-Val

956. Du Peyron, Jacques  Active: 1566–1611  Name variations: Du Perron, Jacques  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Sur les degrés de l’échelle de la vieille salle du palais’ (1571); ‘Sur le grand degré et banc cour du Palais, au dessus de la maison ou choppe appellée Paradis’ (1611)  B iography: Born in Barsac, he married Ragonde Rambault. He sourced his books from other provincial providers such as the Angoulême printer Olivier de Minières, but also from major centres further afield such as Lyon and Antwerp. He also bound the registers of the Parlement of Bordeaux, an institution to which he maintained close ties. He received compensation because of the building work and repairs carried out to the Parlement in December 1571 as his stall was situated on the stairs leading to the old chamber of the courts.  Commercial partners: Olivier de Minières (Angoulême); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart; Jean Veyrat (Lyon)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Gironde 1 B 340 n° 184, 1 B 350 n° 1, 1 B 351 n° 28, 1 B 369 n° 242, 1 B 379 n° 132, 1 B 386 n° 349, 1 B 431 n° 238, 1 B 439 n° 257, 1 B 484 n° 318  References: Labadie p. 33; Baudrier IV 396; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 303

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957. Du Plantier, Guillaume  Active: 1600–1634  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  B iography: By 1617 he was described as a bookseller and, by 1632, as a burgher of the city and master bookseller.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 615; Jurade II 439 958. Dupont, Jacques  Active: 1591  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  B iography: A printer of little means, he was considered too poor to be taxed by the municipality of Troyes in 1591. He lived in the Croncels quarter.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272 959. Dupont, Sandrin  Active: 1460–1478  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: He seems to have had a long career that spanned both the manuscript era and the beginning of the sale of printed books. He died in 1478 and was succeeded by his widow.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2 G 2609, G 3372 960. Dupont, veuve Sandrin  Active: 1478–1479  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  B iography: She succeeded her husband in 1478 and kept his stall next to the cathedral.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2 G 2609  References: Skora (Rouen) p. 67 961. Du Poys, Jean  Active: 1523  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller

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 B iography: He represented Pierre Armandi in a local lawsuit.  Commercial partners: Pierre Armandi (Avignon) 962. Du Pré, François  Active: 1578  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: This is a fictitious printer invented to conceal the fact that the work for which he was supposed to be responsible, an anti-Spanish pamphlet (USTC 4159), was in fact printed in the Low Countries. This is suggested by the quarto format, typical of Netherlandish pamphlets, and the material used – the ornate M is close to those used by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp.  References: RB XVII p. 113 963. Du Pré, Jean  Active: 1481–1504  Name variations: Larcher dit Du Pré, Jean  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1481–1504); Chartres, Orléanais (1482–1483); Tours, Touraine (1485); Abbeville, Picardy (1486–1487)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The brother of the Nantes printer, Étienne Larcher, he was an itinerant printer based in Paris and one of the first French practitioners to introduce woodcuts into his imprints. He seems to have lent his material to a wide variety of different provincial printers.  Commercial partners: Arnoul Bocquillon (Châlons-en-Champagne); Pierre Gérard (Abbeville); Étienne Larcher (Nantes); Jean Le Bourgeois (Rouen)  Devices: Renouard (Marques) n° 259–260.  Types: TW ma00598–ma00599, ma00602–ma00605, ma00607–ma00608, ma00615–ma00619, ma00624, ma01293–ma01329, ma01340, ma07784– ma07788, ma11910, ma13233, ma13238–ma13239, ma13344, ma13412– ma13412, ma13477–ma13479  References: TW of0764, of0756, of0351; Répertoire n° 3196. 964. Du Pré, Jean  Active: 1484–[1503]  Location: Salins, Franche-Comté (1483–1485); Lyon, Lyonnais (1485–1503); Uzès, Languedoc (1493); Avignon, Papal States (1497)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 B iography: He was an itinerant printer based in Lyon. In Salins he seems to have worked as part of a short-term partnership with two other typographers.  Commercial partners: Benoît Bigot (Salins); Claude Bodram (Salins)  Types: TW ma02757–ma02759, ma03557, ma03558, ma04108, ma13551, ma13552, ma04109–ma04111  References: RB XXIV p. 21; Muller p. 53; Pansier I 185; TW of0339; Répertoire n° 3333. 965. Dupuis, Pierre  Active: 1554–1562  Name variations: Puteus, Petrus; also known as Vascosan  Location: Antwerp, Low Countries (1554); Toulouse, Languedoc (1555–1562)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au coin de la porterie, côté observance, à l’enseigne de la fontaine’  B iography: He was the nephew of the Paris printer Michel de Vascosan and, like is uncle, does not seem to have used a device on the title pages of the books he published. He worked initially for his uncle, being dispatched to Antwerp where he was active in 1554 before being recalled to Paris. There, he selected 1900 lt’s worth of books to be taken to Toulouse where he set up shop. The business seems to have been profitable as he was able to launch his career as a publisher in the city. In that capacity, he seems solely to have worked with the local printer Guyon Boudeville. He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562 and hanged.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 278, 292  References: RB XX p. 165; Haag V 911; Charon p. 145; Bèze III 33 966. Du Puy, Guillaume  Active: 1522–1543  Name variations: Podio, Guillaume de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  B iography: He married Gaillarde Faure and died in 1543. He was described as a bookseller in 1526 and also worked as a bookbinder for the local municipality. He was an administrator (bayle) of the corporation in 1533. He seems never formally to have appeared on a title page as a publisher but did join a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in

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1535. He was described as the late Du Puy in the 29 May 1544 privilege of the customs of Toulouse where it was indicated that he had obtained the same privilege a year earlier on 26 February 1543 (USTC 51278).  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  Documents: AM Toulouse CC 2388 f. 187  References: Claudin (1) p. 145; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 131 967. Du Rac, Jean  Active: 1579–1585  Name variations: Duraq, Jean  Location: Nérac, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He furnished a selection of religious and scholarly books, as well as Florentine paper, ink and quills to the king of Navarre for his own use and for that of his entourage.  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 79, B 2501, B 2631, B 2654, B 2747  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 137; D. Plantey, ‘La librairie royale de Nérac autour de 1580’, Albineana, Cahiers d’Aubigné, XXIV (2012), 141–156. 968. Durand, Bertrand  Active: 1599–1631  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: The son of Jean II, he was the official printer to the king in 1599. Like his father before him, he became an alderman of Clermont in 1610 and 1617. He was succeeded by Jean Barbier who used his name after his death, as late as 1640.  References: RB XXIV p. 18; Muller p. 15; Egullion p. 102; Répertoire n° 3337. 969. Durand, Jean  Active: 1556  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 309

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970. Durand, Jean I  Active: 1525–1554  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la croix notre Dame de Grâce’ (1539), ‘Près notre Dame de Grâce’ (1552)  B iography: He was the father of Jean II and was of the same family as the Antoine and Étienne Durand who worked for the Lyon printer Jacques Mareschal. He seems to have started his career as a bookseller, becoming a printer in the early 1550s. He concentrated on the production of local liturgical books and editions of the customs of Auvergne. He was succeeded by his son.  Commercial partners: Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Didier Maheu (Paris); Jacques Mareschal (Clermont-Ferrand); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Petit (Clermont-Ferrand)  Device: Silvestre n° 898 & 1085  Motto: ‘Durant temperata’  References: RB XXIV p. 14–17; Muller p. 15; Egullion p. 101; Répertoire n° 3342. 971. Durand, Jean II  Active: 1560–1596  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près notre Dame de Grace’, ‘Place devant Clermont’  B iography: The son of Jean I, whom he succeeded, he was the father of Bertrand. He was an alderman in Clermont (1573–1582) and seems to have enjoyed a successful career. He used a very simplistic woodcut of the arms of France as a device and printed mainly short works in octavo. At the end of the century, he left his printer’s business to Bertrand, but passed on the running his shop to Michel Villet and Pierre Vyanet.  Motto: ‘Durant temperata’  References: RB XXIV p. 14–17; Muller p. 15; Eguillon p. 102; Répertoire n° 3343. 972. Durandas, Jacques  Active: 1480  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: The prototypographer of Caen, only one edition printed in his workshop has currently been identified (GW 13504).

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 Commercial partners: Gilles Quijoue (Caen)  Types: TW ma03586  References: Delisle (Caen) p. XI; Lepreux III 451; TW of0345 973. Durant, Jean  Active: 1552–1585  Location: Dijon, Burgundy (1552–1553); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1553–1585)  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was the son of a Pierre, from Marigny near Châtillonsur-Seine in Burgundy. He began his career in Dijon and, in 1553, was living in the parish of Saint-Médard. However, of protestant faith, he left Dijon that same year to take refuge in Geneva where he became a very active publisher after a difficult start. As well as working with numerous local printers, he also published in conjunction with Lyon booksellers where he probably had an outlet.  Device: Silvestre n° 557  Motto: ‘De telle mesure que vous mesurerez, il vous sera mesuré. Luc 6.’  Documents: AM Dijon LL 192–193  References: Belle p. 493; RIECH; Calviniana p. 1093; Chaix p. 180; Haag V 965 974. Durant, Jean  Active: 1575–1586  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 77446) printed in 1585, but he was also listed the following year in the baptismal registers of the parish of Saint-Sernin in 1586 alongside Arnaud and Jacques II Colomiès, and again later as the father of Guillaume, who was named as godfather to an oil merchant. He was active as early as 1575 at which point he was godfather to a baker’s son in the parish of La Dalbade.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 2 f. 25r, GG 556 p. 42, 54  References: RB XX p. 180 975. Durant, Pierre  Active: 1591  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single imprint, a short pamphlet on the League (USTC 8661).  References: RB XXIII p. 138

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976. Durerius, Ivo  Active: 1574  Location: Lusignan, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  B iography: This printer is known for a single imprint, a polemical text by Jean de Monluc (USTC 138574) which uses a false address. Analysis of the material used indicates that the book was printed in Frankfurt on the presses of the heirs of Christian Egenolff the elder.  References: RB XXI p. 67; Muller p. 22 977. Du Ruau, Jean I  Active: 1556–1586  Name variations: Dureau, Jean; Duryot, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame, devant la grue’  B iography: He married Jeanne Delaulne with whom he lived in the parish of Saint-Jean. He had an increasingly successful business as is demonstrated by the fact that the amount he paid in taxes was multiplied by a factor of twenty between 1556 and 1585. He was described as a Protestant in 1569 and the local ecclesiastical authorities deliberated on whether to ask him to leave. He was nevertheless an active publisher of Catholic material, printing works of popular piety as well books of hours for the use of a variety of different dioceses that dominated his output. He was also known for royal ordinances printed between 1576 and 1578. He was an engraver who signed some of his woodcuts with his initials. His wife succeeded him at his death in 1586.  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 209  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236, F 247, F 261, F 265; AD Côte-d’Or G 1286  References: Turquois p. 352; Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 69–72; Troyes p. 60; Corrard de Breban p. 27; Lepreux II 99; Morin (Troyes) p. 24; Socard & Assier p. 49; Morin (Ligue) p. 25. 978. Du Ruau, Jean II  Active: 1587–1597  Name variations: Dureau, Jean; Duryot, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame, devant la grue’

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 B iography: The son of Jean I and Jeanne Delaulne, he was born in 1567. He took over the workshop of his father in 1587. His last known publication is dated 1595. He married Anne Fergent, the widow of the bookseller Guyon Collet, in 1597.  References: Turquois p. 353; Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 69–72; Morin p. 426; Morin (Ligue) p. 25. 979. Du Ruau, Nicolas  Active: 1578–1594  Name variations: Dureau, Nicolas; Duryot, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame, devant la truie qui file’  B iography: He was initially described as printer, but after 1586 only as a bookseller. He was certainly active before Jean I’s death, despite what has been suggested by Lepreux. He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. As a publisher, he produced short newsbooks and works of entertainment as well as an edition for local school children. He was succeeded by his wife by 1594.  Motto: ‘Patiens vici’  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265, F 272.  References: Turquois p. 353; Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 80–81; Troyes p. 61; Corrard de Breban p. 27; Lepreux II 99; Morin (Ligue) p. 26. 980. Du Ruau, Pierre  Active: 1595–1642  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Notre-Dame’  B iography: He was the son of Jeanne Delaulne and Jean and was born in 1577. At the death of his mother in 1614, he bought his parents’ material and went on to publish in his own name. He died in 1642.  References: Lepreux II 102; Morin (Heures) p. 147. 981. Du Ruau, veuve Nicolas  Active: 1594  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame’

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 B iography: She succeeded her husband after his death, though she seems to have only acted as a bookseller, Jean Griffard seemingly taking over the running of the printing workshop. She worked closely with Jean Collet.  Commercial partners: Jean Collet (Troyes); Jean Griffard (Troyes)  References: Morin (Ligue) p. 27. 982. Du Ruzeau, Michel  Active: 1497  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer  Commercial partners: Pierre Roault (Avignon); Richard Le Gentilhomme (Avignon) 983. Du Saussay, Pierre  Active: 1584–1587  Name variations: Dussousset, Pierre  Location: Billom, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 231 984. Dusol, Crespin  Active: 1534–1536  Name variations: Ausel, Crespin  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He seems to have been a journeyman bookseller.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 24 & 310 985. Du Souillet, Marin  Active: 1592–1635  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was born in around 1559 and was granted a stall by the cathedral in 1592. He also acted as a stationer. He became warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1612 and again in 1623. He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas where he had a child buried in 1602. His wife died in 1607 and he was himself buried on 8 August 1635.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 4398, G 7330  References: Mellot p. 73

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986. Dustin, Pierre  Active: 1579–1636  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  B iography: He married Françoise, the daughter of the bookseller Laurent Maritan. Before her death on 5 December 1600, they had at least four children together, two of whom, Bernard and Jean, followed their father into the trade. He worked on numerous occasions for the local authorities, mainly binding registers and providing paper. A committed Catholic, he gave two volumes to the local Jesuit college in 1597 and also worked for local religious institutions. He is known to have stocked books for Simon Millanges.  Commercial partners: Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Aveyron E 1779  References: Lançon p. 208 987. Dusu, Jean  Active: 1598  Name variations: Du Sceu, Jean  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He is only known through his role as a witness in a notarial act of 1598 in which he was described as a bookseller and inhabitant of Bordeaux.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1787v Du Teurtre, see Le Deutre 988. Du Tour, Guillaume  Active: 1560  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was of Calvinist faith and lived with his wife in Montpellier where he was taxed because of his religion in November 1560.  References: Guiraud p. 358 989. Duval, Denis  Active: 1563  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6728

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990. Duval, Guillaume  Active: 1518–1547  Location: Pont-Audemer, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for having commissioned the printing of religious works for the use of the diocese of Lisieux. He published in association with the bookseller Michel Angier (1518) and Jean Clémence (1547).  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Jean Clémence (Lisieux); Richard Goupil (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 92; RB XIV p. 15 991. Duval, Jacques  Active: 1562  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Porche Saint-Godard’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 4654 992. Du Vergier, Pierre I  Active: 1552–1583  Name variations: Du Verger, Pierre; La Vergne, Pierre de  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He married Renée Cibot and they resided in the parish of Notre-dame-la-Petite. He sourced some of his stock in Lyon from Barthélemy Molin to whose inheritors he still owed money in 1561. He died before 1 August 1588 at which point his widow arranged for the payment of the remainder of what the printer Aimé Mesnier owed (14 écus 50 sous). She later married Thomas Olivier.  Commercial partners: Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers); Barthélemy Molin (Lyon)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 277; Clouzot (1907) p. 47; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 494, 503 & 505; Baudrier I 39 993. Du Vergier, Pierre II  Active: 1590?  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  B iography: He married and was survived by Catherine Gautier. He died before 1597.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 277

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994. Du Vivier, Jean  Active: 1565–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 106 & 116; Lepreux III 166 995. Dyssac, Guillaume  Active: 1506  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  B iography: Originally from Gourdon near Cahors, he was an apprentice to Jean Grandjean in 1506.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 996. Edelyne, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 997. Église, Didier  Active: 1488  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Grande rue’  B iography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Grande.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 246 998. Eldreton, Jacques  Active: 1589  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller, publisher  B iography: He is known for a single newsbook perhaps printed by Mathurin Marchant (USTC 5934).  References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 67 999. Elis, Jean I  Active: 1520–1553  Name variations: Elys, Jean; Helys, Jean; Helye, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou

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 Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de Lesguillerie, au Chêne verd’  Biography: The son of Jean I, he was baptised on 19 November 1541 and married Renée Baillif. He was an official bookseller to the university of Angers. He was also godfather to the son of the bookseller René Huard in 1586. As a publisher, he is known for a series of liturgical works for local use as well as for an edition of the customs of Anjou. He died on 17 March 1595 and was buried in the church of Saint-Pierre.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Chesneau (Paris); René Huard (Angers); René Troismailles (Angers)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 118 1003.  Elis, Richard  Active: 1553  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 119 1004.  Enot, Guillaume  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1005.  Erault, Fleurys  Active: 1535–1549  Location: Saint-Symphorien-d’Ozon, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 79 1006.  Ernst, Paul  Active: 1506–1514  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: Originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he married Anne. He seems to have been close to the Fradins of Lyon.  Commercial partners: François Fradin (Lyon)  References: Pansier II 42

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1007.  Escarcel, Geoffroy  Active: 1580–1617  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: He married Françoise Perouse in 1603 and worked for the town of Montpellier mainly as a bookbinder.  References: Clerc p. 773 1008. Esmard, Jean  Active: 1578–1583  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the official printer to the university of Bourges. It is possible that he never printed and that this was simply an honorific title.  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 901 1009.  Esperdieu, Guillaume  Active: 1579  Name variations: Esperandieu, Guillaume  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He frequented the Lyon fairs and bought books from Benoît Rigaud.  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 179; Rouchon p. 38 1010.  Estanges, Jacques  Active: 1546–1564  Name variations: Estauges, Jacques; Kündig, Jakob; Parcus, Jacobus; Quadier, Jacques; Cadier, Jacques  Location: Basel, Swiss Confederation (1546–1556 and 1559–1564); Lyon, Lyonnois (1556 and 1561); Besançon, Franche-Comté (1557?)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Generally known under the name Jacobus Parcus, he was born in around 1504. He probably started his career in Lyon but settled in Basel where he was made a citizen in 1537. He was active there as a printer from at least 1546, often working for the Oporinus workshop. During this time, he maintained his connections in Lyon, publishing there on at least two occasions, in 1556 and 1561, under the name Jacques Quadier. One of his imprints published under the name Jacques Estanges (USTC 15067) was carried out for Antoine Ludin, a

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citizen of Besançon and may have been printed in that city – though Lyon is perhaps more probable. He had married Margaretha Helm and died in 1564.  Commercial partners: Jacques Derbilly (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 8; ITB; Baudrier I 368 1011.  Estey, Nicolas d’  Active: 1590–1628  Name variations: Stey, Nicolas; Estayn, Nicolas  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He married Antoinette Andrieu on 13 January 1590 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin. Their daughter, Marguerite, was born nine months later and the master printer Jacques Colomiès was named as her godfather. In February 1592 they had a second daughter named Jeanne. By 1597 he seemed to be supplementing his income with other work as he was described as a messenger of the university of Toulouse, a role he still performed in 1609. However, he remained active in the book trade, going from the status of journeyman printer in the sixteenth century to that of a printer who signed his own work between 1624 and 1628.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 556 p. 255 & 294, GG 575 f. 41v; AD Vienne 4 E 27/29; AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 2 1012.  Estienne, Jacques  Active: 1498  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was listed as one of the booksellers of the university of Caen. He was the brother of Michel.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiii 1013.  Estienne, Michel  Active: 1498  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was listed as one of the booksellers of the university of Caen and was also referred to as a scribe. He was the brother of Jacques.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiii 1014.  Estienne, Noël  Active: 1482–1492

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 Name variations: Stephanus, Noël  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He trained in medicine, receiving his first two degrees in 1485 and 1489, before undertaking a thesis that he finished in 1507. He also taught at the university of Caen where he was still active in 1520. Simultaneously, he was named the official bookseller to the university in 1482 and was probably the person who resigned the position in 1492, allowing Robert I Macé to succeed him. He later became a canon and priest in the parish of Nonant (1506).  Documents: AD Calvados D 64 f. 297; D 65 f. 42; D 370; D 404  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cvi; E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen Age (Geneva: Droz, 1979) I, 582. 1015.  Evrard, Jacques  Active: 1552  Location: Moulins, Bourbonnais  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Poncet Le Preux (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 19 1016.  Exertier, Jean  Active: 1575–1591  Name variations: Lexert, Jean  Location: Basel, Swiss Confederation (1575–1586 & 1592–1607); Besançon, Franche-Comté (1586–1591)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Alby-sur-Chéran in Savoy, he married one of the Monbrott sisters in Konstanz and, later, Justina Leonhard who survived him. He was active as early as 1575 in Basel, first in the workshop of Ulrich Zessinger and then, in 1577, in that of Leonhard Ostein. He could perhaps be the Jean Lexert who worked in Henri Estienne’s workshop in Geneva in 1567, though he is in this case referred to as a Burgundian. The work undertaken in Basel seems to have been profitable as he was able to become a citizen of the town in December 1579, setting up his own workshop as well as buying property with his brother-in-law Jacques Foillet. He moved to Besançon in 1586 where he was joined by Foillet with whom he worked in partnership. There, he was given citizenship in return for agreeing to settle

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durably in the city and undertook to live as a good Catholic. He gave a profession of Catholic faith in the church of Saint John the Evangelist on 14 April 1588 – though rumours of his Protestantism were circulating and emphasising the fact that he had worked in Protestant Basel. Conrad Marchant was a compagnon in the Exertier-Foillet workshop in 1591, as were at least two others. Unlike Foillet, he seems to have taken the move seriously, and resided in Besançon. When Foillet was expelled later that year, Jean printed under his name alone before returning to Basel by 1592 where he was still active in 1607 as printer to the university. As a publisher in Besançon his production was dominated by works for the local clergy.  Commercial partners: Jacques Foillet (Besançon)  Documents: AM Besançon BB 40 f. 185v, BB 42 f. 157r & 175r  References: Muller p. 8; RB XIII p. 13–15; ITB; Baudrier III 114; Répertoire n° 3510. 1017.  Eymar, Claude  Active: 1502–1518  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He inherited the business of his uncle Isoard in 1502. His will was written on 30 June 1518 and he died shortly thereafter at which point he was succeeded by his brother Pierre.  References: Pansier II 43 1018.  Eymar, Isoard  Active: 1485–1501  Name variations: Hemary, Isoard; Marc le libraire; Aymar, Marc  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place du Change’  Biography: Originally from Saint-Michel in the diocese of Gap, he was Pierre and Claude’s uncle. He worked on a number of occasions for the municipality and seems to have had a very successful business. In his will written on 11 July 1501, he indicated that he wished to leave the considerable sum of 400 écus to the local parish. By a later will of 25 October, he left his shop to his nephew Claude.  References: Pansier I 149

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1019.  Eymar, Pierre  Active: 1512–1519  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He inherited the business of his brother Claude in 1518 but sold his books to Constantin Fradin in 1519.  References: Pansier II 44 1020.  Faber, Abraham  Active: 1584–1638  Name variations: Fabert, Abraham  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of Dominique, he was born in Metz in around 1563 where he pursued his career. He married Anne des Bernards d’Alamont (sometimes styled d’Alaumont des Bernards) on 18 February 1585. They lived in the parish of Sainte-Ségolène and he held the lordship of Moulins-lès-Metz. He took the side of Henry IV during the wars of the Catholic League and became the official printer to the city on 20 January 1595. His success is emphasised by the fact that he became an alderman of the city in 1610. He was ennobled in 1603 and in 1630 became a knight of the order of Saint Michael. His son, also named Abraham, became governor of the city and a marshal of France. He died on 24 August 1638. None of his children seem to have followed him into the trade.  Device: Silvestre n° 1082  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 27–31; Teissier p. 49; Hoch; Jacquet p. 12; Répertoire n° 3519. 1021. Faber, Dominique  Active: 1560–1565  Name variations: Fabert, Dominique  Location: Nancy, Lorraine  Role: Printer  Biography: The son of Isaïe and Pétronille de Gorcey, he was born close to Metz but lived initially in Strasbourg before moving to Nancy. He married Florentine de Fulaine on 21 November 1551 and was Abraham’s father. He worked for the duke of Lorraine, though no imprints bearing his name survive and he seems to have soon moved to Nancy. He owned the lordship of Xonville and bought that of Moulins-lès-Metz.  References: Muller p. 54; Jacquet p. 12

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1022.  Fabre, André  Active: 1484–1490  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer’s compagnon  Biography: He worked in Heinrich Meyer’s workshop and by 1490 was still owed a considerable sum for his work over the previous six years.  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 17 1023.  Fabre, Nicolas  Active: ca 1540  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Jacques à l’écu de Toulouse’  Biography: He was succeeded by Rogier.  References: Rouchon p. 38 1024.  Fabre, Rogier  Active: 1544  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Jacques à l’écu de Toulouse’  Biography: He is known for a single edition of the local ecclesiastical statutes (USTC 111558). He succeeded Nicolas Fabre.  References: RB XVIII p. 108; Martin (Le Puy) p. 11; Rouchon p. 38 1025.  Fabri, Claude  Active: 1520–1543  Name variations: Fabre, Claude  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for having published liturgical works for local use.  Commercial partners: Gilbert Devillers (Lyon)  References: RB XVIII p. 106; Muller p. 4 & 93 1026.  Fabri, Étienne  Active: 1520–1549  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 44

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1027. Fardelet, Léonard  Active: 1520–1530  Location: Aurillac, Languedoc (1520–1527); Orléans, Orléanais (1527); Albi, Languedoc (1529–1530)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He worked with the Berton press in Limoges.  Commercial partners: Paul Berton (Limoges)  References: RB XVIII p. 8, X p. 11 & XVIII p. 21; Desgraves (Fardelet) Farfant, see Faure, Jean I 1028.  Faure, Jacques  Active: 1588–1598  Name variations: Febvre, Jacques  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: His career is difficult to retrace: as a publisher he worked with Claude Michel of Tournon; the imprints used Michel’s material and device on the title page. One of Faure’s editions printed in 1591, Claude de Trellon’s La flamme d’amour (USTC 66748), has no indication of having been printed elsewhere and differs from the Paris and Lyon editions of the same text that year. It suggests by the formulation of the address that it could have been printed by Faure himself who was described in a municipal register as a printer in 1588. Faure was perhaps also responsible for refreshed editions that bore simply Lyon as a place of production (see for instance USTC 27952).  Commercial partners: Claude Michel (Tournon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 57; Pansier II 133; Billioud p. 268 1029.  Faure, Jean I  Active: 1482–1523  Name variations: Fabri, Jean; Fabre, Jean; Schmidt, Johann; also known as Farfant  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1482–1504); Toulouse, Languedoc (1504–1523)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘près de l’église Saint-Quentin’ (1509); ‘Rue Dagulhères, à l’enseigne des cinq plaies’ (1519)  Biography: Originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he began working in Lyon before moving to Toulouse in the early sixteenth century where he started working as a representative of the Lyon bookseller

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Simon Vincent. He married Mondete Guimbaude, the cousin of Jean Grandjean. He was the father of Gaillarde, Barbe (who married Jean Girard), and of a son, also named Jean. In 1510 he bought Guillaume Combret’s stock and at Jean Grandjean’s death in 1520 he inherited his material. Gaston Recoleyne, in 1510, as well as Hugues Chauderier and Platens, in 1511, all served as apprentices in his workshop. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in Toulouse in January 1511. Despite having moved to Toulouse he continued to visit the Lyon fair, selling as well as buying books that he distributed in south-western France. As a publisher, he often worked with other booksellers, notably forming a partnership with Jean de Clauso and Jean Robion with whom he produced a series of mainly legal works between 1512 and 1515 that were printed on Jacques Mareschal’s press in Lyon. He is also known for having produced the first recorded instance of a printed book cover. He died in 1523 and was succeeded by his wife who was active after his death.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bergier (Toulouse); Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean Brayer (Agen); Hugues Chauderier (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jacques Huguetan (Lyon); Jean Labadie (Nogaro); Guillaume Le Nud (Castres); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Raymond Malescot (Agen); Jacques Mareschal (Lyon); Johan Perera (Toulouse); Platens (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Jean Robion (Lyon); Simon Vincent (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Ratio recta recte retribuit retribuentibus rationem rectam’  Documents: AM Toulouse II 32/13, 3 E 6184 f. 67r, 3 E 6187 f. 173v  References: RB XX p. 17–22; Muller p. 112; Desbarreaux-Bernard p. 11–16; Claudin IV p. 119–136; Baudrier X p. 326–347; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60; Répertoire n° 3524. 1030.  Faure, Jean II  Active: 1539–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 14 1031. Faure, Raymond  Active: 1577  Location: Toulouse (?), Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder

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 Biography: He was described in the registers of the chapter Saint-Just and Saint-Pasteur in Narbonne as a bookseller of an unidentified location named ‘Breffel’ in the diocese of Toulouse.  Documents: AD Aude G 34 f. 204 1032.  Fautrel, Guillaume  Active: 1536  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Godard.  References: Gosselin p. 94 1033.  Fauvel, Jean  Active: 1521  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  Address: ‘À l’enseigne de la Lamproie’  Biography: The son of Jean and of Jeanne Bestre, he resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Gosselin p. 80; Lepreux III 169 1034.  Faverye, François  Active: 1589–1623  Name variations: Faunerye, François  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le carrefour saint Nicolas’ (1589–1590)  Biography: He married Jeanne Bourget and resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. In 1604, Pierre Doriou’s wife was godmother to their daughter, Thiennette. He was a supporter of and printer for the Catholic League. His activity as a printer coincided with his partnership with Nicolas des Marestz, who seems to have been the driving force in the workshop as François only acted as a bookseller after his departure in 1597. He was closely linked to other members of the early seventeenth-century Nantes book trade such as the booksellers Nicolas Le Peigneux and Jean Debourgues, and the printer Luc Gobert. He died in early 1623 and was buried in Saint-Vincent on 7 February.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Des Marestz (Nantes); Michel Des Marestz (Nantes)  Documents: AM Nantes CC 86, GG 45

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 References: RB XIX p. 24–28; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 252; La Borderie I p. 83; Granges de Surgères n° 30; Le Page; Lepreux IV 221; Répertoire n° 3588. 1035.  Febvre, Guillaume  Active: 1548–1563  Name variations: Le Febvre, Guillaume  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city with his wife Agnès. They were described as being poor in 1563.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 1036.  Febvre, Mathieu  Active: 1563–1600  Name variations: Le Febvre, Mahiet  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: His career as a bookseller and a bookbinder was modest – he paid little tax and was even twice exempted on account of being considered too poor to pay. He lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes with his wife Anne with whom he had a son named Savinien.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247, F 261, F 265, F 272, F 274, F 276, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353. 1037.  Febvre, Nicolas  Active: 1580–1638  Name variations: Le Febvre, Nicolas  Location: Bar-sur-Aube, Champagne (1580); Troyes, Champagne (1584–1638)  Role: Bookseller, printer, bookbinder  Biography: The son of Odard, he married Jeanne Daillancourt with whom he had a son named Jacques who in turn became a bookseller. He was present with his father in Bar-sur-Aube in around 1580, before settling in the Comporté quarter in Troyes. He is known to have bound books for local ecclesiastical institutions. He was active until at least 1624 and might plausibly be the same Nicolas Febvre who inventoried a canon’s library in 1638.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265, F 274, F 276; AD Aube G 2319

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1604, 1605, 1616, and 1628. He was master of the confraternity in 1611. He was one of the members of the trade who requested in 1603 that the rights of free movement of books conceded to the merchants of Lyon and Paris would also apply to Rouen. The only editions he is known to have published were printed in the seventeenth century.  Documents: BnF Fonds français 22128 n° 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 93; Lepreux III 172 1045. Ferrand, Jean  Active: 1527–1540  Name variations: Ferrant, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He seems to have printed only on commission using Gothic type.  Commercial partners: Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Guillaume Maudhuy (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 281 1046.  Ferrand, Pierre  Active: 1571–1583  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: His output seems to have been of poor quality. He was fined one livre for having produced an error ridden imprint in 1579. Four years later, in 1583, he was fined for printing with type that he had bought from the widow of Guillaume Mullot that was so lacking in quality that the letters were difficult to decipher. He was nevertheless elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1579. He was perhaps the father of Daivd, baptised on 14 January 1564 in the Protestant temple of Quevilly.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 171 1047.  Ferrant, Étienne  Active: 1481  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Apprentice bookbinder  Biography: He was taken on as an apprentice in 1481 by Jean Bouguer.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E8/285  References: BVH Minutes

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1048.  Ferrant, Jean  Active: 1582  Location: Basqueville, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is a fictious printer known for two Protestant texts produced in the equally fictious town of ‘Basq’ or Basqueville (USTC 1861 and 47764). These were, in reality, the work of Pierre Le Chandelier in Caen. 1049.  Ferrier, Jean  Active: [1573]  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Anne Spitallière and had died before January 1574.  References: Pansier II 134 1050. Ferrier, Pierre  Active: 1559  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 134 1051.  Ferron, Jean  Active: 1544  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the La Daurade quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 97 1052. Ferrot, Jacques  Active: 1522–1560  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Charlotte de La Tour and paid 12 lt in taxes in 1552 and 4 lt in 1560 and lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He was one of the two official booksellers to the university in 1556 and was described as ‘fort riche et opulent’. He was said to have given the considerable sum of 8,000 lt in dowry to one of his daughters. As a publisher

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he worked mainly in partnership with the bookseller Pierre de Sartières and concentrated on the production of liturgical books for local use.  Commercial partners: Paul Berton (Limoges); Pierre Gromors (Paris); Nicolas de La Barre (Paris); Maurice de La Porte (Paris); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Pierre de Sartières (Bourges)  Documents: AD Cher E 1113, E 1120, E1127  References: RB XIII, Boyer p. 45; BVH Minutes; Répertoire n° 3649. 1053.  Fert, Thomas de  Active: 1533–1549  Name variations: Defer, Thomas; Dufern, Thomas  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city with Guillaume Negre between 1536 and 1546. He is known for publishing just two works, one of which (USTC 40519) had a strong evangelical flavour and was printed by Guyon Boudeville.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jacques Carme (Paris); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 122; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Claudin (2) p. 10 1054.  Fevre, Jean  Active: 1500  Name variations: Le Fevre, Jean; Feure, Jean; Febvre, Jean; Fabvre, Jean  Location: Langres, Champagne; Turin, Italian States; Casale, Italian States; Lyon, Lyonnais; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Biography: He is thought to have been born in Langres in 1425.  References: Skora (Langres) 1055.  Fevret, Jean  Active: 1543  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 95

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1056.  Fidefame, Robert  Active: 1547–1549  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was born in around 1533 and became an apprentice bookseller in the shop of Richard Cottereau on 29 January 1547 for three years. His uncle François, who was a canon of the local cathedral, paid for the apprenticeship.  References: Feyel p. 588 1057. Fillolle, Regnault  Active: before 1505  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had married Jeanne Poncte with whom he had a son named Robin and a daughter named Jeanne who married Jean Ternon, with whom she had a child also named Jean who became a bookseller in Blois. Regnault pre-deceased his wife who died before 1505.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/20  References: BVH Minutes 1058.  Flamery, Jean  Active: 1542–1543  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He is known for having bound books for a local church. He should perhaps be conflated with Flanchy.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 1059. Flanchy, Jean  Active: 1513–1524  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He should perhaps be conflated with Flamery.  References: Turquois p. 353 1060.  Flatrus, Richard  Active: 1460–1488  Name variations: Flatieux, Richard  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue muret’

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1064.  Fleurs, Jean de  Active: 1545–1567  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He used a canting device with an ewer watering flowers and resided in the quarter of La Daurade.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Molinier (Toulouse)  Motto: ‘Paulatim’  References: RB XX p. 157; Claudin (2) p. 99 1065.  Fleury, Melchior  Active: 1578  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Jeanne Sauvyon on 25 October 1578, the widow of a wine merchant.  Documents: AN Y 120 f. 201  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 289 1066.  Flinton, George  Active: 1581–1585  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He worked for Robert Persons in Rouen.  References: Girard p. 499 1067.  Flocquerey, Éloi  Active: 1548  Name variations: Faulquerey, Éloi  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Claude who survived him and took over his shop after his death (before 1556). He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232  References: Turquois p. 353

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1068.  Flocquerey, Jean  Active: 1556–1559  Name variations: Faulquerey, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘La grande-rue’  Biography: He lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 1069.  Flocquerey, veuve Éloi  Active: 1556–1563  Name variations: Faulquerey, veuve Éloi; Fouquerel, veuve Éloi  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Her given name was Claude and lived in the Comporté quarter of the city. She succeeded her husband and was able to maintain a household of five servants in 1563.  Documents: AM Troyes BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353 1070.  Floury, Pierre  Active: 1536  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  References: Labarre p. 49 1071.  Foigny, Gilbert de  Active: 1591–1605  Location: Reims, Champagne (1591–1593); Paris, Île-de-France (1605)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Prés le collège des bons enfants’ (Reims)  Biography: The son of the first marriage of Jean de Foigny, he married Jeanne Novisse on 29 January 1593. He published books for the Catholic League before moving to Paris in the early seventeenth century. He sold his part of his father’s shop in 1605 to Simon de Foigny, his half brother.  References: Jadart (Bacquenois) p. 202; Lepreux II 264; Duchénoy p. 160 1072.  Foigny, Jean de  Active: 1561–1586

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 Name variations: Fognaeus, Joannes; Fogny, John  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne du lion, devant le collège des bons enfants’ (1561– 1571, 1575, 1585); ‘À l’enseigne du lion, près le collège des bons enfants’ (1573–1586)  Biography: Born in around 1535, he married Françoise Gaulme, Nicolas Bacquenois’s daughter-in-law, then Catherine Jabot, who survived him. Gilbert, a son of his first marriage, as well as Simon and Jean, both sons of his second one, all followed him into the trade. He initially worked for the town of Reims as a clerk before entering into a partnership with Nicolas Bacquenois with whom he learnt how to print. Between 1561 and 1563, they published in tandem after Bacquenois’s departure for Verdun. He finally bought the workshop for 2200 lt to ensure sole control of the business. He was a productive printer. He worked in partnership with Nicolas Chesneau in Paris from as early as 1563, ensuring a wide distribution of his imprints beyond Champagne. Close to the archbishop, Jean became his official printer and he published a number of works for the Catholic Church as well as translating some books. He also printed for English exiles during Elizabeth’s reign, as well as texts sympathetic to the Catholic League. When the material was particularly seditious, he resorted to using Rutgerus Velpius’s address in Mons as well as the pseudonyms Eusebius Dicaeophile in London, Jean Martin in Reims and, perhaps, Tarabin Tarabat in Épernay. He printed only once in Gothic type and seldom in Greek, using the ornate letters Bacquenois had brought back from Lyon and that had been used by Thibaud Payen. He also acquired woodcuts previously used in Paris. He died in 1586. He was succeeded by his second wife.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Bacquenois (Reims); Guérin Boyau (Soissons); Nicolas Chesneau (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 310  Motto: ‘Sequitur fortuna labore’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 167, 189, 226  References: RB XVII p. 73–108 & 116–122; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 260; Fontaine p. 33; Delalain p. 138; Répertoire n° 3719 1073.  Foillet, Jacques  Active: 1576–1619

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 Location: Lyon, Lyonnois (1576); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1576); Konstanz, Holy Roman Empire (1577); Montbéliard, Holy Roman Empire (1586–1619); Besançon, Franche-Comté (1588–1591); Basel, Swiss Confederation (1579–1586 & 1593–1603)  Role: Printer, publisher, papermaker  Biography: He was born in Tarare in 1554 and was an apprentice in Lyon in 1576. He left for Geneva that same year, before moving on to Konstanz in 1577, where he married Margaret Monbrott, and finally Basel the following year. There, he seems to have started his career as a master printer alongside Jean Exertier, his brother-in-law, and acquired his own paper mill. He bought the material of Petrus Perna with whom he had worked, probably after the latter’s death in 1582. He left for Montbéliard in 1586 where he embraced Lutheranism and worked for the duke of Württemberg. Always on the look-out for new ventures, he moved to Besançon where he set up a press with Jean Exertier in 1588 to work for the municipality and the bishopric. There, he was given citizenship in return for settling in the city with his wife and family and living as good Catholics. He gave a profession of Catholic faith in the church of Saint John the Evangelist on 14 April 1588 – though rumours of his Protestantism were circulating and emphasised that he had in the past worked in Protestant Basel. Despite his move to Besançon, he seems to have kept his press in Montbéliard active and, despite his promise, never really relocated his family home. In Besançon, he worked in partnership with Jean Exertier. Conrad Marchant was a compagnon in their workshop in 1591, as were at least two others. Later that same year, the municipal council decided to banish him from the city because of the suspicious company he kept, his tendency to loiter in strange places and repeated absences, despite the assurances he had given. Thereafter he continued to be very active in Montbéliard until his death in 1619, also printing on occasion in Basel where he kept the citizenship he had previously acquired. He was succeeded by his sons Samuel and Conrad.  Commercial partners: Jean Exertier (Besançon)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 189, 274, 282  Documents: AM Besançon BB 40 f. 185v, BB 42 f. 157r & 175r  References: Muller p. 8; RB XIII p. 16; Nardin, L. Jacques Foillet, imprimeur, libraire et papetier (1554–1619) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1906); ITB; Franche-Comté p. 85; Répertoire n° 3722.

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1074.  Foire, Robert  Active: 1571  Name variations: Folie, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la court de l’église, à l’enseigne de la cloche’  Biography: He is only known for a single imprint, a book of hours (USTC 47627), in which he described himself as a master printer.  References: Aquilon p. 307 1075.  Foissac, Antoine  Active: 1526  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jacques Molinier (Toulouse)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 79 1076.  Foissac, Guillaume  Active: 1571  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Claire Bassete on 26 December 1571 and resided in the parish of La Dalbade.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 28 f. 24v 1077. Foissac, Jean  Active: 1574–1587  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 1078.  Foissac, Pierre  Active: 1537–1550  Name variations: Foyssat, Pierre; Foussac, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin, initially moving from one bookseller’s house to another. He seems to have been successful, paying increasing amounts of taxation, rising from six or seven sous to over a livre, and obtaining his own house in 1544. It

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seems unlikely that he was the same person as his namesake active in Montauban a decade after he was last known to be active in Toulouse as the latter continued to trade until the end of the century.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 11 1079.  Foissac, Pierre  Active: 1560–1599  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was probably the son of his namesake previously active in Toulouse.  References: Conner p. 199 1080. Follie, Robin  Active: 1572–1574  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue escuyère à l’enseigne de la sereine’  Biography: Lepreux suggested that he was simply a journeyman printer, however, he also acted as a publisher though only one work of his is known (USTC 27943).  References: Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 179 1081.  Fontaine, Claude  Active: 1550–1553  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Eygreteau. Guillaume Gobert made him his proxy to sell some of his goods in 1553.  Commercial partners: Bernard Beau (Bordeaux); Jean Bernard (Bordeaux); François Garaut (Bordeaux); Guillaume Gobert (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 326 1082.  Fontaine, Guillaume  Active: 1549–1592  Name variations: Fontayne, Guillaume  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of Martial. He was arrested along with Blaise Destadens in 1579 for having offered for sale the second edition

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of the Memoires de l’estat de France sous Charles IX. Initially fined and condemned to amende honorable and banishment from the town, this was commuted on appeal to a simple fine. The books were burnt. He remained active in Bordeaux where he continued to purvey the Parlement with books.  Commercial partners: Jan Moretus (Antwerp)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Gironde 1 B 376 n° 64  References: Labadie p. 37; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 327; Loirette (Arrêt) p. 52–53 1083.  Fontaine, Martial  Active: 1575–1608  Name variations: Fontayne, Mathias  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of Guillaume, he married Andrée Dubois. He was described as a journeyman bookseller in 1575 and a master bookseller in 1587.  References: Labadie p. 37; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 329 1084.  Fontaine, Pierre de  Active: 1554  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 330 1085.  Fontaines, Jean de  Active: 1560  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Marie-la-Petite.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/431 p. 75 1086.  Foreti, Stephanus  Active: 1490  Name variations: Foret, Étienne  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Place Sainte-Claire’

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 Biography: He is known for a single work (GW 11837).  Types: TW ma03635–ma03636  References: Maignien p. XXI; TW of0357 Forgues, Domenge, see Lafforgue, Dominique 1087.  Fort, Mathurin  Active: 1547  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 332 1088.  Fortin, Jean  Active: 1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas and bought Illustration 55 Genevan books from Gilles Cullot Signature of Jean Fortin, 1561, AD who, in turn, obtained stock from Seine-Maritime 2E1 434 Laurent de Normandie. This suggests that Fortin might have been of Protestant faith.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/434 p. 227 1089.  Foucault, Baptiste  Active: 1559  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer’s apprentice  Biography: An apprentice in the workshop of Enguilbert II de Marnef, he resumed his apprenticeship in 1559 after an interruption.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 48 1090.  Foucault, Louis  Active: 1599–1635  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Marguerite Vrandrap and resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle.  References: Herluison p. 79

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1091.  Foucher, Jean  Active: 1527  Location: Évreux, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known for a single edition co-published with booksellers from Paris and Rouen. He was perhaps the Jean Foucher active in Paris between 1535 and 1577, though this seems unlikely.  Commercial partners: Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Didier Maheu (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Louis Bouvet (Rouen)  References: RB XXVIII; Répertoire n° 3772. 1092.  Fouquet, Robin  Active: 1484–1485  Name variations: Foucquet, Robin  Location: Bréhan-Loudéac, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He initially worked with Jean Crés in Bréhan in central Brittany, probably as the senior partner. The press was set up at the behest of the local lord, Jean de Rohan, lord of Le Gué de L’Isle, in 1484. After an initial flurry of activity involving the production of a number of ephemeral imprints and a book of custom law, his activity ceased. Unlike Crés he then disappeared from the book world. It is unclear where Fouquet originated from, though it has been suggested that he came from Rouen. The type used suggests that he was close to the Dutch printing world, as it resembles that employed by Arend de Keyser in Oudenaarde circa 1480.  Commercial partners: Jean Crés (Bréhan-Loudéac)  Types: TW ma03585  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 252; Booton p. 244; TW of0344 1093.  Fournier, Jacques  Active: 1546  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le collège de Foix’  Biography: He is known for a single imprint, an edition of Rabelais’s Tiers livre (USTC 11124). A vine leaf ornament was named after him for its use in this edition. However, the type suggests that the imprint was produced in Lyon perhaps on the presses of Pierre de Tours, though some doubt subsists as to which Lyon workshop was responsible.

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1098. Fracguier, Raymond  Active: 1539  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known for having witnessed an agreement in Toulouse between the bookseller Louis Yvernage and the Lyon publishers Antoine and François Vincent.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 71 1099. Fradin, Constantin  Active: 1501–1536  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1501–1536); Montpellier, Languedoc (1501– 1536); Avignon, Papal States (1516–1519)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Notre-Dame des tables’ (Montpellier), ‘Place saintDidier’ (Avignon)  Biography: The brother of the Lyon printer François, he started his career in that city, probably working alongside him, and published extensively there. He also had a bookshop in Montpellier from 1501, though how much he actually resided in the city is unclear: he was a local jurat which normally implied residence but published a single work there in 1515, the rest giving his Lyon address – though this might have been a commercial ploy. He also rented a shop in Avignon in 1516 for three years and bought the books of Pierre Eymar there in 1519. He attended local fairs and seems to have played an important role in the dissemination of Lyon books in south-eastern France.  Motto: ‘Constantine, in hoc + signo vinces’  References: RB XXIV p. 22; Muller p. 53; Baudrier XI 112; Pansier II 45; Répertoire n° 3800. 1100.  France, Jean I de  Active: 1480  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue des Soufflets’  Biography: He had a stall on the cathedral square and was also described as an ‘escripvain’.  Documents: AD Somme G 1455

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1101. France, Jean II de  Active: 1542–1543  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a stall on the cathedral square. Like his predecessor, he was also described as an ‘escripvain’.  Documents: AD Somme G 1190, G 1191 1102.  France, Jean III de  Active: 1564–1596  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a stall on the cathedral square.  References: Labarre p. 42 1103.  France, Vidal de  Active: 1531–1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Address: ‘À Saint Julia’  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. Claudin speculates that he might have been the son of the Lyon printer Jacques de France.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Viellard (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12022 RP 119 f. 46r  References: Claudin (1) p. 162 1104.  François, Hercule  Active: 1554–1597  Name variations: Franciscus, Hercules; Gallus, Hercules  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1554–1562 & 1571); Lyon, Lyonnais (1579); La Rochelle, Aunis (1591–1597)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Jacques, à la nef d’argent’ (Paris)  Biography: Originally from Holland, he settled in Paris in 1554. He married Claude Jollet, the sister of the Parisian printer Hubert Jollet. She died before 10 November 1562. He was tried on 21 October 1562 for the possession of banned books. He alleged that he was holding them for another seller, but this was refuted on the grounds that he

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had hidden them. He was exiled from the city for two years. He left Paris, but for how long is unclear: he had returned by 1571 but seems to have rapidly left again. He reappeared a few years later in Lyon where as part of a partnership he published a book printed in Geneva, before finally settling in La Rochelle during the wars of the Catholic League. There, he worked with Jérôme Haultin whose device appears on his title pages.  Commercial partners: Jérôme Haultin (La Rochelle)  References: RB XVI p. 77; Muller p. 95–96; Guérin p. 83; Renouard p. 157; Renouard (Documents) p. 102; Baudrier I 174 1105.  Frayn, Thomas  Active: 1523  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he was the son of Florent Frayn. He served as an apprentice in the workshop of Jean de Channey.  References: Pansier II 66 1106.  Freneau, Pierre  Active: 1554–1557  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près les Cordeliers’  Biography: This is a fictitious printer: he is known for an edition of a treatise by the Protestant theologian Sébastien Castellion (USTC 4717) that was in fact printed in Lyon by the author’s brother Michel.  References: RB XXII p. 76; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 333; Lepreux III 179 1107.  Frère, Jean  Active: 1599–1609  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was Simon’s son and married Joachim Ferrand. He inherited part of his father’s shop but had to buy out the other inheritors in 1599.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 49; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 506

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1108.  Frère, Simon  Active: 1577–1599  Name variations: Fabre, Simon  Location: Poitiers, Poitou (1577–1593 & 1595–1599); Niort, Poitou (1593)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Cordeliers’  Biography: He married Anne Joannet, with whom he had two sons named André (1577) and Simon (1568). He later remarried to Jeanne Audayet. He was also the father of Jean who followed him into the trade. They lived in Poitiers in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite but had been forced to flee to Niort by April 1593. He was godfather to Pierre, the son of Pierre Boizateau. He owed André Citoys 50 écus in 1596. He seems also to have simultaneously been a gunpowder maker. He had died before 19 April 1599. Jean V de Marnef bought 100 lt’s worth of his stock at his death.  Commercial partners: André Citoys (Poitiers); Jean Main (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers); Thomas Portau (Niort)  Documents: BM Poitiers Ms 171 (174)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 122; Clouzot (1907) p. 7; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 293; Beauchet-Filleau III 587; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 506 1109. Fresnes, Mathurin de  Active: 1524  Location: Sens, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for having commissioned 750 copies of the synodal statutes for Sens.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Hicquement (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 9 f. 121  References: Coyecque XI p. 131 1110.  Froger, Jean  Active: 1551–1559  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1551–1554); Rouen, Normandy (1557–1559)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in around 1535 in Vendôme, he was taken on as an apprentice bookseller in the Parisian shop of Rémy Boisset on 16 December 1551 for three years. After the completion of his apprenticeship, he moved to Rouen where he initially resided in the house

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of Pierre Gontier before moving to the parish of Saint-Lô in 1559. He worked alongside Gontier for the Lyon merchant Jean Hiesse, stocking and selling the books that Hiesse sent.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gontier (Rouen); Jean Hiesse (Lyon); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Jacques Regnault (Rouen)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 45  References: Gosselin p. 109; Répertoire n° 3849. 1111.  Froit-d’Eau, Nicolas  Active: 1599  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This name was used as a humorous false address to publish a work of religious controversy in response to a Catholic text by the Franciscan theologian François Feuardent. The edition (USTC 16970) was in fact printed on the presses of Gédéon Petit in Geneva.  References: RB XVI p. 78; Droz (Fausses addresses) p. 142 1112.  Frommolt, Eberhard  Active: [1479]–1481  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was probably initially from Basel where he entered the university in 1461. From a poor family, he only emerged from anonymity in Vienne some twenty years later when he took over Johann Schilling’s workshop – perhaps after having worked for him as a journeyman printer. He adopted his own type, though often sprinkling his texts with some of Schilling’s material. The Vienne workshop was taken over by Peter Schenck by 1483 at the latest.  Types: TW ma04119  References: Dalbanne & Droz p. 40; TW of0432 G., J., see Jean Goupil 1113.  Gachon, Pierre  Active: 1522–1552  Name variations: Gaschon, Pierre; also known as Mirebeau  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Devant les grandes écoles, près les cordeliers’  Biography: He is known for a single volume of custom law.  Commercial partners: Claude Garnier (Limoges)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XXII  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 73; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 248 1114.  Gadoubert, Amadis  Active: 1577–1591  Name variations: Dagoubert, Amadis  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1577); Tours, Touraine (1591) Illustration 56 Gadoubert, Amadis 1591 AD  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: He is known for hav- Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 250 ing printed a single edition in Paris in 1577 (USTC 8573) for which he reused Pierre Vidoue’s old device from which the initials PV had been removed. Little is known of him until he reappeared in Tours in 1591 in a document about the restitution of two books in which he was described as a merchant bookseller. It is unclear if he had relocated following the leaguer uprising in Paris as unlike Claude de Montr’oeil and Jean Richer who were ‘following the court’, he was described as residing in Tours.  Commercial partners: Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Jean Richer (Tours)  Device: BaTyR n° 28453  Motto: ‘Audentes Juvo’  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/250  References: BVH Minutes; Renouard p. 161 1115. Gacquerel, Jacques  Active: 1597–1598  Name variations: Gaquerel, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He became a master printer in 1598. Lepreux believed that this was another name for Jacques Tanquerel.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 97; Lepreux III 180 1116.  Gadouleau, Michel  Active: 1571–1614

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 Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1571–1614); Mantes, Île-de-France (1593)  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Jeanne, the daughter of the printer Nicolas Duchemin. He was mainly active in Paris, but left prior to the collapse of the Catholic League and was active in Mantes in 1593.  Devices: Silvestre 1096 & 1097, Renouard (Marques) n° 335–336  Motto: ‘Ego sum pastor bonus’  References: Renouard p. 161; Lepreux III 180; Répertoire n° 3881 1117. Gaignot, Denis  Active: 1532–1556  Name variations: Geignot, Denis; Gaygnot, Denis  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1532–1541); Le Mans, Maine (1544–1556)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint Jacques, à l’enseigne Saint Martin’ (Paris); ‘En la grand rue près saint Julien’ (Le Mans)  Biography: He was the father of Louis. He began his career working in Paris before moving to Le Mans in the early 1540s, becoming the town’s prototypographer.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Étienne Brindeau (Le Mans); Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); François Cochery (Le Mans); Pierre Cochery (Le Mans); Jean Haultin (Le Mans); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Jérôme Olivier (Le Mans); Mathieu Vaucelles  Motto: ‘Fortitudine potior prudentia. Parvula cum noceant magnis animalia, spectas quod nequeat fieri robore posse dolis’  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 316; Cordonnier; Renouard p. 166; Répertoire n° 3885 1118.  Gaignot, Louis  Active: 1556–1562  Name variations: Geignot, Louis; Gaygnot, Louis  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of Denis, he married Jeanne Chouen, daughter of the bookseller Alexandre Chouen, and lived in the parish of Le Crucifix. He succeeded his father in 1556. He converted to Protestantism and took part in the uprising of 1562. After its failure, he fled the city and was condemned to death in absentia.  Commercial partners: Jérôme Olivier (Le Mans)  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 316; Bouton p. 444

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1119.  Gaillardon, Nicolas  Active: 1569  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Patrice. He signed documents with a simple cross.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/456 f. 148r 1120.  Gaissat, Jacques  Active: 1583  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a son named Nicolas baptised in the parish of Saint-Pierre on 3 May 1583.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 522 1121.  Gaissat, Jean  Active: 1592–1600  Name variations: Gaissot, Jean; Guisset, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He went to Bordeaux in 1592 to sell a series of legal works. He was named godfather in 1600 to the son of a papermaker who had previously been baptised as a Protestant in nearby Miremont. He was perhaps the ‘Gayssat’ whose son was baptised on 11 August 1585 in the parish of Saint-Pierre and had the bookseller Salomon Despax as a godfather.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 523, GG 524, GG 557 p. 176  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 98 1122.  Galays, Jean  Active: 1488  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  References: Jusselin p. 8; Feyel p. 697 1123.  Galina, Antoine  Active: 1518  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62

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1124.  Gallet, Guillaume  Active: 1503–1519  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was mentioned as binding books for cardinal Georges d’Amboise for the latter’s newly built castle of Gaillon in 1503.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3042, G 3043, G 3047  References: Deville p. 444 Gallus, Hercules, see François, Hercule 1125.  Gally, Jean  Active: 1504  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He took Jean Rapy on as an apprentice in 1504.  Documents: AD Yonne E 375 1126.  Ganereau, Olivier  Active: 1518–1524  Name variations: Gannereau, Olivier; Genereaulx, Olivier; Gasnereau, Olivier  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the brother of Robert. As a publisher, he commissioned works as early as 1518 before joining a wider conglomerate to print a breviary and a missal for the use of Nantes over the following years.  Commercial partners: Jean Bignon (Paris); Pierre Bodin (Nantes); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 1, XXXIII 8 f. 426  References: RB XIX p. 18; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 252; Booton p. 240; Granges de Surgères n° 32 1127.  Ganereau, Robert  Active: 1520–1524  Name variations: Gannereau, Robert; Genereaulx, Robert

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 Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the brother of Olivier with whom he formed a partnership as part of a wider conglomerate to print a breviary and a missal for the use of Nantes.  Commercial partners: Charles de Bougne (Angers); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes); Pierre Bodin (Nantes); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Paris); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 8 f. 426  References: RB XIX p. 18; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 252; Booton p. 244; Granges de Surgères n° 33 1128.  Garaut, François  Active: 1544–1550  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc (1544–1545); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1550)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Paris, he moved to Nîmes where he married Marie des Quynat on 4 March 1544/5. The booksellers Nicolas Paris of Romans and Jacques Synault of Valence were witnesses.  Commercial partners: Claude Fontaine (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 345; Puech (Jaquy) p. 212 1129.  Gardes, Guillaume  Active: 1566  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Étiennette Fontane. He died before 1571 and was survived by his wife.  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 213 1130.  Gari, Jean  Active: 1480  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  References: Claudin (1) p. 3 1131.  Garils, Justinian  Active: 1556–1566  Location: Beaujeu, Lyonnais  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He worked in partnership with Philippe for the publication of some of the works of Guillaume Paradin. Despite what has been suggested they probably had the books printed elsewhere.  Commercial partners: Philippe Garils (Beaujeu)  References: RB XXV p. 23; Muller p. 7; Baudrier I 175 1132.  Garils, Philippe  Active: 1556–1566  Location: Beaujeu, Lyonnais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He worked in partnership with Justinian for the publication of some of the works of Guillaume Paradin. Despite what has been suggested they probably had the books printed elsewhere.  Commercial partners: Justinian Garils (Beaujeu)  References: RB XXV p. 23; Muller p. 7; Baudrier I 175 1133.  Garnier, Claude  Active: 1519–1562  Location: Bazas, Guyenne (1528–1531); Auch, Guyenne (1533); Limoges, Limousin (1519–1528, 1545–1562)  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près la basilique Saint-Martial’ (Limoges, 1520–1528); ‘Rue Ferrerie devant Saint-Michel’ (Limoges, 1554–1557)  Biography: He was based in Limoges but on two occasions at least left to print in more southerly towns when the need arose. He started his career alongside Martin Berton, presumably connected to the family of well-established Limoges printers. By 1522, however, he was printing alone, as he did for the remainder of his career. He maintained strong connections with the Poitiers book trade that dominated that part of the kingdom. As a printer, his output was heavily dependent on commissions from local ecclesiastical institutions.  Commercial partners: Martin Berton (Limoges); Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); André Cauvin (Angoulême); Jean Chausseys (Poitiers); Jean I Citoys (Poitiers); Pierre Gachon (Poitiers); Jean Le Grous (Poitiers); Enguilbert II de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers)  Motto: ‘Honora patrem et matrem’  References: Muller p. 5, 7 & 21; RB II p. 29, III p. 7–8, 10 & 25–31; Delpit p. 65; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 349; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 486; Répertoire n° 3949.

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1134.  Garnier, Claude  Active: 1563–1589  Name variations: also known as Saupiquet  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘En la petite tannerie sur Illustration 57 Signature of Claude Garnier, 1584, le premier pont’; ‘Rue Notre Dame AM Troyes Boutiot AA 43 3 devant la croix blanche’ (1571–1583), ‘À l’image Saint Edme’ (1585–1589)  Biography: He married Jacquette with whom he had a number of children, though he also had a child with his servant, Pasquette. He was named the official printer to the king on 30 January 1578, though this was contested by Louis Villerval and Jean Moreau so that he had to have the right confirmed on 22 September and 21 November 1583. He represented the city’s booksellers and printers in front of the municipality in 1567 and 1580. He also printed extensively for the municipality of Troyes – on one occasion producing 7600 printed passports at their behest. He copied, at times, the imprints of his Parisian colleagues, sometimes indicating the name of the original publisher. His imprints were often printed without date of publication on the title page. Nicolas and Jean II Oudot were journeymen printers in his workshop and the latter acquired his material after his death. He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city and often indicated both the address of his home and of his shop on his title pages. He died in 1589.  Device: Silvestre n° 606  Motto: ‘Patientia pauperis non peribit in finem’  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265, AA 43 3e liasse 25 and 6e liasse 1 & 2; AN X/1a 9189 f. 20 & 113  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 43–50; Troyes p. 70; Corrard de Breban p. 32; Lepreux II 114; Turquois p. 352; Morin (Ligue) p. 23; Répertoire n° 3950. 1135. Garnier, Jacques  Active: 1562–1563  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He worked for the municipality printing a number of works in 1562 and 1563. He died in 1563.  References: RB XIII p. 28; Jenny (Notes) p. 872

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1136.  Garnier, Jean  Active: 1530–1562  Name variations: Garnerius, Johannes  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, bookbinder, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près les grandes écoles’  Biography: He was the official printer to the city of Bourges. His fortune seems to have fluctuated, being asked to pay 24 sous in taxes in 1552, then 40 and again 15 sous in 1560. He also worked as a bookseller and bookbinder, the latter role being entrusted to one of his journeymen. His wife outlived him and took over his shop at his death that occurred at some point before August 1562.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Bartault (Bourges); Guillaume Cavellat (Paris); Michel Fezandat (Paris); Ponce Roffet (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 1112  Documents: AD Cher E 2397  References: Muller p. 10; Boyer p. 48; RB XIII p. 22–25 & 27; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 863 1137. Garnier, Jérôme  Active: [1562]–1567  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Commercial partners: Michel Garnier (Limoges)  References: Muller p. 21; RB III p. 36 1138.  Garnier, Michel  Active: [1562]–1567  Name variations: Also known as La Couronne  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Commercial partners: Guillaume Boulanger (Bordeaux); Jérôme Garnier (Limoges)  References: RB III p. 36 1139.  Garnier, Nicolas  Active: 1559  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: In 1559 he submitted a request with other Nantes booksellers to have the exclusive right to print and sell the decisions of

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the court, replacing Philippe Bourgoignon as the official printers to the Parlement. No imprints survive, however, bearing his name as a publisher.  Commercial partners: Julien Dies (Nantes); Gabriel Le Plat (Nantes); Mathurin Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 5 n° 1 1140. Garnier, veuve Jean  Active: 1562–1563  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près les grandes écoles’  Biography: She took over the shop of her husband after his death in 1562, but only is known for a single short imprint (USTC 19294).  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 22–25 & 27; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 863; Arbour p. 241 1141.  Garou, Jean  Active: 1556  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This printer is only known through a single work that seems to be a counterfeit edition of a 1555 Jean I de Tournes imprint.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 180 1142.  Garreau, Edme  Active: 1598–1613  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1598), Paris, Île-de-France (1608–1613)  Role: Journeyman printer Illustration 58  Biography: He worked Signature of Edme Garreau, 1598, AD as a journeyman printer Gironde 3 E 14800 in the workshop of Simon Millanges in 1598. By 1608 he had moved to Paris where he had married Catherine Lemaire and lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont where he was still active five years later.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1271r–1272r; AN Minutier Central étude XVIII carton 147 f. 521, étude XXIII carton 247 f. 84

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1143.  Garreau, Jean  Active: 1553–1567  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was thought to be a Protestant in 1562.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 871 1144.  Garrel, Michel  Active: 1511–1519  Name variations: Garreu, Michel  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He bound books for the city of Toulouse.  Documents: AM Toulouse CC 1882 p. 62  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 1145.  Garret, André  Active: 1556–1557  Name variations: Also known as Tabaret  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in a house known as the ‘maison du libraire’.  Documents: AM Romans CC 80 1146. Gascoing, Louis  Active: 1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Guillemette and lived in the parish of SaintÉtienne-des-Tonneliers where he was both a typecaster and a printer.  References: Gosselin p. 86; Lepreux III 181 1147.  Gaudin, Antoine  Active: 1554  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 352

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1148.  Gaudin, Jean  Active: 1577–1581  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la Claverie, près le carrefour Saint Nicolas’ (1578)  Biography: He was printer to the town of Nantes in 1577. His material was acquired by Blaise Petrail after he ceased to be active.  Device: Silvestre n° 618  Motto: ‘Ratio movet et regit orbem’; ‘Patientia et labore’  Documents: AM Nantes CC 125  References: RB XIX p. 21; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 253; La Borderie I p. 75; Granges de Surgères n° 35; Lepreux IV 222 1149.  Gaudy, Antoine  Active: 1560–1582  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Lanyere following the contract signed on 22 August 1568 with a dowry of 120 lt.  Documents: AD de Tarn-et-Garonne 5 E 187 f. 29v  References: Conner p. 199 1150.  Gaudy, Pierre  Active: 1581  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 Gaufridi, Denis, see Joffre, Denis 1151.  Gaulcher, Antoine  Active: 1485–1495  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He is known to have worked for the local cathedral.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 278 1152.  Gaulcher, Nicolas  Active: 1589

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 Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the father of Richard and Guillaume. As a publisher he is known only for a shared edition of a rubricated liturgical work for the diocese of Sées printed in Rouen. He died before 21 June 1554.  Commercial partners: Jean Lasne (Alençon); Michau Letort (Alençon); Martin Morin (Rouen); Girard Neel (Falaise)  References: Despierres p. 9; RB XXV p. 7 1157.  Gaulmier, Richard  Active: 1554  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Louis.  References: Despierres p. 10 1158.  Gaulthier, Adam  Active: [1495]–1523  Name variations: Adam le libraire  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He is known for having worked for local ecclesiastical institutions. He had died by 1523 when the house he was renting from the cathedral chapter was to be reallocated.  Documents: AD Côte-d’Or E cart. 74 f. 235, G 1521 f. 47, G 1522 f. 16  References: Skora (Langres) 1159.  Gaulthier, Jean  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was active in the fifteenth century, his widow succeeded him.  References: Skora (Langres) 1160.  Gaulthier, veuve Jean  Active: 1470?–1523  Name variations: Gaultier, veuve Jean  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: She was living at the house of Nicolas Durant, behind the church of Notre-Dame, in 1523.  Documents: AM Dijon LL 164  References: Arbour p. 245; Clément-Janin p. 102 1161. Gaultier, Guillaume  Active: 1511–1520  Name variations: Gautié, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1511); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1520)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Saint-Jean de Ponandoco, he was an apprentice to Guillaume Boysson in 1511 for two years in Toulouse. He became a master bookseller in his own right before 1520 in Bordeaux where he bought woodblocks from a local merchant.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 46  References: Labadie p. 41; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 353 1162. Gaultier, Jean  Active: 1507–1518  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’image Saint Laurent’  Biography: He worked with Parisian members of the book world to produce books for local readers. He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  Commercial partners: Pierre Le Rouge (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris)  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 21; Assier p. 98; Répertoire n° 3999. 1163.  Gaultier, Jean  Active: 1488–1489  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He sold books ‘en moule’ in front of the entrance to the cathedral.  References: Beaurepaire p. 399; Aquilon p. 306 1164.  Gaultier, Jean  Active: 1562–1566  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He published solely in conjunction with Pierre Gaultier.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gaultier (Rouen) 1165.  Gaultier, Louis  Active: 1548–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a poor bookseller and taxed only three sous between 1548 and 1550 at which point he resided in a house belonging to the Lyon bookseller Antoine Vincent in the parish of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines.  Commercial partners: Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  References: Claudin (2) p. 104 1166.  Gaultier, Pierre  Active: 1562–1566  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He published in conjunction with Jean Gaultier and is probably a different person to Pierre Gontier, active slightly earlier in the city.  References: Gosselin p. 109 1167.  Gaultier, Raulin I  Active: 1504–1538  Name variations: Gautier, Raulin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’; ‘Rue de grand pont près le fardel’ (1505–1516); ‘Rue de Potard, à l’enseigne du Fardeau’ (1520–1534)  Biography: There seem to have been two booksellers named Raulin Gaultier active in Rouen whose relationship remains unclear but one was perhaps the father of the other, described here as Raulin II. The first was consistently described as a bookseller and acted as a publisher, generally producing religious and educational works, often in partnership with other booksellers. He resided in the parish of Saint-Martin.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Jean I Burges (Rouen); Jean Caillard (Rouen); Philippe Costé (Rouen);

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Jean Ferrand (Rouen); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Guillaume Hebert (Rouen); Laurent Hostigue (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Pierre Lygnant (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Guillaume Tuveel (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 197, 640 & 1201  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2513, 2524, G 6801  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 186–201; Gosselin p. 88; Beaurepaire p. 399; TW of1422; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 4002. 1168.  Gaultier, Raulin II  Active: 1545–1565  Name variations: Gautier, Raulin  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1545–1563); Paris, Île-de-France (1563–1565)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Près la chapelle Saint-Jacques en l’église Saint-Maclou’ (1555–1563)  Biography: He was probably the son of Raulin I and seems to have worked as both a bookseller and a bookbinder, but never as a publisher. He regularly worked for the Cathedral, mainly binding new books and reconditioning old ones. He appears to have left Rouen for Paris in 1563 where a Raulin Gaultier is known to have been active for a further two years. Here, he would have been responsible for the publication of a short religious work (USTC 60115), published without a precise address.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2542  References: Beaurepaire p. 399; Aquilon p. 307; Renouard p. 165. 1169.  Gaurier, Jean  Active: 1523  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 354 1170.  Gauthier, Étienne  Active: 1520–1531  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279

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1171.  Gautié, Pierre  Active: 1516  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1172.  Gavaldan, Pierre  Active: 1547–1552  Name variations: Gavaldain, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1547–1550 & 1552); Sevilla, Spain (1551)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Galienne de Bonnecaze and lived in the parish of Saint-Michel. In 1548, he bought books of law from Pierre Rostelin. The following year, he paid 56 lt for the ferrying of fourteen bales of books from Lyon to Bordeaux. He later sought to set up shop in Spain, buying books in Medina-del-Campo in May 1551, before moving on to Sevilla. However, his bookshop was not a success and by the end of August he had already moved on. He had returned to Bordeaux by July of the following year as he was described as a bookseller of the city in a ruling of the local parlement.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Pierre Rostelin (Bordeaux); Louis Yvernaige (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 115 n° 108, 3 E 6677  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 359; Roudié & Desgraves n° 12; Morisse n° 142 1173.  Gazaud, Jean  Active: 1583–1591  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1583–1591); Embrun, Dauphiné (1587); Lyon, Lyonnais (1588); Basel, Swiss Confederation (1591)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Of Protestant faith, he became a burgher of Geneva in 1556. He was active in that city as a bookseller and publisher in a career not without controversy. In 1583, he had notably incurred the wrath of the better established Jean Durant in 1583 for having Cordier’s Colloques printed (UTSC 75078). The following year he was condemned for having sold indecent books. His career though centred in Geneva was peripatetic, perhaps to enable him to have books printed more freely – though it is also possible that he simply used false places of imprint. In Embrun, he is known for a single imprint that used the material of the Lyon and Geneva printer Antoine Blanc for the publication

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of a polemical work attributed to Daniel Chamier (USTC 6628). Blanc’s device is used on the title page. In 1588 he seems to have briefly worked in Lyon as well as in Basel three years later.  Commercial partners: Antoine Blanc (Geneva)  Motto: ‘Mors et vita’  References: RB XXV p. 29; Muller p. 17; Baudrier I 179; RIECH; GLN; Répertoire n° 4032. 1174. Gelly, Vidal  Active: 1582–1583  Name variations: Geli, Vidal  Location: Saint-Flour, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 227 1175.  Gendron, Charles  Active: 1576–1599  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1576, 1588 and 1598); Paris, Île-de-France (1576–1584); Medina-del-Campo, Spain (1594 and 1599)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He had begun to learn his trade in the shop of his brother-in-law, Richard I Lallemant, in 1576. However, after three or four months, he left for Paris where he completed his apprenticeship with the bookseller Nicolas Chesneau in whose shop he stayed until the latter’s death in 1584. His nomination as a master printer in Rouen in 1588 caused controversy and was opposed by some of the other master printers who sought to prevent him from opening a shop in the city. His failure to establish himself led to him leaving the city. He moved to Medina-del-Campo where he acted as Ambroise du Port’s agent, working with the Lyon bookseller Pierre Landry and his brother-in-law, Lallemant, in Rouen. He nevertheless continued to have greater ambitions and produced a series of short works of entertainment printed in duodecimo in 1598.  Commercial partners: Ambroise Duport (Medina-del-Campo); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Pierre Landry (Lyon); Guillaume Tuveel (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 182; Baudrier V 304; Morisse n° 143

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1176.  Generis, Antoine  Active: 1490  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue fromagerie’  References: Pansier I 153 1177.  Genesy, Jacques  Active: 1589  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  References: Guibert p. 44 1178.  Geneviève, Barbe  Active: 1597  Name variations: Petit, veuve Richard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: She died in 1608 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Rouen.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 7330, G 7344  References: Arbour p. 422; Skora (Rouen) 1179.  Genter, Roland  Active: 1593  Name variations: Jenter, Roland  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was an English bookseller who resided in Reims. Jean de Bordeaux owed him 222 lt in 1593 for money lent and books sold.  Commercial partners: Jean de Bordeaux (Reims)  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272 1180.  Gentet, Jacques  Active: 1566  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 47

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1181.  Gentil, Isaac  Active: 1583–1592  Name variations: Gentilz, Ysaïe  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la porte du change Illustration 59 Signature of Claude Isaye Gentil, 1591, de l’église Saint Martin’  Biography: He was perhaps linked AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 to Jacob Gentil, who was a bookbinder in Paris in the 1570s. He was probably the Ysaïe Gentilz born to François and Catherine Chabart in Tours in 1560. He married Françoise Marquet, with whom he had a daughter called Florimonde, and then, before 1587, remarried to Claude Legay with whom he had seven further children. He lived in the parish of Saint-Denis. As a publisher he is known for a single work (USTC 9001) and was close to Théodore Reinsart who described him as one of his friends.  Commercial partners: Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart; Michel Siffleau (Tours)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334  References: Ardouin-Weiss p. 18 1182.  Geoffre, Jean Active: 1507–1517 Name variations: Joffre, Jean Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne Role: Bookseller  B iography: He was described as residing in the parish of NotreDame-de-la-Grave-d’Ambarès in 1515. Documents: AD Gironde H 747 f. 7 References: Labadie p. 42; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 364 1183.  Geoffre, Marie Active: 1563–1572 Name variations: Joufre, Marie; Joffre, Marie; Morpain, veuve François Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher Address: ‘Près des Carmes’  B iography: She married François Morpain in 1541 and took over his workshop at the time of his death in 1563. Though she also printed ordinances, her output differed from that of her husband as she adopted

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a more adventurous approach, further diversifying the type of works printed with two editions of historical works as well as poetry and a Nostrodamus almanac. Pierre de Ladime began as a journeyman in her workshop, but after he had set up his own shop, she reached an agreement with him in 1572 over the privileges she held.  Commercial partners: Pierre de Ladime (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 273 n° 92, 1 B 302 n° 280, 1 B 363 n° 518, 1 B 364bis n° 518, C 4087  References: Muller p. 9; Arbour p. 395; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 575; RB I, 22–23; Répertoire n° 7224. 1184.  Geoffroy, David  Active: 1598–1629  Name variations: Geuffroy, David; Jeuffre, David; Jeuffroy, David  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Cordeliers, joignant Saint-Pierre-le-Chastel’  Biography: Born in around 1564, he was a Protestant printer who married Sarah Ferrand. He served his apprenticeship in the workshop of Robert Féron before becoming a master printer in 1600, if Lepreux is to be believed, in 1598, if the Répertoire is correct. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1605 and 1606. He was one of the members of the trade who requested in 1603 that the rights of free movement of books conceded to the merchants of Lyon and Paris would also apply to Rouen. He was fined on a number of occasions in the first decades of the seventeenth century for printing texts without official permission. He was buried on 19 July 1629 and succeeded by his wife.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483 f. 2v; BnF Fonds français 22128 n° 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 97; Lepreux III 183; Répertoire n° 4055. 1185. Georget, Jean  Active: 1535–1555  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la baudrayerie, en la maison olivier, au lyon painctre’ (1541)

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 Biography: He began his activity as a printer in Rennes when Jacques Berthelot was already active in the city. He soon rivalled Berthelot, however, working for both local and more distant booksellers. The texts he printed opened up the presses to genres that went beyond the tried and tested legal works and books of popular piety that had dominated local production. He rarely printed editions that he funded himself, generally working instead for other publishers. He acquired some of the typographic material previously owned by Berthelot but was also the first printer in Rennes to use Roman type.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Chevau (Rennes); Georges Cleray (Rennes); Galliot du Pré (Paris); Jean Lermangier (Rennes); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes)  References: RB XIX p. 51–55; Walsby (Brittany) p. 253; Lepreux IV 73 1186.  Gérard, Pierre  Active: 1486–1488  Name variations: Girard, Pierre  Location: Abbeville, Picardy (1486–1487); Paris, Île-de-France (1488)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he seems to have been an itinerant printer who worked with the Parisian printer Jean du Pré, whose material he used in imprints produced in Abbeville in 1486 and 1487. He seems to have left Abbeville soon after he finished printing in 1487 as he was working in the ‘rue Saint-Jacques’ in Paris in 1488 when he was arrested in September of that year for ‘roaming’ at night with a woman he had met at a dance.  Commercial partners: Jean du Pré (Paris); Pierre Violette (Abbeville)  Types: TW ma03530  References: TW of0336; Renouard p. 172; Renouard (Documents) p. 109; Lepreux I 149 1187.  Gérard, veuve François  Active: 1556–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She is described in the municipal tax registers as being too poor to pay taxes. She lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353

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1188.  Gernasseau, Pierre  Active: 1523–1531  Name variations: Grenasteau, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place de l’ombrière’  Biography: He was born in around 1497 and was Jean Janvier’s nephew. He served his apprenticeship with his uncle, before setting up his own business.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 365 & 375 1189.  Gernays, Pierre  Active: 1526  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is perhaps the same person as Pierre Gernasseau.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 366 1190. Gibier, Éloi  Active: 1551–1588  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’église Sainte- Illustration 60 Croix’ (1551–1559); ‘Devant les Signature of Eloy Gibier, 1583, BM Tours grandes écoles de France’ (1566– Rés 5569 1573)  Biography: He married Marie Aignan then Barbe Girault, who outlived him and took over his business at his death. He enjoyed a successful career, becoming the official printer and bookseller to the university (1567) and to the city of Orléans (1556). He also printed for the prince of Condé (1562–1568) and published in a joint venture with Pierre Trepperel in 1569. Though he printed Protestant books, Gibier was cautious, choosing to leave his name off the most controversial works. His overall output was significant and represents some 500 editions, though many were short tracts. His bookshop was ransacked during the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Orleans whilst he hid in a house with German students. By then, however, he had abandoned printing for the Protestant cause and instead had turned to Catholic authors and local institutions for most of his texts. He maintained close

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contacts to Paris, co-publishing works with important figures such as Jean Dallier who produced large numbers of edicts and ordinances that also represented a substantial part of Gibier’s trade. He acted as an intermediary for the export of books to Spain by the Ruiz, receiving barrels from Paris and sending them down the Loire to Nantes. As a printer, he is known for being the first to use Pierre Haultin’s two-line double pica Roman type in 1571. In the last decade of his career, he worked in particular with Saturnin Hotot.  Commercial partners: Jean Dallier (Paris); Robert Estienne (Paris); Pierre Haultin (Orléans); Saturnin Hotot (Orléans); Benoît Prévost (Paris); Pierre Trepperel (Orléans)  Device: Silvestre n° 544 & 964  Motto: ‘In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 152, 270, 278, 295; Vervliet (Vine) n° 195  References: RB X p. 17–74; Muller p. 56–57; Herluison p. 26; Read p. 359; Gilmont p. 239–244; Walsby p. 67; Delalain p. 136; Répertoire n° 4091. 1191.  Giffart, François  Active: ca 1550  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is only known through his widow who was active in 1552.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233 1192.  Giffart, veuve François  Active: 1552  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She resided in the Comporté quarter of the city and was described as poor in the municipal tax registers in 1552.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233 1193. Gilard, Jean  Active: 1567–1581  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199

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1194.  Gilles, Pierre  Active: 1580–1592  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was an apprentice in the shop of the bookseller Jean Luquet before setting up his own business. He bought the stock of J. Mandon after his death in 1580. He married Marie Cazal and died before 1600.  References: Puech; Puech (Jaquy) p. 212 1195. Gillet  Active: 1540  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 268 1196.  Gillet  Active: 1552  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookbinder  References: Ronsin (Verdunois) p. 18 1197.  Gillet, Jean  Active: 1548  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Collette Maslé.  Documents: AD Cher E 1312  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862 1198.  Gillet, Jean  Active: 1548–1557  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented a stall in the cloister of Notre-Dame in 1548 that he was still renting nine years later.  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 103

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1199.  Gillet, Jean II  Active: 1580–1621  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1580–1594); Montpellier, Languedoc (1594– 1621); Orange, Holy Roman Empire (1614–1615)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he had learnt his trade there and worked first as a journeyman printer and, after 1586, as a master in the city. Initially, he seems to have solely worked for other publishers such as Hugues de La Porte and the brothers Gabiano. He married Suzanne, the daughter and sole heir of the printer Guido Malignan. After the latter’s death in 1594, having inherited his material and press, Gillet decided to relocate, leaving for Montpellier in 1594 after the city paid 100 livres to subsidise his move. In Montpellier, he was able to live his Protestant faith openly and worked for the town that also paid for his rent. In 1614 the town of Orange offered him better terms and so he moved his shop but was rapidly disappointed by the lack of opportunities there and soon returned to Montpellier. He also seems to have printed under the pseudonym ‘Le Libertin’. In his works he used a Great Primer type that employed elements of both Italic and civilité design. He also employed passepartout initials.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E1 368 f. 81  References: RB XXIV p. 25–29; Muller p. 53; Clerc p. 965; Baudrier I p. 188; Répertoire n° 4115. 1200.  Gillet, Noël  Active: 1585  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 7527 1201.  Gillot, Jeanne  Active: 1580–1591  Name variations: Siffleau, veuve René  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la sellerie, devant les cordeliers, à la fleur de lis d’or couronnée’  Biography: She married René Siffleau, but Michel who followed him into the trade was the son of a previous marriage. She had succeeded her husband by 1580 and continued to produce the same type of short

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octavo imprints. She dictated her will on 2 February 1590, but seems to have survived as in 1591 she was accused of selling books without permission and was still alive in 1602.  References: RB XXIII p. 69–70; Muller p. 113; Arbour p. 482; BVH Minutes; Ardouin-Weiss p. 49 1202.  Gilly, François  Active: 1582  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  References: Billioud p. 268 1203. Gilly, Joseph  Active: 1582  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  References: Billioud p. 268 Girard, see Paon, Bérard 1204. Girard, André  Active: 1527–1544  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 122 1205.  Girard, Claude  Active: 1599–1646  Location: Angers, Anjou (1599–1611); Saumur, Anjou (1611–1646)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘rue Saint-Michel, à l’entrée du logis de Lancrau’ (Angers)  Biography: He was the son of Jean whom he probably succeeded. He married Marie Hamelin and though he was initially a Catholic, until 1602 at least, he converted to Protestantism and left Angers to set up a shop in Saumur in 1611. He was buried on 10 April 1646. His sons Jean and Pierre succeeded him, the first in Angers, the second in Saumur.  References: Pasquier p. 123; Port II 263

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1206.  Girard, Jean  Active: 1530–1570  Name variations: Girardi, Jean  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the nephew of Pierre Bochard. He began his career under his uncle’s guidance, initially working for him and representing him on occasion, though he had his own shop by the early 1530s. He took on an apprentice on 8 April 1533. He was also the keeper of the keys of the university (1570). He relinquished his part of his uncle’s inheritance in return for the usufruct of his shop on Saint Didier square in 1553.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bochard (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 45 1207.  Girard, Jean  Active: 1528–1562  Name variations: Geraldus, Johannes; Gérard, Jean; Chirard, Jean; also known as Cambus or Combz/Cambz; Camps, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher, bookbinder  Biography: He married Barbe Faure, the daughter of Jean, which made him the son-in-law of Jacques I Colomiès after Mondette Guimbaud’s remarriage. He occasionally used Damien Boysson’s device and mainly published books of law for the local legal community. He was described as poor in the tax registers of the city in 1543.  Commercial partners: Damien Boysson (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 158; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 128; Claudin (1) p. 158 1208.  Girard, Jean  Active: 1572–1604  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais royal’  Biography: He married Louise Arrest with whom he had three children, one of whom, Claude, followed in his footsteps and became a bookseller in Angers then Saumur. After the death of Louise, he remarried before 1586 to Perrine Frotté. Their daughter Jeanne had Théodore

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Reinsart as godfather in 1603, suggesting that Jean might have been the Rouen bookseller’s contact in Angers when Reinsart was selling Plantin-Moretus imprints during the wars of the Catholic League. He initially resided in the parish of Saint-Maurice before moving, before 1577, to that of Saint-Michel-du-Tertre. He maintained direct links with Lyon, buying books from Charles Pesnot in 1579.  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 122; Baudrier III 125; Port II 263 1209.  Girard, Pierre  Active: 1552–1562  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a Protestant in a document drawn up to list all individuals of Calvinist faith in 1562. He lived in the parish of Saint-Oûtrillet.  Documents: AM Bourges CC 5 p. 115  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; BVH Minutes 1210.  Girard, Pierre  Active: 1565  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Pierre Roux (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 162 1211. Girardon, Guillaume  Active: 1578  Name variations: Girardin, Guillaume  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 1212.  Girardon, Nicolas  Active: 1573–1596  Name variations: Gyrardon, Nicolas; Girardot, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Rue Notre-Dame’  Biography: The official printer to the bishopric, his career was one of incremental success. He went from being described as too poor to pay in 1573 to being charged 5 sous in 1580, 10 in 1585 and 40 in 1591 in the municipal tax registers. He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes and represented the community of booksellers and printers in 1576. As a publisher, he is known for small works copied on content already published in Paris.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247, F 261, F 265, F 272; AD Côte-d’Or G 168  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 78; Troyes p. 81; Corrard de Breban p. 37; Lepreux II 123; Turquois p. 352; Morin (Troyes) p. 318; Morin (Ligue) p. 27; Répertoire n° 4138. 1213.  Girardon, Regnault  Active: 1550–1553  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 1214.  Girardon, Yves  Active: 1584–1633  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 352 1215. Girault, Barbe  Active: 1588–1589  Name variations: Gibier, veuve Éloi  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant les grandes écoles de France’  Biography: She married Éloi Gibier, whom she succeeded at the time of his death. Unlike her husband who had printed for the Protestant cause, she was a committed Catholic and printed an anti-Protestant pamphlet in 1588. Her material was acquired by Saturnin Hotot.  Commercial partners: Olivier Boynard (Orléans)  References: Arbour p. 248

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1216.  Girault, François  Active: 1540–1574  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1540–1551), Sens, Champagne (May 1551–1574)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près des portes de la chapelle du grand Hôtel Dieu, au Bœuf couronné’  Biography: He had a son named Jean who was an apprentice in 1540 in the workshop of the Parisian bookbinder Denis Chartier. He began his career in Paris, where he was described as a journeyman printer in 1540 and as a master after 1546. He left for Sens in the first months of 1551 where he became the city’s prototypographer and the official printer to the local cathedral chapter. Editions of religious texts dominated his output, though the survival of some irreverent verses suggests that he also printed less respectable texts (USTC 56759). He created his own Long Roman, Pica Roman and Primer Italic types which are only known to have been used by his workshop. He seems to have started printing with Gilles Richebois when the latter returned to the city in 1556, but also continued to work alone. He used woodcuts attributed to the painter Jean Cousin. He was still alive in 1574 but had apparently fallen on hard times and is thought to have died the following year.  Commercial partners: Jean de La Mare (Sens)  Motto: ‘Le Dieu eternelles veuille garder’, ‘Sola fides sufficit. Sine fide impossibile est placare Deo’  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 173 & 205; Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 41, 71 & 240  Documents: AD Yonne G 1158  References: Muller p. 106; RB VI p. 69–70; Renouard p. 173; Chandenier (Sens) p. 167; Répertoire n° 4143.

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Illustration 61 Device used by François Girault, 1556, USTC 37674

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1218.  Girouard, Jean  Active: 1530  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was an apprentice bookseller to Louis Gaulmier.  References: Despierres p. 9 1219.  Glamet, Noël  Active: 1585–1603  Location: Quimper, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the fictitious bookseller of ‘Quimpercorentin’ whose name was used in books printed by Jean Richer with the false imprint ‘Rennes’ in editions of the works of Noël du Fail between 1585 and 1602. He nevertheless appears as genuine in the works of Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie and in Jacques Betz’s volume of the Répertoire bibliographique.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 362; La Borderie p. 84; Lepreux IV 78; RB XIX p. 74 1220.  Glanet, Poncet  Active: 1503  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Born in around 1484 in Verdun, he began an apprenticeship in Pierre Bochard’s shop on 5 October 1503.  References: Pansier II 38 1221.  Gobert, Guillaume  Active: 1529–1553  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1529–1538); Agen, Guyenne (1541–1542); Nérac, Guyenne (1549); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1553)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in Montmorency, he started his career in Lyon where he published mainly religious material before moving to Agen in 1541 where his output became more eclectic. The decision to settle in Agen seems to have been at best a mitigated success as he soon resumed his peripatetic career, appearing in Nérac in 1549 and in Bordeaux four years later where he made the bookseller Claude

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Fontaine his proxy after deciding to sell goods in 1553. He acquired the material of Guillaume Reboul which he used for the first time in Nérac.  Commercial partners: Claude Fontaine (Bordeaux)  References: Muller p. 1 & 55; RB II p. 10 & 61; Desgraves (Introduction) p. 598; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 44 & 139; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 370; Baudrier XII 5 1222.  Godeau, Pierre  Active: 1598–1623  Location: Saumur, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Contre la grand porte de Saint-Pierre’  Biography: Of Catholic faith, in 1592 he was simply described as a merchant. The first mention of his role as a bookseller dates from 1598 and as a printer from 1610. His son, Jean, succeeded him after 1623.  Commercial partners: René Hernault (Saumur)  References: Pasquier p. 241; Port II 269; Répertoire n° 4221. 1223.  Godecart, Robert  Active: 1586–1588  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for having published via Jacques du Puys in Paris a rival edition of the customs of Brittany to that printed by Julien du Clos, though only after the latter’s death.  Commercial partners: Jacques du Puys (Paris)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 253 1224.  Godeffroy, Corneille  Active: 1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He worked as a journeyman printer in the workshop of Simon Millanges in 1598.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1271r–1272r

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1225.  Goderon, Jean  Active: 1546–1570  Name variations: Godevon, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou (1546–1547); Rennes, Brittany (1570)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la cour’ (Rennes)  Biography: When he was in Angers, he resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix where his daughter named Jacquine was baptised. He seems then to have relocated to Rennes where he set up shop in the vicinity of the Parlement. As a publisher, he is only known for an edition of Bertrand d’Argentré’s commentaries on custom law that he had printed for the local legal community and probably co-financed with Bertrand Jochault.  Commercial partners: Julien du Clos (Rennes); Bertrand Jochault (Rennes)  References: RB XIX p. 71; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 253; Pasquier p. 124; Port II 270 1226.  Goebens, Goossen  Active: 1561–1583  Name variations: Goeber, Gosvin  Location: Haarlem, Low Countries (1561–1564); Antwerp, Low Countries (1564–1565 & 1566–1567); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1565– 1566); Emden, Holy Roman Empire (1567–1583)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally trained in either France or the southern Netherlands, he was probably in Antwerp in 1561 when he was taken on by Jan van Zuren to work in Haarlem. The business, however, soon struggled with the limitations imposed by local regulations and Goebens moved back to Antwerp where he worked as a compositor for Christophe Plantin. He rejoined the van Zuren project in Sedan where the press had relocated to produce controversial material out of reach of the Dutch authorities. He thus became the prototypographer of Sedan where he published not just the usual ‘Haarlem press’ material, but also the verses of a local author, Charles de Navières. His presence in Sedan was temporary and he moved back to Antwerp in June 1566 for a year before rejoining the Haarlem press in Emden where he started publishing in his own name by 1570, printing works mainly destined for the Dutch market. As a printer, he used Canon Roman

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chapter headings even in unsuitably small formats as well as employing Arabic numerals.  References: Muller p. 106; RB XIII p. 64; Lepreux II 16; Pettegree (Emden) p. 208–209; Valkema Blouw p. 304 & 821 1227.  Gogue, Thomas  Active: 1540  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Grande.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 275 1228.  Goix, Claude de  Active: 1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a poor bookseller in the municipal tax registers. He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247 1229.  Gombault, Jeanne  Active: 1552–1580  Name variations: Trumeau, veuve Thibault  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: She married Thibault Trumeau whom she succeeded at his death. She lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes and was the wealthiest printer of the city. She entered into a legal dispute with a local priest, François Arnoul, over the right to publish books of hours, missals, breviaries and psalters for the local diocese for which he had obtained a royal privilege in 1578.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233, F 235, F 236, F 247; AD Aube, G 1288  References: Troyes p. 174; Lepreux II 200; Arbour p. 14 & 506; Turquois p. 352; Assier p. 102 1230.  Gomet, Barthelémy  Active: 1572–1591  Location: Blois, Touraine (1572–1591); Tours, Touraine (1589)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de puits du quartier, près la fontaine Saint-Jacques’

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 Biography: He married Olive L’Angelier, the daughter of Julien. He developed his trade in Blois where he published mainly edicts and ordinances. He was the most important figure in the local book world until the arrival of Parisian exiles following in the wake of Henry III after the Day of the Barricades in 1588. This was an opportunity for Gomet that he initially grasped by working in partnership with Jamet Mettayer first in Blois and later, when the court moved up the Loire, in Tours. However, Mettayer soon resorted to printing alone – though whether this was to do with the scale of the enterprises that the Parisians sought to undertake or because of an untimely death is unclear. His widow succeeded him at his death by early 1593.  Commercial partners: Zacharie II Griveau (Tours); Pierre L’Huillier (Blois); Jamet Mettayer (Tours, Blois)  Device: Silvestre n° 1157  Motto: ‘Ou gist impacience raison defaut’  Documents: BM Blois Fonds Joursanvault 1713  References: RB XXIII p. 11–13 & 73; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 61; Daubignard p. 12–16; Walsby (Mobility) p. 266; Répertoire n° 4242. 1231.  Gomont, Yves  Active: 1535–1550  Name variations: Jaumont, Yves; Bomont, Yves  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la chèvre’  Biography: He is known for having published works of joyful culture. The editions he commissioned were mainly short texts printed in quarto in traditional Gothic type, probably printed by Jean Lhomme. He resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Commercial partners: Jean Lhomme (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 54; B. Normande p. 309; Gosselin p. 94; Lepreux III 185; Aquilon p. 307 1232.  Gondouin, Pierre  Active: 1561–1562  Name variations: Goudouin, Pierre  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la cornemuse’

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 Biography: He published Protestant works, two of which were produced in partnership with Pierre Le Chandelier. His edition of the Psalms as translated by Marot and Bèze also has the name of the Genevan bookseller and publisher Antoine Vincent on the title page, though it is unclear what role, if any, Vincent played.  Commercial partners: Pierre Le Chandelier (Caen); Antoine Vincent (Geneva)  References: B. Normande p. 342–343; Muller p. 10–11; Lepreux III 456 1233.  Gonelli, Mathelin  Active: 1502  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1234.  Gontier, Pierre  Active: 1554–1559  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1554); Rouen, Normandie (1557–1559)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was active in Bordeaux in 1554 where he married Jeanne de Bonnefous on 15 November 1554 and lived in the parish of Saint-Éloi. He sourced books from Jean Temporel in Lyon, buying them in partnership with the bookseller Simon Vouges. However, he seems to have moved on to Rouen as a Pierre Gontier resided in the parish of Saint-Lô in 1558 and also relied on his Lyon connections for his trade. In 1559, he was described as stocking and selling the books sent on by the Lyon merchant Jean Hiesse, with whom he had already conducted business the previous year. Jean Froger worked and lived for a while in his shop. As a publisher, he is known for a single imprint: a shared edition with Froger of a newsbook on the deluge of Palermo in 1557 (USTC 54034). This was itself the copy of a Lyon edition as the text was initially published by Benoît Rigaud et Jean Saugrain (USTC 10476).  Commercial partners: Jean Froger (Rouen); Jean Gaultier (Rouen); Jean Hiesse (Lyon); David Julian (Caen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Jacques Regnault (Rouen); Jean Temporel (Lyon); Simon Vouges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/423bis p. 23  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 371; Gosselin p. 109; Répertoire n° 4255.

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1235.  Gorsse, François  Active: 1591–1592  Name variations: Gorce, François  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher, he is known for a single polemical edition (USTC 74341), copied on earlier Parisian and Lyon imprints. He was, however, also named in the baptismal registers of the parish of La Dalbade as a godfather on 9 February and 9 November 1592.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 6 f. 89v & 108r  References: RB XX p. 189 1236.  Goulley, Martin  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Pedlar  Biography: He attempted to set up a stall in Rouen in October 1579, but his request was refused as he had not completed an apprenticeship.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489 1237.  Goupil, Jean I  Active: 1520–1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the son of Richard and, like him, seems to have only worked for other publishers. However, unlike his father, he does not seem to have signed his imprints with his full name, using simply his initials or the formula ‘maistre J. G.’. He appears in this manner on a number of imprints. There has been some speculation as to the identity of this printer, with bibliographers also attributing his output to Jacques Le Gentil, though this seems unlikely. By 1540, Pierre Le Roux had acquired his material.  Commercial partners: François Regnault (Paris)  References: RB VIII p. 39–41; B. Normande p. 269–271; Lepreux III 254 1238.  Goupil, Jean II  Active: 1579–1587  Name variations: Gouppil, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer

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 Biography: He rented a house from the parish of Saint-Laurent in 1580, 1584 and again in 1587. He served as warden of the community of booksellers and printers of Rouen in 1583.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6802, G 6841, G 6847  References: Gosselin p. 116 1239. Goupil, Richard  Active: 1510–1529  Name variations: Gopilius, Richardus; Gouppil, Richard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue Malpalu, près le couvent des Augustins, à la tuile d’or’, ‘Au lion d’or, près les Augustins’ (1512–1516)  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou and was the father of Jean. At the beginning of his career he printed with Nicolas Mullot and Jacques Le Forestier in whose workshop he probably learnt his trade and whose address he used. A prolific printer, we know of some 40 imprints in the space of a decade, he worked closely with Caen publishers producing mainly educational and religious works. The first work we have by him is dated 1510, though a number of his imprints are undated and could have been produced earlier. His material was acquired from Le Forestier when he ceased printing in order to concentrate on publishing and distribution. Goupil does not seem to have published for his own profit. His son, Jean, seems to have succeeded him by 1520.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Guillaume Candos (Rouen); Martin Coffyn (Exeter); Guillaume Duval (Pont-Audemer); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Richard Macé (Caen); Robert I Macé (Caen); Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen); Pierre Regnault (Caen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 20–29; B. Normande p. 244–253; Gosselin p. 71; Lepreux III 186; TW of1421; Duff p. 58; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 4286. 1240. Gourdin, Antoine  Active: 1565–1601  Name variations: Gouppil, Jean  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1565 & 1577– 1601); Rouen, Normandy (1570)  Role: Peddler, bookseller, publisher

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 Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A Parisian bookseller, who temporarily relocated to nearby Saint-Denis along with the other Gourmonts before returning to Paris.  Commercial partners: Gilles de Gourmont (Paris); Benoît de Gourmont (Paris)  References: RB XXIII p. 27; Muller p. 104; Renouard p. 179 1244.  Gouzet, Antoine  Active: 1557–1596  Name variations: Couzet, Antoine; Gouset, Antoine; Goretz, Antoine; Gonzet, Antoine  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la rue dorée’  Biography: A Protestant, he was the brother of Jean and married Catherine Chérubine then Marguerite Bertin of Lourmarin – their marriage contract was dated 22 October 1570. He had initially been placed as apprentice to a merchant of Pamiers in 1546 by his mother, Guillemette Bartalotte, but was then taken on as an apprentice in the shop of the bookseller Jean Luquet. He became an important local figure, importing books from Geneva, though he never seems to have become a publisher. He quarrelled with Sébastien Jaquy in 1582 despite having been one of the booksellers who witnessed the act that set up Jaquy’s printing press in the city three years earlier. Jean Dumas began a two-year apprenticeship in his shop on 30 April 1565. He also took on Claude Nicou, who had already begun to learn his trade with César Luquet, as an apprentice in 1587. In 1594, he retrieved thirteen volumes of Psalms that had been stolen from his shop by three students. In his will, dated 12 January 1596, he confirmed the dowries of his daughters Firmine and Marthe as well as the inheritances of his son Abraham and daughters Isabelle and Jeanne. Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva); Pierre Roux (Avignon)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 372; AD Gard 1 E 289, 2 E 36/386, 2 E 37/33, 2 E 37/109, E 286 f. 416, E 290 f. 207  References: RB XXIV p. 43; Muller p. 56; Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie); Puech (Apprentissage) p. 58

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1245.  Gouzet, Jean  Active: 1566  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the brother of Antoine.  References: Puech (Nîmes) 1246.  Goyzot, Michel  Active: 1588  Name variations: Goizot, Michel  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single work printed in part in provençal (USTC 59465). The imprint featured a device with the word ‘BELGIA’.  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 2; Billioud p. 268 1247.  Grabam, Jacques de  Active: 1565  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known only thanks to a mention in La Croix du Maine for having produced an edition in 1565 (USTC 80350).  References: RB XX p. 167 1248.  Graciade, Michel  Active: 1528–1529  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He owed money to the Parisian publisher Jean Petit.  Commercial partners: Pierre Morange (Clermont-Ferrand); Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 13 f. 447v  References: Coyecque 1003 Gragourt, Jean, see Jagourt, Jean 1249.  Grand, Martin  Active: 1543  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  References: Jenny (Notes) p. 878

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1250.  Grand, Michel  Active: 1573–1593  Name variations: Legrand, Michel  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Marie Assyer and lived in the parish of Saint-Jean-des-Champs. He worked mainly on small commissions that he was given by the local municipality. He died before 1612.  Commercial partners: Pierre I Bouchier (Bourges)  Documents: AD Cher E 1623  References: RB XIII p. 31; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; Jenny (Notes) p. 878 1251.  Grandjean, Jean  Active: 1488–1520  Name variations: Grand Johan, Jean; Magnus, Joannes  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Al canton de la portaria’; ‘In angulo vie porta Arietis’  Biography: The son of a notary of Toulouse, he married Domenge Clément, the daughter of a parchment maker. He was described as a bookseller in 1488 and 1497, but had taken up the role of a printer by 1499. He had initially bought the material of Heinrich Meyer but rapidly upgraded and sold it on in 1501 to Thibaud Mony and Nicolas Garaud once he had acquired Jean Parix’s material. He was elected at the head of the newly created booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511, but also undertook other roles outside the trade, such as helping administer the mills of Bazacle. Antoine de Montar, Bernard Philipeau, Martin Miègeville, Pierre de Loutne, Thomas Jean, Jean de Bala, André Barthelot, Bernard de Cascailh, and Guillaume Dyssac were all apprentices in his workshop. Jérôme Milhières, Arnauld Guillaume Montpézat, Jérôme Pechbernard were employed by him. Grandjean had a very successful career and owned at least six properties by the time of his death. He died in 1520 and was succeeded by his wife. His material passed on to Jean Faure.  Commercial partners: François Armel (Lyon); Pierre Bordalier (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Jacques Molinier (Toulouse)  Motto: ‘In nomine Jhesu omne genu’

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 References: RB XX p. 9–15; Muller p. 112; Desbarreaux-Bernard p. 1–10; Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Grandjean); Blanc-Rouquette p. 26; Répertoire n° 4309. 1252.  Grandsaigne, Étienne  Active: 1520–1538  Name variations: Gransanha, Steve  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  Biography: He married Delphine Celles in 1520, with whom he had a son named Pierre who followed him into the trade. After 1527, he also acted as the official verifying weights and measures for the municipality. He died before 1547.  References: Lançon p. 210; Affre p. 99 1253.  Grandsaigne, Guillaume  Active: 1565  Name variations: Gransange, Guillaume  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Aveyron 3 E 1707 f. 213 1254.  Grandsaigne, Pierre  Active: 1550–1571  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  Biography: The son of Étienne, whom he succeeded, he married Jeanne Malrieu in 1553 and Plaisance Raynal in 1571 with whom he had a son, Amant, who succeeded him and became the town’s prototypographer in the seventeenth century. He worked extensively for the municipal authorities both as a binder and a stationer.  References: Lançon p. 210; Affre p. 99 1255.  Grange, Michel  Active: 1590–1593  Name variations: Lagrange, Michel  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Documents: AD Côte-d’Or B 4579, G 264, G 1528 f. 228; AM Dijon LL 693, LL 201, LL 206 1 & 2  References: Clément-Janin p. 112; Skora (Langres) 1258.  Grangier, Pierre I  Active: 1522–1581  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant notre Dame’ (1522– 1525); ‘Devant l’église Saint-Étienne’ (1531–1541) Illustration 64  Biography: He was born in around Signature of Pierre Grangier, 1557, 1497 and was the father of Antoine I, AM Dijon L 111 Daniel I, Pierre II and Simon, all of whom followed him into the trade. He rented a house on the square in front of Saint-Étienne where he held his shop in 1531. He converted to Protestantism but recanted following the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. He was found guilty of having let his son and others sing the Psalms as translated by Clément Marot in his shop in 1561, for which crime he was handed a fine of two lt and threatened of further fines and imprisonment if he failed to prevent further singing of this type. His personal address was given as ‘on the great square close to the holy chapel’ in the tax registers – a house that he rented from at least 1546. He bound books for the municipality and for local religious institutions. He found it difficult to make ends meet: in 1557, he requested that he be allowed to pay less tax as he had a wife who had been consistently ill for the previous 18 months as well as ten children to feed. He had thus been forced to also work in the fields, noting that he sold very few books in the city.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gromors (Paris)  Documents: AM Dijon B 199, B 201, B II 360/11, E 27, LL 111, LL 689, LL 201, LL 206 1 & 2, MM 102 f. 163; AD Côte-d’Or Cart. 78 f. 180, G 451 f. 66, G 1528 f. 25  References: RB XXI p. 23–25; Muller p. 16; Clément-Janin p. 9l; Belle p. 491; Skora (Langres) 1259.  Grangier, Pierre II  Active: 1592–1615  Location: Dijon, Burgundy

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 Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place Saint Etienne’  Biography: The son of Pierre I, he married Louise Cherot or Charcot with whom he had two sons, Daniel (1602), and Antoine II, who both followed him into the trade. They lived in the parish of Nôtre Dame. He also worked as scribe on occasion.  Documents: AM Dijon B 253, B 482  References: Clément-Janin p. 112; Skora (Langres) 1260. Grangier, Simon  Active: 1587–1608  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of Pierre I, he lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He married Guillemette Papillon with whom he had a son on 21 May 1587, Antoine III, who followed him into the trade. He sold books to the chapter of the Sainte-Chapelle.  Documents: AD Côte-d’Or G 1530 f. 226  References: Clément-Janin p. 112 1261.  Gratenoyer, Julien  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1262.  Gratian, Étienne  Active: 1593–1595  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Pierrette Bierge.  References: Boyer p. 50 1263.  Gratian, Jean  Active: 1567  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was of Protestant faith.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862

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1264.  Gravier  Active: 1548–1550  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He undertook commissions from the town and from the local bishopric.  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 69; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 649; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 220; Etchechoury p. 9 1265.  Grégoire, Jacques  Active: 1587–1589  Location: Blois, Touraine (1588); Paris, Île-de-France (1587–1589)  Role: Pedlar, printer, publisher  Address: ‘À Paris: Près la porte Saint-Victor’; ‘Près le Petit Navarre’; ‘Rue d’Arras, devant le Petit Navarre’; ‘À l’Image’; ‘Enseigne Saint Jean’  Biography: He described himself as a pedlar on his publications and used Henri III’s coat of arms. He nevertheless had a shop in Paris in 1587 where the Sens bookseller Jean Savine placed his son, Pierre, as an apprentice.  Documents: Archives nationales Minutier central étude VII/547.  References: RB XXIII p. 14; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 76; Delalain p. 128; Renouard p. 183; Répertoire n° 4344. 1266.  Grégoire, Richard  Active: 1590–1592  Name variations: Georges, Richard  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was the official printer to the bishop of Verdun, Nicolas Boucher, and printed a pamphlet using high quality type in defence of his patron in 1592.  References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 68; Lepreux II 374; Jacquot p. 12; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 77 1267. Grener  Active: 1552  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a ‘pauvre libraire’ in the tax registers of 1552. He resided in the parish of La Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282

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1268.  Grenier, Guillaume  Active: 1599  Location: Villefranche  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A series of polemical tracts on the presence of Jesuits in France were printed under this false address in 1599 and throughout the seventeenth century.  References: Brunet p. 61; Répertoire n° 4348. 1269.  Grenot, Pierre  Active: 1548–1556  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the Beffroy quarter, the wealthiest area of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235  References: Turquois p. 352 1270.  Gresle, Pierre  Active: 1508–1517  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer  Biography: He ran a monastic press mainly known for producing letters of indulgence.  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 21 1271.  Griffard, Jean  Active: 1577–1615  Name variations: Grifard, Jean; Griffart, Jean; Griffar, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘En la Petite Tannerie, près le Second Pont’ (1585); ‘Rue de la Petite-Tannerie, au pont de la Croix’ (1596); ‘Sur le pont de la Salle, près du Palais’ (1608–1612); ‘Rue Nostre Dame, près l’ange Gabriel’  Biography: He acted as a representative of the printers and booksellers of Troyes in 1594. His career seems to have been a modest one, working for the widow of Nicolas du Ruau, perhaps at the head of her workshop in the 1590s, before setting up his own business. He printed octavos both for his own profit and for other local booksellers as well

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as, in the seventeenth century, for Parisian publishers. He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Jean II Collet (Troyes); Jean III Collet (Troyes); veuve Jean du Brayet (Paris); Claude Du Breuil (Paris); veuve Nicolas Du Ruau (Troyes); Jean Millot (Paris); Nicolas Rousset (Paris)  Motto: ‘Auditu audietis et non intelligetis et videntes videbitis, et non videbitis. Esa. cap. 6. Math. 13 Joan. II’  Documents: AM Troyes A 24 p. 361, F 261, F 265, F 272, F 276  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 82–83; Troyes p. 80; Corrard de Breban p. 37; Lepreux II 128; Turquois p. 352; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281; Morin (Ligue) p. 29; Répertoire n° 4353. 1272.  Grisel, Ambroise  Active: 1563  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is only known for two states of the same edition of an edict – a low-quality imprint with a manifest error on one of the two title pages.  References: RB X p. 78 1273.  Griveau, Zacharie I  Active: 1559–1578  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près Saint-Gatien’ (1559); ‘Devant la porte du Palais’ (1573–1576)  Biography: The father of Zacharie II, he married Catherine Cherelles with whom he had three children. She looked after their son and his commercial interests after his death, some time before 9 May 1578. He published mainly short texts of mostly edicts and ordinances, often copied on previously printed versions produced in Paris. By the end of his life he was styling himself printer to the archbishop of Tours.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bourgeat (Tours); Pierre Regnard (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); Olivier Tafforeau (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/230  References: RB XXIII p. 59–62; Muller p. 113; BVH Minutes; Ardouin-Weiss p. 22; Répertoire n° 4369.

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1274.  Griveau, Zacharie II  Active: 1580–1600  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais royal’  Biography: The son of Zacharie I, he married by a contract Illustration 65 dated 18 December 1581 Judith Signature of Zacharie Griveau, 1591, AD Rivière who was from a partially Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 protestant family. After 1591, they lived in the parish of Notre Dame de l’Ecrignole. They had at least six children of which two sons, Zacharie III and Georges, who followed him into the trade. He had taken over his father’s shop after Zacharie I’s death in 1578 – initially with the help of his mother. He became the official printer to the archbishop and to the king in Tours and published royalist pamphlets as well as edicts and ordinances. This made him a central figure in the local book trade, but it did not stop him from seeking further profit, being condemned in 1591 first for selling books that did not have a privilege and second for printing error-strewn books that were, presumably, too hastily produced. He died before 25 February 1601.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Gomet (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/233, 3E5/239, 3E5/252, 3E5/257  References: Ardouin-Weiss p. 22; Répertoire n° 4370. 1275.  Grolin, Pierre  Active: 1521–1553  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He worked notably for the local municipality. He had a stall on the cathedral square. In one of the entries in the municipal registers there is a reference to a ‘Jehan Grolin’, but Labarre suggested that this was simply an error by the scribe.  Commercial partners: Jacques Forment (Cambrai)  Documents: AM Amiens CC 120 f. 104  References: RB IX p. 9; Muller p. 2; Lepreux I 154; Labarre p. 46 1276.  Grollier, Gilbert  Active: 1499  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne

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 References: Clouzot (1907) p. 48 & 49; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 507; Cartier p. 151; Baudrier VIII 328–9; Droz (Campenon) 1290.  Guébin, Hilaire  Active: 1584–1585  Name variations: Guesbin, Hilaire  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He owed money to a Genevan merchant in 1584.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 507 1291. Guénet, Abraham  Active: 1539  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for two issues of the same edition of royal ordinances printed in 1539 (USTC 72233 & 72234).  Commercial partners: Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Galiot du Pré (Paris)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 53; B. Normande p. 308; Lepreux III 196 1292.  Guérin, Marc  Active: 1541–1552  Name variations: Guerin, Marc; Guarin, Marc  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’écu de Basel près des Trois Maillets’, ‘Au dessous des grandes écoles’  Biography: He was the father of Marie and father-in-law of Pierre I Bouchier. He married Marie Maugis. As a publisher, he is known for a single edition of the customs of Berry that he had printed in Lyon (USTC 55987).  Commercial partners: Jacques Montignon (Nevers); Thibaud Payen (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Si Dieu est pour nous, qui sera contre nous’  References: RB XIII; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 861 1293.  Guérin, Marie  Active: 1583–1586  Name variations: Bouchier, veuve Pierre I

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 Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’écu de Bâle, au dessous des grandes écoles’  Biography: She took over what was left of the shop of Pierre I Bouchier following the auction of his stock and furniture in 1584. She did not keep the title of printer to the town that was bestowed instead on Nicolas Levez. In her publications, she kept the name of her late husband.  References: Jenny (Notes) p. 898 1294.  Guérin, Pierre  Active: 1505–1547  Name variations: Guerin, Pierre  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue de ganterie à l’enseigne de la hache’ (1505–1517), ‘rue de l’écureuil’ (1520), ‘Place du Marché aux veaux, joignant l’église SaintGeorges, à la corne de cerf’  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Laurent. He published mainly books of hours which were distributed as far as England and Paris. Facing considerable debts, he borrowed 2000 livres so as to avoid bankruptcy.  Commercial partners: Martin Daubet (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Pierre Ricouart (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 353  Documents: AS 76 G 9345  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 202; Gosselin p. 69; Duff p. 62; Aquilon p. 306 1295.  Guérineau, Mathurin  Active: 1578?  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married and was survived by Jacquette Aubry. He died before 1579.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 47 1296.  Guerlins, Jean de  Active: 1513–1521  Name variations: Garlys, Jean de; Guerlons, Jean de

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 Location: Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Languedoc (1516); Castelnaudary, Languedoc (1515); Lagrasse, Languedoc (1513); Toulouse, Languedoc (1519–1521); Montauban, Languedoc (1521)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue neuve proche de la porte du cloître des Augustins’ (Toulouse)  Biography: An itinerant printer originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he worked in a variety of locations in southwestern France. He finally settled in Toulouse in 1519 where he died two years later. Jean Domaysel lent money to him and to Arnauld Guilhem du Boys on 17 January 1520. He was succeeded by his widow in 1521 though his material was later used by Arnauld Guilhem du Boys with whom he probably worked towards the end of his career. Most of his imprints were undated.  Commercial partners: Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse)  Motto: ‘Spes mei deus’  References: RB IV p. 8; RB XX p. 32–38; Muller p. 112; Desbarreaux-Bernard p. 1; Claudin (1) p. 142; Blanc-Rouquette p. 24; Répertoire n° 4443. 1297.  Guerlins, veuve Jean de  Active: 1521  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: She took over her husband’s business at his death in 1521.  References: RB IV p. 8 1298.  Guernier, Guillaume  Active: 1506  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Originally from the parish of Saint-Pierre in Caen, he started an apprenticeship in Robert I Macé’s shop on 4 February 1506.  References: Delisle (Caen) XXIX 1299.  Guéroult, Guillaume  Active: 1547–1555  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1547–1549 & 1553–1555); Lyon, Lyonnais (1550–1552); Vienne, Dauphiné (1552–1553)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: Born in Rouen, he was the nephew of Genevan printer and publisher Guillaume-Simon du Bosc. He married Jacquette, the daughter of the Lyon printer Jean Barbou. He converted to Protestantism and is thought to have gone to Geneva early in his career, leaving for Lyon in 1549. He moved to Vienne in 1552 when he began working for his brother-in-law Balthazar Arnoullet, never signing a book himself. There, he undertook the production of Michel Servet’s Christianisimi restitutio. Despite being published anonymously, the book was recognised as having been printed with Arnoullet’s material. The latter was arrested and Guéroult fled back to relative safety in Geneva where he worked with his uncle. After 1555, he was once more compelled to seek refuge elsewhere, returning to Lyon where he remained until his death in 1564. He was also a poet, translator and musician of some repute.  Motto: ‘Patience victorieuse’  References: RIECH; Chaix p. 191; Baudrier X; Répertoire n° 4444. 1300.  Guesnay, Étiennette  Active: 1565–1577  Name variations: Grosnay, Étiennette; Marchant, veuve Claude  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivinerie’  Biography: She married the bookseller Claude Marchant whom she succeeded before 1565 at which point she had entered into conflict with the doctores regentes of the university over whether or not she could keep the position. She seems to have won the right to remain, though by 1577 she was no longer active and was replaced in the institution’s librairie by the bookseller Olivier Boynard.  References: Ridderikhoff et al. III p. 152 & 340 1301.  Gueyard, François  Active: 1530–1572  Name variations: Gueyart, François; Gueiard, François; Gueiart, François; Guyard, François; also known as François d’Orléans  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’escrivenerie’  Biography: Receiver-general of the revenue of the university of Orléans after 1538, he was also the verger of the German nation between 1530 and 1558, as well as a sworn bookseller of the university. He had a poor reputation within the German community in Orléans,

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being known for sending a lame servant to represent him on official occasions and for being mainly interested in ways of deriving profit from his various positions. As a publisher, he had books printed in Paris and Lyon, often in partnership with other booksellers, though he seems to have abandoned publishing in the final decades of his life. He died in 1572 during the local massacre that followed Saint Bartholomew’s day when, described as aged and infirm, his throat was slit as he lay in his bed. Baudrier mistakenly places him in Lyon in 1570 (see USTC 110814).  Commercial partners: Jean Barbou (Lyon); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Jacques Martinet (Orléans); Thibaud Payen (Lyon); Vincent de Portonariis (Lyon); Chrestien Wechel (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 1140  Documents: AD Loiret 438 J 94  References: RB X p. 13–14; Muller p. 56–57; Herluison p. 10; Ridderikhoff et al. II p. xxxv & III p. 277; Baudrier I 205; Répertoire n° 4425. 1302.  Guigois, Michel  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1303.  Guigue, Étienne  Active: 1584  Location: Embrun, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 231 1304. Guillaume, Claude  Active: 1520–1561  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame’  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city, in the parish of Saint-Jean.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353; Assier p. 98; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279

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1305.  Guillaume, Nicolas  Active: 1556–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 1306.  Guillemin, Didier  Active: 1559–1562  Location: Saint-Nicolas-De-Port, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was the official printer to the duke of Lorraine and received financial support from the duke to install his press. However, he converted to Protestantism and was forced to leave the duke’s service in 1562.  Motto: ‘Vana salus hominum’  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1159  References: Muller p. 105; RB VII p. 51; Humbert; Jacquot p. 12; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 1 1307.  Guillemin, Macé  Active: 1528  Name variations: Guillemyn, Macé  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer’s apprentice  Biography: Originally from the parish of Ampoigné, he undertook to become an apprentice in Richard Piquenot’s workshop in Angers for two years on 7 March 1528. He was sponsored in this endeavour by the priest of his village, Pierre Goupil.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121 1308.  Guillemot, Mathieu  Active: 1582–1610  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1582– 1588 & 1595–1610); Tours, Touraine (1591–1594)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘À la court de parlement’ (Tours)

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 Biography: Initially active in Paris, he left during the wars of the Catholic League and settled in Tours. As a publisher there, he worked systematically with Sébastien du Molin whose name appeared alongside his, producing works in duodecimo format. He returned to Paris after the fall of the city to Henry IV. He died on 30 April 1610 and was succeeded by his widow Anne Sauvage.  Commercial partners: Georges Drobet (Tours); Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Marc Orry (Tours); Jean Richer (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5/252  References: RB XXIII p. 140–141; Muller p. 113; Giraudet p. 18; BVH Minutes 1309.  Guillot, Barthélemy  Active: 1558–1567  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Madeleine, the daughter of the bookseller Denis Ranteau (contract signed on 7 January 1558) and received a dowry of 20 lt along with some furniture. They resided in the parish of La Celle. He took Jacques Baignoux on as an apprentice in 1567.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 502 1310.  Guillot, Étienne  Active: 1540  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 268 1311.  Guillot, François  Active: 1589–1598  Name variations: Gueliot, François; also known as Larminat  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter. The tax registers described him as a bookbinder.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272, F 276  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281

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1312.  Guillot, Jean  Active: 1559–1561  Name variations: Guilhot, Jean  Location: Condom, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned by the parlement of Guyenne for having attended with his mother a Protestant service near Condom on 19 January 1559, but was released a month later. In 1561 he was described as a master bookseller. The 1595 land register of nearby Mézin refers to property owned by the heirs of Isaac and Jean Guillot, booksellers.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 233 n° 110; AM Nérac CC 1  References: Patry p. 282 1313.  Guiman, Jean  Active: 1509–1511  Name variations: Guyman, Jean; Guine, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter.  References: Claudin (1) p. 17 1314.  Guimbaude, Mondete  Active: 1523–1525  Name variations: Fabri, veuve Jean; Faure, veuve Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Dagulheres, devant Saint-Sernin’  Biography: She married Jean Faure who died in 1523. She succeeded her husband and immediately published books under her own name. But this was a short-lived venture as she decided to sell her workshop to Jacques I Colomiès in 1525. She seems, however, to have continued to sell books later, though clear information on this is lacking.  References: RB XX p. 61; Desbarreaux-Bernard p. 17–18; Baudrier X 347; Arbour p. 223 1315.  Guyard, Claude  Active: 1521  Location: Mâcon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He is known for having published a breviary for the use of the local diocese (USTC 123932).  Commercial partners: Jacques Mareschal (Lyon)  References: RB XXI p. 71; Muller p. 50 1316.  Guyart, Jean  Active: 1512–1543  Name variations: Guyard, Jean; Guillart, Jean; Guirard, Jean  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1512); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1513?–1543)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’église Sainte-Colombe’  Biography: He married Gillette Moline, the widow of Gaspard Philippe, for whom he had worked in Paris as a journeyman printer. He followed Philippe to Bordeaux, probably in 1513, and succeeded him at his death in 1520, sometimes using the same device. He was an official bookseller to the university of Bordeaux. François Morpain (1520/1) and Pierre de Certa (1529) served as his apprentices. An enterprising printer, he developed the Parisian style of his late master and had an extra press made of walnut for himself in Bordeaux in 1526 by a local joiner. He was known for printing on both paper and vellum, often using rubricated title pages. He initiated a successful lawsuit to forbid the sale of a competing edition of the customs of Bordeaux printed for the Parisian publisher Durand Gerlier with a rival privilege in 1528. He was condemned by the local parlement in 1541 for printing caricatures and images representing the nine worthies of gormandizing and was forced to destroy the entire print run. The following year, he was also thought to be the printer of a satirical song written in protest at the exactions carried out against those who opposed the levying of the gabelle. He lived in the parish of Sainte-Colombe. Labadie and Desgraves both have two entries, one for Jean Guirard (active in 1526) and another for Guyart.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Hector de La Grange (Bordeaux)  Device: Silvestre n° 241 & 926  Documents: AD Gironde E LXVII 7  References: Muller p. 9; RB I p. 10–16; Labadie p. 43–44; Delpit p. 25; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 388 & 389; Desgraves (Impressions); Renouard p. 344

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1317.  Guyenot, Jean  Active: 1545  Name variations: Guyennot, Jean  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Printer  Documents: AM Dijon MM 341 f. 15  References: Skora (Langres) 1318.  Guyenot, Noël  Active: 1577  Name variations: Guyennot, Noël  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Biography: He was executed in 1577.  References: Skora (Langres) 1319.  Guyne, Claude  Active: 15.  Location: Vendôme, Touraine  Role: Printer  References: Muller p. 116; Kolb 416 1320. Guyon, Claude  Active: 1562  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Ysabeau Gaulmier.  References: Despierres p. 10 1321.  Guyot, Antoine  Active: 1589  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 31715), an edict published by the main royalist printers in Metz and Tours. No extant copy is known and it is possible that this was an error for Claude Guyot who was the printer to the king in the city.  References: RB XVII p. 15; Muller p. XIII; Lhote p. 20 1322.  Guyot, Claude  Active: 1588–1628

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 Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1588); Langres, Champagne (1588–1590); Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne (1589–1608); Dijon, Burgundy (1608–1628)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He married Bénigne Ladmiral and was the father of Jeanne, who was born in 1590, and another daughter named Bénigne who died in 1605. After his first wife’s death, he married Catherine Laverot who survived him. He had learnt his trade in Paris before moving to Langres during the first year of the wars of the Catholic League, residing in the parish of Saint-Pierre. A royalist, he left for Châlons-en-Champagne in late 1589 where the loyal members of the Parlement of Paris had taken refuge, though his family remained in Langres for at least a few more months. In Châlons, the municipal authorities granted him a one-off payment to help him settle. During the following decade he produced over 60 editions, mainly short works in support of the king sometimes copying the output of Jamet Mettayer in Tours. In 1590 he became the official printer to the king, but he found the job difficult. The town was in Leaguer country and distributing his output beyond the city walls was nigh impossible and he was forced to rely on further payments from the authorities to stay afloat. After the peace, he also began printing for the local Church and diversified the content of his output. He left for Dijon in 1608, leaving some of his material in Châlons where it was used by the printer Julien Griffard before being sold to the city authorities. He died in 1628 at which point his widow succeeded him.  Device: Silvestre n° 857  Motto: ‘Quod potes id tenta’  Documents: AN X/1a 9261 f. 112; AM Châlons-en-Champagne BB 15 f. 124  References: RB XVII p. 16–25 & 40; Muller p. 13 & 20; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 268 & 348; Oursel p. 359; Lhote p. 21; Répertoire n° 4529. 1323.  Guyotte, Jean  Active: 1563–1567  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Françoise Mauclerc with whom he had at least two daughters. They lived in the parish of Le Crucifix. He died before 7 May 1567 when his second daughter was christened.  References: Chardon p. 62

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1324.  Habert, André  Active: 1589  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’église de Sainte-Croix’  Biography: He is known for a single polemical edition published in 1589.  References: RB X p. 90 1325.  Hacquet, Jacques  Active: 1539  Location: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 18 1326.  Hadrot, Pierre  Active: 1525–1557  Name variations: Hadrouet, Pierre  Location: Troyes, Champagne; Sens, Champagne (1552)  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Au petit coq, en la grande rue, devant saint-Jean’ (Troyes)  Biography: He printed in Sens in 1552 for the local Church, but mainly resided in Troyes, in the Croncels quarter where he printed the only surviving work we know of: a book of hours in Gothic type. He was perhaps connected to the Parisian printer Simon Hadrot.  Device: Silvestre n° 281  Documents: AD Yonne G 1159; AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 29; Troyes p. 84; Corrard de Breban p. 38; Lepreux II 131; Chandenier (Sens) p. 167; Turquois p. 352; Socard & Assier p. 39; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279 1327.  Hamel, Guillaume  Active: 1521–1527  Name variations: Du Hamel, Guillaume; Duhamel, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Born in the parish of Le Pin, near Lisieux, he is known only for two lost editions, one for the local church and one for Jean I de Burges. He lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre-l’Honoré.

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 Commercial partners: Jean I de Burges (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 112  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 76; B. Normande p. 278; Gosselin p. 80; Lepreux III 144 & 197 1328.  Hamelin, Jean  Active: 1555–1571  Location: Autun, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Claude Balaget and then, after her death, Barbe Le Bœuf in 1571. A Protestant in 1561, he had nevertheless been able to set up shop in the treasury of the cathedral – though this right was revoked in 1562 when it became clear that it had become a place where people of poor reputation congregated. He had difficulties paying off his debts and was bailed out by the church in return for a promise to stock 20 or 30 lt’s worth of missals in 1566. His continuing Protestant sympathies were, however, problematic: he was jailed in 1569 for helping a Huguenot leader to escape. He certainly seems to have tried to keep his faith and his business separate: the book for which he is known as a publisher was a missal for the local Catholic Church. He died before 1573.  Commercial partners: Corneille de Sept-Granges (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Sic summis laboribus ad molam pergo’; ‘A peine iehan suis hamelin’  References: RB XXV p. 19; Muller p. 5; Charmasse p. 314; Abord 282; Baudrier II 380; Répertoire n° 4587. 1329.  Hamillon, Cardin I  Active: 1524–1544  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: The genealogy of the Hamillon family is confused with separations between the different printers mainly based on conjecture as they all seem to have been named Cardin (the diminutive of Richard). The first of the family worked in particular for local religious institutions and booksellers, generally not signing his imprints.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2527  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 98; Lepreux III 198; Répertoire n° 4588.

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1330.  Hamillon, Cardin II  Active: 1545–1595  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Petite rue Saint-Jean, devant le coeur d’argent’ (1595)  Biography: This probable second Cardin signed his books, using the variation Richard in the colophons. He worked in particular for the English market and printed in 1566 an edition of the Protestant English Bible for the London merchant Richard Carmarden. He is perhaps the Cardin Hamillon who was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1579 and 1588, who became master of the confraternity in 1595 and who died in 1599.  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Florent Valentin (Rouen); Robert Valentin (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Duff p. 65; Répertoire n° 4591. 1331.  Hamillon, Cardin III  Active: 1595–1623  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Sur l’eau de Robec, près des balances’  Biography: He was a pillar of the local book trade: he became master of the confraternity in 1621, and was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1597, 1603, 1604, 1614 and 1615. He was also a typecaster.  Commercial partners: Thomas II Mallard (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483, 5 E 485, 5 E 489  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 103; Gosselin p. 98; Lepreux III 198; Répertoire n° 4589. 1332.  Hamillon, Nicolas  Active: 1599–1647  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1599?–1630); Évreux, Normandy (1631–1647)  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Hilaire, près la Croix de pierre’; ‘Rue Saint-Jean, devant la Pomme de pin’; ‘Devant le grand portail de Saint-Jean’  Biography: He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1601, 1602, 1613 and 1625. He left Rouen to settle in Évreux at the request of the local bishop in 1630. He died before 1650.

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 104; Lepreux III 197 & 199; Répertoire n° 4590. 1333.  Hango, Jean  Active: 1558  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Gosselin p. 106 1334.  Hannequin, Robert  Active: 1512–1514  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir 1 E 98, 1 E 100 1335.  Hanocque, Louis  Active: 1585  Location: Beauvais, Île-de-France  Role: Bookbinder  References: Leblond 408 1336.  Hanocque, Nicolas  Active: 1595  Location: Beauvais, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He apprenticed his son Robert to a parchment maker in 1595.  References: Leblond 408 1337. Hantet, Jean I  Active: 1551–1562  Name variations: Hantete, Jean; Hantel, Jean; Antet, Jean; Ance, Jean  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: A Protestant, he married Jeanne Seilhaut, who survived him. His son, Jean II, served as an apprentice to Étienne Mautirant. He died before 1564.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Beauvoir (Bourges)  Documents: AM Bourges CC 10  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 26; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 870

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1338.  Hantet, Jean II  Active: 1564  Name variations: Hantete, Jean; Hantel, Jean; Antet, Jean  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Apprentice bookseller  Biography: The son of Jean I, he began a three-year apprenticeship with Étienne Mautirant in 1564 which his mother, Jeanne Seilhaut, paid for with old stock.  Documents: AD Cher E 1153 1339.  Hanyas, Louis  Active: 1523  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Paul.  References: Gosselin p. 88 1340.  Haran, Tite  Active: 1598–1621  Name variations: Harenaeus, Titus; Harenc, Tite  Location: Caen, Normandy (1598–1607); Rennes, Brittany (1607–1621)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le college du bois’ (Caen); ‘Près les carmes’ (Rennes)  Biography: He married Catherine, the granddaughter of the Caen printer Pierre Le Chandelier, in 1598. He had moved to Rennes by 1607 where he received commissions from the Parlement before becoming the king’s printer by 1610. His son, François, took over his workshop in 1622.  References: Lepreux III 458 & IV 73–75 1341.  Hardy, Eustache  Active: 1517–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He printed in Gothic type for the English market and does not seem to have been a publisher.  Commercial partners: Jean Caillard (Rouen); Jean Gachet (Hereford)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 32–33; B. Normande p. 261–262; Lepreux III 200; Duff p. 65

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1342.  Hardy, Jean  Active: 1532–1562  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Barbe and lived in the parish of Saint-Liphard. He became the verger of the university of Orléans. He died in May 1562.  References: Herluison p. 9; Pichon & Vicaire p. 193 1343. Hardy, Olivier  Active: 1579–1608  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was described as a journeyman printer in 1579, becoming a master in 1599 at which point Pierre Philippe was a journeyman printer in his workshop. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1600–1601 and again in 1608.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 104; Gosselin p. 116 1344.  Hardy, Tassin  Active: [1520]  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for a single undated edition of a book of hours for local use executed for the bookseller Simon Gruel (USTC 1089).  Commercial partners: Simon Gruel (Rouen)  References: RB XIV p. 75; B. Normande p. 265 1345.  Harsy, Denis de  Active: 1522–1555  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné (1522); Lyon, Lyonnais (1523–1555)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He married Françoise Denys who survived him. He was one of the most prolific printers of Lyon, responsible for over 200 editions in that city. He started working for his own account, however, not in Lyon but in Vienne where he briefly sojourned in 1522. There he produced a breviary for the local Church (USTC 120976) before settling durably in Lyon the following year.  Device: Silvestre n° 204 & 1162  Motto: ‘Spes mea Deus’; ‘Ne hault ne bas mediocrement’

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 Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 27, 36, 146 173, 266  References: Baudrier; C. Brot, ‘Quand la “presse” écrit : l’officine lyonnaise de Denys de Harsy, imprimeur libraire à la marque de Dédale’, in E. Keller-Rahbe (ed.), Les Arrière-boutiques de la littérature. Auteurs et imprimeurs-libraires aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2010), 23–36; Répertoire n° 4630. 1346.  Harsy, Noël de  Active: 1490–1504  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’église saint Étienne des tonneliers’  Biography: Lepreux is categorical that he acted only as a bookseller and publisher, but the colophons of the works for which he is known seem to suggest otherwise. He is explicitly described in one edition as having printed with Pierre Regnault and Pierre Violette (GW 9887), whilst another states that it was printed ‘en l’ostel Noel de Harsy imprimeur’ (GW M18286). He also on occasion worked for other publishers such as Jean Richard.  Commercial partners: Richard Auzoult (Rouen); André Dorval (Sées); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Jean I Richard (Rouen); Pierre Violette (Rouen)  Types: TW ma04040–ma04048  References: Muller p. 96–103; Ricci; Lepreux III 200 1347.  Hastre, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1348.  Haucquemare, Robin  Active: 1559  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He fled to Geneva in July 1559.  References: RIECH 1349.  Haulen, Jean  Active: 1487  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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before 1586, to Jeanne Dubois, before 1592, and to Jeanne Coderc in 1603. He died in 1616 and was survived by his third wife.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51  References: Muller p. 52; RB IV p. 13–15; Audiat p. 21; Forestié p. 81; Répertoire n° 4648. 1352.  Haultin, Jean  Active: 1554–1568  Name variations: Hottin, Jean; Hotin, Jean; Hautin, Jean  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A Calvinist, his shop was attacked in 1562 after he had taken part in the uprising of 1562. He was condemned to death in absentia in 1563. He was described as a notorious Protestant in 1568. He was the nephew of the Paris printer Charlotte Guillard.  Commercial partners: Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); Pierre Cochery (Le Mans); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Mathieu Vaucelles (Le Mans)  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 316; Jimenes (Guillard) p. 90; Bouton p. 444 1353.  Haultin, Jérôme  Active: 1568–1600  Location: London, England (1568–1576); La Rochelle, Aunis (1587–1600)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in around 1550, he was Pierre’s nephew and, like him, a type founder. He left for London in 1568 where he seems to have pursued his career working for Hubert Danvillier until he was able to set up his own business, buying bronze matrices in La Rochelle from Pierre in order to make type that he could take back to England, for which he still owed 192 lt on 5 February 1575. At the death of his uncle he returned to France and took over his shop in 1587. He sometimes printed with false addresses, notably those of Thomas Ruault and Hermann Mersmann both supposedly in Antwerp. He sold books published in Paris, notably by Abel l’Angelier, to whom he sold on 30 June 1600 his privilege and engravings for Salomon de La Broue’s treatise on horsemanship that he had published a few years earlier (USTC 16476). His main role as a publisher, however, was in Protestant books, including Bibles for which he received the backing of both the local and national synod. This created considerable disquiet amongst members of the Genevan book trade. He had married Marie Robert

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and, when he died on 16 November 1600, was succeeded by their daughter, Marie. He inherited the material of Abraham and Pierre. He sold books to the court of the king of Navarre.  Commercial partners: Hercule François (La Rochelle); Abel l’Angelier (Paris); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart; Marin Villepoux (La Rochelle)  Device: Silvestre n° 894; BaTyR n° 3007  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 4, 44, 74, 98, 126, 131, 142, 156, 165, 183, 189, 218, 252, 292, 326, 381, 393; Vervliet p. 276 n° 29, p. 278 n° 31  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 3050  References: RB XVI p. 54–75; Muller p. 95–96; Vervliet I 243–248; Desgraves (La Rochelle); Audiat p. 25; Balsamo & Simonin p. 466; G. Musset, ‘Vente de matrices d’imprimerie par Pierre Haultin’, Bulletin archéologique du comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, (1889) 292–294; Delalain p. 134; Jostock p. 243–252; Répertoire n° 4650. 1354.  Haultin, Marie  Active: 1600–1620  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The daughter of Jérôme, she took over the shop at her father’s death in 1600. In 1602 she married Corneille Hertmann, but imprints continued to bear the address ‘De l’imprimerie de Hierosme Haultin’. At Hertmann’s death, the Haultin material was sold, perhaps as a result of his mismanagement.  References: Vervliet I 243–248; Desgraves (La Rochelle); Audiat p. 29–30. 1355.  Haultin, Pierre  Active: 1549–1587  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1549–1551, 1562, 1567–1570); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1551–1558); Lyon, Lyonnais (1558–1565); Orléans, Orléanais (1565); La Rochelle, Aunis (1570–1587), Bordeaux, Guyenne (1575)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la queue de renard’ (1550), ‘rue Saint Jacques, à l’enseigne de l’Écu de Bourgogne’ (1562) (Paris)  Biography: He was born in Vilaines-sous-Malicorne in northern Anjou and married Marie Vadé, the daughter of a type founder. He was Jérôme and Denis’s uncle and his sister, Marie, married the Parisian

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bookseller Jean Ruelle. He began a career as a bookseller and publisher in Paris, probably guided by his aunt Charlotte Guillard, a powerful figure in the Parisian book world. There he published mainly a diet of edicts and ordinances, mostly in collaboration with Jean Dallier. It is during this time that he also made his name as a punch cutter and engraver. However, his Protestant faith forced him to adopt a peripatetic lifestyle with attempts to settle in Geneva, Lyon – where he worked with Gabriel Cotier, Jean d’Ogerolles and Antoine Vincent – and Orléans, where he collaborated with Éloi Gibier. But despite this attempt to fit in with local booksellers and printers, he ended up returning to Paris where he was once more active in 1567. This relocation was also unsuccessful: his Protestantism had led to his belongings there being sold in 1562 and he was arrested on 25 June 1567 after some of his books were seized and, though he was released, his house was once more raided on 20 October 1570. This undoubtedly persuaded him to leave the city and he finally settled in La Rochelle, perhaps at the invitation of the queen of Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret, for whom he printed works in Basque. Over the following two decades, he published over a hundred Protestant editions. His decision to spend time in Geneva in the 1550s had allowed him to strike up important relationships with publishers there for whom he designed perhaps his best types. A fine type founder, he played an important role in renewing Reformed printing and is thought to be responsible for some 46 types. He died in 1587. Following Audiat’s supposition, he has often mistakenly been split into two people, a father and a son, though there is no proof for this.  Commercial partners: Éloi Gibier (Orléans); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 4, 9, 44, 74, 98, 126, 152, 165, 183, 189, 218, 272, 295; Vervliet p. 276 n° 29, p. 284 n° 39  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 148, B 160, B 2806  References: RB XVI p. 17–31; Muller p. 95–96; Desgraves, Introduction (1565) p. 602; R. Jimenes, ‘Reconsidering Pierre Haultin’s Early Career: Roots, Training, Beginnings (1546–1550)’, The Library, XVIII (2017) 62– 80; Vervliet I 243–248; Desgraves (La Rochelle); Audiat p. 20; Renouard p. 200; Baudrier III 96; Répertoire n° 4651 & 4652. Hauville, see Tougard, Nicolas

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1356.  Hauville, Robert  Active: 1520  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Romain. Lepreux suggests he was simply a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 77; Lepreux III 201 1357.  Hayman, Jacques  Active: 1549  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: ‘Baptu et fustigié de verges jusques à effusion de sang’, he also had his books burnt for having sold forbidden works in 1549.  References: Skora (Langres) 1358.  Hébert, Étienne  Active: 1513  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Guillemette Blanchete.  Documents: AD Vienne G 1033  References: La Bouralière p. 49 1359.  Hébert, Guillaume  Active: 1519–1524  Name variations: Also known as Threhon  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the son of Jean and lived in the parish of SaintPierre-du-Châtel. As a publisher he is known for co-funding the impression of two missals.  Commercial partners: Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 77 1360.  Hellot, Jean  Active: 1578–1644  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’; ‘Au portail notre-dame’

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 Biography: He was born circa 1552. His wife died in 1619 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Rouen. He was buried on 31 January 1644.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483, G 3424, 3433, 3464, 3466, 6303, 6905  References: Mellot p. 105 Helys, see Elis Hemary, Isoard, see Eymar, Isoard 1361.  Hémon, Jean  Active: 1572  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue tendant des degrés du Palais royal à la place NotreDame-la-Grande’  Biography: He was the son of Marc, a master goldsmith, who rented a building to him for the purpose of housing his bookshop in 1572 for an annual payment of 15 lt.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 503 1362.  Hénault, Nicolas  Active: 1557  Location: Saint-Brieuc, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Denis Haultin acted as his proxy in 1557.  Commercial partners: Denis Haultin (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII/51 1363.  Henry, Guillaume  Active: 1565  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was described as a printer and a musician.  References: Lart 1364.  Hérard, André  Active: 1542  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 124; Port II 354

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1365.  Hérault, Jaspar  Active: 1588–1639  Name variations: Herault, Jaspar; Herault, Gaspard; Hérault, Gaspard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue écuyère, au baril d’or’  Biography: He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1588.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489  References: Mellot p. 107; Aquilon p. 306 1366.  Hérault, Jean  Active: Before 1496  Name variations: Héraul, Jean  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married and was survived by Jacquette Lebée who took over his shop. He died before 1496. 1367. Herbes, Marie d’  Active: 1559  Name variations: Cavallis, veuve Vas  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: She was the widow of Vas Cavallis. As a publisher she is known for a single legal work co-published with the local bookseller Thomas Maillou (USTC 11894).  Commercial partners: Thomas Maillou (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI p. 13; Arbour p. 120; Henricy p. 2 1368.  Hernault, Antoine  Active: 1576–1598  Name variations: Arnault, Antoine  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue lyonnaise, devant la harpe’  Biography: He married Simone de la Lande – who later succeeded him in part – and was the father of Jean, Antoine II and René. He was a sworn printer to the university and to the king in 1593. A prolific printer, he published numerous ordinances and edicts as well as some more substantial works. His early success enabled him to buy the

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stock of Jean Poupy in 1585. He thereafter adopted Poupy’s device. He employed passepartout ornate initials in some of his editions. He was given power of proxy by Jean Richard of Tours in 1591. He died in 1598.  Commercial partners: René Huard (Angers); Lézin Loré (Angers); Jean Richard (Tours)  Motto: ‘Scripturas scrutamini’  Documents: AM Angers GG 213; AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252  References: RB XXVI p. 90; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 125; Port II 356; BVH Minutes; Delalain p. 126; Répertoire n° 4758.

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1369. Hernault, Jean  Active: 1598–1603  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Lyonnaise’  Biography: He was the eldest son of Antoine, whose workshop he probably took over in part at his death in 1598. Though he also succeeded his father in his capacity as printer to the king, Jean seems to have worked in parallel to his mother, Simonde la Lande who continued to be named as a publisher on some imprints. He married Anne Moreau and died in 1604. His brother, Antoine II, succeeded him.  Documents: AM Angers GG 214  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 126; Port II 356; Répertoire n° 4762. 1370.  Hernault, René  Active: 1594–1632  Location: Saumur, Anjou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Antoine, he was born on 1 March 1573. He married Marie Martinet, the daughter of Guillaume, with whom he had six children. He was initially simply described as a bookseller before also becoming a printer. He was buried on 12 October 1632. His son, André, succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Pierre Godeau (Saumur)  Motto: ‘Hic murus aheneus esto’  References: Muller p. 105; Pasquier p. 243; Port II 356; Répertoire n° 4763. Héron, Gaultier see Noyron, Gaultier 1371.  Hert, Geoffroi de  Active: 1537  Name variations: Hest, Geoffroi de  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Of Protestant faith, his belongings were confiscated after he failed to comply with the royal edicts on religious questions in 1537. He was banished from Dole.  Documents: AD Doubs B 2020  References: Febvre p. 134

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1372.  Heuqueville, Nicolas de  Active: 1592–1627  Name variations: Hugueville, Nicolas de  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He initially married Madeleine Boucher with whom, in February 1596, he had a son named Jacques whose godfather was the bookseller François Boucher. They also had a daughter named Jeanne in March 1598 and resided in the parish of Saint-Denis. By 1603, he had remarried to Oliver Martin with whom he had a daughter named Élisabeth in September of that year. He was close to Pierre Doriou, who was Élisabeth’s godfather. He was of considerable social standing as documents refer to him with the deferential title ‘sire’ and was a bookseller to the university of Nantes. He was buried on 13 July 1627 in the parish graveyard of Saint-Denis.  Documents: AM Nantes CC 86/16, GG 45, GG 334; GG 418  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 253; Granges de Surgères n° 43; Le Page 1373.  Hierosme, Nicolas  Active: 1562–1567  Name variations: Jérôme, Nicolas; Jherosme, Nicolas  Location: Saint-Nicolas-De-Port, Lorraine (1562–1565); Nancy, Lorraine (1565–1567)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He received an annual stipend of 40 francs from the duke of Lorraine for whom he carried out a number of commissions. He died in 1567.  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1130 f. 140, B 1141, B 1144  References: Muller p. 54 & 105; RB VII p. 37 & 52; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 9 1374.  Hilaire, Matthias  Active: 1589–1591  Location: Sedan, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He printed a substantial number of polemical works, sometimes without giving his full address on the title page, using a mix of Roman and Italic type accompanied by antiquated ornate letters.  References: Muller p. 106; RB XIII p. 65; Répertoire n° 4804. 1375.  Hochfeder, Caspar  Active: 1485–1517

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 Location: Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (1485–1498); Metz, Three Bishoprics (1498–1517); Krakow, Poland (1503–1505)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Heiligbrunn, he learnt his trade in Nuremberg, where his first dated imprint was produced in 1491, before moving to Metz in 1498. A very active printer, he produced both large scale enterprises, generally in quarto, as well as single sheet items such as prognostications. As well as in Latin, he printed texts in French and German. He temporarily left Metz for Krakow in 1503 at the behest of a local merchant, Jan Haller. He later returned to Metz, though Haller continued to print with the device Hochfeder had used in the Polish city.  Types: TW ma13954–ma13955, ma06509–ma06515, ma10446  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 11–17; E. Van der Vekene, Kaspar Hochfeder: ein europäischer Drucker des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts (Baden-Baden: Koerner, 1974); TW of0366; Répertoire n° 4833. 1376.  Hodian, André  Active: 1492–1500  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He worked in partnership with other local printers to publish works printed in Paris and Rouen. Pasquier described him as a Parisian printer, though there does not seem to be any proof to substantiate that claim.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Jean Higman (Paris); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen)  References: Pasquier p. 393 1377.  Honnel, Martin  Active: 1505–1548  Name variations: Honnet, Martin  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married and was survived by Jeanne who had succeeded him before 1553. He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232  References: Turquois p. 353 1378.  Honnel, veuve Martin  Active: 1553–1557

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 Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Her given name was Jeanne. She lived in the wealthy quarter of Beffroy but was exempt from taxation for being poor in 1557.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 1379.  Hostingue, Bertrand  Active: 1527–1555  Name variations: Lostingue, Bertrand  Location: Caen, Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He seems to have succeeded Laurent as printer in Caen and was described as a burgher of the city in 1555. He printed works for the university but stopped including his name on his imprints after 1537. It was probably his workshop that was responsible for an anonymous edition of the Grands annales ou croniques tres veritables des gestes merveilleux du grand Gargantua et Pantagruel in 1542 (USTC 60196).  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 307; Huard p. XLVII & 62; Lepreux III 460; Cappellen (Ni) n° 3 1380.  Hostingue, Laurent  Active: 1499–1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1499–1508 and 1513–1516); Caen, Normandy (1509–1512 and 1517–1526)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près le marché neuf’ (Rouen, 1505), ‘Devant la tour au Landoys’ (Caen, 1510), ‘Près l’église saint Vivien’ (Rouen, 1508–1516), ‘Rue estoupée’ (1515)  Biography: He began his career working in association with Jean Mauditier and Jamet Loys in Rouen, before striking up a partnership with Jamet Loys from 1503 to 1505. In 1509, he moved to Caen where his work was so appreciated that a poem celebrating his skill was inserted into one of Michel Angier’s publications. Angier had lured him to Caen by offering both money and work and he did not disappoint. Laurent did leave for Rouen between 1513 and 1516 but soon returned permanently. During his second stay in Caen, in 1520, he changed his type which suggests that his venture there was financially successful. His workshop continued after his death and his heirs were still printing in 1543.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Martin Coffyn (Exeter); Raulin Gautier (Rouen); Pierre Guérin (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier

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(Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Richard Macé (Rouen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Jean I Richard (Rouen); Richard Rogier (Morlaix)  Types: Jennings p. 250  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 96–103; B. Normande p. 139–143, 145–174 & 146–184; Delisle (Caen) p. xlvii; Lepreux III 204 & 459; Duff p. 76; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 4898.

1381.  Hotot, Fabien  Active: 1592–1623  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivainerie’, ‘à l’imprimerie’  Biography: Born on 30 July 1572, he was Philippe’s youngest son and Saturnin’s younger brother with whom he worked on occasion. In around 1591 he married Simone Lemaire with whom he had four children, including a son also named Fabien. They resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle. He was printer to the king and to the university by 1599 and had become a burgher of the city by 1637. He printed mainly short works such as edicts and ordinances primarily about local issues, but sometimes copying Parisian imprints. He acquired some of the material that had been used by Éloi Gibier. He was succeeded by his son in 1623 and died on 20 August 1644.  Commercial partners: Saturnin Hotot (Orléans)  References: RB X p. 94–100; Herluison p. 51; Feyel p. 555; Répertoire n° 4900.

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1382.  Hotot, Philippe  Active: 1545–1583  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue du marrain près la croix de tyron’ (1545–1550); ‘En la grand rue près la rose’ (1553)  Biography: He was Thomas’s son and first married a woman of the Delacroix family in around 1542 with whom he had a son, Saturnin – who also became a printer, and a daughter, Anne – who married the bookseller Martin Cottereau. His second marriage was to Joachine Flatier in 1547 with whom he had at least nine children, including a son named Fabien who followed him into the trade. He lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin. He published a small number of titles mainly for local consumption. He was sued alongside his associates by the widow of Jean Pisson for an edition of the local synodal statutes printed in 1555. It has been suggested that he moved to Orléans in 1559, though the imprint that gives this address is now lost and was probably mistranscribed. He died on 5 July 1583 and was survived by his second wife who lived until 1609. He was succeeded by Claude Cottereau.  Commercial partners: Richard Cottereau (Chartres); Gervaise de La Fousse (Dreux); Simon Picquot (Chartres)  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir E 2104  References: RB XXVIII & X p. 76; Jussselin p. 2; Feyel p. 539 1383.  Hotot, Pierre  Active: 1588  Name variations: Otho, Pierre  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known thanks to a reprint of a polemical work on general estates of Blois which named him as the original printer of the tract (USTC 54818). Like Jean Le Bret, this may well be a fictional printer invented to give more credibility to the pamphlet.  References: RB X p. 89 1384.  Hotot, Robert  Active: 1598–1621  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder

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 Biography: He was Saturnin’s son and married Charlotte Doich. They lived in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle. The bookseller Olivier Boynard and the wife of the bookseller Thomas de Villiers were godparents to his daughter Geneviève on 15 August 1598. He died in 1626.  References: Herluison p. 50; Feyel p. 546; Gruel p. 94 1385.  Hotot, Saturnin  Active: 1565–1622  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivainerie, Illustration 68 Signature of Saturnin Hotot, 1583, BM à la bible d’or’ Tours Rés 5569  Biography: Born in around 1544, he was Philippe’s son and Fabien’s elder brother, and sometimes worked with the latter. He married Catherine, the daughter of the bookseller Richard Cottereau, with whom he had six children of whom Laurent, Robert and Gilles all followed him into the trade. He remarried after Catherine’s death on 7 December 1586, to Jeanne Dumeau with whom he had two further sons, notably Saturnin who also became a printer. He left Chartres to settle instead in Orléans where he resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle. He became the sworn printer and bookseller to the town of Orléans. He worked regularly with Éloi Gibier after 1576 and used his material after Barbe Girault’s death. Like Gibier, he produced a steady stream of edicts and legal rulings alongside more substantial works.  Commercial partners: Éloi Gibier (Orléans); Fabien Hotot (Orléans)  References: RB X p. 80–83; Herluison p. 44; Feyel p. 543; Répertoire n° 4906. 1386.  Hotot, Thomas  Active: 1526–1551  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue muret, à l’enseigne du Saint-Esprit’ (1527)  Biography: He was Philippe’s father and after the death of his first wife remarried to Geneviève Ameline, who survived him. He rented a house from the bookseller Nicolas Ouzeille in 1527. He worked with the bookseller Gervaise de la Fousse and undertook to pay in part for

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a house by printing for him. Though Hotot did print for La Fousse, no surviving copies of their editions are known. He died in 1551.  References: RB XXVIII p. 27; Jusselin p. 2; Feyel p. 558 1387.  Houchard, Antoine  Active: 1502–1503  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue des crottes’  Biography: He married Alizon Pantou. They lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 64; Lepreux III 204 1388.  Houdin, Jean  Active: 1546–1558  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Catherine and lived in the parish of SainteCroix-Saint-Ouen. He worked for Illustration 69 other members of the book trade Signature of Jean Houdin, 1555, AD and seems to have only printed in Seine-Maritime 2E1 414 French. He lent four écus to François Vergnaux in 1555.  Commercial partners: Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); François Vergnaux (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/414 p. 374  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 105; Lepreux III 205 1389.  Houge  Active: 1549  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Pasquier p. 153; Port II 367 1390.  Housset, Lyonnet  Active: 1492–1528  Name variations: Houssey, Lyonnet  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘En la grande rue’  Biography: He seems mainly to have been active as a bookbinder, working in particular for local ecclesiastical institutions. He also worked as a scribe. He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  References: Turquois p. 353; Morin (Troyes) p. 61; Assier p. 98; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 278 1391.  Hoys, Jacques  Active: 1508–1525  Name variations: Houys, Jacques  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’écrivainerie, près l’église Notre Dame des bonnes nouvelles’  Biography: He had all the books he published printed in Paris or Lyon and transported to Orléans. He was a very active publisher, producing a large number of titles that required heavy financial investment printed by a wide variety of different workshops and for which he on occasion obtained a privilege. This diversity of production had a single identifiable commercial goal: the publication of legal works destined for the students and lawyers of Orléans, though the editions were undoubtedly also sold elsewhere. He was a bookseller to the local university.  Commercial partners: André Bocard (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Jean II du Pré (Paris); Jacques Le Messier (Paris); Jacques I Mareschal (Lyon); Romain Morin (Lyon); Jean de Moylin (Lyon); Jean Petit (Paris); Berthold Rembolt (Paris); Conrad Resch (Paris); Jacques Sacon (Lyon); Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  References: RB X p. 7–8; Muller p. 56–57; Herluison p. 7; Ridderikhoff et al. I p. 146 & 202; Répertoire n° 4935. 1392.  Hoys, Jacquette  Active: 1531  Name variations: Houys, Jacquette; Marchand, veuve Pierre  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She was the widow of Pierre Marchand.  Commercial partners: Pierre Vidoué (Paris); Claude Marchant (Orléans)  References: Arbour p. 366

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1393. Hu, Louis de  Active: 1568  Name variations: Hus, Louis de  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He sold Protestant books sent from Geneva in 1568 where a ‘Ludovicus de Hu Remus’ had signed the rector’s register the previous year. He was possibly a relative of the Hus who were a family of booksellers, printers and bookbinders who originally came from Fresnes-en-Tardenois but had settled in Calvin’s city in the late 1550s.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  References: Chaix p. 58; RIECH; S. Stelling-Michaud (ed.), Le Livre du recteur de l’Académie de Genève (1559–1878) (Geneva: Droz, 1959) I, n° 473 1394.  Huard, Jean  Active: 1589–1608  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’éguillerie’  Biography: He married Mathurine Lepage. He is only known as the publisher of one edition (USTC 20473).  References: RB XXVI; Pasquier p. 154; AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 8 1395.  Huard, René  Active: 1577–1598  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’éguillerie, au chêne vert’  Biography: He married Marie Prévost, the daughter of a merchant, on 20 December 1577. Their son, also named René, was born in 1586 and the bookseller Pierre Elis was his godfather. He was himself godfather to the daughter of the bookseller Georges Nepveu in 1586. As a publisher his output was limited, of small format, but diversified. Both René and his wife died on 24 August 1598.  Commercial partners: Antoine Hernault (Angers); René Troismailles (Angers); Pierre Elis (Angers)  References: RB XXVI p. 68; Pasquier p. 153; Port II 371 1396.  Hubault, Laurent  Active: 1578–1591

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue mercière’  Biography: He was elected warden of the community of bookseller and printers in 1583. As a publisher he is known for a single work (USTC 21179).  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 206 1397. Hubault, Pierre I  Active: 1553–1554  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was probably Illustration 70 the father of Pierre II and lived Signature of Pierre Hubault, 1553, AD in the parish of Saint-Jean. He Seine-Maritime 2E1 405 bought stock from Richard Le Febvre and Guillaume Mullot. He sold type to the fellow Rouen printer Jean Le Prest in 1554. Martin I Le Mesgissier sold books of hours to him in 1555, though no edition printed by Le Mesgissier at this date is known.  Commercial partners: Richard Le Febvre (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Guillaume Mullot (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/405 p. 416, 2E1/406 p. 403, 2E1/409 p. 91, 2E1/410 p. 474  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 206 1398.  Hubault, Pierre II  Active: 1569–1586  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Address: ‘Rue écuyère, à l’enseigne du croissant’  Biography: Probably the son of Pierre I, he was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1578. As a publisher he is known for a single work (USTC 56379). He died in 1586 and was buried in the parish cemetery of Saint-Jean in Rouen.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6728  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 206; Aquilon p. 306 1399.  Hubault, Robert  Active: 1567  Location: Issoire, Auvergne

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Saint-Denis. He was an official bookseller of the university of Nantes and the rector Louis Mesmieres was godfather to his daughter. He sought to profit from the lucrative student market by undercutting local printers by having the books the students needed printed by cheaper workshops in other cities. This led to a lawsuit involving Pierre Doriou and another bookseller to the university, François Boucher. During this confrontation, he asserted his position in the local trade by chastising Doriou and telling him that he should have greater respect for his elders and masters. As a publisher, he is known only for two works of local interest.  Commercial partners: Blaise Petrail (Nantes)  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 1620 n° 225; AD Loire-Atlantique B 1312, H 671; AM Nantes CC 86/16, GG 45  References: RB XIX p. 23; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 254; La Borderie I p. 77; Granges de Surgères n° 46; Le Page; Lepreux IV 232 1403.  Huchelou, Jean  Active: 1540  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was godfather to the daughter of the bookseller Jean Le Roy in 1540.  References: Pasquier p. 156; Port II 372 1404.  Hudier, Louis  Active: 1483  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 4 1405.  Huet, René  Active: 1598–1601  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was the son of Jeanne Denis who married as second husband the printer and bookseller Raymond Moulinier. He was placed initially as an apprentice in the shop of Jacques Courtois on 20 July 1598, but was transferred to André Citoys’s bookshop on 18 November 1601.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 499

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1406.  Huger, Gérard  Active: 1576–1579  Name variations: Huguet, Gérard  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 108–109 1407.  Huger, Pierre  Active: 1593  Location: Soissons, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His son-in-law, Henri Piplart, began an apprenticeship with the Parisian bookbinder Claude du Brueil on 22 September 1593. He had entrusted the youth to the bookseller Guillaume Chaudière.  References: Pallier p. 499 1408.  Humbert, Guillaume  Active: 1511–1536  Name variations: Ymbert, Guillaume  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He bound books for the town of Romans.  Documents: AD Drôme E 3613, 42 H 7 (C2); AM Romans CC 52, CC 54, CC 57, CC 63, CC 328, CC 554  References: Perrossier p. 313 1409.  Humbert, Pierre  Active: 1591  Location: Bergerac, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single polemical imprint (USTC 74332). The nature of the book, its publication during the wars of the Catholic League, the misspelling of Bergerac on the title page and the incoherent signatures (C4 C2) suggest that this might be a false imprint.  References: Muller p. 8; RB II p. 37; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 108 1410.  Hunnes, Jean  Active: 1587  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer

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 Biography: He was a journeyman in the workshop of Pierre de Ladime in 1587.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 400 1411.  Hurissoni, Jean  Active: 1517–1519  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  Address: ‘Place saint-Didier’  Biography: He took on an apprentice on 2 March 1519.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bochard (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 47 1412.  Huss, Martin  Active: 1476–1481  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1476); Lyon, Lyonnais (1477–1481)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Württemberg, he was initially known to be active in the workshop of Heinrich Turner in Toulouse in 1476. However, he left the very same year for Lyon where he became one of the most important printers of the city, producing what is considered to be the first illustrated book in French. His practices and material seem to have come from Basel. Mathias Huss succeeded him in 1482.  Commercial partners: Jean Sibert (Lyon)  Types: TW ma04066  References: TW of0181 1413.  Huvin, Jean  Active: 1489–1525  Name variations: Hunin, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He married Collette and was the father-in-law of the booksellers Guillaume I Bénard and Jacques Cousin. He resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He was mentioned as purveying books to cardinal Georges d’Amboise for his newly built castle of Gaillon in 1502. As a binder, he used his own plaques illustrating the crucifixion, Saint Michael as well as Saint Nicolas. He seems to have shared some others with Robert I Macé and Michel Angier in Caen. It has been suggested that he worked in England between 1496 and 1497 for the booksellers

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Julien Notary and Jean Barbier, but only signed his editions with his initials – there seems little proof for this.  Commercial partners: Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Jean Philippe (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Jean I Richard (Rouen); Antoine Vérard (Paris); Pierre Violette (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 272; Meyer n° 172.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2514–2520, G 2522, G 2524  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 66; Beaurepaire p. 399; Deville p. 438; Duff p. 78; Gid & Laffitte n° 74, 160 & 165; Aquilon p. 306; Gruel p. 95; Répertoire n° 5016. 1414.  Huvin, Pierre  Active: 1506–1510  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher he is known only for an undated book of hours that he had printed in Paris as part of a local consortium of booksellers (USTC 26043).  Commercial partners: Jean I Burges (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Antoine Vérard (Paris)  References: Répertoire n° 5017. 1415.  Hyvernay, Guillem  Active: 1537  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: He borrowed money from the bookseller François Luppy to pay off a debt owed to another bookseller, Guy de Champorel, in 1536.  Commercial partners: Guy de Champorel (Bordeaux); François Luppy (Clermont-Ferrand)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 401 Imbert, Cornille, see Aubert, Cornille 1416.  Jabot, Catherine  Active: 1586–1605  Name variations: Foigny, veuve Jean de  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Rue Saint-Étienne, à l’enseigne du lion’; À l’enseigne du lion, devant le collège des bons enfants’  Biography: She was the sister of Nicolas, Henry IV’s doctor, and Jean de Foigny’s second wife. She succeeded him at his death in 1586 and continued his activity, using his title as printer to the Cardinal. When the Parisian bookseller Étienne Gueffier tried to take her late husband’s spot at the Reims fair in 1601, she fought back and had the placing of her stall confirmed by the authorities. She was succeeded in 1605 by Simon de Foigny, her son.  Motto: ‘Sequitur fortuna laborem’  Documents: AM Reims Carton 802, liasse 175  References: Jadart (Bacquenois) p. 202; Lepreux II 260; Arbour p. 230; Delalain p. 138; Répertoire n° 3721. 1417.  Jabot, Robert  Active: 1579  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Apprentice bookbinder  Biography: He was the son of Perette Bourdon and Jacques Jabot. He began an apprenticeship with Jean Lesprit to learn bookselling and bookbinding on 8 January 1579. At this date his father had already died.  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 109 1418. Jacobi, Jérôme  Active: 1524–1529  Name variations: Portier, Jérôme  Location: Saint-Nicolas-De-Port, Lorraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was probably the son of Hellewys Jacobi and Claude Potier, and therefore the nephew of Pierre Jacobi. He had taken over his uncle’s workshop by 1524 and assumed his surname, probably because its notoriety in the local booktrade. He married a woman named Dorothée. He printed for the duke of Lorraine. Beyond that remit, his publications seem to have been almost exclusively religious. He had died by 16 October 1531 at which point his widow settled his account with the Parisian bookseller Gervais Parotti acting for his brother, Antoine Guy, who should perhaps be identified as Antoine Parrot known to be active in Paris in 1510.  Commercial partners: Antoine Guy (Paris)  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1032, 3E 3429/2 f. 78

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1422.  Jacquemet, Durand  Active: 1573–1589  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died in around 1589.  References: Maignien p. LXXVII 1423.  Jacques, Georges  Active: 1481  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He probably served as a factor for Barthélemy Buyer in Toulouse.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Buyer (Lyon)  References: Claudin (1) p. 3 1424. Jago, Bertrand  Active: 1543  Location: Moncontour, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint, a missal published in conjunction with Girard Angier (USTC 11272).  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen)  References: Muller p. 52; RB XIV p. 11; Walsby (Brittany) p. 254 1425.  Jagourt, Jean I  Active: 1527–1552  Name variations: Jagort, Jean; Jagord, Jean; Gragourt, Jean; Gigous, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Sernin and was closely connected to the church of Saint-Quentin. As a publisher, he is known for an edition of Antonio de Nebrija’s grammar printed in 1541 (USTC 111797), as well as a shared edition of a substantial judicial commentary.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Louis Yvernage (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 104; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Claudin (2) p. 2

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1426. Jagourt, Pierre  Active: 1587–1598  Name variations: Jagort, Pierre; Jagoul, Pierre; Jabourg, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc Illustration 72 Signature of Pierre Jagourt, 1598, AD  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne du nom de Jésus’ Gironde 3 E 14800  Biography: He had a son named Jean (II) who followed him into the trade in the early seventeenth century. Pierre was godfather to the son of the bookseller Hélie Mareschal who was named after him on 29 June 1597. He published a number of editions in tandem with Bernard Carles. He made Jacob Virevaloys his proxy in 1598 to redeem extant debts from two recently deceased Bordeaux booksellers. He sourced some of the books he sold in Antwerp.  Commercial partners: Abraham Bonjour (Bordeaux); Bernard Carles (Toulouse); Jean Lacaze (Bordeaux); Étienne Michel (Lyon); Adrien Perier (Lyon); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp); Jacob Virevaloys (Bordeaux)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 110 f. 190; AD Rhône 3 E 393; AM Toulouse GG 556 p. 262 & 341, GG 557 p. 2, GG 695 f. 11r; AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1220v–1221r  References: RB XX p. 182; Répertoire n° 5218. 1427.  Jamelin, Nicolas  Active: 1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1428.  Jamieti, Pierre  Active: 1474  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  References: Pansier I 153 1429.  Jannard, Pierre  Active: 1573–1580  Name variations: Jehanin, Pierre; Jannart, Pierre  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller

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1435.  Jaquy, Sébastien  Active: 1557–1612  Name variations: Jacquy, Bastien; Jaqui, Sébastien  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1557–1578); Montluel, Burgundy (1572–1573); Orange, Holy Roman Empire (1578 and 1590); Nîmes, Languedoc (1579–1590, 1591–1612)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A Protestant, he was originally from Champcella in Dauphiné and was the son of Claude, a royal notary. He was accepted as an inhabitant of Geneva in 1557 and married Isabelle Hebrarde on 10 December 1579, then Marie Negre, who outlived him. Though he learnt his trade in Geneva he sought to establish himself in a smaller city in France. This was initially difficult: after a single impression in Montluel in 1572 alongside Claude Lescuyer, he returned to Geneva before having a similarly inconclusive experience in Orange. Though he set up shop in the town with a local family, the Colombiers, in 1578

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and was named an official printer to the prince, he once more moved on after a single imprint. His destination this time was Nîmes where he was to settle more durably. He offered the town his services in February 1579 and became the official printer to the city of Nîmes in 1580, the town buying a selection of different types for him. Despite this local enthusiasm, he soon, however, courted controversy. He quarrelled with the bookseller Antoine Gouzet in September 1582 and was forced to flee Nîmes after having committed murder in 1590. He returned to Orange where he was welcomed thanks to Jean de Serres, the dean of the university, but by 1591 he was once more in Nîmes where he pursued his career. The municipality sought to help his endeavour, lending over 400 lt for him to buy new type in 1602. Yet his business continued to be marred by difficulties; his material was seized in 1612 for having failed to pay off his debts. Overall, he produced over thirty editions in Nîmes, the vast majority of which were linked to the university’s activity. After 1587 he rented a house in Nîmes called the ‘Logis de la teste noire’. He is thought to have also used the pseudonym François Nierg and an address in Antwerp in 1573 to publish an edition of Rabelais’s works alongside Claude Lescuyer. He died on 21 March 1612.  Commercial partners: Pierre de Colombier (Orange); Claude Lescuyer (Geneva, Montluel); Claude Pesnot (Lyon)  Documents: AM Nîmes HH 3, KK 4, LL 12, LL 17, NN 11, RR 13; AD Gard 2 E1 275, E 629, 2E 37/71  References: RB XXIV p. 44–47; Muller p. 56; RIECH; Leemans p. 458; Banderier; Puech (Jaquy); Cappellen NRB 67 1436.  Jasmes, Jean  Active: 1543  Location: Niort, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers)  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 6 1437. Jaure, Jean  Active: 1580  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Simon Millanges.  References: Labadie p. 126; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 409

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1438. Javel, Philippe  Active: [1580]  Name variations: Janel, Philippe  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He was the father of Zacharie, born in 1565, who became an apprentice of Didier Millot in Paris in 1585, after his death.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/201  References: Pallier p. 526 1439. Jean, Thomas  Active: 1518  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Originally from Châteaudun, he was an apprentice to Jean Grandjean in 1518.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 1440. Joannel, Nicolas  Active: 1516  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1441. Jochault, Bertrand  Active: 1565–1570  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la cour’  Biography: He held a shop between the court of law and the gate of Saint-Michel in 1565 and purveyed books to the court of the présidial. At this time, he also rented a shop to a haberdasher. As a publisher, he is known for two works aimed at Brittany’s legal community, both printed by Julien du Clos.  Commercial partners: Julien du Clos (Rennes); Jean Goderon (Rennes)  Documents: AD de Loire-Atlantique B 2190  References: RB XIX p. 70; Walsby (Brittany) p. 254

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1442.  Joffre, Denis  Active: 1475  Name variations: Gaufridi, Denis  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Pansier I 153 1443. Johanety, Mathelin  Active: 1497–1499  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 11 1444. Jolain, Pierre  Active: 1511  Location: Mâcon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known for having sold in 1511 a copy of the Bible printed by Perrin Le Masson in Lyon in 1479.  Documents: BM Bourg-en-Bresse 27973 1445. Joron, Jean  Active: 1523  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre-l’Honoré. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer. Lesens conflates him with Jean Juret.  References: Gosselin p. 88; Lepreux III 221; Lesens p. 333 1446.  Josse, Luc  Active: 1566–1567  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He imported books from Plantin’s shop in Antwerp and from Geneva.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 341  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie); Voet II 476.

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1447.  Josses  Active: 1484–1485  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près l’église de saint Germain’  Biography: He is only known for his partnership with Pierre Bellescullée in Rennes where they published the first books to be printed in the city.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bellescullée (Rennes)  Device: Polain n° 179; Silvestre n° 283; Meyer n° 170; TW ma03721  Types: TW ma03720  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 254; Booton p. 238; TW of1315; Lepreux IV 86 1448. Jotglard, Pierre  Active: 1519  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1449.  Jouan, Raoullet  Active: 1492–1517  Name variations: Raulet, Jean  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de muret à l’enseigne de la montagne de Thabor près l’église saint Jacques’  Biography: He married Anne Maugars. He commissioned works for local use: a manuale for the clergy of the bishopric of Chartres in 1492 and a book of custom law published with a local lawyer named Regnault La Troyne, in 1508. He was also an usher of the local cathedral chapter. André Bienvenu began an apprenticeship in his shop in 1506, but it was not a success and by June Jouan agreed to receive 70 sous compensation and let the youngster go. He lived in the parish of Saint-André. He died after 1519 and was survived by his wife. Nicolas Ouzeille took over his shop.  Commercial partners: Jean Higman (Paris)  References: Jusselin p. 6; Feyel p. 698 1450. Jouan, Timothée  Active: 1579–1602

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 Name variations: Joan, Timothée  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1579–1584); La Rochelle, Aunis (1588–1602)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue frementel près le clos bruneau, devant la belle fleur’ (Paris)  Biography: He married Anne, the daughter of the printer and bookseller Richard Breton. He developed his career in Paris where he was initially described as a bookbinder when Guillaume Le Noir married his sister-in-law Jeanne Breton in 1579. Like his father-in-law, he was Protestant and attended the wedding of Danier Moysset in Tours on 24 August 1589. By that time, he had left for La Rochelle where he is known to have been from 1588 at which point he furnished books to the king of Navarre. He shared a privilege with the Parisian publisher Abel l’Angelier in 1582 for Du Bartas’s works. As a publisher, he became less prolific after leaving Paris and is known for a single edition in the sixteenth century (USTC 74336) and one published in 1602.  Commercial partners: Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/247; AN Y 126 f. 56; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2962, B 3034  References: RB XVI p. 76; BVH Minutes; Renouard p. 220; Balsamo & Simonin p. 448 & 450; Renouard (Documents) p. 168; Répertoire n° 5340. 1451.  Jouanneaux, René  Active: 1592–1606  Name variations: Joaneaulx, René  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Elisabeth Pivain on 10 September 1592 in the parish of Saint-Maurille. Their son, Jean, was born on 22 August 1600, and followed him into the trade. René died on 10 February 1606.  Documents: AM Angers GG 112 f. 38r  References: Pasquier p. 161; Port II 410 1452.  Jouenne, Georges  Active: 1546–1571  Name variations: Jouanne, Georges  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher

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 Biography: He was the father of Jean and the son of Guillaume, whom he succeeded. As a publisher he is known for a single work (USTC 42133) sold, seemingly, in the same shop as Jean I Petit near the cathedral. His wife seems to have worked alongside him, perhaps as a bookbinder, though her role, mentioned in the registers of the parish of Saint-Laurent, is unclear.  Commercial partners: Jean I Petit (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6801, G 6802  References: Skora (Rouen) p. 67 1453.  Jouenne, Guillaume  Active: 1510–1524  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of Georges. He gave a house to Chrestienne de Meslus on the occasion of her marriage to Jamet Loys. His son took over his shop. Guillaume also lent money to Jamet Loys.  Commercial partners: Jamet Loys (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 65 & 68 1454.  Jouenne, Jean  Active: 1569–1614  Name variations: Jouanne, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the son of Georges. He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers of Rouen in 1579.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489  References: Mellot p. 116 1455.  Jounot, Pierre  Active: 1543–1600  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’aiguillerie, à la chaussée Saint-Pierre près les grandes écoles de droit’  Biography: He married Anne Baillif. He was godfather to the daughter of the bookseller Jean Ausmont on 20 September 1555. A bookseller and the librarian of the university of Angers, he also served the institution in his capacity as bursar of the Breton nation. He was successful enough to acquire a vineyard in 1559 in the parish of Villevêque.

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Though we only know one imprint bearing his name today, he was active in the trade, requesting and obtaining a ten-year privilege from the municipal authorities to sell a new edition of the customs of Anjou in 1564. He died on 7 May 1600.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121; AM Angers BB 30 f. 125  References: RB XXVI p. 109; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 161; Port II 415 1456. Jourdain, Raphaël  Active: 1577–1590  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Projet in 1588, moving to Saint-Pierre by 1590.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 416 1457.  Jourdet, Jean  Active: 1535  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is only known for having appraised a collection of books in 1535, at which point he was described as a sworn bookseller to the town.  References: Labarre p. 49 1458.  Joussant, Jean  Active: 1515–1527  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the nephew of Jean Bouyer, to whom he was apprenticed. Bouyer, however, disinherited him because of his ‘ingratitude’ in his final will in 1515. As a printer he is known for a single edition executed for André Benart (USTC 110456).  Commercial partners: André Benart (Poitiers)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XV  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 77; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 176 1459.  Joux, Jean  Active: 1532  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 417

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1460.  Joyeux, Jean  Active: 1586  Location: Montélimar, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The name was used as a pseudonym by the Genevan printer Antoine Blanc.  References: RB XXV p. 43; Muller p. 53; Brunet p. 86 Judas, see Blanchet, Nicolas 1461.  Julian, Antoine  Active: 1537–1539  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 11 1462.  Julian, David  Active: 1557–1589  Name variations: Julien, David  Location: Caen, Normandy (1557–1558); Rouen, Normandy (1589)  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was initially active in Caen where he was described as a bookseller buying stock from Pierre Gontier in Rouen in 1557 and 1558. A printer of the same name appeared later in Rouen, working for the Catholic league, but also with connections to Caen, suggesting that this might be the same person despite the time gap.  Commercial partners: Jacques Brenouzet (Caen); Pierre Gontier (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 154 1463.  Julian, Jean  Active: 1512–1549  Name variations: Julianus, Jean; Julia, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au palais royal’  Biography: He began his career as an apprentice to Guillaume Boysson in 1512 for two years. He worked his way up in the trade

Illustration 74 Signature of Jean Julian, 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 415

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and was described as a bookseller in 1528. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535, though no editions bearing his name are known. He was described as a poor bookbinder in the tax registers of 1546 and 1548.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Boysson (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 82v  References: RB XX p. 149; Claudin (1) p. 157; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130 1464. Julian, Jean  Active: 1551–1555  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: He was married to Anne Bienvenu and lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou. It is unclear if or how he was related to the printer Laurent Julien, active in the suburbs of Paris, who set up a proxy in Rouen in August 1553 to deal with the estate of his recently deceased brother, also called Jean.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/406 p. 367, 2E1/415 p. 272  References: Gosselin p. 106 1465. Julian, Pierre  Active: 1542–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. He was described as a poor bookseller in the tax registers of 1549 and 1550.  References: Claudin (2) p. 93 1466. Julian, Pierre  Active: 1551  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Gosselin p. 106

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1467. Julienne, Jean  Active: 1528  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Froide rue’  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxv 1468.  Jurami, Sauveur  Active: 1559  Location: Manosque, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition that he had printed in Lyon at the request of one of the consuls of the city (USTC 124285).  Commercial partners: Jean Brotot (Lyon)  References: RB XXV p. 33; Muller p. 50 1469.  Juret, Jean  Active: 1572  Name variations: Duret, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près Sainte Croix’  Biography: A Protestant, he was killed in the massacre of 17 September 1572 that followed the Parisian Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Lesens conflates him with Jean Joron.  References: Haag IV 725; Lesens p. 333 1470.  Juschet, Jean  Active: 1493  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was fined for having insulted a woman.  Documents: AD Aube G 4217 f. 99r  References: Morin (Troyes) p. 313 1471.  Kinderen, Lenaert der  Active: 1561–1567  Location: Antwerp, Low Countries (1561–1566); Emden, Holy Roman Empire (1565 & 1567); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1566–1567)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: Originally from Flanders, tradition has it that he fled to England in 1548 before moving to Emden in 1553, though this is unsubstantiated. He worked mainly on clandestine presses, so much so that some scholars have cast doubt on his very existence. However, extant archival material shows that he worked for Chrisophe Plantin in Antwerp where he was active from 1561 as a compositor. From there he can be traced to Sedan where he printed under the aegis of the ‘Haarlem press’ that had previously been under the stewardship of Goosen Goebens and Albert Christiaensz. with whom he seems to have coincided during his stay in the city. He also seems to have moved with the press to Emden in 1567. He used two devices in Sedan, the first a copy of the one used by the Genevan publisher Jean Crespin, the second with a Dutch motto.  Motto: ‘Alle boom die gheen geode vruchten brenghen sullen afghehouden ende int vier gheworpen worden. Matte. III. Cap.’  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch 31 f. 48v  References: Valkema Blouw p. 173 & 322 Kündig, Jakob, see Estanges, Jacques 1472.  Labadie, Jean  Active: 1520–1521  Location: Nogaro, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His shop was stocked with books he obtained from Lyon and Toulouse.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 69 1473.  La Bastide, Antoine de  Active: 1549–1570  Name variations: La Bastida, Antonio de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1549–1554); Zaragoza, Spain (1554); Valencia, Spain (1555–1557 & 1559); Barcelona, Spain (1558 & 1570); Lyon, Lyonnais (1559); Granada, Spain (1560); Sevilla, Spain; Sigüenza, Spain (1564–1565)  Role: Printer  Biography: He was born in Albi, probably in around 1540, to a servant of the local bishop and was sent to Toulouse at the age of eight to

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be educated. The death of his father some months later forced him to abandon his studies and instead begin a five-year apprenticeship as a pressman in Jacques I Colomiès’s workshop. He left in 1554 for Spain, working in Zaragoza as a journeyman printer for Pedro Bernuz before moving on to Valencia. Difficulties in finding employment led him to a peripatetic career in different Spanish cities before returning to France where he worked for Thibaud Payen in Lyon in 1559. He subsequently went back to Spain, embarking again on a wandering career that was punctuated by two arrests by the inquisition first in 1565 then in 1570. He escaped their clutches when being transported to Toledo that same year.  References: Griffin p. 96; Morisse n° 27 1474.  La Borde, Arnaud de  Active: 1533–1546  Name variations: Laborde, Arnaud  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près du Parlement’  Biography: He originally resided in the same house as the bookseller Antoine Bosquet, before moving in 1541 the new house of Antoine I Maurin. As a publisher he is known for having published legal works printed in both Roman and Gothic type. But these do not seem to have been very successful ventures: by 1546 he was described as poor bookseller.  Commercial partners: Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 150; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 & 134; Claudin (2) p. 13 1475.  Laborie, Antoine  Active: 1542–1562  Name variations: Bories, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the La Daurade quarter, then in Saint-Sernin. He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  References: Claudin (2) p. 92; Haag II 61

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1476.  Laborie, Pierre  Active: 1553  Location: Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested and convicted for selling books printed in Geneva.  References: Mentzer p. 138 1477.  Labour, Jean  Active: 1536  Name variations: Laborn, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer’s apprentice  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Auch, he began an apprenticeship in Jacques I Colomiès’s workshop on 24 July 1536.  References: Corraze (Colomiès) p. 122 1478. La Bourdarie, Jean de  Active: 1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines.  References: Claudin (2) p. 89 La Bouvette, see Le Forestier, Gilette 1479. Lacaze, Jean  Active: 1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as recently deceased in a document of 28 July 1598 that referred to his debts to the Toulouse bookseller Pierre Jagourt. He was then working in association with the bookseller Abraham Bonjour.  Commercial partners: Abraham Bonjour (Bordeaux); Pierre Jagourt (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1220v–1221r 1480.  La Chambre, Guérard de  Active: 1509–1514

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1485.  Ladime, Pierre de  Active: 1571–1592  Name variations: Ladisme, Pierre de  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près les carmes’ (1571–1580), ‘Près les Carmes en rue Bouau’ (1573), ‘Rue Mingin, derrière les carmes’  Biography: He married Janine Demessac. He began his career as a journeyman in the workshop of Marie Geoffre, François Morpain’s widow. However, in 1572 he sought to develop his own workshop, striking an agreement with Geoffre over her privileges – an agreement ratified by the parlement later that year. He became the official printer to the university (1572) and then to the city (1579), but his activity was limited in scope and quality. He mainly concentrated on the production of short pamphlets often of edicts and ordinances with all but one of his known imprints being published between 1571 and 1582. The development of the Millanges press was undoubtedly a blow, though he initially sought to work alongside the newcomer, even sharing a privilege with him. He copied editions previously printed in Paris on at least a couple of occasions. He worked regularly for the local Parlement, though the institution was slow to pay its debts. Gabriel Moriset became his apprentice in 1592. François Budier was also said to be his apprentice whilst Jean Hunnes was a journeyman in his workshop in 1587. He lived in the Sainte-Eulalie quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Marie Geoffre (Bordeaux); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 363 n° 173, 1 B 364bis n° 518, 1 B 372 n° 208, 1 B 392 n° 253, 1 B 406 n° 276, 1 B 409 n° 454, 1 B 410 n° 246, C 4087  References: Muller p. 9; RB I p. 26–28; Labadie p. 63; Delpit p. 80; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 455; Répertoire n° 5640. 1486.  Lafay, Jérôme  Active: 1507  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Jean Grandjean in 1507.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83

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1487.  Lafite, Arnaud de  Active: 1552  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 456 1488.  La Fontaine, Charles de  Active: 1577–1579  Location: Lunéville, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a series of pirate editions of L’agriculture et maison rustique, all of which were probably printed in Geneva, much to the exasperation of the co-author of the text, Jean Liébault.  References: RB XXI p. 63; Muller p. 22; Répertoire n° 5558 1489.  La Forgue, Bernard de  Active: 1510  Name variations: La Forga, Bernard de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: Originally from Aubiet, he worked in Henri Court’s shop for one year in 1510.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 11v 1490.  La Forgue, Dominique  Active: 1533–1550  Name variations: Forgues, Domenge; Lafforgue, Dominique  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter. In 1542 and 1543 he was described as a poor journeyman bookseller in the municipal tax registers. He was the brother-in-law of a Jean du Croset.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Claudin (2) p. 14 1491.  La Forgue, Jean de  Active: 1569  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’

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 Biography: He was married to Bernarde Cathalane on 1 May 1569 in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 220 f. 250r 1492.  La Forgue, Louis  Active: 1573–1582  Name variations: La Forge, Louis  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin and had a daughter, Peronet, who was baptised on 10 July 1573. The bookseller Pierre Ponte was her godfather. The following year he had a son, Michel, baptised this time in the parish of Saint-Pierre. Eight years later, he still resided there, having his son Bernard baptised on 14 April 1582.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 522 n° 178, GG 554 p. 112 1493.  La Fosse, Jean de  Active: 1522–1529  Name variations: La Fousse, Jean de  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Guillemette, the widow of André Berry (marriage contract dated 14 September 1522).  Documents: AD Yonne E 416, E 480, 3 E1 8; AM Auxerre GG 123  References: Ribière p. 113 1494. La Fousse, Gervaise de  Active: 1533–1549  Location: Chartres, Orléanais (1533–1549); Dreux, Orléanais (1549)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Changes’  Biography: He married Nicole Plumé and lived in the parish of Saint-Hilaire. He took on Pierre de La Granche as an apprentice in 1533. He worked with the printer Philippe Hotot who undertook to pay in part for a house by printing for him. Though Hotot did print for La Fousse, no surviving copies of the edition they produced are known. During 1549 he moved from Chartres to Dreux.  Commercial partners: Philippe Hotot (Chartres)  References: Jusselin p. 2; Feyel p. 707

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1495.  Lagleise, Jean de  Active: 1592  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie haute’  Biography: He married Françoise Briffandic on 15 November 1592. He lived in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 103 f. 1v 1496.  La Gorce, Antoine de  Active: 1544  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for having printed an edition of the local customs.  Commercial partners: Antoine Vincent (Lyon); Louis Yvernage (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 151 1497.  La Gorge, Barthelémy de  Active: 1516–1522  Name variations: Gorges, Barthélemy de; Gorgia, Barthélemy de  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Moyenne’  Biography: He published in conjunction with a Lyon bookseller in 1516.  Commercial partners: Pierre Ballet (Lyon)  References: RB XIII p. 52; Maignien p. LXXI 1498. La Granche, Pierre de  Active: 1553  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Apprentice  Biography: An orphan, he was placed as an apprentice bookseller for three years in the shop of Gervaise de La Fousse on 2 July 1533. He was born in around 1516.  References: Feyel p. 707 1499.  La Grange, Durand de  Active: 1504

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 Name variations: Grangia, Durandus de  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known to have sold a copy of Josse Bade’s Silvæ morales (GW 3154) to Guillaume I Pellicier, bishop of Maguelonne, in 1504.  Documents: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne Inc 140 1500.  La Grange, Gabriel de  Active: 1574–1598  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He confirmed for the Lyon booksellers David and Jean de Gabiano that a shipment of books in a bale were rotten in 1589. He published literary works that he had printed in Lyon and, most notably, an edition of Michel de Montaigne’s essays in 1593. The publication of this edition suggests that he was a wily operator as he had it printed despite an existing, and still valid, privilege that had been granted to the Parisian bookseller Abel L’Angelier. During the chaos that reigned during the wars of the Catholic League, the authorities of Lyon allowed local publishers to ignore Parisian privileges and La Grange pounced on the opportunity to profit from what was proving to be a very popular text.  Commercial partners: Jean de Gabiano (Lyon); David de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 52; Pansier II 135; Baudrier I 227 & VII 209 1501.  La Grange, Hector de  Active: 1529  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died before 1563, at which date his son, Gabriel, a Protestant described as coming from Cahors, married in Geneva.  Commercial partners: Jean Guyart (Bordeaux)  References: Labadie p. 65; Delpit p. 62; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 458; Haag IV 824 1502.  La Haye, Jean de  Active: 1592–1594  Name variations: La Haie, Jean de

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He fathered a son, named Guillaume, who followed him into the trade and a daughter who was buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas, where Jean lived, in 1594. He died the same year. In 1593, he owed 183 écus for books in diverse languages that he had bought from a Jean Lesselie, undoubtedly John Lesley, the Scottish bishop and author who had been appointed suffragan and vicar-general of the archbishopric of Rouen and who had a number of editions printed in the city.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2579, G 7330  References: Beaurepaire p. 399 1503. La Huproye, Étienne de  Active: 1598–1607  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of an apothecary, he married Marie, the daughter of the bookseller Jean Collet in 1591, with whom he had at least one daughter, Marie, and a son named Étienne. He was the warden of the church of Saint-Jacques in 1600. As a publisher, he is mainly known for popular imprints such as saints’ lives. He died in 1629.  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 91; Troyes p. 85; Lepreux II 139; Socard & Assier p. 64 1504.  Laignel, Guillaume  Active: 1551–1571  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ Illustration 75  Biography: He was Pierre’s father. He Signature of Guillaume Laignel, resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas 1566, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 442 and died in around 1571 at which point he was succeeded by his widow, Jeanne.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2546, G 2549, G 3200, G 3203, 2E1/442 f. 282r, 2E1/446 f. 90r  References: Gosselin p. 106

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1505. Laignel, Pierre  Active: 1579–1588  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was Guillaume’s son. He succeeded his mother, who had taken over his father’s shop in 1577. He published a small number of texts – all polemical pieces printed in octavo and taken from pamphlets that had already been published elsewhere.  Commercial partners: Martin II Le Mesgissier (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 116; Aquilon p. 307 1506.  Laignel, veuve Guillaume  Active: 1571–1581  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: Her given name was Jeanne and she took over the running of the shop of her husband before passing it on to their son, Pierre, in 1577, though she continued to be mentioned in official documents until 1581.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3203  References: Gosselin p. 106; Skora (Rouen) 1507.  Laillier, Nicolas  Active: 1501–1506  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a ‘poor bookseller’ in 1506.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2519, G 2520, G 2521 1508.  Laisné, Thomas  Active: 1494–1533  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Jacquette in 1494. He published a variety of texts, though mainly religious works.  Commercial partners: Richard Auzoult (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Charles Gendron (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Laurent

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Le Challeux (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen); Guillaume Tuveel (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 220; Meyer n° 176.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 59–60; TW of1472 1509. Laissantz, Jean  Active: 1533  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice bookseller  Biography: He served his apprenticeship in the shop of Jean Laurens starting in 1533.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 459 1510.  Laistre, Jean de  Active: 1562  Location: Étampes, Orléanais  Role: Pedlar  Biography: The nephew of the Paris printer Pierre de Laistre, he was arrested in Étampes peddling ‘plusieurs meschans livres’. He had taken the books from Paris in lots of six in order to avoid detection. During his trial on 10 September 1562, he admitted to having been previously arrested for selling polemical pamphlets. He was condemned to be whipped and to serve five years as a galley slave.  References: Guérin p. 7 1511.  Laistre, Pierre de  Active: 1562–1599  Name variations: Reims, Pierre de; Rinz, Pierre de  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1562); Basel, Swiss Confederation (1564); Lyon, Lyonnais (1565–1566); Toulouse, Languedoc (1566); Zaragoza, Spain; Alcalá de Henares, Spain (1567–1569); Salamanca, Spain (1581–1599)  Role: Printer  Biography: Born in Reims, he was the illegitimate son of a priest, probably the canon of the cathedral Guillaume Mollet, and of Catherine de Laistre. He was sent to study in Paris, but his father’s untimely death led to him abandoning his studies at the age of 16 and being taken by his brother-in-law, the Reims bookseller Arnoul Hubert, to Geneva. There he began a two-year apprenticeship in the workshop of Thomas Courteau in 1562. However, after seven months he left for Lyon but having failed to find a job as a journeyman printer,

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he became a soldier for a while before returning to the presses in Basel under Johannes Herbst and then in Lyon with Thibaud Payen. From there, he went to Toulouse where he worked for Jacques I Colomiès, probably in 1566. He left later that year for Spain, working in a number of cities before being arrested by the inquisition in 1569. Sent to the galleys, he survived and resumed his work in 1581 in Salamanca, at which point he had married a Maria de Benavente. He wrote his will in 1599.  References: Griffin p. 111; Morisse n° 271 1512. La Lande, Barthelémy de  Active: 1599  Location: Niort, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known thanks to a single polemical work published in 1599 (USTC 40438).  References: Muller p. 56; RB IV p. 25 1513.  La Lande, Simone de  Active: 1599–1605  Name variations: Hernault, veuve Antoine  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue lyonnaise, à l’enseigne de la harpe’  Biography: She had married Antoine Hernault, whom she succeeded in part in 1598, and continued to sign her own imprints until 1605.  References: RB XXVI; Arbour p. 280; Pasquier p. 125 1514.  Lalanne, Guillaume de  Active: 1575  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 463; Labadie p. 66 1515.  Laligne, Michel  Active: 1518–1533  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Saint-Aignan-les-Rouen, he was the son of Étienne, a farmer, and Jeanne Guerre. He resided in the parish of SaintMaclou. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 74; Lepreux III 223

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1516.  Lallemant, Michel I  Active: 1590–1610  Name variations: L’Allemand, Michel  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the father of Michel II who was active in the trade in the seventeenth century.  References: Mellot p. 119 1517.  Lallemant, Richard I  Active: 1567–1624  Name variations: Allemanus, Richardus; L’Allemand, Richard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ Illustration 76  Biography: He was described as an Signature of Richard I Lallement, orphan in 1544, and was the father of 1570, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 471 Jean and brother of Michel I. He was also Charles Gendron’s brother-in-law. His wife and daughter died in 1575 and one of his sons died in 1587. All were buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Rouen. He was raised in the workshop of Jean Petit in Rouen after which he was able to set up shop on his own. He remained close to his old master and with him opposed the seizure of the goods of an absent hosier in 1570. He had a fruitful career though only as a bookseller and publisher and not as a printer, as he unsuccessfully petitioned the parlement along with other booksellers to have the right to print in 1579. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1588. He helped pay for the refurbishment of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas of Rouen in 1580. He also printed texts favourable to the Catholic League. On some of the imprints he commissioned he used the device previously employed by Jean Bogard in Douai.  Commercial partners: Charles Gendron (Rouen); Martin II Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Nicolas II Mullot (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Richard Petit (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 1128  Motto: ‘Cor rectum inquirit scientiam’

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 486, 5 E 489, G 136, G 2171, G 2572, G 3203, G 4877, G 6341, G 7329, G 7330, G 8763, 2E1/471 f. 109r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 120; Gosselin p. 116 & 129; Lepreux III 224; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 5671. 1518.  La Mare, Jean de  Active: 1554–1569  Location: Sens, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Dans la grande rue, à l’aigle d’or’  Biography: He is principally known for a book of hours for local use (USTC 16664). He used a canting device that featured ducks on a pond.  Commercial partners: François Girault (Sens); Jean Savine (Sens)  Device: Silvestre n° 285  References: Muller p. 106; RB VI p. 73 1519. Lambelays, Pierre  Active: 1555  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 1520.  Lambert, Christophe  Active: 1588  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint, a leaguer tract printed without ornate letters or any ornamentation in 1588 (USTC 11620). Based on the layout, type and compositorial practices this might have been a pseudonym used by a Parisian printer.  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 85; Lepreux II 139; Morin (Ligue) p. 28. 1521.  Lambert, Étienne  Active: 1540–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder

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 Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city. His career suffered setbacks during the Wars of Religion and by 1573 he was considered too poor to pay tax.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 233, F 235, F 236, F 247, F 265  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 280. 1522.  Lambert, Guillaume  Active: 1530–1542  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Barbe de Bougne, the sister of the bookseller Charles, and lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix. The wife of the bookseller Jacques Buraudier was godmother to his daughter on 25 January 1542.  References: Pasquier p. 163 La Meignanne, see Lebreton, Jean 1523.  Lamic, Antoine  Active: 1553  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He married Bernarde Mayres in November 1553 and resided in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 573 24r 1524. La Mota  Active: 1548–1554  Name variations: La Monta  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  Biography: He resided near the gate Saint-Maurice.  References: Lançon p. 210 1525.  Lamothe, Guilhem de  Active: 1588–1611  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He was born in 1564 or 1565. He worked as a journeyman bookseller for Simon Millanges in 1588 when he was given the task of retrieving books that another journeyman bookseller had left in Dax and Bayonne before fleeing to Spain. He later became a master bookseller in his own right and was described as a “marchand libraire” in 1598.  Commercial partners: Simon Millanges (Bordeaux).  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1148v & 1271r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 469; Labadie p. 67 1526.  La Motte, Guillaume de  Active: 1537–1556  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1538), ‘Rue de l’aumône près la croix de pardieu’ (1539–1540)  Biography: He published mainly short texts on current events that he printed in Gothic type.  Commercial partners: Jean I Burges (Rouen); Nicolas de Burges (Rouen)  References: Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 2788 1527.  La Motte, Martin de  Active: 1567–1632  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue aux juifs, près le palais’  Biography: He married Alix Le Mesgissier, the daughter of Martin I, in April 1567. They resided in the parish of Saint-Lô. He was a master printer by 1597, but is only known to have published towards the end of his career. Two of his sons followed him into the trade and were received as masters by the community of printers and booksellers in 1610, but he was initially succeeded by his wife.  References: Mellot p. 61; Gosselin p. 100 1528.  La Motte, Robert de  Active: 1557–1562  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He mainly printed short texts on current events and only seems to have acted as a publisher on one occasion. He lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen.

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 Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Martin I Le Mégissier (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 86; Répertoire n° 5571. 1529.  Lamperiere, Nicolas  Active: 1564  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Parfondin and they lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen. He signed with a symbol rather than a full signature.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/439 p. 356 1530.  Lancolle, Jean  Active: 1543–1568  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder Illustration 78  Biography: The son of Signature of Jean Lancolle, 1552, AD Gironde 3 a broker, he married the E 848 daughter of Jeanne Couthurier, the widow of the bookseller Étienne Thoulouse, in 1544. He was described as a master bookseller of the university and was active in the trade, maintaining connections far beyond the city walls. In 1548 he asked a merchant to buy 100 lt’s worth of books from Sébastien Gryphe’s shop in Lyon and also bought merchandise the following year from the wholesale bookseller Esprit Nielle who was described as being based in Lyon but who had settled in Geneva a few months earlier. His dealings with the Lyon printer Jean Temporal led to a lawsuit for unpaid debts in 1560. He also had a court case against Vincent Réau. He appraised the books of Étienne Thoulouse after his death in 1552 at which point he was a sworn bookseller to the university. He furnished law books to the local parlement and bound volumes at their request using a variety of different skins. He also was in business with booksellers of Cahors and Toulouse. He owned his own vines.  Commercial partners: Sébastien Gryphe (Lyon); Claude Maillet (Cahors); Henri Mareschal (Toulouse); Esprit Nielle (Geneva); Vincent Réau (Bordeaux); Jean Temporal (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 181 n° 6, 1 B 197 n° 213, 1 B 210 n° 462v, 1 B 212 n° 160, 1 B 213 n° 308, 1 B 223 n° 470, 1 B 410 n° 181, G 1733 ff. 258–259, G 2455, 3 E 6677

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 References: Labadie p. 67; Roudié & Desgraves n° 11 & 13; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 471; Giteau 1531.  Landré, Christophe  Active: 1532–1542  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  References: Herluison p. 10 1532.  Langé, Remond  Active: 1589  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single polemical imprint using passepartout initials (USTC 12780).  References: RB XXIV p. 48–49 1533. L’Angelier, Abel  Active: 1574–1610  Location: Melun, Île-de-France (1591–1592); Paris, Île-de-France (1574– 1610)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in around 1553, he was the son of the Parisian bookseller and publisher Arnoul L’Angelier. He married Françoise de Louvain in 1573, and enjoyed a long and successful career in Paris. During the wars of the Catholic League, he felt compelled to seek refuge outside the city, working temporarily in Melun though he also spent time in Tours where he signed a contract with other exiled Parisian booksellers on 4 November 1591. He joined the Compagnie de la Grand-Navire in 1599. He died on 19 January 1610 and was succeeded by his wife.  Device: BaTyR n° 3018, 27963–27973; Renouard (Marques) n° 548–557  Motto: ‘Sacrum pingue dabo nec macrum sacrificabo’  References: Giraudet p. 59; Balsamo & Simonin; Renouard (Documents) p. 149 1534. L’Angelier, Jean  Active: 1541–1553  Name variations: Engellier, Joannes  Location: Bourges, Berry (1541–1551); Tours, Touraine (1551–1553)  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: The brother of Julien, he bought Hilaire Bodineau’s books with his brother in 1542. In 1551, they sought together to establish a press in Tours. As a publisher, he is known for a single edition he had published in Paris (USTC 140199). He might be the Jean Angelier arrested for selling banned books who was released in April 1546. Pierre Deschamps’s Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l’usage du libraire et de l’amateur de livres suggests that Jean was still active in 1556 (col. 191) and quotes a different emission of USTC 112148 with ‘apud Joannem Langelier’, but all the known surviving copies have Julien’s name in both the colophon and on the title page.  Commercial partners: Simon de Colines (Paris); Julien L’Angelier (Bourges)  References: Daubignard p. 8; Renouard (Documents) p. 2; Répertoire n° 5517. 1535. L’Angelier, Julien  Active: 1529–1561  Name variations: Angelier, Julien  Location: Bourges, Berry (1541–1551); Tours, Touraine (1551–1553); Blois, Touraine (1553–1561)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près de l’église’ (Bourges); ‘Près les Halles’ (Blois, 1554); ‘Au palais’ (Blois, 1559–1561)  Biography: A native of Thenay, he married Anne Menard. He was also the father of Olive and the brother of Jean. He initially worked in Bourges where he began as a bookseller and a publisher but left to set up a press in Tours – something recalled by notables of the town in 1557, though by then he had actually moved on once more to Blois. He bought Hilaire Bodineau’s books with his brother in 1542.  Commercial partners: Jean L’Angelier (Bourges); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers)  Device: Silvestre n° 526; BaTyR n° 3005  Motto: ‘Signum pacis’  Documents: AD Cher E 1144, E 1304  References: RB XXIII p. 9–10; Boyer p. 47; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 34; Daubignard p. 8–12; Répertoire n° 5518. 1536.  L’Angelier, Olive  Active: 1593–1599  Name variations: Gomet, veuve Barthelémy; Angelier, Olive

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 Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Puits-du-Quartier’  Biography: The daughter of Julien L’Angelier, she married Barthelémy Gomet. He was the official printer to the king and she succeeded him in that role after his death, frequently printing with the arms of France and Navarre on her title pages.  References: RB XXIII p. 21–22; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 88; Arbour p. 255; Répertoire n° 4243. 1537.  Langlancier, Michel  Active: 1524–1525  Name variations: Lenglantier, Michel  Location: Toul, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He also worked for the local bishopric.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Prévost (Paris); heirs of Wolfgang Hopyl (Paris); François Regnault (Paris); Simon Vostre (Paris)  References: Coyecque XI p. 133; Ronsin (Lorraine) p. 45–49 1538. Langlois, Pierre  Active: 1573–1581  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Mellot p. 124; Gosselin p. 116 1539.  La Nouaille, Charles de  Active: 1560–1563  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Bridier, the widow of the printer Bastien Morin. The son of Richard, he was the brother of Léonard and Guillaume.  References: Guibert p. 22 1540.  La Nouaille, Guillaume de  Active: [1532]–1564  Name variations: La Noalhe, Guillaume de; Novalius, Guilielmus; Novallius, Guilielmus; La Nouhalle, Guillaume de

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 Commercial partners: Antoine Blanchard (Limoges); Nicolas Blanchet (Orléans); André Cauvin (Angoulême); Jean du Pré (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 755  References: Muller p. 21; RB III p. 11–14; Guibert p. 20 1543.  La Place, Jean de  Active: 1591–1608  Name variations: La Plaie, Jean de  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Regnar with whom he resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle. Originally a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1591. He was godfather to Jacques Buveron’s son in 1598. He gave a copy of the poems of Louis Alleaume to the university of Orléans on behalf of the son’s author in 1597. He died on 9 July 1608.  References: Herluison p. 77; Ridderikhoff et al. IV p. 268 1544.  Laplaigue, Jean  Active: 1580  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 1545.  La Plaine, Jean de  Active: 1555  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite and was described as a poor bookseller in the registers of 1555.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 1546.  La Porte, Jacques de  Active: 1506–1522  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died before 1523.  References: Claudin (1) p. 18 1547.  La Porte, Jean  Active: 1507

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1551. Larcher, Étienne  Active: 1493–1499  Name variations: Larchier, Étienne  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des carmes pres les changes’ (1493–1494); ‘Rue de la garde Dieu auprès de saint Lienard’  Biography: He was the father or brother of Guillaume, and brotherin-law of the Parisian printer Jean du Pré with whom he worked and whose material he used – and who might, indeed, have actually printed the editions. The prototypographer of Nantes, he published in particular two editions of Jean Meschinot’s popular Lunettes des princes as well as legal and religious works.  Commercial partners: Jean du Pré (Paris)  Device: Polain n° 81; Meyer n° 76; TW ma03663  Types: ma03661–ma03662  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 254; Booton p. 223; Granges de Surgères n° 48; TW of0384; Lepreux IV 235 1552. Larcher, Guillaume  Active: 1501  Name variations: Larchier, Guillaume  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was Étienne’s brother or son. He is known for a single edition of a missal for local use.  References: RB XIX p. XIII; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 255; Granges de Surgères n° 49; Lepreux IV 235 1553.  Larchevesque, François  Active: 1574–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Apprentice, journeyman printer  Biography: Born in 1552, he was Vincent’s brother. He served as a printer’s apprentice to Jean Marie. He was described as a journeyman printer in 1578.  References: Gosselin p. 97, 114 & 116 1554.  Larchevesque, Vincent  Active: 1578  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Apprentice  Biography: François’s brother, he served as a printer’s apprentice to Jean Desnoyers.  References: Gosselin p. 114 1555.  La Regine, Gaillard de  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  References: Haag II 58 1556.  La Roche, Jacques de  Active: 1512–1524  Location: Langres, Champagne (1512 & 1520); Chaumont, Champagne (1515); Troyes, Champagne (1520–1524)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He joined the Church and, in 1512, was given a year to produce letters of tonsure that would exempt him from paying the taille. As a publisher, he is known for liturgical books printed in Troyes for local use, using addresses variously situated in different towns of Champagne.  Commercial partners: Jean I Le Coq (Troyes); veuve Jean I Le Coq (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Haute-Marne 2 G 11 f. 184v  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 25; Skora (Langres) 1557.  La Roche, Jean  Active: 1562  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À la porte du Palais’  References: Maignien p. LXXV 1558.  La Roche, Jean de  Active: 1512–1524  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1512–1524); Orléans, Orléanais (1516–1518)  Role: Printer  Biography: A printer and typecaster, he is known in Orléans for having printed three reams of confessionals for the use of the diocese in 1517 of which no extant copy is known. He was paid 6 lt in January 1518.

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He was probably the same Jean de La Roche who rented material from Pierre Attaignant in 1514 and was active in Paris in 1524.  References: L. Paris, Les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Louvre brûlés dans la nuit du 23 au 24 mai 1871 sous le règne de la Commune (Paris, Cabinet historique, 1872), 82; Renouard p. 240; Répertoire n° 5593. 1559.  La Roche, Pierre de  Active: 1595–1610  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for having published a small number of works of literature in duodecimo format.  References: RB XVII p. 44; Muller p. 20; Lepreux II 349; Daguin & Frionnet p. 173 1560.  La Roche, Simon de  Active: [1540]  Location: Langres, Champagne  References: Skora (Langres) 1561.  La Roze, Jean de  Active: 1589–1591  Location: Le Mans, Maine (1589); Angers, Anjou (1591)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint Aubin’ (Angers)  Biography: He was a publisher during the wars of the Catholic League who started his career as a bookseller in Le Mans where he had a Leaguer tract printed in 1589 (USTC 38896). Two years later he appeared in Angers where he described himself as a printer-bookseller and this time produced works that celebrated the Royalist faction.  References: Cauvin p. 314; Répertoire n° 5597. 1562.  Larue  Active: 1552?  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: The sole reference for this printer comes from Jean de Gaufreteau’s early seventeenth-century chronicle of Bordeaux. This was the origin of the manuscript note made by the local érudit Jules Bellet, a note used by both Desgraves and Labadie, the latter suggesting that Larue was only a bookseller. However, in the edition of the text

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given by Jules Delpit (I, 82), the name is transcribed as Lacime and it is perhaps an orthographic approximation of Pierre de Ladime’s name.  References: Labadie p. 67; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 485 1563.  La Rue, Jacques de  Active: 1553–1555  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la porte du palais’  Biography: He is known for the publication of two short royal edicts.  References: RB XXIII p. 57 1564.  Las, Jean de  Active: 1512  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 21 1565.  Las Plantades, Jean de  Active: 1580  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 614 1566.  Lasne, Jean  Active: 1533  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Louis Gaulmier (Alençon)  References: Despierres p. 10 1567.  Lasne, Pierre  Active: 1529–1565  Location: Le Mans, Maine (1529–1554); Alençon, Normandy (1550–1565)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grant rue, près le pillier vert’  Biography: He married Marthe Beuschet. As a publisher, he is known for works of local interest that he had printed in Alençon and Paris.  Commercial partners: Simon du Bois (Alençon); Jacques Nyverd (Paris)  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 314; Despierres p. 10

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1568.  Latheron, Mathieu  Active: 1491–1521  Location: Tours, Touraine; Vendôme, Touraine (1514)  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la scellerie près l’église des Cordeliers’  Biography: A prolific printer, he worked on commissions for the legal community and, mainly, for the Church, producing liturgical works for local use. He also briefly printed in Vendôme where he was the town’s prototypographer and worked for the local Benedictine monastery. His imprints were of high quality, used various formats, and he was known to print on vellum as well as on paper. Latheron’s device featured Saint Matthew and his monogram. He died before May 1522 when his material was bought by Mathieu Chercelé’s brother.  Commercial partners: Jean Arnoul (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers); Jean I de Marnef (Tours); Georges Nicolet (Angers)  Types: TW ma04100–ma04101, ma12871  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/4  References: RB XVIII p. 129 & XXIII p. 33–35; Muller p. 116; BVH Minutes; TW of0186; Grandmaison p. 307; Rochambeau p. 12; Répertoire n° 5784. 1569.  La Tour, Jean de  Active: 1476–[1494]  Name variations: Turre, Johannes de  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: In 1493, he described himself as printer to the university of Angers. Over the first part of his career, in 1476 and 1477, he printed in association with Johannes Morelli.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Johannes Morelli (Angers)  Device: TW ma03547; Polain n° 4  Motto: ‘Hardie volanté’  Types: TW ma03542, ma03543, ma03544, ma03545, ma03546  References: Pasquier p. 163; TW of0337 1570.  Launay, Adrien de  Active: 1593–1625  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1593–1607); Amiens, Picardy (1607–1625)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais, au compas d’or’

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 Biography: According to the journal of Pierre de L’Estoile, he was a ‘grand ligueur’ (28 January 1602). His father went bankrupt. His device featuring a large compass was copied on that of the Plantin-Moretus workshop in Antwerp. During his time in Rouen, he was opposed to Théodore Reinsart with whom he worked but with whom he was also in competition as both stocked books from Antwerp. His commercial connections in the Low Countries were strong and he journeyed there in 1599, visiting counterparts in Brussels, Mons, Lille and Arras, and again in 1605, this time in Holland and Zealand. As a publisher, his output was modest, limited to a few works of verse published in duodecimo. He settled in Amiens in 1607 and died there in 1625.  Commercial partners: Melchior Bacle (Middelburg); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 933  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 125; Lepreux III 232; Pallier (Normandie) p. 258; Aquilon p. 306 1571.  Laurens  Active: 1564–1567  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Maignien p. LXXVI 1572.  Laurens, Guillaume  Active: 1518–1528  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Devant la place du Palais’  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre. He seems to have specialised in the sale of law books.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 252v  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 489 1573.  Laurens, Jean  Active: 1532–1544  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Héliète Robert with a contract dated 1 May 1532 and was the brother-in-law of the Toulouse bookseller Damien Boysson. Jean Laissantz undertook his apprenticeship with him in 1533. He was asked by the courts to estimate the value of a batch

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of books in the case opposing Nicolas Castel to Michel Parmentier in 1539. The same year, Damien Boysson made him his proxy to retrieve certain debts. He was active beyond the confines of the city, sourcing some of his works in Poitiers and having connections to booksellers in Clermont and Lyon.  Commercial partners: Damien Boysson (Toulouse); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Michel Parmentier (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 850  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 490; Roudié & Desgraves n° 6 1574.  Lauverjat, André  Active: 1581–1596  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue Bourbonnoux’  Biography: He was the elder son of Jean, brother of Germain, and married Marie Rochereau and, after her death, Marie Moireau on 20 February 1583. He was an official bookseller to the university and worked for local ecclesiastical institutions.  References: Jenny (Levez) p. 10 1575.  Lauverjat, Germain  Active: 1583–1613  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Aux grandes écoles’, ‘à la providence’  Biography: He was Jean’s younger son, the brother of André, and married Anne Pignot with whom he had at least eight children. Of these, his eldest son, Jean (1593), followed him into the trade and his daughter Marie (1606) married the bookseller Hilaire Toubeau. He followed in the footsteps of his father, first of all working with his mother after the latter’s death. By 1587 he was, however, already publishing in his own right. Like his father, he rented a stall situated in the parish of Saint-Ursin ‘devant les six maillets’. He was also the warden of the ‘Grandes écoles’ in 1597, a position he still held three years later. He was a very active bookbinder working for both the town and the local clergy. His wider connections are illustrated by his decision to dedicate one of his publications to the Lyon bookseller Guillaume Rouillé in 1587 (USTC 111254). A further liminary poem suggests that Germain might have been an apprentice in his shop as he calls Rouillé ‘tenerae

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meae juventae formator’. He died on 26 March 1613 and was succeeded by his widow and son.  Commercial partners: Marie Bouet (Bourges); Maurice Levez (Bourges); Nicolas Levez (Bourges)  Device: Silvestre n° 1052; BaTyR n° 28639 & 28710  Motto: ‘Istud est sapere’  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 45; Jenny (Topographie) p. 29; Jenny (Levez) p. 11; Répertoire n° 5820. 1576.  Lauverjat, Jean  Active: 1567–1583  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux grandes écoles’  Biography: The son of an Étienne, he seems to have been the first of the family to enter the trade. In July 1552 he married Marie Bouc/Bouet with whom he had two sons, André and Germain, who also became booksellers. His daughters Martine and Marie were both married to booksellers – respectively Jean Guérin and Jean Coppin. He rented with Pierre I Bouchier a stall situated in the parish of Saint-Ursin ‘devant les six maillets’ for an annual rent of 4 lt in 1567. He was named bell-ringer to the university in 1579. He lived in ‘rue d’Arquemie’ in 1567. He worked with his sons in his final years and died before 1585.  Commercial partners: Pierre I Bouchier (Bourges)  Device: BaTyR n° 28632  Motto: ‘Ma fience est en Dieu’  Documents: AD Cher E 2371 f. 165v  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 45; Jenny (Topographie) p. 29; Jenny (Levez) p. 10 1577.  La Vacquerie, Vincent de  Active: 1546–1547  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned along with his servant Andrieu Bazoche for having sold books prohibited by the Parlement of Paris. He was sentenced on 20 August 1547 to do amende honorable in front of the cathedral of Reims after which his books would be burnt and he was to be banished from the kingdom for three years.  Documents: AN X/2 A 102  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 289; Weiss p. 13

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1578.  Lavanne, Louis  Active: 1557–1565  Location: Geneva, Swiss con­ federation (1557–1564); Orléans, Orléanais (1565) Illustration 79 Signature of Louis Lavanne, 1565, AD  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Le Seine-Maritime 2E1 444 Havre, in Normandy, he fled to Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant in 1557. There, he became a bookseller and embarked on a peripatetic career. He began by distributing books he acquired from Laurent de Normandie and was still described as a Genevan in 1564. The following year he seems, however, to have settled in Orléans though he still sourced his books in the Swiss city. During his entire career, he seems to have returned regularly to Rouen where he developed a commercial wholesale network furnishing local booksellers.  Commercial partners: Thomas Bouchard (Saint-Lô); Matthieu Chedeville (Rouen); Nicolas Chedeville (Rouen); Jean des Planches (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/438 p. 120, 2E1/442 f. 37v, 2E1/444 f. 30v  References: RIECH 1579.  Laverdin, Nicolas  Active: 1554  Location: Saint-Jean-d’Angély, Saintonge and Angoumois  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned along with Jean Salomon by the parlement of Guyenne on 9 August 1559 for having sold forbidden books. The books were ripped apart and burnt in front of the main church.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 144 n° 135  References: Patry p. 169 & 191 La Vergne, Pierre de, see Du Vergier, Pierre I 1580. Laverré, Joseph  Active: 1588–1589  Name variations: Laviré, Joseph; Lavesré, Joseph  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His daughter’s godfather was Jean Main and her godmother was Marie de Marnef. He married Isabelle Joubert and lived in

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the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. He rented a farm from the bookseller Nicolas Barrillet in 1588.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 296; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 503 1581.  La Ville, Claude  Active: 1543–1549  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1543–1545 & 1548–1549); Valence, Dauphiné (1547 & 1549)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He was active in Lyon in 1543 and still paid taxes there two years later before setting up a shop in Valence where he was notably known for having published Rabelais. His edition was copied with the same address at the end of the century, probably by a Genevan printer.  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 146  Documents: AM Lyon CC 41/2  References: RB XXV p. 76; Muller p. 116; Baudrier I 237 1582. Leandeau, Thomas  Active: 1552  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233 1583. Léau, Bernard de  Active: 1542–1585  Location: Morlaix, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Sur le pont du Bourret’  Biography: He married Plézoue Robert, lady of Petit-Kervouran, and after her death in 1561, Amice de Quélen. In 1579, he was godfather to the daughter of the Morlaix bookseller Jean Louarn, Anne. He was the son-in-law of the Parisian bookseller Yves Quilleveré with whom he founded a company in 1542. Despite what is suggested by Lepreux, there is however no real evidence that he was himself active in Paris. As a bookseller, he furnished liturgical books printed in Paris to local ecclesiastical institutions. He was a successful businessman owning a

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number of lands and holding a series of annuities in the latter stages of his career. He also employed Jean Mallet in his shop in 1580. As a publisher he initially worked solely with Parisian printers and booksellers, but the arrival of a printing press in the local Franciscan monastery of Cuburien, a few miles from his shop in Morlaix, led him to invest in and distribute their imprints. Even prior to this, he was involved in the production of Breton language editions. This led Jacques Betz mistakenly to attribute an early sixteenth-century edition to him in the Répertoire bibliographique (n° 9, Betz also created a ghost edition: n° 11).  Commercial partners: Thomas Eustache (Paris); Jacques Kerver (Paris); Jean Le Roy (Paris); Didier Maheu (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris); Yves Quilleveré (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude CXXII carton 102  References: RB XIX p. 8–9; Muller p. 53; Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; Le Guennec; Lepreux IV 178; Répertoire n° 6089.

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1584. Le Bas, Jacques I  Active: 1565–1593  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy (1565–1569); Caen, Normandy (1569– 1593)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Of Protestant faith, he married Françoise, who had succeeded him by 1594. She was the daughter of the Caen printer Étienne Thomas who, Lepreux suggests, left him his workshop. It is thought that he moved to Caen in 1567, though the first work we know of his there is dated 1581. He was the official printer to the king after 1590 and also printed at the bidding of the Duke of Montpensier (1589). During the wars of the Catholic League, he printed anti Leaguer material and styled himself as the king’s printer for the whole of the province of Normandy. His imprints featured two devices that had previously been employed by Michel Fezandat in Paris. His address in Caen was also used by Thomas Portau. As a printer, he employed types devised by Pierre Haultin, including the first known use of his second two-line pica single mensural music type in 1565. He died in 1593 and was succeeded by his widow.  Commercial partners: Thomas Bouchard (Saint-Lô); Étienne Desloges (Caen)  Motto: ‘Quelle chose ay-je deu faire à ma vigne que je ne luy aye faicte? Esa. V’  Types: Vervliet (Consepctus) n° 21, 165; Vervliet p. 279 n° 34  References: RB XXIV p. 71–72; Muller p. 10 & 104; B. Normande p. 378– 393; Travers p. 7; Lepreux III 465 & (2) 22; Répertoire n° 5839. 1585. Lebée, Jacquette  Active: 1496–1499  Name variations: Levée, Jacquette; Hérault, veuve Jean; Bérault, veuve Jean  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: She was the widow of Jean Hérault.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Tavernier (Provins)  References: Arbour p. 278; Monceaux II 182 1586. Le Bigot, Yves  Active: 1558  Location: Nantes, Brittany

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 Role: Printer  Biography: He printed on behalf of the Estates of Brittany a series of writs that were sent to local tax collectors in May 1558.  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine C 2877 f. 26v 1587.  Le Blanc, Antoine  Active: 1509–1540  Name variations: Blanc, Antoine; Des Blancs, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Guillerme Boysson and lived in the SaintPierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He was an official bookseller to the university and one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511 before becoming the corporation’s syndic in 1518. He was elected to represent the profession in 1533. He formed part of a number of temporary corporations, the largest of which was for the printing of a grammar book in 1535. He visited the Lyon fairs where he bought much of his stock, buying on one occasion, in 1532, 55 bales of books from Claude Tapin to be sent to Toulouse. He died in 1540.  Commercial partners: Olivier Arnoullet (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Henri Court (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Jean Domaysel (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Louis Martin (Lyon); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Claude Tapin (Lyon); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Simon Vincent (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 39 & 119; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 146; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Blanc-Rouquette p. 30; Répertoire n° 5847. 1588.  Le Bon, Étienne  Active: 1560  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He is only known for a single pamphlet published in 1560 attacking the power of the Guises under Francis II (USTC 2957). The lack of device and of any ornamentation makes the imprint suspicious but has not been possible to prove conclusively that this is a false address.  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 178 1589.  Lebourg, Richard  Active: 1521  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Notre-Dame-de-Barneville, he was the son of a farmer. He resided in the parish of Saint-Nicaise. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 80; Lepreux III 239 1590.  Le Bourgeois, Gaillart  Active: 1459–1500  Name variations: Lebourgeois, Gaillart  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: The father of Jean, he married Alison Bellin and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas before moving to the parish of Saint-Lô before 1488. He served as treasurer of Saint-Nicolas between 1477 and 1481. His activity seems to have been limited and his stall strategically located next to the Cathedral was empty in May 1488. This generated interest first from Guillaume Le Délié, then from Jean Boyvin. The former obtained the right to use the location in August of the same year. Gaillart’s son worked in his shop. He printed for the cathedral, producing in 1490 a print-run of some 5000 copies at the institution’s behest.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2512, G 2514–2517  References: Gosselin p. 59; Beaurepaire p. 401; Aquilon p. 306 1591.  Le Bourgeois, Jean  Active: 1484–1531  Name variations: Burges, Jean; Burgensis, Joannes; Le Bougois, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’, ‘rue grand pont’ (1493–1498)  Biography: The son of Gaillart, in whose shop he initially worked, he married Marion. He was sent by his father to Paris to acquire from the typographer Jean du Pré the knowledge and the material he needed to set up his own printing workshop. He lived in the parish of Saint-Lô and worked extensively with Jacques Le Forestier. He was a prolific publisher with over thirty works between 1488 and 1500 that were mainly aimed at the local clergy. His material was initially that which was used previously by Jean du Pré in Paris but, by 1492, Le Bourgeois had bought a new set of type. This type seems to have then passed on to Laurent Hostingue. Lepreux suggests that Pierre Violette began his Rouen career in his workshop. He published a wide variety of works from romances to religious and liturgical editions for local use. He worked in particular with the Caen bookseller Pierre Regnault.  Commercial partners: Jean du Pré (Paris); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Robert I Macé (Caen); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Antoine Vérard (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 257 & 1269; Polain n° 182–185; Meyer n° 173–174  Motto: ‘Benedictum sit nomen Domini’  Types: TW ma03743–ma03761, ma01085–ma01089, ma01999–ma02000, ma12404, ma13588, ma14029  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2517  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 273–277; Gosselin p. 59; Beaurepaire p. 400; Lepreux III 240; TW of0425; Répertoire n° 5878. 1592.  Le Bourgeois, Michel  Active: 1505  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Michel.  References: Labadie p. 69; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 492 1593. Le Bret, Jean  Active: 1587  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known thanks to a reprint of a polemical work on the army of the duke of Guise which named him as the original printer of the tract (USTC 54789). Like Pierre Hotot, this may well be a fictional printer invented to give more credibility to the pamphlet.  References: RB X p. 88

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1594. Le Bret, Pierre  Active: 1548–1578  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1548–1554); Rennes, Brittany (1554–1578)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au clos bruneau, à la corne de cerf’ (1554), ‘Près la porte saint Michel’ (1560–1578)  Biography: The son of the Parisian bookseller Guillaume Le Bret, he converted to Protestantism. He was first active in Paris where he learnt his trade in his father’s shop. After the death of his mother, Jeanne Arnoul, in 1554 he briefly took over the family business. However, that same year he bought Guillaume Chevau’s bookshop and established himself in Rennes. There, in order to set up his own workshop, he acquired Georget’s Gothic type. His shop was described as being between the court of law and the gate of Saint-Michel in 1565 where most of the local booksellers plied their trade. The woodcuts in his book of hours for the use of Saint-Malo were signed PLB suggesting that he might have engraved them himself. His widow remarried to the bookseller Bertrand Avenel. His material and device were acquired by Julien du Clos. Lepreux erroneously thought that he was the same person as Pierre Bretel.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Guillaume Chevau (Rennes); Julien du Clos (Rennes); Pierre de Lastre (Paris); Pierre Roussel (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 743  Motto: ‘Tu es Petrus et super hanc Petram edificabo Ecclesiam meam. Mathei 16’  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 50 & 51 f. 204; AD de Loire-Atlantique B 2190  References: RB XIX p. 61–62; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 255; Lepreux IV 88; Renouard p. 148 Le Breton, see Des Cloches, Thomas 1595.  Le Breton, Jacques  Active: 1546  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 47

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1596. Lebreton, Jean  Active: 1562  Name variations: also known as La Meignanne  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he was on the list of known heretics drawn up in 1562.  References: Pasquier p. 176 1597.  Le Camus, Guérin  Active: 1493–1517  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the brother of Pasquier I and the father of Pasquier II and Louis. A skilled binder, he owned his own plaques representing the crucifixion and Pentecost, similar to those used by Guillaume I Bénard.  References: Gosselin p. 60; Gid & Laffitte n° 68 & 172; Gruel p. 104 1598.  Le Camus, Jacques  Active: 1565–1600  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des Marquets, au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was the son of Pasquier II and the brother of Robert and lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne-la-Grande-Église.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3203, G 3452  References: Gosselin p. 60; Mellot p. 136 1599.  Le Camus, Louis  Active: 1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des Marquets’  Biography: He was the son of Guérin and the brother of Pasquier II.  References: Gosselin p. 60 1600.  Le Camus, Pasquier I  Active: 1493  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the brother of Guérin.  References: Gosselin p. 60 1601. Le Camus, Pasquier II  Active: 1517–1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Guérin, the brother of Louis, and the father of Jacques and Robert. He took over Guérin’s shop.  References: Gosselin p. 60 1602.  Le Camus, Robert  Active: 1565  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des Marquets’  Biography: He was the son of Pasquier II and the brother of Jacques. He died in around 1565.  References: Gosselin p. 60 1603.  Le Caron, Jean I  Active: 1530–1583  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la haute rue notre dame près Saint Martin’  Biography: He married Marie Cousin, who died in 1583. He published works of local interest printed in Paris, notably for the local municipal authorities. His conversion to Protestantism made his relationship with these institutions difficult. He was called upon to draw up the inventory of the books of Firmin Wassepasse in 1579. On the death of his wife his stock was appraised and its value declared to be 250 lt, whilst his stationer’s stock was thought to be worth 337 lt. His shop held 1759 volumes worth, on average, 2 lt and 17 sous each. He predominately sold school books.  Commercial partners: Pierre Jouault (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris); Michel Wassepasse (Amiens)  References: RB IX p. 11; Muller p. 2; Pouy p. 102; Labarre p. 45; Répertoire n° 1722

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1604.  Le Caron, Jean II  Active: 1591  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died in 1591.  References: Labarre p. 46 1605.  Le Caron, Jean III  Active: 1600  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  References: Labarre p. 46 1606.  Le Caron, Nicolas  Active: 1490–1523  Name variations: Caron, Nicolas  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Lombards’ (1508), ‘Rue de la draperie’  Biography: Born in Auxi-le-Château, he married Marguerite de La Thieulloye. He was the prototypographer of Amiens. He seems to have sourced his type in Paris, using material almost identical to that employed by Antoine Caillaut and Louis Martineau and undoubtedly produced by the same typefounder. He published works for the local judicial community to which he was close, serving also a royal judicial official of Amiens. His material was passed on probably as early as 1511 to the Hesdin printer Bauldrain Dacquin, who was perhaps employed in Le Caron’s workshop as his imprints show that he demonstrated the same compositorial habits. At this point he seems to have concentrated his efforts on bookselling, occupying a stall on the cathedral square between 1509 and 1523. He died before 1531 at which time his widow had remarried to the Arras bookseller Jean Carlier.  Commercial partners: Pierre Le Paveur (Amiens); Didier Maheu (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 303  References: RB IX p. 7; Muller p. 2; Pouy p. 66 & 201; Lepreux I 110 & 160; Laborde p. 43 1607.  Lecarpentier, Jean  Active: 1490–1506  Location: Amiens, Picardy

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described in 1506 as a leper.  References: Pouy p. 201; Labarre p. 48 1608.  Lecarpentier, Robert  Active: 1521–1525  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Godard. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 91; Lepreux II 246 1609.  Le Cartel, Jean  Active: 1588–1618  Location: Avranches, Normandy (1588–1596 & 1600); Coutances, Normandy (1597–1618)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He printed a number of missals, breviaries and other catholic works for the bishops of Avranches and Coutances. Lepreux suggests he was also an engraver.  References: RB XXVIII; Muller p. 7; Lepreux III (2) 23 1610.  Le Cerf, Jacques  Active: 1577–1583  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3203 1611.  Le Challeux, Laurent  Active: 1521–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for a single imprint executed for Thomas Laisné (USTC 110726), though Pellechet did attribute another book to his workshop.  Commercial partners: Thomas Laisné (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 38; B. Normande p. 268; TW of1479; Lepreux III 246

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1612. Le Chandelier, Pierre  Active: 1562–1592  Name variations: Candelarius, Petrus  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was an important figure for Huguenot printing in northern France, responsible for editions of high-profile Protestant texts including the Bible and Psalms. A cautious figure, he only began publishing books after the edict of January 1562 that heralded for a short while a more tolerant approach from the authorities. This situation did not last, and his store was visited in his absence in 1572 and Protestant books were discovered. He also printed anonymously or with false addresses using the pseudonyms Pierre Davantes in Basel (perhaps with the latter’s consent), Jean Ferrant in Basq (or Basqueville), Arnold Birkmann in Cologne and Guillaume des Marescs. His own name was used as a false address to publish an English text by the Catholic theologian William Peryn in 1598 (USTC 206535). His 1562 edition of the Psalms as translated by Marot and Bèze also has the name of the Genevan bookseller and publisher Antoine Vincent on the title page, though it is unclear what role, if any, Vincent played. His granddaughter Catherine married Tite Harenc with his permission in 1598 but at this point he no longer seems to have been active.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gondouin (Caen); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart (Rouen); Antoine Vincent (Geneva)  Device: Silvestre n° 467 & 1284  Motto: ‘Le peché y rendra l’ire’; ‘Lucernis accensis fideliter ministro’  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Calvados 1 B 3 f. 150  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 343–359; Gilmont p. 225– 226; Pettegree p. 49–57; Lepreux III 473; Girard p. 503; Répertoire n° 5897. 1613.  Leclerc, Jacques  Active: 1594–1605  Location: Nevers, Nivernais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He is known for having bound books for the local municipality.  Documents: AM Nevers CC 241, CC 251

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1614.  Le Coing, Gaspard  Active: 1528  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Delphine Guichard with whom he had a daughter named Jeanne.  References: Clerc 1615.  Le Coing, Jean I  Active: 1528–1566  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a daughter named Marguerite who married the regent of the university, Jean Scuron. Initially based on the Petite-Loge, he moved to the Grande-Loge in 1566 in the Saint-Firmin quarter of the city. A Protestant, he maintained commercial connections with Lyon and Geneva. He worked as a stationer for the city authorities.  Commercial partners: Richard Neudin (Geneva)  Documents: AM Montpellier CC 68 f. 275r  References: Guiraud p. 81 & 522; Clerc 1616.  Le Coing, Jean II  Active: 1597–1614  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is listed one of the seven workers of the corporation of the common fence (‘commune cloture’) charged with ensuring the safety of the city walls in 1599. Like Jean I, he worked as a stationer for the city authorities.  Documents: AM Montpellier EE 2 f. 306r 1617.  Leconte, Cardin  Active: 1525–1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  References: Gosselin p. 89; Beaurepaire p. 395

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1618.  Leconte, Guillaume  Active: 1583  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the official printer to the university of Bourges. It is possible that he never printed and that this was simply an honorific title.  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 902 1619.  Leconte, Jean  Active: 1518  Location: Nevers, Nivernais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition of the local customs (USTC 72768) of which no copy seems to have survived.  Commercial partners: Nicolas de La Barre (Paris)

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sometimes used on copies of his own editions. He died in 1524 and was succeeded by his son.  Commercial partners: Jacques de La Roche (Langres); Macé Panthoul (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 169, 170 & 549  Types: Jennings p. 243–244  Documents: AD Yonne E 374; AM Troyes K 5  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 7–20; Troyes p. 90; Corrard de Breban p. 42; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 140; Turquois p. 352; Robert (Lecoq) p. 30; Gid & Laffitte n° 194; Socard & Assier p. 5; Gruel p. 174; Delalain p. 146; Répertoire n° 6120. 1621.  Le Coq, Jean II  Active: 1550–1589  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue Notre-Dame’, ‘devant l’église Notre-Dame’  Biography: The son of Thomas, he succeeded his grandmother, the widow of Jean I, who had taken over the family business after the death of his father. He seems to have, as early as 1528, signed some of the workshop’s imprints in his name (see USTC 14468). Jean Chauvin was employed in his workshop. He was the father-in-law of Jean I Moreau who took over his business at his death. As a publisher, he continued the family line of religious printing, using the same increasingly outdated Gothic type. He used a canting device with a cockerel.  Commercial partners: Michel I Lointier (Troyes)  Device: Silvestre n° 875–877  Motto: ‘Quis dedit gallo intelligentiam’; ‘Gallus gantes arguit’  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 7–20; Troyes p. 108; Corrard de Breban p. 48; Lepreux II 140; Robert (Lecoq) p. 32; Socard & Assier p. 46; Gruel p. 175; Répertoire n° 6121. 1622.  Le Coq, Thomas  Active: 1524–1525  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the son of Jean I and the father of Jean II. His career at the head of the family workshop was brief as he died in 1525, a year after he had taken over from his deceased father. His mother succeeded him.

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 References: Troyes p. 108; Lepreux II 140; Turquois p. 352; Robert (Lecoq) p. 30 1623.  Le Coq, veuve Jean I  Active: 1525–1555  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue notre dame à l’angle de la place de la halle’  Biography: The mother of Thomas, she succeeded him after his early death in 1525. She worked in collaboration with Thibault Trumeau, but also on occasion with people outside the trade such as Nicolas Mauroy in whose house some copies of a shared edition were sold (see USTC 14468). She seems to have sometimes signed works in the name of her grandson, Jean II. Though she continued to print the religious books that had become the hallmark of the business, she diversified production, publishing a number of substantial legal works for areas as distant as Burgundy and Sens. The works were often signed simply ‘in edibus Joannis Lecoq’.  Commercial partners: Jacques de La Roche (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris); Guy Pietrequin (Troyes); Thibault Trumeau (Troyes)  References: Troyes p. 104; Lepreux II 140; Arbour p. 331; Turquois p. 352; Socard & Assier p. 24; Cappellan (Ni) n° 4 1624.  Le Coq, veuve Jean II  Active: 1597  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 275 1625.  Le Cordier, Louis  Active: 1562–1565  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy (1562); Caen, Normandy (1563–1565)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Of Calvinist faith, his publications were all of a religious nature and generally copied on editions already printed in Geneva. He worked in partnership with Henri Auber.  Commercial partners: Henri Auber (Caen, Rouen); Étienne Desloges (Rouen); Simon Mangeant (Caen)  References: RB XXIV p. 69; Muller p. 10 & 104; B. Normande p. 365

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1626.  Le Cour, Nicolas  Active: 1534–1543  Name variations: Lecout, Nicolas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for an imprint produced for the English market. Lepreux suggested this might be a typographical error for Le Roux.  Commercial partners: Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Lepreux III 247 1627. Lecourault, Guillaume  Active: 1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen. Lepreux suggests that he was simply a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 92; Lepreux III 246 1628.  Le Court, Jean  Active: 1590  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Known only for one polemical text (USTC 19237), this is in fact a fictitious printer. The layout of the title page, the type and the typographical ornament used on the title page are those also used for the pseudonym Jean de Tours in Montauban and in Langres. They were in fact printed in the Swiss Confederation using the material of Conrad Waldkirch of Basel.  References: RB XVII p. 42; Skora (Langres) 1629.  Le Cousturier, Abraham I  Active: 1577–1623  Name variations: Couturier, Abraham; Cousturier, Abraham  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près le Palais, au Sacrifice d’Abraham’ (1599); ‘Près la grand-porte du Palais’ (1595)  Biography: He was active as early as 1565 when he contracted a debt to a local mercer. One of his children died in 1597 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Jean of Rouen. He was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city in 1583 and 1598, and master

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of the confraternity in 1596. A number of his editions were produced without date of publication. He published primarily light-hearted works. He died after 1628.  Device: Silvestre n° 873  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6729, 2E1/442 f. 47r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 138; Lepreux III 116; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 5922. 1630.  Le Cousturier, Abraham II  Active: 1592–1643  Name variations: Couturier, Abraham; Cousturier, Abraham  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue de la Grosse-Horloge, devant les Deux Cigognes’  Biography: He married Marie Gorin on 2 February 1604. He was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city in 1597 and 1609. He was still alive in 1649.  References: Mellot p. 139; Lepreux III 16; Répertoire n° 5923. 1631.  Le Cousturier, Abraham III  Active: 1596–1608  Name variations: Couturier, Abraham; Cousturier, Abraham; Lecousturier, Abraham  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au bout en bas de la rue écuyère’  Biography: He married Marguerite Huault on 2 April 1596 and died before 1609.  References: Mellot p. 139 1632. Le Cousturier, Daniel  Active: 1599–1626  Name variations: Couturier, Daniel; Cousturier, Daniel  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue écuyère au chapeau rouge’  Biography: He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1611 and 1620. He was fined for the poor quality of his work in 1616.  References: Mellot p. 140; Répertoire n° 5924.

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1633. Le Crosnier, Robert  Active: 1555–1568  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1555–1558); Saint-Lô, Normandy (1562); Caen, Normandy (1563–1564); Alençon, Normandy (1564–1568)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born near Saint-Lô, he married a woman named Michelle. He became a Calvinist and emigrated to the Swiss Confederation where he worked in Jean Crespin’s workshop in Geneva in 1558, despite having being condemned for adultery. In 1560 he became an itinerant bookseller working as part of Laurent de Normandie’s network, before moving back permanently to Normandy in 1562. He settled initially in Saint-Lô where he grew close to the fellow Protestant printer Joachim de Contrières. Both moved to Caen and Contrières was chosen as godfather to his son Jael who was baptised there on 4 February 1564. At that point the family resided in the quarter of Saint-Sauveur, but that situation soon changed as they followed Contrières to Alençon where he had been taken on to work for the local Protestant Church. The partnership endured, though it seems that Robert was the junior partner in their joint undertakings.  Commercial partners: Joachim de Contrières (Alençon); Jean Crespin (Geneva); Jacques Legendre (Alençon); Pierre Quesnot (Saint-Lô)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 298  References: RB XXV p. 15; Despierres p. 25; RIECH; Calviniana II 1099; Chaix p. 199; Lepreux III (2) 47, Lart I 50 1634.  Le Delié, Guillaume  Active: 1488–1503  Name variations: Le Delyé, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He petitioned for the right to use the stall next to the cathedral that was rented by Gaillart Le Bourgeois in May 1488, obtaining it officially on 23 August of that year. He was mentioned as binding volumes for cardinal Georges d’Amboise’s newly built castle of Gaillon in 1503.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2515, G 2516  References: Deville p. 443

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1635.  Le Deutre, Michel  Active: 1569–1600  Name variations: Duteultre, Michel; Le Dutre, Michel; Le Dustre, Michel; Le Deustre, Michel; Du Teurtre, Michel; Du Deurdre, Michel; Du Teultre, Michel  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookbinder, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue Saint Nicolas, près la croix de fer’ (1588), ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1596–1600)  Biography: He is known for a single edition published in 1588 (USTC 1902). He seems to have mainly worked as a bookbinder, in particular for the parish of Saint-Maclou, and as a bookseller.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2560, G 2561, G 2564, G 2565, G 2571, G 3203, G 4667, G 6446, G 6802, G 6896, G 7167, G 7373, G 7527, G 7757, G 9069  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 89; Lepreux III 247; Aquilon p. 306 1636.  Le Deutre, Nicolas  Active: 1593  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2579 1637.  Le Deutre, Timothée  Active: 1596–1617  Name variations: Le Dutre, Timothée; Le Dustre, Timothée; Du Teutre, Timothée  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1599. His wife died in 1607.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2581, G 2582, G 2644, G 2824, G 7563, G 6729  References: Mellot p. 143 1638.  Ledonneau, Étienne  Active: 1557  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Maixent.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 492 1639.  Le Febvre, Jacques  Active: 1565  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was of Protestant faith.  References: Lart 1640.  Le Febvre, Nicolas  Active: 1567  Name variations: also known as ‘le Petit’  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was of Protestant faith.  References: Lart 1641.  Le Febvre, Pierre  Active: 1542  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue écuyère au coin de la rue du petit puits.’  References: Gosselin p. 98 1642.  Le Febvre, Richard  Active: 1553–1555  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller Illustration 81  Biography: He seems to have Signature of Richard Le Febvre, 1553, AD played the role of an intermedi- Seine-Maritime 2E1 406 ary, selling on books wholesale. Often described as a merchant, he sold stock to Pierre Hubault and printing material to the Parisian printer Baptiste Postel in 1553.  Commercial partners: Pierre I Hubault (Rouen); Baptiste Postel (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/404 p. 74, 2E1/406 p. 403  References: Gosselin p. 106

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1643.  Le Fèvre, Charles  Active: 1534–1538  Location: Beauvais, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for liturgical editions intended for local use.  Commercial partners: Louis Cyaneus (Paris); Galiot du Pré (Paris); Jean Kerbriant (Paris)  References: RB XXVIII p. 15; Muller p. 7; Morel (Beauvais) .

1644.  Le Fèvre, Guillaume  Active: 1514–1520  Location: Beauvais, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for liturgical editions intended for local use. In a 1520 edition of a missal he was associated to the local burgher Pierre de Nully and a Nicolas Le Fevre, though in what quality the latter was involved is unclear.  Commercial partners: Wolfgang Hopyl (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Simon Vostre (Paris)  References: Morel (Beauvais) 1645.  Le Fèvre, Jean  Active: 1588–1617  Name variations: Fevre, Jean; Feure, Jean; Le Febvre, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1588 & 1603); Caen, Normandy (1588); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1598 & 1617); Pontorson, Normandy (1599–1601); La Rochelle, Aunis (1603)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A Protestant, he was an itinerant printer producing religious and polemical material and seems to have moved from one Huguenot stronghold to the next, though a formal typographical link has yet to be established.  Commercial partners: Vincent Le Fèvre (Caen)  References: B. Normande p. 445–447; Muller p. 93 & 106; RB XIII p. 68 & XXIV p. 65; Lepreux III 453 & (2) 18 1646.  Le Fèvre, Vincent  Active: 1588–1607  Name variations: Lefebvre, Vincent

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 Location:, Caen, Normandy (1588); Tours, Touraine (1594); Rouen, Normandy (1601–1607)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was described as a founder of type in 1594 and obtained letters confirming his status as a master printer from the town of Rouen on 17 October 1601. These were rescinded by the parlement of Normandy on 16 January 1604.  Commercial partners: Jean Le Fèvre (Caen); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Louis de Bonart (Tours); Maurice Bouguereau (Tours)  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 445–447; Giraudet p. 42; Lepreux III 453 1647.  Le Forestier, Étienne  Active: 1523–1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  References: Gosselin p. 64; Beaurepaire p. 405 1648.  Le Forestier, Gaillart  Active: 1508–1512  Name variations: also known as Cachard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2522  References: Beaurepaire p. 405 1649.  Le Forestier, Gilette  Active: 1543–1545  Name variations: Bouvet, veuve Louis; La Bouvette  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She was active after the death of her husband, Louis Bouvet.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Guillemette de La Vigne (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2542

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1650.  Le Forestier, Guillaume  Active: 1523–1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À la fleur de lys d’or, au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was the son of Jacques and the brother-in-law of Jacques Le Gentil. He took over the family shop which his mother had briefly run after the father’s death. Guillaume initially resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas before relocating to Saint-Jean. Jacques Le Gentil succeeded him in 1530 and took over his shop.  References: Gosselin p. 63; Beaurepaire p. 404 1651.  Le Forestier, Jacques  Active: 1493–1510  Name variations: Forestarius, Jacobus  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Grande rue Saint-Martin-du-Pont, près le Fardel’ (1493–1495); ‘Près les Augustins, à la Tuile d’or’ (1497–1500); ‘à l’enseigne de la fleur de lys devant le four de chapitre’ (ca 1500); ‘Près Saint-Herbland, devant l’enseigne de la Gibecière’; ‘Près Notre-Dame, près le portail des Libraires, à la Fleur de lis’ (1507); ‘Rue Saint-Nicolas, devant l’église’  Biography: The son of Jean, he was the father of Guillaume and Anne who married the printer Jacques Le Gentil. He was associated to Richard Goupil who probably learnt the trade in his workshop and used the same address on his own imprints. He also worked in partnership with Nicolas I Mullot. His son oversaw the distribution of some of his works and he had to set up a proxy in Amiens to ensure that he was paid correctly in 1509. As a printer, his work was limited in quality and he acted only as a publisher in the later years of his career. He was, on the other hand, very active in this role, producing mainly editions of popular piety and educational works in small formats. He is also known for the production of short newsbooks. He had died by 1512 at which point his widow briefly took over the business. Richard Goupil seems to have acquired his material before his death.  Commercial partners: Richard Auzoult (Rouen); Josse Badius (Paris); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Jean Laurens (Amiens); Jean Le Bourgeois (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Robert I Macé (Caen);

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Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Pierre Violette (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 158 & 552; Polain n° 186 & 187; Meyer n° 175; TW ma04034–ma04035  Motto: ‘Benedicamus patrem et filium cum sancto Spiritu. Laudemus super exaltemus evi secula’  Types: TW ma04017–ma04033, ma07949, ma13285, ma13554, ma13946– ma13948; Jennings p. 248–249  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2517, G 2518, G 2519, G 2522; AM Amiens FF 33 f. 53v  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 48–56; B. Normande p. 46–54; Gosselin p. 62; Beaurepaire p. 403; TW of0427; Lepreux III 251; Aquilon p. 306; Hellinga p. 217; Répertoire n° 5948. 1652. Le Forestier, Jean  Active: 1488  Name variations: Forestarius, Joannes  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of Jacques and married Thomasse. He was also an engraver.  References: Gosselin p. 62 1653.  Le Forestier, Michel  Active: 1508–1522  Name variations: also known as Cachard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2522  References: Beaurepaire p. 405 1654. Le Forestier, veuve Jacques  Active: 1512  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She took over her husband’s shop briefly before handing it on to her son Guillaume.  References: Gosselin p. 62

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1655.  Le Fort, Jean  Active: 1573  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint in 1573 that is considered to be a false imprint (USTC 2540) and it is probable that Jean Le Fort never existed.  References: RB XVI p. 34; Audiat p. 30 1656.  Le Franc, Roland  Active: 1523  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: His wife survived him and married the bookseller Thomas Mestrard. As a publisher he is known for a single imprint published with the Macés which is now lost (USTC 111627).  Commercial partners: Jean Macé (Rennes); Julien Macé (Rennes)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 255 1657.  Le Franc, Sulpice  Active: 1523–1527  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher, he worked alongside Jean Macé. His relationship to Roland Le Franc is unclear.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Girard Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Jean de Kerbriant (Paris); Jean Macé (Rennes); Julien Macé (Rennes); Jacques Macé (Rennes)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 255; Répertoire n° 5952. 1658.  Le Galloys, Jacques  Active: 1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas and was simultaneously a mercer and a bookseller. He married Anne Bonnyn who survived him. He died before 19 December 1561, at which point his widow named a proxy to reclaim outstanding debts.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/435 p. 269

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1659.  Le Gascon, Jean  Active: 1577  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: His name is given on a single imprint on a passing comet (USTC 10089) that was printed by Julien du Clos. Lepreux speculated that Le Gascon was the publisher, but he is otherwise unknown and the formulation is very clear, ‘De l’imprimerie de Iean le Gascon’, which suggests that this was simply a false address used by Du Clos whose usual role as printer to the Parlement did not fit well with such texts.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 255; Lepreux IV 92

Illustration 82 Woodcut used by ‘Jean Le Gascon’, 1577, USTC 10089

1660.  Legendre, Jacques  Active: 1564–1568  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He commissioned editions from the workshop run by Robert Le Crosnier and Joachim de Contrières. He was also a deacon of the local Protestant church.  Commercial partners: Joachim de Contrières (Alençon); Robert Le Crosnier (Alençon)  References: RB XXV p. 16; Despierres p. 25; Calviniana II 1092

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1661.  Le Gendre, Robert  Active: 1540  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Macé Desbois (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII 172 1662.  Le Gendre, Thomas  Active: 1505–1509  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire E 65  References: Pasquier p. 176 1663.  Le Gentil, Jacques  Active: 1522–1542  Name variations: Gentil, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’église Saint-Jean à la fleur de lys’ (1530–1534)  Biography: He married Anne Le Forestier, daughter of Jacques and sister of Guillaume, then Guillemette Pain in 1534. He was the father of Robert. He initially lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien, but moved to Saint-Jean where he took over his father-in-law’s shop in 1530 when he succeeded his brother-in-law Guillaume Le Forestier. Lepreux sees him as reverting to a journeyman printer after 1534, when his previous residence was taken over by Louis Bouvet. But he continued to sign works explicitly as a ‘master’ until at least 1541, though his output seems modest. Claudin thought him to be the printer of the books signed with the initials J. G. and printed in 1525.  Commercial partners: Jean I de Burges (Rouen); Martin Masselin (Rouen); Jean Poutoulain (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6270; BnF Fonds français pièces originales 767–17488 n° 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 92; Lepreux III 253; A. Claudin, ‘Un typographe rouennais oublié. Maître J. G. imprimeur d’une édition de Commines en 1525’, Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, LXII (1895), 510–523.

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1664. Le Gentil, Robert  Active: 1553–1567  Name variations: Gentil, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer Illustration 83  Biography: He was the son of Jacques Mark of Robert Le and lived in the parish of Saint-Jean. He Gentil, 1556, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 417 served as caution for the sale of printing material to the Parisian printer Baptiste Postel in 1553, though in this case he was described simply as a merchant. His involvement in the trade at this early date is, however, indubitable and he was also cited in the sale of books by Richard Le Febvre to Pierre Hubault later that year.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/404 p. 74, 2E1/406 p. 403, 2E1/417 p. 250  References: Gosselin p. 92 1665.  Le Gentilhomme, Richard  Active: 1497  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer  Biography: He was originally from the diocese of Le Mans.  Commercial partners: Pierre Roault (Avignon); Michel Du Ruzeau (Avignon) 1666. Legier, Blaise  Active: 1597–1598  Location: Nancy, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: He was described as a bookseller in 1597, then as a printer in 1598. He became the official printer to the duke of Lorraine (1598).  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1252 1667.  Legrand, Jacques  Active: 1527–1537  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1527–1537); Paris, Île-de-France (1537)  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Michelle Papillon and lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 91; Lepreux III 237

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1668.  Le Grant, Michelet  Active: 1544  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 176 1669.  Le Grous, Jean  Active: 1522  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le puis saint Didier et au palais près la chapelle’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier.  Commercial partners: Claude Garnier (Limoges)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 74; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 250 1670.  Le Heurteur, Jacques  Active: 1599–1601  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was named a master printer on 4 February 1599.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 483  References: Mellot p. 146 1671.  Le Houé, Jean  Active: 1526  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Kerbriant (Paris); François Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/11 f. 146 1672.  Le Houé, Robert  Active: 1541–1566  Name variations: Houé, Robert; Le Hoy, Robert; Le Roy, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail de l’église Notre-Dame’, ‘en la rue saint Nicolas’ (1552)  Biography: He married Françoise Rouillart and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He executed a number of luxury velvet bindings for

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Cardinal Georges d’Amboise as well as binding and decorating a book in 1541 for the archbishop.  Commercial partners: Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 128, G 130, G 133, G 3200, G 6801, G 9059, 2E1/447 f. 34r  References: Gosselin p. 98; Muller p. 96–103; Aquilon p. 306; Beaurepaire p. 398; Répertoire n° 5975. 1673.  Lejeune, Jean  Active: 1599–1629  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Michel, à la conciergerie du palais’  Biography: He was godfather to the son of the bookseller Marin Ysambart in 1599. A sworn bookseller of the university of Angers, he is known as a publisher for editions of the customs of Anjou published in partnership with other booksellers. His career seems to have been successful as he was able to invest in various properties. He died on 9 March 1629.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121, E 3113, H 774  References: Pasquier p. 176, Port II 491 Le Lacquest, see Budier, François 1674.  Lelarge, Colas  Active: 1484–1484  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir 1 E 84 1675.  Le Libertin  Active: 1596–1600  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This was a fictitious printer used by the author Guillaume Reboul in his Actes du synode de la sainte Reformation, a satirical attack on Protestant ministers of southern France. The tract was in fact printed by Jean II Gillet.  References: RB XXIV p. 30–31; Muller p. 53; Brunet p. 104

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Illustration 84 Device used by ‘Le Libertin’, 1597, USTC 75273

1676.  Le Lièvre, Jean  Active: 1567–1569  Name variations: Leporarius, Joannes  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Aux écoles’  Biography: He printed at the behest of the town of Bourges as well as for the local clergy and the university. He also seems to have worked initially as an engraver before becoming a bookseller and was described in 1568 as a master printer. He lived in the parish of Saint-Ursin and seems to have used the type of Jacques Garnier.  Motto: ‘Le parolle de Dieu demure eternellement’; ‘Verbum Domini manet in aeternum’  Documents: AD Cher E 2371 f. 161v; AM Bourges CC 344 p. 134–135  References: RB XIII p. 29–30; Jenny (Notes) p. 873 1677.  Leloing, Macé  Active: 1592–1618  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was probably originally from Paris. He married Jeanne Sappel and lived in the parish of Saint-Germain.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; Lepreux IV 93

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1678.  Le Lyonnois, Étienne  Active: 1522–1523  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: It is unclear whether ‘le Lyonnois’ was his name or simply an indication of provenance. He lived in the parish of Notre-Damela-Petite and died before 1552.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 262 1679.  Lemaire, Abraham  Active: 1582  Name variations: Le Maire, Abraham  Location: Calais, Picardy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single work on the movement of goods which no longer survives (USTC 80608).  References: RB IX p. 63; Muller p. 7; Lepreux I 125 1680.  Lemaire, Jacqueline  Active: 1579–1594  Name variations: Wassepasse, veuve Firmin I  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She was the wife of Firmin I Wassepasse, whom she succeeded at his death in 1579. More enterprising than her late husband, she acquired two extra stalls on the cathedral square in 1583, though she had relinquished them by 1594.  References: Labarre p. 47 1681.  Le Marchant, Jean  Active: 1536–1542  Name variations: Marchant, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le grand portail Saint Maclou, à l’enseigne des deux licornes’  Biography: It is possible he cut his own woodcuts as his books contain illustrations signed IM.

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 Commercial partners: John Growte (London); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 1150  References: Duff p. 98; Aquilon p. 307 1682.  Le Mareschal, Henri  Active: 1574–1622  Name variations: Mareschal, Henri  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le bon pasteur’ (1578); ‘Rue de l’horloge, devant le pélican’ (1593)  Biography: He married Perrette Mallard, the widow of the bookseller Florent Valentin and the daughter of Jean, in 1564. He became the master of the confraternity in 1598 and warden in 1605. He was one of the members of the trade who requested in 1603 that the rights of free movement of books conceded to the merchants of Lyon and Paris would also apply to Rouen. He was sued by Jacques Kerver for having falsified the latter’s device in 1579 and produced books of hours despite Kerver’s privilege. He published editions for the English Catholic market and generally had them printed without a date – perhaps to help their continued circulation. It seems unlikely, given his other editions, that he was responsible for the Genevan edition of the Protestant book of prayers that bears his name and the date 1566 (USTC 450133). He published some works in outmoded Gothic type and continued to be active until 1622.  Commercial partners: Jean I Crevel (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Robert Mallard (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485; BnF Fonds français 22128 n° 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 149; Gosselin p. 106; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 5987. 1683.  Le Marié, Antoine  Active: 1597–1635  Name variations: Marié, Antoine  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1597–1599); Évreux, Normandy (1600–1635)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue saint Denis’ (Évreux)

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 Biography: Having learnt his trade in Paris where he became a master printer, he had moved to Évreux by 1600 where he was named the official printer to the local bishop and became the town’s prototypographer.  Device: Silvestre n° 1232  Motto: ‘Je hante l’armonie’  References: RB XXVIII; Lepreux III 411; Renouard 259; Répertoire n° 5988. 1684.  Le Mercier, Mathurin  Active: 1588–1592  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la porte du change de l’église saint Martin’  Biography: Having started his career with three short octavos, he began undertaking more complex and substantial tasks, though the material at his disposal seems to have been limited and of poor quality.  References: RB XXIII p. 71–72; Répertoire n° 5991. 1685.  Le Merle, Gilles  Active: 1545  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter.  References: Claudin (2) p. 100 1686.  Le Merle, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 1687.  Le Mesgissier, Martin I  Active: 1542–1563  Name variations: Le Megissier, Martin; Le Mesguissier, Martin; Le Mesguicher, Martin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au haut des degrés du palais’

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 Biography: He married Madeleine Hommet, presumably the widow of Claude Le Roy, who died in 1572. He was the father of Martin II, Tassin and Alix, who married Martin de La Motte in April 1567. They resided in the parish of Saint-Jean. He started his career as a bookseller, becoming a publisher after 1548 and a printer after 1555. Until then, he relied on the presses of other members of the Rouen book world and in particular on that of Jean I Petit and his widow. Though he became the official printer to the king on 7 June 1557, he does not seem to have ever printed much himself: he never used the title ‘imprimeur’ and consistently called on other printers. Unusually for such a high profile member of the book trade, he appended a clumsy mark to documents instead of signing them, suggesting that he did not know how to write. He died in August 1563 at which point the stock, material and movable property of his workshop and home were estimated to be worth 1350 lt.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Aubin (Rouen); Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Jean Houdin (Rouen); Pierre I Hubault (Rouen); Robert de La Motte (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Martin L’Homme (Paris); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Marguerin d’Orival (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); veuve Jean I Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen); Florent Valentin (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 249; BaTyR n° 3072  Motto: ‘De bien en mieulx’  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AD SeineMaritime 2E1/411 p. 474, 2E1/418 p. 596, 2E1/419 p. 303, 2E/1/439 p. 156  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 98; Lepreux III 259; Répertoire n° 5998. 1688.  Le Mesgissier, Martin II  Active: 1562–1596  Name variations: Le Megissier, Martin; Le Mesguissier, Martin; Le Meguicher, Martin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher Illustration 86  Address: ‘Au haut des degrés du palais’; ‘Au Signature of Martin II Le Mesgissier, 1564, portail des libraires’ AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 439  Biography: He was the elder son of Martin I and the father of Martin III who began his career in his workshop (1588–1595). He lived in the parish of Saint-Lô. He was named

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official printer to the king by letters of 18 August 1563 which he had confirmed on 25 December 1574, then became a printer for the Catholic League. He bought books from the Plantin press for local distribution and had an unpaid debt in 1574. Unlike his father, he seems genuinely to have been a printer, even undertaking work for other members of the Rouen book trade. Overall, his production was nevertheless dominated by short pieces, and in particular royal edicts and ordinances. He died in 1597 at which time he had already ceased activity and had been succeeded by his son.  Commercial partners: Jacques du Puys (Paris); Pierre Laignel (Rouen); Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Jean Le Blanc (Paris); Nicolas Leroux (Paris); Thomas II Mallard (Rouen); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp); Pierre Regnault (Paris)  Motto: ‘De bien en mieulx’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 135, G 2286, G 3200, 2E/1/439 p. 156; MPM Antwerp Arch. 110 f. 283  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 98; Lepreux III 261; Répertoire n° 5999. 1689.  Le Mesgissier, Martin III  Active: 1588–1632  Name variations: Le Megissier, Martin; Le Mesguissier, Martin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au haut des degrés du palais’  Biography: He worked alongside his father Martin II until 1595 at which point he took over the latter’s workshop. He married Anne Prudhomme, who worked with him on his stall, before 1588. Like his father and grandfather, he became an official printer to the king thanks to letters obtained on 25 January 1595. He printed the same type of works as his father. He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1617 and 1628 and died in 1633. He was succeeded by his son, also named Martin, to whom he left his business in October 1632.  Commercial partners: Jean Crevel (Rouen); Raphaël du Petit-Val (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen)  Motto: ‘De bien en mieulx’  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6803  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 150; Gosselin p. 98; Lepreux III 263; Skora (Rouen); Répertoire n° 6000.

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1690.  Le Mesgissier, Tassin  Active: 1563–1588  Name variations: Le Megissier, Tassin; Le Mesguissier, Tassin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher Illustration 87 Signature of Tassin Le Mesgissier, 1564,  Address: ‘Au degrés du Palais’  Biography: He was the younger AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 439 son of Martin I and lived in the parish of Saint-Lo. He received one seventh of the movable goods of his father at his death, estimated to be worth 190 lt. As a publisher he is known for two short newsbooks on episodes of the Wars of Religion.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E/1/439 p. 156  References: Gosselin p. 100 1691.  Le Mesle, Denis  Active: 1529  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Apprentice printer  Biography: He was taken on by Simon du Bois as an apprentice for three years on 13 October 1529.  References: Lepreux III (2) 44 1692. Le Mesle, Pierre  Active: 1591–1602  Name variations: Le Melle, Pierre  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Françoise Gilbert with whom he had five children, one of whom, Mathieu, succeeded him at his death before 1622. He initially resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix before relocating to Saint-Evroult. He took on Gabriel Barbou as an apprentice on 24 October 1593.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 1  References: Pasquier p. 177; Port II 498 1693. Le Mire, Michel  Active: 1529  Name variations: Lemyre, Michel  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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1701.  Le Moyne, Pierre  Active: 1586–1607  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: He married Marsalle d’Aixe and was the father of Michel.  References: Guibert p. 31 1702.  Le Moyne, Sébastien  Active: 1580–1583  Location: Valence, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known through the sale of land in 1580 and for his presence for the inventory after death of a canon of Valence three years later.  Documents: AD Drôme E 2584  References: E. Las Combes, ‘La maison des têtes au 16me siècle’, Bulletin de la Société d’archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme, XVII (1883), 153–163 1703.  Le Muy, Jean  Active: 1537–1550  Name variations: Le Mid, Jean  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was also a haberdasher who sold tin. Of Protestant faith, his belongings were seized for having disobeyed the edicts on religious matters in 1537. He was banished but returned only to be arrested again in 1550 and decapitated in July of that year.  Documents: AD Doubs B 2020  References: Febvre p. 134 & 148 1704.  Lenclume, C.  Active: 1574  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A fictitious printer who had supposedly printed a satirical publication (USTC 61720).  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 50 1705.  Le Noble, Jean  Active: 1590–1596

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 Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre-Dame’  Biography: He was a representative of the printers and booksellers of Troyes in 1592. He was a wealthy bookbinder who was taxed the considerable sum of 6 lt in 1591. He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. As a publisher he was known for editions of newsbooks copied on editions given in Lyon or Paris.  Commercial partners: Michel Sonnius (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 238  Documents: AM Troyes A 24 p. 2, F 272  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 90; Troyes p. 111; Corrard de Breban p. 49; Lepreux II 143; Turquois p. 353 1706.  Lenoir, Jean  Active: 1524–1535  Location: Nevers, Nivernais (1524 and 1535); La Charité-sur-Loire, Nivernais (1535)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne saint Roch rue de la saveterie’ (Nevers); ‘Près la halle à l’enseigne saint Jacques’ (La Charité-sur-Loire)  Biography: He was initially a bookseller in Nevers, commissioning works in Paris and selling stationery to the local municipality. However, by 1535, he was described as living in La Charité though he seems to have also kept his shop in Nevers.  Commercial partners: Josse Bade (Paris); Nicolas Higman (Paris)  Documents: AM Nevers CC 106  References: Muller p. 14 & 55; RB III p. 83 & XVIII p. 53 1707.  Le Noir, Macé  Active: 1589–1601  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Noëlle Pichon, the daughter of a local baker, on 25 July 1589. They lived in the parish of Saint-Aignan. In 1601 he admitted that he owed 90 lt for books sent to him over several years by the Parisian publisher Nicolas Bonfons.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Bonfons (Paris)  References: Feyel p. 719

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1708.  Le Noir, Olivier  Active: 1544–1545  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned to death by the Parlement of Paris on 2 January 1544/5 for heresy and the possession of forbidden books.  Documents: AN X/2a 97  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 183 1709.  Lenouvel, Pierre  Active: 1520  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Jeanne Dargny on 3 July 1520 and lived in the parish of Saint-Martin-sur Renelle.  References: Gosselin p. 77; Lepreux III 267 1710.  Le Nud, Guillaume  Active: 1519  Name variations: Nudi, Guillelmus  Location: Castres, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Rouen, he is known for having commissioned an edition printed in Toulouse by Jean Faure.  Commercial partners: Jean Faure (Toulouse)  References: RB XVIII p. 37; Muller p. 12; Kolb 382 1711.  Lenud, Jean  Active: 1522–1565  Name variations: Lenu, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près les cordeliers’  Biography: He married Perrette Bénard, daughter of Guillaume I, then Françoise Boury. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne-des-Tonneliers.  References: Gosselin p. 66 & 81; Beaurepaire p. 398; Aquilon p. 307 1712.  Le Page, Claude  Active: 1589  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: Originally from Besançon, he became an inhabitant of Dole in 1589.  References: Franche-Comté p. 76. 1713.  Le Page, François  Active: 1575–1595  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, illuminator, publisher  Address: ‘Près saint Michel, rue du pont-à-joubert’ (1578–1579); ‘Près saint Martial, rue de Saint-Savin’ (1580); ‘Près les cordeliers’ (1582–1591)  Biography: First and foremost a printer, he might also have been a scribe and illuminator. He was the official printer to the king, then printer for the League and also worked for local ecclesiastical institutions. He obtained in 1576 a general privilege for all the liturgical works to be printed for the dioceses of Poitiers, Luçon and Maillezais. He used the device of Nicolas Logeroys in 1581, and that of Nicolas II Pelletier between 1590 and 1592. He also printed for Barthelémy Moriceau of Limoges. He no longer published under his own name after 1592, though he was still active in 1595.  Commercial partners: Gabriel Buon (Paris); Barthelémy Moriceau (Limoges)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XVII & XVIII  Documents: AD Vienne G 1597  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 113–116; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 214; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 495; Répertoire n° 6016. 1714. Le Page, Louis  Active: 1564  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Paul’  Biography: He was arrested for the homicide of the son of a local notary on 14 February 1564, fined 140 lt and banished from the city on 12 May.  Documents: AM Besançon BB 29 f. 280 & 303 1715.  Le Paige, Guillaume  Active: 1543  Name variations: Le Page, Guillaume  Location: Alençon, Normandy

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jacquine Boullant and rented part of a house close to the ‘Barre’ gate.  References: Despierres p. 10 1716.  Lepal, Étienne  Active: 1490–1491  Location: Chartres, Orléanais (1490); Paris, Île-de-France (1491)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was involved in the distribution of a breviary for the use of Chartres. By 1491 he had left and settled in Paris.  Commercial partners: Michel Chalot (Chartres)  References: Jusselin p. 5; Feyel p. 697 1717.  Le Paveur, Adam  Active: 1500  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  References: Labarre p. 43 1718.  Le Paveur, Léon  Active: 1550–1559  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Ysabeau Tarisel, but the marriage was a difficult one and by her death in 1550, she was described as divorced.  References: Labarre p. 43 1719.  Le Paveur, Pierre  Active: 1509–1538  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près de la porte sainte Marie’  Biography: He commissioned works of local interest from workshops situated in Paris and Rouen. He had a stall on the cathedral square from 1511 until 1535 at which point it was taken over by Michel Wassepasse. He furnished books and stationery to local institutions and also undertook binding work. As a publisher, he worked with printers from Paris and Rouen, mainly commissioning editions for the local Church.

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 Commercial partners: Raoul Cousturier (Paris); Guillaume des Plains (Paris); Jean de la Porte (Paris); Nicolas Le Caron (Amiens); Didier Maheu (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen)  References: RB IX p. 8, Labarre p. 42 1720. Le Peltier, Louis  Active: 1545  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was godfather to the son of the bookseller Julien Longuayne in 1545.  References: Pasquier p. 177; Port II 502 1721.  Lepelletier, Nicolas  Active: 1559–1560  Name variations: Pelletier, Nicolas  Location: Autun, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Bonnemère who succeeded him after his death. In 1560 he rented a small room near the cathedral. The Nicolas Lepelletier born in Autun who became a journeyman printer in Paris and, in 1575, in Burgos was probably his son.  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 209  References: Charmasse p. 315; Abord p. 282 Le Petit, see Le Febvre, Nicolas 1722.  Le Picard, Jean  Active: 1579  Location: Saint-Flour, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 179 1723.  Le Plat, Gabriel  Active: 1545–1575  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Marie de Tours and was the father of Noëlle, who married the bookseller Gratien Certain. He was godfather to

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Gratien and Noëlle’s daughter in 1575. He was described as a bookseller of the university of Nantes. He obtained with Mathurin Papolin a privilege in 1555 for all liturgical books for the use of the diocese of Nantes from the Breton Parlement. Despite the remit, only one work of this type survives (USTC 196790). This must, however, have been a worthwhile venture since in 1559 he submitted a request with other Nantes booksellers to have the exclusive right to print and sell the decisions of the court, replacing Philippe Bourgoignon as the official printer to the Parlement. He also furnished the court with printed books and stationery.  Commercial partners: Julien Dies (Nantes); Nicolas Garnier (Nantes); Jean Le Blanc (Paris); Mathurin Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 5 n° 1, 1 Bf 1588 f. 11r, 97v & 166r; AD Loire-Atlantique G 147  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 255; Granges de Surgères n° 54 Leporarius, Joannes, see Le Lièvre, Jean 1724.  Le Prest, Jean I  Active: 1531–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Telliers’ Illustration 88  Biography: Referred to as Signature of Jean I Le Prest, 1554, AD ‘l’aîné’, he married Marion Seine-Maritime 2E1 409 Pain and resided in the parish of Saint-Patrice before relocating to Saint-Vivien. An active printer, he worked for a wide variety of other members of the book trade, publishing himself a few small brochures. In 1560, he was associated to the Parisian bookseller Jean Dallier with whom he worked on the production of edicts on the circulation of coins – he was to have engravings made in the likeness of the coins and the profits were to be split between the two. He bought type from Pierre Hubault for 16.3 lt in October 1554. His use of vine leaf ornaments led to one being named after him.  Commercial partners: Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Jean Dallier (Paris); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Pierre I Hubault (Rouen); Robert Le Houé (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Thomas I Mallard (Rouen); Jean Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen); Florent Valentin (Rouen); Robert I Valentin (Rouen)

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 Motto: ‘Spes mea Deus’  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 19, 44, 110, 132, 133, 173 & 188  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2550, G 2633, 2E1/409 p. 91, 2E1/410 p. 95; AN Minutier Central étude VIII carton 86  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 92; Duff p. 91; Lepreux III 268; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 6026. 1725.  Le Prest, Jean II  Active: 1579  Name variations: Prest, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman printer  References: Gosselin p. 116 1726.  Le Prévost, Guillaume  Active: 1490–1514  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The father of Jean, they shared a stall on the cathedral square between 1507 and 1514.  References: Pouy p. 201, Labarre p. 42 1727.  Le Prévost, Jean  Active: 1507–1514  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of Guillaume, they shared a stall on the cathedral square between 1507 and 1514. It is unclear whether he was related to his homonym active in Rouen thirty years later.  References: Pouy p. 201, Labarre p. 42 1728.  Le Prévost, Jean  Active: 1543–1544  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for having printed for the cathedral.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 132  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 269 1729.  Le Pryme, Jean  Active: 1559–1604

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 Name variations: Le Prime, Jean  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la poterie’ (1559); ‘Place Ferry’ (1594)  Biography: A Protestant, he married Marie du Pray and was a burgher of Saint-Lô. Despite his Protestantism, he also worked with Catholic booksellers in Rouen but they found it difficult to keep him to his obligations and in 1566 sent a representative to make him honour a contract passed five years earlier – presumably for stock. He seems to have been a successful businessman and by the end of the century owned land in Saint-Fromond.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Thomas II Mallard (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/446 f. 29v  References: Lepingard p. 27 1730.  Le Rebours, Richard  Active: 1538–1559  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1538–1559); Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Saint-Lô, he fled to Geneva in September 1559.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 4853  References: RIECH 1731.  Lermangier, Jean  Active: 1539–1546  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au parquet de la cour de Rennes’ (1539–1540)  Biography: He maintained commercial connections with Paris and represented Jacques Kerver’s interests in Brittany in 1540.  Commercial partners: Georges Cleray (Rennes); Galliot du Pré (Paris); Jean Georget (Rennes); Jacques Kerver (Paris); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes)  Documents: AN Minutier Central, étude LXXIII carton 1  References: RB XIX p. 57; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 256 1732.  Lermynat, François  Active: 1595

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 Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274 1733.  Le Roi, Théophile  Active: 1580–1589  Name variations: Regius, Theophilus  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He used different typographical ornaments instead of devices on the title pages of his imprints.  References: RB XVI p. 51; Muller p. 95–96 1734.  Le Rouge, Guillaume  Active: 1489–1517  Name variations: Rubeus, Gulielmus  Location: Chablis, Champagne (1489); Troyes, Champagne (1491–1506); Paris, Île-de-France (1506–1517)  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue, devant la belle croix’ (Troyes)  Biography: The son of Pierre, he worked for the Parisian printer Guy Marchant. He also reused the device (Polain n° 203) of Jean du Pré. He published mainly works in French aimed at entertaining the reader. He returned to Paris probably in 1506 where he took over his father’s workshop and finished printing his first work in January 1507. He was most likely the owner of the binding plaques signed with his initials.  Device: Silvestre n° 556; Polain n° 12, 202 & 203; Meyer n° 8; TW ma03592 & ma03600  Types: TW ma03590–ma03591, ma03595–ma03599, ma12736–ma12738; Jennings p. 242  References: Troyes p. 112; Corrard de Breban p. 50; Skora (Langres); Renouard p. 271; Lepreux I 347 & II 146; TW of0348 & of1483; Robert (Le Rouge) p. 28; Gid & Laffitte n° 37, 133, 134, 236; Monceaux II 1; Répertoire n° 6039. 1735.  Le Rouge, Jacques  Active: 1472–1490  Name variations: Rubeus, Jacobus

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 Location: Venice, Italian States (1472–1478); Pinerolo, Italian States (1478–1485); Embrun, Dauphiné (1489–1490)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The eldest of the family, Pierre and Jean were his brothers. He married a Pierrette. Originally from the diocese of Langres, he journeyed to Venice where he initially learnt how to print in the workshop of his compatriot Nicolas Jenson before setting up his own business. As a printer, he adopted the type created by Jenson. He later sought to develop his shop in the less competitive surroundings first of Pinerolo and then of Embrun in Dauphiné.  Types: TW ma03627–ma03633  References: TW of0355; Robert (Le Rouge) p. 27; Billioud p. 269; Monceaux I 23 1736.  Le Rouge, Jean  Active: 1483–1486  Name variations: Rubeus, Joannes  Location: Chablis, Champagne (1483); Troyes, Champagne (1483–1486)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the brother of Jacques and Pierre and resided in the ‘conestablie Oudinot’. He was Troyes’s prototypographer. It has been suggested that he learnt his trade in Venice. He published books of hours and breviaries and is thought to be also a calligrapher, illuminator and engraver. Monceaux speculated that he was active in the workshop of his brother Pierre in Chablis and then alone in Troyes in 1483 on the basis of the type used. He also suggested that Jean left Troyes to work with Pierre in Paris, though there is no proof of this move.  Commercial partners: Pierre Le Rouge (Chablis); Antoine Vérard (Paris)  Types: TW ma03587–ma03589, ma03593–ma03594  References: Lepreux II 144; Turquois p. 352; TW of0347 & of1482; Robert (Le Rouge) p. 28; Monceaux I 105 1737.  Le Rouge, Nicolas  Active: 1496–1532  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande-rue, à l’enseigne de Venice, auprès de la BelleCroix’; ‘En la grande-rue, à l’enseigne de Saint-Jean-l’évangéliste, auprès de la Belle-Croix’

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 Biography: The start of his career is traditionally given as 1496, though the printer is not named in the colophon that bears this date (GW M35455) and most of his imprints are undated. His relationship to the rest of the Le Rouge is unclear, though Monceaux believed that he was Jacques’s son. He could be the same person as the Nicolaus Rubeus active as printer in Venice in 1479 (TW of0057), but the type he used in Troyes was very different. He replaced his first known Troyes type in 1515 with new Gothic material acquired in Paris from the printer Symphorien Barbier. He was a controversial printer: despite having already been condemned for printing a work contrary to the Catholic faith, he was once more arrested and sentenced in 1521 for having published superstitious texts. Half of the print run had by then already been sold to a Franciscan friar who ensured the edition’s subsequent dissemination. Le Rouge was ordered to burn all remaining copies.  Commercial partners: Symphorien Barbier (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 291; Meyer n° 186  Motto: ‘Mon [cœur] a Dieu’; ‘Mater Dei memento mei’  Types: TW ma03601–ma03603  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/1; AD Aube G 4195 f. 55r & 84v  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 22–24; Troyes p. 113; Corrard de Breban p. 50; Coyecque I p. 43; Lepreux II 151; Turquois p. 352; TW of1481; Morin (Troyes) p. 21; Robert (Le Rouge) p. 29; Socard & Assier p. 21; Monceaux II 177; Renouard p. 21 1738.  Le Rouge, Pierre  Active: 1478–1507  Name variations: Rubeus, Petrus  Location: Chablis, Burgundy (1478–1485); Paris, Île-de-France (1488– 1507)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The father of Guillaume, he was also probably Jacques and Jean’s brother. He initially printed in Chablis and his first works betray the fact that he was still learning his art as they present a relatively chaotic placement of signatures and the absence of line justification. He left for Paris, becoming an important figure in the city’s book trade. He was the first official printer to the king and seems to have been active until 1507. He was also a scribe and an engraver.  Commercial partners: Jean Le Rouge (Chablis)  Device: Silvestre n° 45 & 401

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 Types: TW ma01377  References: Skora (Langres); Renouard p. 270; TW of0346; Robert (Le Rouge) p. 28; Ribière p. 7; Monceaux I 93; Répertoire n° 6041. 1739.  Le Rous, Nicolas  Active: 1557  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for two editions of Pierre de Ronsard’s works in 1557 (USTC 30271 & 92516). These were in fact printed by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp.  References: M. Sabbe, ‘Plantin et les Amours de Ronsard’, De Gulden Passer, II (1924), 110–115. 1740.  Le Roux, Marin  Active: 1482–1519  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He was first named as one of the illuminators of the university of Caen on 14 December 1476 before becoming one of their bookbinders in 1482.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxviii–cxxix 1741.  Le Roux, Mathurin  Active: 1585–1609  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais royal, entre les merciers’ (1585–1587); ‘En la grande rue’ (1590–1599)  Biography: During the troubles of the Catholic League, he printed a number of tracts asserting Henry’s IV authority.  References: RB XXVIII p. 113; Répertoire n° 6046. 1742.  Le Roux, Michel  Active: 1493  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  References: Beaurepaire p. 395

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1743.  Le Roux, Nicolas  Active: 1530–1557  Name variations: Ruffus, Nicolaus  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue de l’eau de robec’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien, in the ‘rue de Ruissel’. He was responsible for at least 40 imprints of various formats and content, virtually systematically produced at the request of other members of the book trade. He acquired Roman type that he began using in the 1540s, though he continued to employ his Gothic material for certain types of works, such as those destined for the clergy. He seems to have acquired the woodcut ornaments used by the Goupil workshop. He worked extensively for publishers either based in England or seeking to sell their editions there.  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Galliot du Pré (Paris); John Growte (London); Jean Le Marchant (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Claude Le Roy (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes); René Montel (Angers); François Regnault (Paris); Jacques Regnault (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen); André Roffet (Paris); Robert I Valentin (Rouen); Edward Whitchurch (London)  Device: Silvestre n° 1184  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 44 & 72  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII; AN Minutier central étude MCXLI 21  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 97; Duff p. 92; Lepreux III 272; Aquilon p. 307; Girard p. 496; Répertoire n° 6047. 1744.  Le Roy, Claude  Active: 1533–1548  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au haut des degrés du Palais’  Biography: He married Madeleine Hommet, who worked with him on his stall next to the parlement, and lived in the parish of Saint-Lô. His wife survived him and married Martin I Le Mesgissier. As a publisher, he was mainly involved in the production of short pieces.

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 Commercial partners: Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jean I Mallard (Rouen); Nicolas Nystel (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris); Jacques Regnault (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Paris); André Roffet (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 3  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 92; Aquilon p. 306; Skora (Rouen); Répertoire n° 6052. 1745.  Le Roy, Fantin  Active: 1544  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 504 1746.  Le Roy, Jean  Active: 1481–1483  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Jean Le Roy and Jeanne de La Motte and married Marion Dubois, the widow of a baker on 14 August 1481 with a dowry of 150 écus. He studied law at university. No known work is attributed to Le Roy.  References: Jarry 1747.  Le Roy, Jean  Active: 1509–1553  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au carrefour de la rue Saint-Aubin et de la place Sainte-Croix, à l’enseigne de la licorne’  Biography: He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix. A sworn bookseller to the university of Angers, he indicated in 1553 that he owned the ‘hostellerie de la licorne’. The bookseller Jean Huchelou was his daughter’s godfather in 1540, whilst Le Roy was godfather to the son of the bookseller Jean I Elis that same year.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Mathurin Amat (Angers); Jean Arnoul (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers)  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121  References: RB XXVI; Pasquier p. 177; Mérimée IA49005624; Port II 506

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1748.  Leroy, Léon  Active: 1589  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne de Chynon and had a daughter named Isabelle. They lived in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 296 1749.  Le Roy, Sauvat  Active: 1544  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 505 1750.  Le Royer, Macé  Active: 1522–1525  Name variations: Rahier, Macé  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121 1751.  Lescot, Jean  Active: 1552  Location: Rouen, Normandy; Chartres, Orléanais (1552)  Role: Bookseller, pedlar  Address: ‘Rue Beauvoisine’ (Rouen)  Biography: He was originally from Meylan near Grenoble but moved to Rouen where he began his career as a bookseller. There, he resided in the parish of Saint-Godard. However, by 1552 he had left Rouen in order to sell books as a pedlar in the Orléanais.  References: Jusselin p. 10 1752.  Lescure, Barthelémy  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1753.  Lescuyer, Claude  Active: 1551–1573

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 Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1551–1572); Montluel, Burgundy (1572–1573)  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Angoulême, he fled to Geneva in August 1551 and was still there in 1572. He worked for Jean Crespin in Geneva then in Montluel for Sébastien Jaquy (1570) and Charles Pesnot (1572). He is thought to have also used the pseudonym François Nierg and an address in Antwerp in 1573 to publish an edition of Rabelais’s works.  Commercial partners: Jean Crespin (Geneva); Sébastien Jaquy (Montluel); Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: RIECH; Cappellen NRB 67 1754.  Lescuyer, Guillaume  Active: 1549–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the quarter of Saint-Sernin and was in partnership with Pierre d’Albi and Jean Regis.  Commercial partners: Pierre d’Albi (Toulouse); Jean Regis (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (2) p. 106 1755.  Lescuyer, Nicolas  Active: 1574–1626  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1574–1585); Paris, Île-de-France (1596– 1626)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’aître Notre Dame à la prudence’, ‘près le grand portail Notre Dame’ (1561), ‘rue aux juifs, à la prudence’ (Rouen); ‘rue Saint Jacques à l’écu d’argent’ (Paris)  Biography: The son of a Parisian bookseller, he married Marie Gruzon with whom he had two sons, Sébastien and Claude. He served his apprenticeship in Rouen. He was a bookseller there until at least 1585 before leaving for Paris. He published there in 1596, but was sentenced to repeat his apprenticeship in Paris, finally opening his own shop in 1597–1598. He remained active there until 1626 as a bookseller to the royal court. In Rouen, he signed a contract with a local merchant, Nicolas Vassel, in order to import books from Paris and Lyon and export his own production. By 1579 he was seemingly well integrated into the local book world as he was chosen as warden of the

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corporation of booksellers and printers. In 1587 he visited Antwerp to buy books for resale in France contracting a considerable debt that he had difficulty paying off, still owing a large sum in 1590. In his editions, he published mainly a mix of literary and religious works, adopting an ornate frame for his light-hearted texts seemingly to differentiate them from the more serious works. He reprinted many editions that had proven successful earlier in the century, such as joyous sermons.  Commercial partners: Abel Langelier (Paris); Robert Maudhuy (Arras); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Device: Silvestre n° 986  Documents: BnF Fonds français. 21872, 22064; AD Seine-Maritime G 4398  References: Muller p. 96–103; Renouard (Documents) p. 175; Gosselin p. 116; Pallier (Normandie) p. 257; Renouard p. 276; Baudrier VI 425; Aquilon p. 307; Balsamo & Simonin p. 461. 1756. Le Sellier, Jessé  Active: 1561–1566  Name variations: Sellier, Jessé  Location: Rouen, Normandy Illustration 89 Signature of Jesse Le Sellier, 1565, AD (1561); Dieppe, Normandy Seine-Maritime 2E1 443 (1565–1566)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Rouen, he began a career as a carpenter but having converted to Protestantism he fled to Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant of the town in 1557. He retrained as a bookseller in the city, at some point leaving for his home town where he was living in the parish of Saint-Herblanc in 1561. There, described as a merchant, he bought stock with Jean des Planches from the Parisian bookseller Robert Breart who sourced books in Geneva. As a publisher, he is only known for a newsbook on Florida published in 1566 (USTC 12060). Using the compositorial habits and type habitually found in Lyon at the time, it was nevertheless produced locally. The imprint shares the same ornate initials and material as the anonymous edition of the same text (USTC 34872), as well as other Norman editions.  Commercial partners: Robert Breart (Paris); Jean des Planches (Rouen)  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 184  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/433 p. 247, 2E1/443 f. 3v  References: RB XXVIII p. 51

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1757.  Leseurre, Claude  Active: 1579–1589  Name variations: Lescurre, Claude  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Boisseau with whom he had a son, Daniel, and later married Jeanne Gaultreau. He was able to set up a stall close to the parlement for an annual rent of 54 sous in 1583, a stall that he handed on to his son in 1589.  Documents: AD Vienne C 306, 4 E 24/19  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 289; Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 504 1758.  Leseurre, Daniel  Active: 1589–1597  Name variations: Le Sevré, Daniel  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Claude, who gave him his stall leading to the parlement in 1589. He married the daughter of his father’s second wife, Ester Dreux, with the considerable dowry of 200 écus.  Documents: AD Vienne 4 E 24/19  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 290; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 504 1759.  Leseurre, Jean  Active: [1545]  Name variations: Serre, Jean; Seurre, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had died before 1548.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 277 1760.  Lesmont, Antoine  Active: 1521–1531  Name variations: Limont, Antoine; Leymon, Antoine; Beaumont, Antoine; Lasmons, Antoine; Laimon, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais du parlement’

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 Biography: Administrator (bayle) of the corporation of booksellers in 1524. He seems to have shared a stall with Marsal Bordes in 1525. As a publisher he concentrated on legal works. He died before 1533.  Commercial partners: Marsal Bordes (Toulouse); Laurent Carrière (Toulouse); Guillaume de Clauso (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 60; Claudin (1) p. 145; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 63 1761.  Lesourd  Active: 1577  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42 1762.  Lesourt, Martin  Active: 1522  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Loir-et-Cher G 339 1763.  L’Espine, Guillaume de  Active: 1480  Location: Brittany  Role: Itinerant bookseller  Biography: A travelling salesman, he worked for Guillaume Touzé, disseminating his books throughout lower Brittany for a stipend of 10 Breton livres. Touzé claimed to have given L’Espine books to the tune of at least 500 Breton livres. If Touzé’s account is to be believed, L’Espine was successful and sold a large number of books but refused to hand over the money he had made.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Touzé (Nantes)  Documents: AD Loire-Atlantique B 9 f. 180  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; Booton p. 227 1764.  Lesprit, Jean  Active: 1577–1579  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller

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 Biography: He worked with local ecclesiastical institutions and took on Robert Jabot as an apprentice for two years in 1579. The same year, he rented a shop in front of the cathedral from the chapter for nine years.  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Jadart (Reims) p. 108–109 1765. Lestrade, Béatrice de  Active: 1586–1594  Name variations: Raignac, veuve Géraud  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She married Géraud Raignac and took over his business at his death, probably in 1586. Her daughter, Bourguine, married the bookseller Antoine Chrestien on 15 October 1587. Lestrade signed a three-year profit-sharing agreement with her new son-in-law in which it was clearly stated that they would both be buying and selling books. At this point the stock was valued at just over 625 lt. This arrangement was clearly a success as the terms were renewed until 1594.  Commercial partners: Antoine Chrestien (Agen)  References: Marboutin p. 26 1766.  Le Sueur, Guillaume  Active: 1500  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was described in the registers of the university of Caen as ‘scriptor, religator et libraries’ though his official position in the institution was just that of ‘scriptor’.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiv 1767. Lesueur, Jean  Active: 1577–1578  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862 1768.  Le Talleur, Guillaume  Active: 1485–1491  Name variations: Letailleur, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Saint Lô, en face du prieuré’  Biography: A native of Rouen, he is considered to be the city’s prototypographer and lived in the parish of Saint-Lô. He was first and foremost a bookseller but was the first to install a press in his shop. Martin Morin worked for him as a journeyman until 1490 or 1491 at which point he took over the workshop. He was the first printer to identify the potential of the English market, publishing with Richard Pynson. Le Talleur worked with Jean I Du Pré and died in 1494.  Commercial partners: Jean I Du Pré (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Richard Pynson (London); Jean I Richard (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 86; Polain n° 188; Meyer n° 177; TW ma03742  Types: TW ma03722–ma03741  References: Gosselin p. 59; TW of0424; Duff p. 92; Lepreux III 276; Aquilon p. 306; Girard p. 491; Hellinga p. 216; Répertoire n° 6070. 1769.  Le Tasseur, Guillaume  Active: 1491  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is known for having sold a breviary to Charles VIII in 1491.  Documents: AN KK 76 f. 81  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; Renouard (Documents) p. 290 1770. Letellier, Jean  Active: 1519  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the son of Colin, who was not active in the trade, and lived in the parish of Saint-Denis. Lepreux believes him to be a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 77; Lepreux III 276 1771.  Le Tondu, Jean  Active: 1573–1579  Name variations: Tonsus, Joannes  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: Of Protestant faith, he married a woman named Catherine and later a Jeanne. It has been suggested that this name was used as a pseudonym by Simon Mangeant, but a Jean Le Tondu can be found in the registers of the protestant church of Caen several times between 1564 and 1571. The printer Henri Auber was godfather to one of his children (23 November 1566).  References: B. Normande p. 332; Lart 1772.  Letort, Jean  Active: 1494  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Gosselin p. 61 1773.  Letort, Michau  Active: 1521  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Montigny, he married Mariette.  Commercial partners: Louis Gaulmier (Alençon)  References: Despierres p. 9 1774.  Letort, Vincent  Active: 1554–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Gosselin p. 61 1775.  Le Tuyllier, René  Active: 1522–1523  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 262 1776. Leurens, Jean  Active: 1506–1510  Name variations: Laurens, Jean  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He had a stall close to the church of Saint-Leu. He seems to have had financial problems and was sued by two of the most important Rouen printers of the early sixteenth century, Martin Morin and Jacques Le Forestier, for neither returning nor paying for books he had received in 1509. The list he owed Martin was mainly, but not exclusively, formed of Rouen imprints, the largest quantities being books of hours. He also worked as a scribe, an illuminator and a stationer. He died that same year.  Commercial partners: Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen)  Documents: AM Amiens FF 33 f. 53v  References: Labarre p. 49 & 337 1777.  Leurens, Nicolas  Active: 1514–1555  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  References: Labarre p. 49 1778.  Le Vayr, Denis  Active: 1551–1554  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation; Meaux, Champagne (1551)  Role: Bookseller, pedlar  Biography: A Catholic priest, he converted to Protestantism and fled to Geneva where he became a bookseller. From there he brought books to sell in France. He was based in Meaux in 1551 but was arrested in 1554 and burnt for heresy.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 496  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) Le Vert, Paul, see Pollevert 1779.  Levez, Maurice  Active: 1594–1632  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près des grandes écoles’  Biography: He was the son of Nicolas and married Catherine Fortier. He was the official printer to the city of Bourges (1597) and worked

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alongside his mother, Jacqueline Cavellier, though he also published alone. Together they developed the workshop, investments for which they were indemnified by the town. He continued to be active in the trade until his death, probably in 1632. As a publisher he widened the scope of the output of the Levez press.  Commercial partners: Germain Lauverjat (Bourges)  Documents: AD Cher E 2439  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 43–44; Jenny (Levez) p. 5; Répertoire n° 6264. 1780.  Levez, Nicolas  Active: 1583–1594  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Grande rue Saint-Ursin’ (1585), ‘Près les grandes écoles’  Biography: He had married Jacqueline Cavellier and was the father of Maurice. He was the official printer to the university and to the city throughout his career, replacing Pierre Bouchier, and printed for the Catholic League as well as for local ecclesiastical institutions. This seems to have been the core of his activity though he also published juridical studies. He died in 1594.  Commercial partners: Germain Lauverjat (Bourges)  References: Muller p. 10; RB XIII p. 39–42; Jenny (Levez) p. 4 Lexert, Jean, see Exertier, Jean 1781.  Le Villain, Claude  Active: 1596–1648  Name variations: Villanus, Claudius  Location: Rouen, Normandy; Le Petit-Quevilly, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du bec, à la bonne renommée’  Biography: Of Protestant faith, he married Marie Adam on 15 October 1600. He was the official bookseller and bookbinder to the king. He is credited with having published the first Rouen periodical, the Courrier universel, in November 1631. He was buried on 27 April 1648, having died at approximately 77 years of age.  Device: Silvestre n° 1166  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 162; Aquilon p. 306; Gruel p. 110; Répertoire n° 6083.

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1782.  Leymous, Jean de  Active: 1494  Name variations: Leymoris, Jean de  Location: Tulle, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  References: Clément-Simon, p. 76 L’Hermite, see Cloet, Benoît 1783. Lhomme, Jean  Active: 1530–1545  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la chèvre, à l’enseigne du chêne’ (1540), ‘rue Saint Marc, devant le cheval blanc’ (1542)  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou and was the father of Martin who worked in Paris as a printer and bookseller. He used a modified version of Jean Alexandre’s device. His fifty known publications centered on newsbooks and the printing of facetious literature of simple, sometimes rudimentary, craftmanship. The popularity of his imprints is emphasised by the fact that on one occasion he reprinted the same tract within five days of his first edition. Lhomme certainly tabled on selling his books quickly, obtaining privileges for as short a period as fifteen days. The speed with which he ensured publication and his choice of material that reported only good tidings perhaps explained his tracts’ commercial success. He died before October 1552.  Commercial partners: Yves Gomont (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 299–306; RB VIII p. 45–52; Gosselin p. 94; Pettegree p. 26–33; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 6280. 1784. L’Huillier, Pierre  Active: 1561–1610  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1561–1588 & 1594–1610); Blois, Touraine (1588– 1589); Saint-Denis, Île-de-France (1590– 1594) Illustration 90 Signature of Pierre L’Huillier, 1585,  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He married Marie, the AN MC XXXIII 19 daughter of the printer Jean de Roigny, in 1565 in Paris where he developed his career as a bookseller and

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publisher. Despite his success, he left the city after the Day of the Barricades in 1588, joining the court in Blois. However, when other important Parisian figures moved on to Tours, he left instead for Saint-Denis where he seems to have set up his own printing workshop, printing tracts favourable to Henry IV. After the fall of Paris, he returned to the city where he became printer to the king, though he was already styling himself as a bookseller to the king during his stay in Saint-Denis.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Gomet (Blois); Jamet Mettayer (Blois)  References: RB XXIII p. 16 & 228; Muller p. 8 & 104; Porcher p. 81; Lepreux I 353; Répertoire n° 5532. Liège, Jean de, see Marnef, Jean I Lieury, see Yeury 1785. Lignhac, François  Active: 1554  Name variations: Lignac, François  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Condom, he was found carrying prohibited books back from Geneva to be sold on in Toulouse. He was arrested and burnt as a heretic.  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 39; B. Farmain de Rosoi, Annales de la ville de Toulouse (Paris: veuve Duchesne, 1772), III, p. 435. 1786. Ligot, Jean  Active: 1521  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Angelier with whom he had a son, Mathieu, who started an apprenticeship with an embroiderer in 1521.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/26  References: BVH Minutes 1787. Limet, Martin  Active: 1585–1586  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: He is known for two issues of a single edition of a legal text on taxation (USTC 21143 & 29204).  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 120; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 292 1788.  Linders, Louis  Active: 1484–1488  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (1) p. 5 1789.  Linocier, Guillaume  Active: 1587–1619  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1587–1589); Tournon, Languedoc (1587–1619)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Tournon, he married Marie Gaillard. He moved to Paris in order to enter the book trade before returning to his home town in 1587. There, he became the official bookseller to the local university, working with Claude Michel on a number of editions after 1589. His books were not just sold locally but were also available at the Frankfurt fair. His international standing was such that when the Protestant college of Nîmes sought to have a debt repaid by a German student, they entrusted him with the task.  Commercial partners: Pierre Landry (Lyon); Claude Michel (Tournon)  Documents: AD Gard E 629  References: Muller p. 113; La Perrière p. [171]; Répertoire n° 6324. 1790.  Lirey, Antoine de  Active: 1487–1488  Name variations: Liré, Antoine de  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Catherine ‘La Mangine’, and lived in the parish of Saint-Rémi.  Documents: AD Aube G 4217 f. 10v  References: Lepreux II 146; Turquois p. 352 1791.  Lize, Michel  Active: 1478–1514

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 Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Jean, a papermaker who had built the mill of Orange on the river Couesnon as early as 1440. He also played the role of a bookseller and stationer. The paper mill does not seem to have been a long-term success as in 1531 it was no longer in use.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; J. Duval, Moulins à papier de Bretagne du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Les papetiers et leurs filigranes en Pays de Fougères (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005), 78–79. 1792.  Loe, Hendrik van der  Active: 1563–1569  Name variations: Loe, Enrique; Loye, Henrique  Location: Antwerp, Low Countries (1563–1564); La Rochelle, Aunis (1564–1565); Zaragoza, Spain; Alcalá de Henares, Spain; Salamanca, Spain  Role: Printer  Biography: He was originally from Antwerp where he was born in around 1549. He learnt his trade first in the workshop of his uncle, Jan van der Loe, then with Pierre Bellère. He left Antwerp in 1564 or 1565 with his uncle Leonard, going initially to La Rochelle where he worked for six months in Barthélemy Berton’s workshop. Thereafter he moved on to Spain where he worked in a number of cities before being arrested by the inquisition in 1569.  References: Griffin p. 103 1793.  Loe, Leonard van der  Active: 1563–1566  Name variations: Loe, Leonardo  Location: Antwerp, Low Countries (1563–1564); La Rochelle, Aunis (1564–1565); Zaragoza, Spain; Alcalá de Henares, Spain; Salamanca, Spain  Role: Printer  Biography: He was originally from Antwerp, but left with his nephew, Hendrik, in 1564 or 1565. They initially went to La Rochelle where he worked for six months in Barthélemy Berton’s workshop. Thereafter he moved on to Spain where he worked in a number of cities before returning to Flanders, probably in 1566.  References: Griffin p. 103

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1794.  Logeart, Julien  Active: 1501–1509  Location: Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher, he is known for an edition of a missal for local use printed in Paris. He purveyed books to the Duke of Lorraine.  Commercial partners: Wolfgang Hopyl (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1001  References: Servais p. 84 1795.  Logerols, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274 1796.  Logeroys, Jean  Active: 1567  Name variations: Logerois, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is cited by Antoine du Verdier as having printed an edition of André de Rivaideau’s Aman, that only survives today in a version that features Nicolas Logeroys on the title page (USTC 60925). The variation in first name may well simply be a mistake.  References: Du Verdier p. 38 1797.  Logeroys, Michel  Active: 1589–1602  Name variations: Logerois, Michel  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher Illustration 91  Biography: He was perhaps related Signature of Michel Logeroys, 1595, to Nicolas Logeroys, active in Poitiers AD Ille-et-Vilaine C 2901 a few decades earlier. He succeeded Julien du Clos as printer to the king in Rennes where he also worked for the municipality and for the Parlement of Brittany. A prolific printer, he published a series of royalist tracts and ordinances during the wars of the Catholic League, attracting strong condemnation in Leaguer Nantes where his publications

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were tried by the local court and burnt. The high quality of his imprints, his type and the use of a diverse set of woodcut devices and ornaments suggest that he had accomplished his training in an important centre of print such as Paris.  Motto: ‘Spes mea Deus’  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 60 n° 148, C 2885, C 2901, C 2915  References: RB XIX p. 78–79; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 256; Lepreux IV 96; Répertoire n° 6347. 1798.  Logeroys, Nicolas  Active: 1552–1567  Name variations: Logerois, Nicolas  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Initially active as a bookseller, he is only known to have become a printer after 1562. He maintained a business relationship with the Genevan distributors of Protestant imprints. One of his devices (XIX) was later used by Aimé Mesnier, and the other (XVIII) by François Le Page. On a number of occasions, he copied editions that had previously been published in Paris.  Commercial partners: Pierre Blondeau (Geneva); Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XVIII & XIX  Motto: ‘Spes alit agricolas’  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 483–484  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 99–100; Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie); La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 189 1799.  Lohyer, Jean  Active: [1507]  Location: Dinan, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition of the local synodal statutes published with the local bookseller Laurent Fournier (USTC 186622).  Commercial partners: Laurent Fournier (Dinan); Antoine Bonnemère (Paris)

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1800.  Lointier, Denis  Active: 1563–1621  Name variations: Loinctier, Denis  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Nicole Champeaux and lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes. He died in 1621.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353 1801.  Lointier, Michel I  Active: 1518–1572  Name variations: Loinctier, Michel; Loistier, Michel; Lorentier, Michel  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue, près la belle croix’  Biography: He married a woman named Jeanne with whom he had at least one daughter. They resided in the Comporté quarter of the city and had in 1563 a servant, the sign of some social standing. His long career was marked by success as by 1546, he was one of the wealthiest booksellers in Troyes. He participated in the procession organised to celebrate the entry of the queen into the city in 1533.  Commercial partners: Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Jean II Le Coq (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas I Trumeau (Troyes)  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 233, F 235, F 236, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 353; Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 28; Troyes p. 119; Corrard de Breban p. 54; Lepreux II 155; Morin (Troyes) p. 314; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279. 1802.  Lointier, Michel II  Active: 1570–1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: His career overlapped that of Michel I, but unlike his namesake he struggled and in 1573 he was considered by the municipality to be too poor to pay taxes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281. 1803.  Loiseau, René

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 Active: 1534  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 18 1804.  Lombard, Georges  Active: 1593–1612  Name variations: L’Ombart, Georges  Location: Langres, Champagne (1593–1598); Paris, Île-de-France (1597–1612)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He married Jeanne Rossel and was, in 1594, the father of Guiette. They resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre. Contrary to what is asserted by Jean-Marie Arnoult in the Répertoire bibliographique, his career seems to have started in Langres where he was described as a bookseller and a bookbinder in the now burnt accounts of the city for 1593. However, by 1597 he had opened a shop in Paris, though seemingly kept his Langres address for a while as well, as is suggested by the title page of a refreshed edition initially printed by Abel Rivery in Sedan in 1595 (USTC 16781). Renouard gives him as still active in 1619, but he died in 1612 and his books were sold on behalf of his children thanks to an agreement between fellow booksellers Gilles Robinot and Toussaint Dubray.  Motto: ‘Ne me touche point’  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXIII 245 f. 185  References: Skora (Langres); RB XVII 48; Daguin & Frionnet p. 172; Renouard p. 283 1805.  Lombard, Louis  Active: 1532–1564  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc (1532); Montpellier, Languedoc (1564)  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: He worked for Léonard Daviot in 1532. By 1564, he seems to have relocated to Montpellier where he married in the Protestant temple in 1564. He had a daughter named Marthe who married in 1592.  References: Clerc 1806.  Lombry, Thomas  Active: 1585

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 Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Antoine Poulain (Nîmes); Antoine Tardif (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 366 1807.  Longuayne, Julien  Active: 1540–1545  Name variations: Longuéne, Julien; Louquette, Julien  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Andrée with whom he had at least two children.  References: Pasquier p. 177 & 178; Port II 538 Lorraine, Jean de, see Mauditier, Jean 1808.  Loré, Lézin  Active: 1566–1581  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’aiguillerie’  Biography: He was a sworn bookseller of the university of Angers. As a publisher, he is known only for an edition published in partnership with Antoine Hernault in 1580 (USTC 112288).  Commercial partners: Antoine Hernault (Angers)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 176; Port II 543 1809.  Loré, Philippe  Active: 1531–1539  Name variations: Laureus, Philippe; Laurey, Philippe  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the verger of the nation of Lorraine at the university of Orléans. A close friend of Jean Calvin, he had the reformer’s commentary of Seneca’s De clementia printed in Paris – Calvin paid for the edition. Théodore de Bèze was godfather to his son, also named Philippe, on 8 August 1539.  Commercial partners: Louis Blaubloom (Paris)  References: RB X p. 16; Ridderikhoff et al. II p. xxix; Calviniana II 1099

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1810.  Lorin, Pierre  Active: 1478–1498  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was initially described as a scribe, but after 1493 solely as a bookseller.  References: Jusselin p. 5 Lostingue, Bertrand, see Hostingue, Bertrand 1811.  Louarn, Jean  Active: 1579–1583  Name variations: Le Louarn, Jean  Location: Morlaix, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Pettine Pennesen and lived in the parish of Saint-Mathieu. The bookseller Bernard de Léau was godfather to his daughter Anne in 1579. He sourced his books in Paris from where Robert Le Fizelier sent him volumes.  Commercial partners: Robert Le Fizelier (Paris)  Documents: AD Finistère E 739  References: Le Guennec 1812.  Loup, Julien  Active: 1524–1550  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  Commercial partners: Pierre Rigault (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 507 1813.  Loutne, Pierre de  Active: 1515  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Originally from Auzeville, near Toulouse, he was an apprentice to Jean Grandjean in 1515.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83

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1814.  Loys, Jamet  Active: 1499–1515  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Près le marché neuf’ (1505); ‘Rue Boutyhard’  Biography: He was probably from Almenêches in the Orne and was the son of Étienne. He married Chrestienne de Meslus who was given a house by the bookseller Guillaume Jouenne at that occasion. He borrowed money from Guillaume Jouenne and Nicolas I Mullot. He printed with Laurent Hostingue and Jean Mauditier circa 1500 and just with Hostingue in 1503–1505. After the latter’s departure for Caen, Loys printed alone for other members of the Rouen book world, but never acted as a publisher himself. Gosselin suggested that he was ruined by his increasing debts.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Martin Coffyn (Exeter); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Guillaume Jouenne (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Richard Rogier (Morlaix)  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 91–92 & 139–144; Gosselin p. 64; Duff p. 95; Lepreux III 283; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6416. 1815.  Loyselet, François  Active: 1590  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for a single imprint executed for Thomas II Mallard (USTC 75358). He was undoubtedly the father of the Protestant printer Jean Loyselet who married the daughter of Michel Velquin in 1610 and was an active member of the Rouen book trade until his death in 1663.  Commercial partners: Thomas II Mallard (Rouen)  References: Mellot p. 164 1816.  Loyselet, Georges  Active: 1554–1609  Name variations: L’Oiselet, Georges; L’Oyselet, Georges; Loiselet, Georges  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Address: ‘Rue Martainville, au signot’  Biography: He seems mainly to have worked as a printer undertaking tasks for local booksellers. He was part of the group of printers that tried to prevent booksellers from housing presses in their shops in 1579. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1583. The quality of his output and the lower prices he charged attracted work from further afield which probably explains why he worked for the Parisian publisher Claude Micard (1573–1588). He was also a printer for the Catholic League. He printed material for the English market and worked with Robert Parsons. His reputation as a printer of Catholic texts was such that his name appeared as a false imprint on a London edition of Luis de Granada’s A memorial of Christian life (USTC 514025), perhaps by Valentine Simmes. He also published in Spanish. When he deemed it necessary, he resorted to the use of pseudonyms, employing the names ‘Jean Martin’ and ‘Pierre Estiart’ in Lyon when he undertook to print the works of Rabelais.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Romain Blondel (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Jean II Crevel (Rouen); Raphaël du Petit-Val (Rouen); Jean Froger (Rouen); Pierre Gaultier (Rouen); Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Henri Le Mareschal (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Martin III Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Thomas II Mallard (Rouen); Claude Micard (Paris); Robert Parsons (Rouen); Jacques Regnault (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 601  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 173  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489, G 136, G 7167  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 164; Lepreux III 284; Aquilon p. 307; Girard p. 499; Cappellen NRB 64, 66, 72–74; Répertoire n° 6418. 1817.  Loyselet, Nicolas  Active: 1593–1636  Name variations: L’Oiselet, Nicolas; L’Oyselet, Nicolas; Loiselet, Nicolas; L’Oselet, Nicolas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Au bout de la rue du bec’; ‘Au pont de robec, au heaume’  Biography: Pierre’s brother, he was godfather to the bookseller Pierre Valentin’s son on 26 September 1593. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1599 and again in 1611, 1620,

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1621 and 1627. He worked with his brother and shared the same material as Robert Féron. He died in 1636.  Commercial partners: Romain de Beauvais (Rouen); Thomas Daré (Rouen); Robert Féron (Rouen); Pierre Loyselet (Rouen)  References: Mellot p. 165; Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 286; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6420. 1818.  Loyselet, Pierre  Active: 1597–1635  Name variations: L’Oiselet, Pierre; L’Oyselet, Pierre; Loiselet, Pierre  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1597–1621); Rennes, Brittany (1622–1635)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au bout de la rue du bec’, ‘Au haut des degrés du palais’, ‘Au palais, contre la geôle, et au portail des libraires’, ‘Rue pigeon, près le pont de robec’ (Rouen); ‘Rue Saint-Germain, au nom de Jésus’ (Rennes)  Biography: He was Nicolas’s brother, with whom he worked on occasion, and married Bonne Serpin. After a long career in Rouen, he relocated to Rennes in 1622, though he kept his ties to his home city until the end of his career.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Loyselet (Rouen)  References: Mellot p. 165; Lepreux III 286; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6422. 1819.  Lucas, Jacques  Active: 1590–1635  Location: Orléans, Orléanais (1590); Paris, Île-de-France (1610–1635)  Role: Pedlar, publisher  Biography: He was responsible for an edition of a pamphlet printed for the Catholic League and published in Orléans which is only known thanks to a copy printed anonymously (USTC 19209). He later became a bookseller in Paris, where he had a shop from 1610. He died in 1635.  References: RB X p. 92; Renouard p. 286 1820.  Lucas, Jean  Active: 1514  Location: Quimper, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  References: Booton p. 235

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1821.  Lucas, Matthieu  Active: 1574–1585  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of François, who followed him into the trade. He declared that he did not know how to write. He resided in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. His son had succeeded him by 1601.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 503 1822.  Luce, Nicolas  Active: 1544–1573  Name variations: Lucon, Nicolas  Location: Lyon, Lyonnois (1544–1545); Troyes, Champagne (1552–1573)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘À la rue Notre Dame, devant la petite tannerie’  Biography: He married a woman named Catherine with whom he had at least four children. He began his career in Lyon where he was a journeyman printer, but by 1556 he had moved to Troyes where he lived in the Comporté quarter of the city. He remained a Catholic but declared in 1563 that he deferred to the king on matters of religion. He printed a privilege (USTC 12025) that asserted that it had been obtained in concertation with the Parisians Jean Dallier and Mathurin Breville as well as the Sens printer Gilles Richebois, though the Dallier and Breville editions do not feature the provincial publishers’ names. His device used a copy of the flaming salamander employed by the Senneton in Lyon, though he sometimes printed with the arms of France. He died before 1574 and was succeeded by his wife.  Commercial partners: Mathurin Breville (Paris); Jean Dallier (Paris); Gilles Richebois (Sens)  Device: Silvestre n° 474  Documents: AM Troyes F 233, F 235, F 236, F 247, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 39–41; Troyes p. 119; Lepreux II 157; Turquois p. 352; Morin (Ligue) p. 19; Baudrier I 251; Répertoire n° 6439. 1823. Luce, veuve Nicolas  Active: 1574–1578  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘À la rue notre Dame, devant la petite tannerie’

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 Biography: Known only by her first name, Catherine, she continued her husband’s business after his death and mainly published short editions of edicts and ordinances that she left undated.  References: Troyes p. 120; Lepreux II 157; Arbour p. 357; Morin (Ligue) p. 20; Répertoire n° 6440. 1824.  Lud, Nicolas  Active: 1507–1511  Location: Saint-Dié, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was the nephew of Vautrin. He took over his father’s position as secretary to duke René II of Lorraine in 1490. Closely associated to the Gymnasium Vosagense, he was at the head of the printer’s workshop that was active until financial difficulties led to the closure of the shop in 1511.  Device: Silvestre n° 202  References: Muller p. 104; RB IV p. 47–49; A. Ronsin, ‘Vautrin Lud, son frère et ses neveux, maîtres généraux des mines de Lorraine au XVIe siècle’, Pierres et terres, XXV (1982) 51–53; Ronsin (Saint-Dié) 1825.  Lud, Vautrin  Active: 1507–1511  Name variations: Gauthier Lud  Location: Saint-Dié, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in Saint-Dié in 1448, he was the uncle of Nicolas. He entered the clergy and became a canon of his home town in 1494. His family had long been in the service of Duke René II of Lorraine when he was named at the head of the ducal mines. He was a founding member of the Gymnasium Vosagense where he taught and set up his printing press alongside his nephew who looked after the press. Financial problems led them to abandon their printing program in 1511. He died in 1527.  Device: Silvestre n° 202  References: Muller p. 104; RB IV p. 47–49; Jacquot p. 16; Ronsin (Saint-Dié) 1826.  Ludot, Christophe  Active: 1548–1572  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He was related to the papermaker Jean Gouault. He lived in the Comporté quarter of Troyes and was considered to be the wealthiest bookseller in the city in 1548. Well-educated, he was described as knowing Greek. Having converted to Protestantism, his house was ransacked at the start of the Wars of Religion after he had fled the city, but he was later arrested in the aftermath of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and died in prison in 1572.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 1827.  Ludovici, Gérardan  Active: 1482  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was simultaneously active as a shoemaker and bookseller. He imported bales of books from Germany.  Commercial partners: Joannes Olsus (Mainz); Jean Sibert (Lyon); Petrus Winterlin (Holy Roman Empire)  References: Pansier I 153 1828.  Luppy, François  Active: 1537  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lent money to the journeyman bookseller Guillem Hyvernay in 1536.  Commercial partners: Guillem Hyvernay (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 401 1829.  Luquet, César  Active: 1579–1611  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the brother of Jacques and the son of Jean. A Protestant, Illustration 92 he married Isabelle Richard, the daugh- Signature of César Luquet, 1591, ter of a merchant – the marriage con- AD Gard 2 E 1 280 tract was dated 19 April 1584. He took on Claude Nicou as an apprentice in July 1584 who later went on to work in Antoine Gouzet’s shop. He witnessed the act that set up the

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first printing press in the city in 1579. He continued the success of his father’s enterprise, expanding his shop in 1592, lending money to the pastors of the local Protestant church as well as acquiring land. He passed a contract in 1591 to distribute the books sent to him by the Lyon publisher Thibault Ancelin in his shop and also stocked those sent to him by Jean Veyrat. He died on 11 May 1629.  Commercial partners: Thibault Ancelin (Lyon); Pierre Bernard (Lyon); Pierre Portier (Lyon); Jean Veyrat (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 1/280, 2 E 1/285, 2 E 1/291, 2 E 1/303, 2 E 36/374, 2 E 37/109 1830.  Luquet, Jacques  Active: 1584  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Of Protestant faith, he was the brother of César and the son of Jean. His will was dated 3 May 1584.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 37/110 1831.  Luquet, Jean  Active: 1537–1566  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1537); Nîmes, Languedoc (1544–1566)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Andrine (or Drinette) Minoris, the daughter of a notary, with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne, as well as two sons, César and Jacques, who followed him into the trade. He seems to have started his career in Paris where he published a tract as part of the Marot-Sagon exchange. However, as a committed Protestant, he left the city and settled in Nîmes where he was already active by 1544. There, he was able to develop his business, receiving Antoine Gouzet and Pierre Gilles as apprentices in his workshop. He became a bookseller of some standing, investing heavily in the refurbishment of his shop and becoming a member of the general and extraordinary council of the city of Nîmes in 1560. He also acquired land and vines. He published works for the local market, having the imprints printed in Avignon. He died before 4 January 1570.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Bonhomme (Avignon); Louis I Cloquemin (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gard 1 E 289, 2 E 36/298, 2 E 37/110, 2 E 1/232, 2 E 1/233

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 References: RB XXIV p. 42; Muller p. 56; Baudrier IV 40; Puech (Jaquy) p. 211 1832.  Lutier, François  Active: 1504–1508  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  References: Lançon p. 211 1833.  Lutier, Jacques  Active: 1498–1504  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  References: Lançon p. 210 1834.  Luysart, Jean  Active: 1515  Location: Avignon, Papal States (1515); Orange, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Printer  Biography: The brother of Michel, he was originally from Geneva. He was employed in the workshop of Jean de Channey in Avignon (1515) before establishing himself in Orange the same year.  Commercial partners: Jean de Channey (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 65 1835.  Luysart, Michel  Active: 1515  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer  Biography: The brother of Jean, he was originally from Geneva. He was employed in the workshop of Jean de Channey in Avignon.  Commercial partners: Jean de Channey (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 65 1836.  Lynant, Pierre  Active: 1518–1552  Name variations: Lignant, Pierre; Lignans, Pierre; Lignant, Pierre  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Paroisse Saint-Lô’ (1518), ‘Près l’église Saint-Nicolas’, ‘Au portail des libraires’, ‘Aux grands degrés’ (1552)  Biography: He was involved in a dispute with Louis Bouvet and Jean I Petit in 1527 over the publication of an antiphonary. His son, Martin, followed him into the trade and was a bookseller in Paris where he was found dead on 14 February 1546. Pierre collected his son’s personal belongings. A bookseller of some standing, he was able to give his daughter Françoise a dowry of 100 lt.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Gilles Hardouyn (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prevost (Paris); François Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 244, G 2155, G 4852, G 4853, G 4863; AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/11 f. 146, étude XXXIII/21 f. 335, 337  References: Gosselin p. 75–76 & 130; Beaurepaire p. 395; Aquilon p. 306 Lyon, Jean de, see Marie, Jean and Mottier, Jean 1837.  Lysée, Jean  Active: 1540–1583  Name variations: Lisée, Jean; Jean d’Angoulême; Lizée, Jean  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue de la Motte’  Biography: He worked as a bookbinder for local institutions.  Documents: AD Haute-Vienne H sup Limoges B 253  References: Guibert p. 43; Gruel p. 21 1838.  Macabre, Pierre  Active: 1535–1544  Name variations: Macadré, Pierre  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He died before 1556.  References: Troyes p. 121; Lepreux II 158; Turquois p. 352 1839.  Macabre, veuve Pierre  Active: 1556  Name variations: Macadré, veuve Pierre

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 Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 353 1840.  Macé, Barthélemy  Active: 1566–1572  Location: Sisteron, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He imported books from Geneva.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 344, Manuscrits Historiques Covelle 143 bis f. 164  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie)

1841.  Macé, Bénédic  Active: 1554–1599  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Robert II, he was, like his father, named the official printer to the king (10 November 1564), a position he kept for the rest of his career. As a bookseller, he visited Lisieux in 1573 to sell his wares, some of which were bought by the local cathedral. He seems to be the first printer to use a great primer Italic probably cut by Philippe Danfrie, though he also used type designed by Pierre Haultin. He also employed vine leaf ornaments, which has led to one being named after him. His son, Charles, took over his workshop at this death.  Device: Silvestre n° 888

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 Motto: ‘Expes spero’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 123, 271, 297; Vervliet (Vine) n° 210  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 334–341; Lepreux III 483; Vasseur p. 178; Répertoire n° 6479. 1842.  Macé, Charles  Active: 1594–1623  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of Bénédic, he was working in his father’s workshop and shared his royal privilege in 1594. In 1599, he inherited Bénédic’s material and his device as well as the position of official printer to the king, a role he shared with the Le Bas workshop. Charles attempted to become the sole holder of the privilege in 1609.  Device: Silvestre n° 914  Motto: ‘Expes spero’  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 451; Lepreux III 484 1843.  Macé, Jacques  Active: 1527  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for having co-published an edition printed in Caen (USTC 73466).  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Girard Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Jean Macé (Rennes)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 257 1844.  Macé, Jean  Active: 1502–1532  Location: Rennes, Brittany; Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la paroisse saint Sauveur à l’enseigne saint Jean l’évangeliste’ (1503–1521); ‘Près de la porte Saint Michel’ (1507); ‘En bout de Cohue’  Biography: As well as having his own business in Rennes, he shared a shop initially at least with Robert Macé in Caen – which still stands today – and was probably responsible for having a fresco painted within it. It is unclear what exactly his family relationship to the other

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Macés was, but they maintained close links and he adapted the device used by Richard and Robert I for his own publications. In 1508–1509, he also seems to have maintained a shop with another Caen bookseller, Michel Angier, in Rouen in the ‘rue du grand pont’. Having moved to Rennes, he became a very active publisher, responsible for over a hundred different editions, the vast majority of which were printed on Norman presses. His output is notable for the wide variety of titles and the preponderance of Latin titles, both characteristics atypical of provincial publishers. He was also the publisher who oversaw the return of presses to Rennes in 1524.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Jean Alexandre (Angers); Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Jean Baudouyn (Rennes); Jacques Berthelot (Caen); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Jean du Moulin (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); André Hodian (Angers); Laurent Hostingue (Caen); Jean de Kerbriant (Paris); Roland Le Franc (Rennes); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Julien Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Richard Macé (Rouen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Pierre Pigouchet (Paris); François Regnault (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Richard Roger (Morlaix)  Device: Delisle (Caen) n° xiii  References: RB XIX p. 33–43; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 257; Booton p. 235; Delisle (Caen) p. lx; TW of1903; Répertoire n° 6481. 1845.  Macé, Jean  Active: 1511–1535  Name variations: Masse, Jean; Maze, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Antoinette Maistre and lived in the quarter of Saint-Sernin. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511 and was successively elected syndic in 1514, and then administrator (bayle) in 1515. He worked extensively with the Lyon bookseller Jacques Huguetan, buying over 1500 lt’s worth of books in 1514. This was clearly successful and though the relationship was strained, he accepted to become Huguetan’s factor in 1520. Along with some of his colleagues in Toulouse, Macé also disseminated the books of the Lyon publisher Martin Boillon in the south-west.

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 Commercial partners: Pierre Bergier (Toulouse); Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Henri Court (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean Grandjean (Toulouse); Jacques Huguetan (Lyon); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Jacques Molinier (Toulouse); Jean Robion (Lyon); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  Documents: AM Toulouse FF 22  References: RB XX p. 40; Claudin (1) p. 23; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 61 1846.  Macé, Julien  Active: 1523–1536  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for having co-published an edition printed in Caen (USTC 73466).  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Jacques Berthelot (Rennes); Roland Le Franc (Rennes); Sulpice Le Franc (Rennes); Jean Macé (Rennes)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 257 1847.  Macé, Philibert  Active: 1540  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 268 1848.  Macé, Richard  Active: 1507–1520  Location: Caen, Normandy; Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires, aux cinq chapelets’ (Rouen)  Biography: The son of Robert I, he copied his father’s device after his death. He enrolled at the university of Caen in 1504 and was the official bookseller to the university at his father’s death until he resigned the position in 1520. He worked extensively with Michel Angier between 1511 and 1515 and regularly also used a Rouen address from 1511.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Jean I de Burges (Rouen); Jean du Moulin (Rouen); Richard

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Goupil (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Caen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Charles Mallet (Rouen); Nicolas I Mullot (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 245; Delisle (Caen) n° xxi–xxii  Motto: ‘Ung Dieu, ung roy, une foy, une loy’  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 96–103; B. Normande p. 203–209; Gosselin p. 67; Beaurepaire p. 395; Delisle (Caen) p. lxiii; Duff p. 97; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 6483. 1849.  Macé, Robert I  Active: 1498–1507  Name variations: Macé, Robinet  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘près le cimetière de Saint-Pierre’  Biography: The father of Richard and Robert, he was originally from the diocese of Lisieux. He was named as the official bookseller to the university of Caen (9 March 1499 n.s.). Michel Angier, in 1500, Richard Rogerie, in 1502 and Guillaume Guernier in 1506, were all apprentices in his shop. He worked in tandem with Jean with whom he seems to have initially shared his shop. As a binder he was probably the R. Macé who used two plaques representing the annunciation and the crowning of the Virgin Mary. As a publisher he was responsible for over fifty imprints, setting a standard that allowed Caen publishing to flourish in the decades that followed his death, that happened before 27 February 1507. He had married a woman named Isabelle.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Richard Auzoult (Rouen); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); André Hodian (Angers); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Thielmann Kerver (Paris); Jean Le Bourgeois (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Richard Roger (Morlaix); Pierre Violette (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 134, 135 & 371; Polain n° 6–9; Meyer n° 3–6; TW ma13547  Motto: ‘Ung Dieu, ung roy, une foy, une loy’  References: RB VIII p. 7–13; Muller p. 10; Mérimée PA14000073; Delisle (Caen) p. xxv; TW of1485; Gid & Laffitte n° 28 & 64; Répertoire n° 6484. 1850.  Macé, Robert II  Active: 1520–1563

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 Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, printer, publisher  Biography: Born in 1503, he was the son of Robert I and the father of Bénédic. After an unsuccessful attempt two years earlier to become a bookseller of the university, he became the official bookbinder of that institution in 1522 – a title he kept until 1557. Christophe Plantin was an apprentice in his shop in around 1534. In later life (after 1556) he began printing, becoming printer to the king by the time of his death on 13 August 1563.  Commercial partners: Martin Philippe (Caen); Pierre Philippe (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 648  Motto: ‘Spe fouet in stabili nudum fiducia petra, petra autem erat Christus’; ‘Ex fructu noscitur arbor’; ‘Tota pulchra es amica mea et macula non est in te’  References: Muller p. 10–11; Deslisle (Caen) p. lxvi; Gruel p. 117; Répertoire n° 6485. 1851.  Machault, Thomas  Active: 1591–1595  Name variations: Mahault, Thomas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Jacques quarter, the poorest of the city, and paid no taxes in 1591.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272, F 274 1852.  Mafre, Pierre  Active: 1568–1582  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 1853.  Magdalene, Jean  Active: 1498  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He commissioned a missal for the use of Metz, though his exact role is unclear (GW13221).  Commercial partners: Philippe Pigouchet (Paris)  References: Teissier p. 19; TW of1900

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1854.  Magloire, Claude  Active: 1576  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Charles Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II p. 222 1855.  Maheust, Jacques  Active: 1586  Name variations: Meheust, Jacques  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He died before 1587. As a publisher he is known for a single undated imprint (USTC 89761). He was succeeded by his wife.  References: Répertoire n° 6883. 1856.  Maheust, veuve Jacques  Active: 1587  Name variations: Meheust, veuve Jacques  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Froide rue’  Biography: She succeeded her husband and is known for a single undated imprint (USTC 1888).  References: B. Normande p. 398; Arbour p. 360 1857.  Maignaval, Jean  Active: 1533–1539  Name variations: Manhaval, Jean; Menyval, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the house of the bookseller Jean Chabron in 1533, in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; RB XX p. 121; Claudin (2) p. 4 1858.  Maillet, Claude  Active: 1559–1562  Location: Cahors, Guyenne (1559)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was originally from Lyon and was the son of François, a carpenter, and of Marguerite Burtin. His sister, Philiberte, married the

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Lyon bookseller Catherin Duplat. He was described as a bookseller of Cahors in a transaction dealing with the sale of books by Jean Lancolle to Henri Mareschal in 1559. He is also named in an agreement reached after the death of his father in 1562, though it is unclear whether at this point he had relocated to Lyon or was still active in Cahors.  Commercial partners: Jean Lancolle (Bordeaux); Henri Mareschal (Toulouse)  References: Desgraves (Cahors) p. 941; Baudrier I 254 1859. Maillou, Guillaume  Active: 1577–1587  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was Thomas’s son. He was appointed printer to the king, obtaining royal letters on 28 January 1580. He worked in partnership, though not exclusively, with his father with whom he shared a yearly stipend from the town until 1580, at which point he became the sole beneficiary of an annual payment of 50 lt. Though he often employed the arms of the king and of the city of Aix, he also reused his father’s device on some of his imprints after the latter ceased to be active. He died in 1587. His widow sought to sell off his material to a merchant of Marseille, but the town authorities intervened, and the press and type were bought a few years later by Jean Courraud. Despite this, some of the material made its way into the hands of Pierre Mascaron.  Commercial partners: Thomas Maillou (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI p. 15; Muller p. 2; Billioud p. 269; Henricy p. 9; Répertoire n° 6514. 1860.  Maillou, Thomas  Active: 1559–1580  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la basse cour de Palais’  Biography: He was the father of Guillaume. He initially worked with Marie d’Herbes before publishing alone. After 1577 he worked with his son who worked as a printer, a period that was the most productive of his career. In this he profited from Pierre Roux’s departure from Aix, receiving 50 lt from the local authorities, a sum he shared with his son. His device included his merchant’s mark and was later reused without modification first by his son and then by Pierre Mascaron in Marseille.

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 Commercial partners: Marie d’Herbes (Aix-en-Provence); Guillaume Maillou (Aix-en-Provence); Pierre Roux (Aix-en-Provence)  Motto: ‘Virtuti omnia parent’  References: RB XXVI p. 14; Muller p. 2; Billioud p. 269; Henricy p. 2; Répertoire n° 6515. 1861.  Main, Jean  Active: 1579–1599  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant notre dame la petite’  Biography: The son of Pierre, he married Marguerite de La Porte, the widow of a man named Courtois. Together they lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite where they had six children baptised. He was godfather to Pierre Boizateau’s son, also named Pierre, in 1588 as well as to the daughter of Joseph Laverré, and to Aimé, the son of Virgile Tréhand in 1579. Jacques Delacourt was chosen to be godfather to one of his sons in 1582. As a publisher, he is only known for religious works aimed mainly at the local clergy.  Commercial partners: Simon Frère (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers); Olivier de Minières (Angoulême)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 119 1862.  Main, Pierre  Active: 1576–1583  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Andrée Boniot and was the father of Jean. He lived in the parish of Saint-Grégoire and had died before 1599.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 286 1863.  Maître Jacques  Active: [1520]–1525  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, active after 1520, he was exiled from the city because of his faith, but not before both his ears had been ripped off.  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 18; Teissier p. 29

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1864.  Malassis, Adam  Active: 1597–1642  Name variations: Mallassis, Adam  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’horloge devant la cigogne’, ‘Dans la cour du palais’, ‘près le moulin Saint Ouen’ (1600)  Biography: He was born in around 1572 and began his career at the end of the sixteenth century, acting as a publisher after 1600. He died in 1642.  References: Mellot p. 178; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 6525. 1865.  Malassis, Robert  Active: [1540]  Location: Alençon, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a Bible mentioned in the eighteenth century but since lost.  References: RB XXV p. XIII; Muller p. 2; Lepreux III (2) 48 1866.  Malescot, Raymond  Active: 1519–1521  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was connected to booksellers in Toulouse and Montauban with whom he distributed books published in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Pierre Crozet (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Jean Fracguier (Montauban)  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 22; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 68 1867.  Malicam, Hilaire  Active: 1510–1528  Name variations: Malican, Hilaire  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du change à la fleur de lys près la fontaine’  Biography: He produced works of local legal interest in partnership with other booksellers.

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 Commercial partners: Jean Margerie (Tours); Geoffroy de Marnef (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Jacques Pouchin (Paris)  References: RB XXIII p. 7; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 10, Daubignard p. 6–8; Répertoire n° 6548. 1868.  Malignan, Guido  Active: 1559–1594  Name variations: Malignan, Guidon; Malinianus, Guido; Marillian; Guido Illustration 93  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1559– Signature of Guido Malignan, 1591, AD 1587 and 1594); Nîmes, Langue­ Gard 2 E 1 280 doc (1590–1593); Montélimar, Dauphiné (1590–1591)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in Soudorgues to the west of Alès, where he later inherited land, he married Jeanne Marignon on 11 November 1565. He started his career in Lyon where he was initially described as a journeyman (1580) and then as a printer (1582) after which he undertook work for powerful booksellers such as Jean Pillehotte. A Protestant, his links to the Genevan trade were already visible when he worked in Lyon and no doubt encouraged him to move to a town where the authorities shared his faith. He had already offered his services to the city of Nîmes as early as 1562, but this was rejected as it was considered that the terms he offered were too loaded in his favour. However, some decades later, the murder perpetrated by the printer Sébastien Jaquy and his subsequent flight in 1590 opened up a new opportunity. Malignan duly settled in the town, receiving a payment to cover the transport of his material and 40 lt for him to rent a house for three years. By July 1591, he had passed a contract to rent lodgings strategically placed close to the main square. His time in Nîmes was troubled: he was convicted on 15 July 1592 and 3 December 1593 for having printed reprehensible texts. He left the city for Lyon with some of his material, leaving the remainder in Nîmes. But this return was brief as he died before 8 September 1594. His possessions were then shared between his wife, on the one hand, and his only daughter, Suzanne, and her husband, the printer Jean Gillet, on the other.  Device: Silvestre n° 1298  Motto: ‘Prudentia et doctrina ducitur orbis’  Documents: AM Nîmes LL 9, LL 13; AD Gard 2 E1 279, 2 E1 368 f. 81

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1869.  Mallard, Honoré  Active: 1587–1608  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’horloge à la grand nef’  Biography: Born in 1571, he was the son of Robert and the brother of Martin which whom he worked in partnership. He lived in the parish of Saint-Herbland. His son Robert, born in 1594, followed him into the trade and succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Martin Mallard (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 183; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6552. 1870.  Mallard, Jean I  Active: 1534–1553  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires, le plus prochain de l’église’, ‘à l’image de la vierge Marie’  Biography: His father was named Nicolas and he was the brother of Thomas and Olivier, both of whom were also in the trade. He married Jeanne de Burges and was the father of Jean II, Thomas and Perette and thereby father-in-law to the bookseller Florent Valentin. He also served as treasurer of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas of Rouen

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in 1550. His stall in the booksellers’ portal was particularly well positioned and was the closest to the Cathedral. He also worked as a scribe in 1536. As a publisher, his approach was unadventurous and concentrated almost exclusively on books of hours, editions of the Psalms and ordinances. For the more important undertakings, he often worked in partnership notably with François Regnault and, later, with the brothers du Gort. Despite these limitations (or perhaps because of them), his business was a successful one as is illustrated by the fact that he was able in 1550 to buy three houses from his brother Olivier. He died in 1553 and was succeeded by his widow. He should not be confused with his brother, also named Jean, who worked as a fountain-maker to the king.  Commercial partners: Girard Angier (Caen); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume Bavent (Rouen); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Cardin I Hamillon (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Claude Le Roy (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris); Jacques Regnault (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 3; AD Seine-Maritime G 2539, G 3200, G 4863, G 7329  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 95; Beaurepaire p. 395; Lepreux III 308; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6553. 1871.  Mallard, Jean II  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Jean I and of Jeanne de Burges and the brother of Thomas II and Perette. He was probably the father of Robert I. His career is difficult to reconstruct. In 1559, a Jean, brother of Thomas II, was described as a farmer living in the parish of Rouvilleen-Caux, but they also had a younger brother confusingly also named Jean. He is not known for any imprints.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/426 p. 221, 2E1/427 p. 29  References: Répertoire n° 6553. 1872.  Mallard, Martin  Active: 1587–1589  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’horloge à la grand nef’

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 Biography: The son of Robert, he was the brother of Honoré with whom he worked in partnership. He lived in the parish of Saint-Herbland.  Commercial partners: Honoré Mallard (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6557. 1873.  Mallard, Olivier  Active: 1533–1550  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1533–1544); Rouen, Normandy (1545–1550)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la juiverie, devant la Madeleine, à l’enseigne du pot cassé’ (Paris)  Biography: The son of a Nicolas, he was Jean and Thomas’s brother. In December 1533 he married Perette Le Hullin, widow of the Parisian printer Geoffroy Tory whom he succeeded. He used Tory’s device and address throughout his career. He became the official printer to the king in 1538 and bookseller of the university of Paris in 1536–1537. He was suspected of heresy and condemned by the Paris Parlement on 2 January 1545 for having Protestant books, by which time he had already left for Rouen where he stayed until at least 1550. At this point, though he is still referred to as a bookseller, his main activity seems to have been as a revenue collector of the Court of Aids of Normandy to which he was named on 2 August 1546. Certainly, he was no longer active as a publisher by the time he settled in Rouen. The diversity of his undertakings is emphasised by his role as a proxy for Martin du Bellay in Bordeaux in 1545. His material was passed on to Richard Cottereau in Chartres and Jacques Kerver in Paris. He died before June 1559.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII carton 17 f. 125, étude LXXVIII carton 11; BnF fonds latin 9953 f. 50r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 514; Renouard (Documents) p. 183; Renouard p. 291; Répertoire n° 6560. 1874.  Mallard, Robert I  Active: 1565–1586  Name variations: Malard, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue de l’horloge, à la grande nef’  Biography: He was perhaps the son of Jean and lived in the parish of

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Saint-Herbland in 1565 before relocating to Saint-Nicolas the following year. Honoré and Martin were his sons. He bought the stall of Thomas Mallard and Jaspar de Remortier at the fair of Guibray in 1565. He bought books from the Plantin press for local distribution and had an unpaid debt in 1574. He sought aggressively to expand his business and published a variety of religious works. His ambitions led him to falsify the device of the Parisian bookseller Jacques Kerver who held a broad privilege for liturgical works – Kerver responded by suing him in 1579. Mallard backed Henry IV during the wars of the Catholic League, despite the decision of the local authorities to side with the League. A 1591 document suggests that he had left Rouen because of his political convictions, but at that point he had been succeeded by his wife for at least two years who styled herself as his widow on a 1589 imprint. His edition of the Compost manuel featured a device with the motto ‘Ceux qui vont sur la mer en navires: ceux là voyent les œuvres de Dieu Psal. 107.’ that was also used by Thomas II.  Commercial partners: Richard Auber (Rouen); Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Jean I Crevel (Rouen); Henri Le Mareschal (Rouen); Guillaume Pavye (Rouen); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 110 f. 283; AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/443 f. 120r, 2E1/447 f. 105r, 2E1/448 f. 200r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 95; Lepreux III 309; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6561. 1875.  Mallard, Thomas I  Active: 1553–1558  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires, le plus prochain de l’église’  Biography: The son of a Nicolas, he was Jean I and Olivier’s brother. It was perhaps him (and not Thomas II) who took over Jean I’s shop next to the cathedral in December 1553. At this address, he published a series of imprints before 1558, two of which (USTC 30181 and 30182) used the type, the motto (‘Nescit labi virtus’) and device (Silvestre n° 190) of Jean I de Tournes in Lyon. The latter did not sign the text and it is unclear if this was a genuine partnership, or if he was using Mallard’s name to publish two venomous attacks on the medical community with a certain degree of anonymity.

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 Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Jean I de Tournes (Lyon); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  References: Cartier n° 358; Répertoire n° 6562. 1876.  Mallard, Thomas II  Active: 1559–1596  Name variations: Maillart, Thomas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘près le Palais devant l’hôtel de Illustration 95 ville’ (1578), ‘près le Palais, à l’homme Signature of Thomas II Mallard, armé’ (1580–1596), ‘près la porte des 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 degrés du Palais’ (1581), ‘devant la porte du Palais’ (1587)  Biography: The son of Jean I, he was notably Jean II and Perette’s brother. He married Madeleine Dufour who succeeded him after his death. Along with his brothers, he inherited the movable goods of his uncle Olivier in 1559, at which point he resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He is thought to have had a shop in Caen, but only figures on imprints with his Rouen address. The first works bearing his name are dated 1578, but he is known to have been active as early as 1559 in the city. In 1566, he appointed a representative to force the bookseller Jean Le Pryme to honour an agreement made five years earlier. He was, probably in 1579, elected as warden of the community of booksellers and printers of Rouen. In that same year, he formed part of the consortium of booksellers who requested the right to house a press in their shop. He also shared a stall with Jaspar de Remortier at the fair of Guibray which he sold on to Robert Mallard in 1565. He often bought books from Christophe Plantin for distribution on the local market, as well as serving as an intermediary for the Antwerp firm for bales and barrels sent to Michel Sonnius in Paris or to English booksellers. An active publisher, he was responsible for over sixty editions, some published in partnership with other local booksellers. He died between September and December 1596. His widow married Théodore Reinsart.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Raphaël du Petit Val (Rouen); Baptiste du Puys (London); Hercule François (London); Cardin II Hamillon (Rouen); Jean Le Blanc (Paris); Martin II Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean Le Pryme (Saint-Lô); François Loyselet

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(Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Richard Petit (Rouen); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen); Michel Sonnius (Paris)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 110 ff. 10 & 64, Plantin-Moretus Journal 1580–1584; AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 489, G 2286, G 2824, G 7374, 2E1/426 pp. 196, 205 & 221, 2E1/427 pp. 29 & 265, 2E1/441 f. 143r, 2E1/446 f. 29v  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 95; Beaurepaire p. 399; Pallier (Normandie) p. 257; Lepreux III 309; Aquilon p. 306 1877.  Mallard, veuve Robert  Active: 1589–1591  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘rue de l’horloge, à la grande nef’  Biography: She had succeeded her husband by 1589 at which point she published the only work for which she is known (USTC 29277). The Fairfax Murray catalogue attributed to a ‘vefue Robert Mallard’ an undated edition of the farce Maistre Pierre Pathelin (USTC 57519). This is however a false imprint as the address given, ‘rue de l’université’, is impossible as there was no university in Rouen in the sixteenth century.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 95; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 6566. 1878.  Mallet, Charles  Active: 1515–1543  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1515–1520); Toulouse, Languedoc (1542– 1543)  Role: Printer  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 26321) produced in Rouen. After 1520 there is no record of his presence in the city for a while, reappearing in Toulouse twenty years later when he rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. In 1570, however, his widow, Michelle Raulx, was living in Rouen, and gave the address ‘près la porte de Martainville’ in the parish of Saint-Paul.  Commercial partners: Jean I de Burges (Rouen); Richard Macé (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/471 f. 63v  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 31; B. Normande 258; Lepreux III 313; Claudin (2) p. 92

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1879.  Mallet, Jean  Active: 1580  Location: Morlaix, Brittany  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: He worked in the shop of Bernard de Léau in 1580.  References: Le Guennec 1880.  Malliat, André  Active: 1579  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He frequented the fairs in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 125 1881.  Malot, Claude  Active: 1584  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He frequented the fairs in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon); Étienne Treville (Autun)  References: Baudrier III 130 1882.  Mandon, J.  Active: 1576–1579  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His stock was bought by Pierre Gilles in 1580; he had presumably died at some point in the proceeding months.  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 214 1883.  Mangeant, Jacques  Active: 1590–1633  Name variations: Mengeant, Jacques  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He inherited Simon Mangeant’s material and also printed music. His son, Éléazar, succeeded him.  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 449; Lepreux III 485; Répertoire n° 6588.

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1884.  Mangeant, Simon  Active: 1556–1583  Location: Caen, Normandy (1556–1583); Saint-Lô, Normandy (1562)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A Protestant printer, he mainly produced editions of the Bible and of the Psalms. His 1562 Bible bears the indication ‘St Lô’, though Andrew Pettegree has suggested this might be a false address. The woodcuts used in this edition were also used by Pierre Philippe in his English Bible. He owned type that enabled him to print music. He may also have used the pseudonym Étienne Martin.  Commercial partners: Henri Auber (Rouen); Louis Le Cordier (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 914  Motto: ‘Celui que Dieu arreste n’a garde de courir’  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 104; RB XXIV p. 69; B. Normande p. 328– 330; Pettegree p. 52–57; Lepreux III 484; Répertoire n° 6598. 1885.  Marangeac, André  Active: 1585  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 365 Marc le libraire, see Eymar, Isoard 1886.  Marcaurelle, Jacques  Active: 1553–1554  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition that he published in partnership with other local booksellers (USTC 80459).  Commercial partners: Pierre Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Uguet Albert (Aix-en-Provence); Barthélemy Bonhomme (Avignon)  References: RB XXVI p. 35; Muller p. 2; Billioud p. 270; Henricy p. 2 Marchand, see Palier, Jean 1887.  Marchand, Pierre  Active: 1597–1598  Name variations: Mercier, Pierre

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 Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Simon Millanges from the 29 September 1597 to work on the printing of what was described as a large song book.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 11800 f. 991r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 519 1888.  Marchant, Claude  Active: 1531–1556  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’escrivinerie’  Biography: The bookseller and librarian of the university of Orléans, he lived a house that was leased to him by that institution. He also served as the university’s official scribe after 1555. He died before 1565 at which point his widow, Estiennette Guesnay, had succeeded him.  Commercial partners: Jacquette Hoys (Orléans); Pierre Vidoué (Paris); Chrestien Wechel (Paris)  References: RB X p. 15; Herluison p. 9; Bimbenet p. 266; Ridderikhoff et al. II, 202 & III, 152 1889.  Marchant, Conrad  Active: 1591  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He was a journeyman in the workshop of Jacques Foillet and Jean Exertier in Besançon in 1591. He went with his masters to see a waterfall and, having been separated from them by driving rain, he removed the head from a statue of Saint Peter which he chanced upon, allegedly through clumsiness, but for which he was arrested on suspicion of Protestantism.  Documents: AM Besançon BB 42 f. 157r 1890.  Marchant, Étienne  Active: 1582–1597  Location: Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: The son of Martin, he succeeded him in Pont-à-Mousson and became in turn the official printer to the duke of Lorraine. He notably published works for the local Jesuits.  References: Muller p. 93; RB IV p. 41–42; Jacquot p. 16; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 82 1891.  Marchant, Jean  Active: 1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 353 1892. Marchant, Jean  Active: 1570–1574  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue Saint-Orens’  Biography: He married Jeanne de Patis on 4 June 1570 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin. On 8 juin 1574, he remarried to Catherine de Puimerol.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 574 f. 30v & 67r 1893.  Marchant, Martin  Active: 1555–1587  Name variations: Mercator, Martinus  Location: Reims, Champagne (1555–1558); Verdun, Three Bishoprics (1558–1576 & 1577–1585); Luxembourg, Holy Roman Empire (1577– 1578); Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine (1582–1587)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Vaux-en-Dieulet, he did his apprenticeship in the workshop of Nicolas Bacquenois in Reims from 1555 to 1558. He continued to work for Bacquenois after he had relocated to Verdun and, finally, succeeded him at his death in 1572. There he followed in his former master’s footsteps, working for the local ecclesiastical authorities and for the Jesuits, as well as publishing in Luxembourg, but with a privilege that indicated that he was still a printer and bookseller of Verdun. He became the official printer to the new Jesuit university created in Pont-à-Mousson under the patronage of the duke of Lorraine. The latter gave him 500 francs in 1582 to move Marchant’s belongings to that town and named him his official printer. His son

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Étienne succeeded him in Pont-à-Mousson by 1588 whilst his other son, Mathurin, took over the Verdun workshop.  Device: Silvestre n° 836  Motto: ‘Ad Indos currit mercator’  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1195  References: Muller p. 93 & 117; RB IV p. 39–40 & 60–64; Lepreux II 374; Jacquot p. 16; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 74; Répertoire n° 6640. 1894.  Marchant, Mathurin  Active: 1582–1588  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Martin, he succeeded him in Verdun. John Wolfe in London is known to have used his name to print a work on the fall of Sedan and Jametz in 1588 (USTC 19555).  References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 66; Lepreux II 374; Jacquot p. 17 1895.  Marchant, Pierre  Active: 1519  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller Illustration 96  Biography: He married Signature of Pierre Marchant, 1598, AD Jacquette Hoys and died before Gironde 3 E 14800 1531 at which point his widow was managing the shop.  Commercial partners: Josse Bade (Paris)  References: RB X p. 10 1896.  Marchis, Jacques  Active: 1598–1600  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for the publication of a single work of fiction, Clorinde ou l’amante tuee par son amant.  References: RB XVII p. 46; Skora (Langres); Daguin & Frionnet p. 173 1897.  Marcorelle, Pierre  Active: 1554–1610  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1554–1572); Montauban, Languedoc (1573–1610)

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant originally from Millau, he moved to Geneva in 1554 before becoming a bourgeois of the city in 1562. There, he worked mainly on the export of books for the French market, sometimes undertaking journeys himself, often with books provided by Laurent de Normandie. He left to set up a shop in Montauban in 1573 where he also took an active part in the running of the local Calvinist church as a reader and deacon. He valued the material that Denis Haultin was given on settling in the city in 1589 at 100 lt.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  References: Conner p. 199; RIECH; Forestié p. 85 1898.  Mareschal, Eustache  Active: 1516–1543  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1516–1543); Pamiers, Languedoc (1522)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Grande rue de la porterie’ (Toulouse)  Biography: The son of the Lyon printer-publisher Pierre, he settled in Toulouse where he ran a shop for his father in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. He was the administrator (bayle) of the corporation of booksellers of Toulouse in 1518 and 1522 and again between 1525 and 1529. He also acquired a set of four types with Jean Domaysel and Arnauld Guilhem du Boys which was valued at 300 lt when Du Boys sold his stake in 1526. He printed a number of works in partnership with Jean Domaysel.  Commercial partners: Laurent Carrière (Toulouse); Barnabé Chaussard (Lyon); Guillaume de Clauso (Toulouse); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Henri Court (Toulouse); Jean Domaysel (Toulouse); Arnauld Guilhem du Boys (Toulouse); Mathieu Du Mont (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Lesmont (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Pierre Mareschal (Lyon); Jean Marion (Lyon); Jean I Petit (Paris); Jean II Petit (Paris); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 42–50; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 145; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62; Blanc-Rouquette p. 25; Corraze (Domaysel); Répertoire n° 6652. 1899. Mareschal, Hélie  Active: 1593–1620  Name variations: Merechal, Hélie  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He married Peyronne de Durand with whom he had sons named Guillaume (1593), Pierre (1597) and Jean (1599) – the latter two having as godfathers the booksellers Pierre Jagourt and Jean Canut respectively. They lived in the parish of Le Taur. Mareschal published in tandem with Canut during the seventeenth century. He was in debt to the Parisian bookseller Abel L’Angelier in 1610. His shop was visited in 1619 and a few books were seized. However, he seems to have escaped any punishment and was still active the following year.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 695 f. 3r & 11r, GG 696 f. 12v; AD Haute-Garonne 1 G 410 bis n° 13  References: Balsamo & Simonin p. 482 1900.  Mareschal, Henri  Active: 1556–1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A modest publisher, he is seen as one of the rare booksellers to have continued to sell books after 1562, though there is little evidence of his activity. The Répertoire bibliographique mistakenly gives his date of activity as 1597 based on a misreading of a Brunet reference (IV, 421) taken from the Lauraguais sale (Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis provenans du cabinet de M.*** (Paris: Guillaume de Bure, 1770, p. 121) for the publication of Passevent parisien (USTC 41351). It also attributed a work by Hélie Mareschal to him.  Commercial partners: Jean Lancolle (Bordeaux); Claude Maillet (Cahors)  References: RB XX p. 195; Blanc-Rouquette; Desgraves (Cahors) p. 941 1901.  Mareschal, Jacques  Active: 1509–1529  Name variations: Also known as Roland  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1509–1529); Paris, Île-de-France (1517–1529); Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (1518–1529)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: A central figure in the world of Lyon printing, he also owned a shop in Paris run by Étienne Durand and one in Clermont-Ferrand where he published a number of works, mostly in partnership with local booksellers. It is unclear if he actually printed these works in Clermont or whether he had them imported from Lyon. He died in 1529.

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 Commercial partners: Antoine Calvet (Clermont-Ferrand); Jean I Durand (Clermont-Ferrand)  References: RB XXIV p. 12; Muller p. 15; Baudrier XI 378; Renouard p. 295 1902.  Mareschal, Louis  Active: 1561  Location: Castres, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested for being a Protestant but was released following the king’s edict of February 1561.  References: Portal p. 198; Bèze I 874 1903.  Mareschal, Pierre  Active: 1586  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie basse’  Biography: He married Blancque Leule on 16 February 1586. He lived in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 102 f. 17v 1904.  Mareschal, Quentin  Active: 1598–1642  Name variations: Marescallus, Quintinus  Location: Chaumont, Champagne (1598–1610); Jargeau, Orléanais (1616– 1617); Loudun, Poitou (1619–1620); Châtelleraut, Poitou (1621–1642)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Proche la Halle’ (Chaumont)  Biography: He married Bénigne Ladmiral of Langres, who died on 5 October 1642. He was the father of Robert (1602) and Jeanne, who married the printer Claude Hugard who succeeded him when he left Chaumont, where he had been the town’s prototypographer. A Protestant, it is possible he learnt his trade with Jean des Preyz in Langres and he seems to have used or copied some of Des Preyz’s material in his first publication. He no longer printed books after 1638. A second son, Simon, succeeded him in Châtelleraut.  References: Muller p. 14; RB VI p. 61; Skora (Langres); La Bouralière, Vienne p. 5; Lepreux II 350; Daguin & Frionnet p. 183; Répertoire n° 6660.

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1905.  Margerie, Jean  Active: 1492–1516  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant la grande porte Saint Gacien’  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Étienne. He was already trading books as early as 1493, at which point he bought books from Hervé Bezine in Lyon. As a publisher, he is known for a single edition of the local customs that, though undated, was printed in late 1516 at the earliest and in 1518 at the latest.  Commercial partners: Hervé Bezine (Lyon); Hilaire Malican (Blois); Jacques Pouchin (Paris)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/7  References: RB XXIII p. 36; BVH Minutes; Répertoire n° 6668. 1906.  Marguerat, Jacques  Active: 1580–1614  Name variations: Margeuret, Jacques; also known as Marguerat le jeune  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was described as a bookseller in 1585, but only as a bookbinder in 1600.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265, F 272, F 276  References: Turquois p. 353; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 282. 1907.  Marguerat, Pierre  Active: 1599–1627  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 282. 1908.  Mari, Jacques  Active: 1519  Location: Castelnaudary, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: He was given a room and exempted from paying taxes for a year in 1519. No imprints bearing his name have yet been identified.  References: RB XVIII p. 29; Muller p. 12; Kolb 270

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1909.  Marie, Jean  Active: 1522–1523  Name variations: also known as de Lyon  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he lived in the parish of Notre-Damela-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 262 1910.  Marie, Jean  Active: 1541–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was the son of a Simon Marie and Perrine Roussel as well as the Illustration 97 brother of Martin who he succeeded at the Signature of Jean Marie, latter’s death. He lived in turn in the parishes 1555, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 413 of Saint-Vivien (1555) and Saint-Maclou. François Larchevesque became an apprentice in his workshop in 1574. He was one of the printers who sought to prevent booksellers from housing a press in their shop in 1579.  Documents: AD Seinte-Maritime 2E1/413 p. 202  References: Gosselin p. 97 & 116; Lepreux III 314 1911.  Marie, Marin  Active: 1558–1559  Location: Sens, Champagne; Geneva, Swiss Confederation  Role: Pedlar  Biography: Of Protestant faith, he was based in Geneva from where he brought books to sell in France. He was arrested in Sens in 1559 where he was burnt for heresy.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 479 & 485  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) 1912.  Marie, Martin  Active: 1541–1565  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller

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 Biography: He was the son of a Simon Marie and Perrine Roussel as well as the brother of Jean who inherited the shop at his death in 1565. He lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 97; Lepreux III 314 1913.  Marie, Pierre  Active: 1511  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition of a breviary that he had printed in Paris.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris)  References: Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 186 1914.  Marin, Pierre  Active: 1564–1589  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1564–1575 & 1589); Burgos, Spain (1575– 1577); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1578)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Paris, he was the son of the printer Robert I Marin and the brother of Robert II and Nicolas. He married Jeanne Guedon, the widow of the printer Jean Poictevin. He was also the guardian of their son, Eustache. He started his career as an apprentice to the Parisian printer Nicolas Cavelier on a two-year contract that was signed on 15 October 1564. He obtained his own workshop, press and material, and by 1571 was working as a master printer with sufficient means to rent out his material to his brothers and father. At this point he was domiciled in the ‘rue traversière’ before relocating to ‘rue du Mont-Sainte-Geneviève’ by 1573. However, this success seems to have been short lived. In 1575 he signed an agreement with Mathieu Maretz to leave Paris to work for two years for the master printer in Burgos for a monthly wage of eight ducats. Marin honoured the contract working alongside Pierre des Hayes who had been close to his family since at least 1571. He was indeed in Spain in early 1577 before returning to France and finding employment in the workshop of Simon Millanges where he was the following year. In both these cities he worked as a journeyman printer, but by 1589 he had sought to set up his own business again in Paris, printing the only work that can be attributed to him – a short pamphlet on Mary Stuart’s will and final

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words (USTC 5985). He remarried to Pasquette Timel who survived him after his death sometime before 1605.  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XVIII carton 140 & étude XXXIII cartons 49, 56, 58, 208 & 209  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 524; Renouard p. 260 1915.  Marion, Eustache  Active: 1498–1510  Location: Moulins, Bourbonnais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a series of editions of legal texts for local use that he had printed in Lyon.  Commercial partners: Jacques Arnoulet (Lyon); Claude Davost (Lyon)  References: RB XXIV p. 37 1916.  Marion, Jacques  Active: 1586  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He began his apprenticeship on 17 December 1586 in the workshop of Nicolas II du Gort.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485  References: Mellot p. 79 1917.  Maritain, Louis  Active: 1505–1522  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (1505–1511); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1512–1522)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Névache in Dauphiné, he was Michau’s brother and lived close to the cathedral. In Bordeaux, he entered into a partnership with the booksellers Pierre Bodet and Louis Rostelin whereby they had agreed to share equally their stock and profits. But by 1521, Bodet had died and they drew up a combined inventory of their books and debts. Bodet’s widow, Gracianne de Nyort, decided to sell her share for 500 lt to the two other associates. Until they had paid up, Rostelin and Maritain agreed to furnish the widow with food. Maritain himself did not long survive Bodet: Marguerite, his daughter, seems to have taken over the shop by 1526.

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 Commercial partners: Pierre Bodet (Bordeaux); Jean Petit (Paris & Lyon); Louis Rostelin (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 286v–288r  References: RB XXIV; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 525; Egullion p. 107 1918.  Maritain, Marguerite  Active: 1526  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Louis’s daughter, she was referred to as a bookseller in 1526 and had probably taken over his shop.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 526 1919.  Maritain, Michau  Active: 1512–1518  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À l’Ombrière’  Biography: Originally from Névache in Dauphiné, he was Louis’s brother and resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  Commercial partners: Léonard Bardoc (La Réole)  Documents: AD Gironde H 819  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 527 1920.  Maritan, François  Active: 1529–1567  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue du Terral’  Biography: He married Astrugette Veziat (or Veziade) with whom he had a number of children, including Laurent who followed him into the trade, probably after his death in 1569. François’s will of 1567 is that of a wealthy and pious Catholic. He worked as a binder and stationer for local institutions.  Documents: AD Aveyron D 429, E 1748 f. 36r  References: Lançon p. 211 1921.  Maritan, Guillaume  Active: 1490–1506

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 Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne de Samparada. His shop seems to have been at best a moderate success as by 1508 he had abandoned the trade and was solely described as an innkeeper. He became an auditor of the municipal accounts in 1505 and a councillor the following year.  Documents: AD Aveyron 2 E 212  References: Lançon p. 211 1922. Maritan, Laurent  Active: 1567–1576  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au Terral’  Biography: He was the son of François who, in his will drawn up in 1567, already referred to his son as a bookseller. He married Anne Cazes in 1554 with whom he had at least four children including a daughter named Françoise who married the bookseller Pierre Dustin. Laurent died in 1576.  Documents: AD Aveyron C 1317, E 1748 f. 36r  References: Lançon p. 211

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 Biography: He was the brother of Geoffroy and Jean I with whom he owned shops in Angers, Bourges and Poitiers in 1506. He was named an official bookseller of the university of Paris in 1522.  Commercial partners: Josse Bade (Paris); Barthélemy Bartault (Bourges); Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Simon du Bois (Paris); Jean Laurens (Bordeaux); Jean I de Marnef (Poitiers); Geoffroy de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Pierre de Sartières (Bourges); Pierre Vidoue (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 152–154, 561 & 1122; Renouard n° 710–722  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 16–21; Peach; Renouard p. 296; Répertoire n° 6692. 1924.  Marnef, Enguilbert II de  Active: 1518–1528  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais à l’enseigne du pelican’  Biography: The son of Jean I and brother of Pierre I, whom he succeeded at the head of the family Poitiers workshop in 1518. A bookseller to the university, he diversified considerably the range of texts that the Marnefs of Poitiers published.  Commercial partners: Claude Garnier (Limoges); Durand Gerlier (Paris)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 58 1925.  Marnef, Enguilbert III de  Active: 1530–1568  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, typecaster, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais à l’enseigne du pelican’  Biography: In 1534, he married Bernarde Audebert, the sister of Marie, with whom he had three sons, including Enguilbert IV and Pierre II. Along with his brother, Jean, he was placed under the guardianship of their uncle Enguilbert I until at least the end of 1529. Despite this background, his was the first generation that broke the traditional ties with the Paris Marnefs. Instead, he worked with Jean III until 1551 with whom he moved from the use of Gothic to Roman and, in particular, Italic type. They notably used Parisian type made by François Gryphius. The split that occurred in 1551 saw him move to a shop opposite the traditional address and adopt a new device. His workshop

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was the more active of the two, producing around a hundred editions before his death. His comparative success was shown by the fact that though both brothers were equally taxed in 1552, his widow was taxed 40% more than his brother in the year of his death. Baptiste Foucault served as his apprentice as did Pierre Rousseau in 1559. He expanded his business in 1563 by renting a stall in the royal palace in Poitiers. He also openly published books that featured the Parisian printer Jean Dallier’s privilege, suggesting that they had reached an agreement on the reprinting of ordinances. He was also a typecaster. He died in 1568, his widow survived him until 1584.  Commercial partners: Guillaume II Bouchet (Poitiers); Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Jacques II Bouchet (Poitiers); Philippe Bourgoignon (Angers); Jean Clément (Bordeaux); Louis Contis (Poitiers); Jean Dallier (Paris); Jacques Dupuys (Paris); Julien L’Angelier (Bourges); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Thomas Mestrard (Rennes); Jean II Varice (Angers)  Device: Silvestre n° 560 & 562; La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° VII; Peach  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 64, 88, 110, 112, 144, 144a, 239, 265, 270, 278, 288, 288a, 290; Vervliet (Vine) n° 68, 133, 154, 160, 162 & 173  Documents: AN X2/a 98; AN Minutier central étude VIII 81 f. 383, 86 f. 502; AN Minutier central étude XLIX 7; AD Vienne G 1466, G 1709  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 290; Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 183; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 72; Delalain p. 136; Répertoire n° 6693. 1926.  Marnef, Enguilbert IV de  Active: 1568–1572  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Enguilbert III and the brother of Pierre II. He married Radegonde Guillaud with whom he had three daughters. His career was short and limited to that of a bookseller. He resided in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite and died before 31 July 1572.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 147 1927.  Marnef, Geoffroy de  Active: 1485–1518  Location: Angers, Anjou (1506); Bourges, Berry (1506); Poitiers, Poitou (1506); Paris, Île-de-France (1485–1518)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘à l’enseigne du pelican’  Biography: The brother of Enguilbert I and Jean I, he published editions both with his brothers and alone. He died before September 1518.  Commercial partners: Josse Bade (Paris); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean I de Marnef (Poitiers)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 147; Répertoire n° 6696 1928.  Marnef, Jean I de  Active: 1504–1515  Name variations: also known as De Liege  Location: Angers, Anjou (1506); Bourges, Berry (1506); Poitiers, Poitou (1504–1515); Paris, Île-de-France (1485–1515)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the brother of Geoffroy and Enguilbert I. From a first marriage he had two sons who followed him into the trade, Pierre I and Enguilbert II. His second wife was Jeanne Boisseau with whom he had another son who also became a printer, Jean III. She survived him and later married Nicolas I Pelletier.  Commercial partners: Josse Bade (Paris); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Geoffroy de Marnef (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 13–14; Répertoire n° 6697 1929.  Marnef, Jean III de  Active: 1530–1568  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Jean I de Marnef and Jeanne Boisseau, he married Marie Audebert with whom he had five children including a son, Jean IV who followed him into the trade. After her death, he married in 1561 Perrette, the daughter of the bookseller Louis Citoys, with whom he had two further children. Along with his brother, Enguilbert III, he was placed under the guardianship of their uncle Enguilbert I after the death of their father until at least the end of 1529. Despite this background, his was the first generation that broke all ties with the Paris Marnefs. He was official printer and bookseller to the university of Poitiers and worked with Enguilbert III until 1551 with whom he moved from the use of Gothic to Roman and, in particular, Italic type. They notably used Parisian type made by François Gryphius. The end of his association with his brother led to him keeping the main shop at the sign of the pelican, though he was less active than Enguilbert

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and virtually only published editions in French. The limits of his success were shown by his willingness to seek fortune outside the trade, involving himself in the sale of wine in 1561. This strategy seems to have been less fruitful than that of Enguilbert as though both brothers were equally taxed in 1552, his brother’s widow was taxed 40% more than Jean III’s own inheritors in the year of the two brothers’ deaths. Louis Thenot became an apprentice in his workshop in 1561. He was probably a Protestant in 1562 but was nonetheless named a judge of merchant affairs in 1566. He died in 1568.  Commercial partners: Guillaume II Bouchet (Poitiers); Jacques II Bouchet (Poitiers); Louis I Citoys (Poitiers); Jean Clément (Bordeaux); Claude Garnier (Limoges): Julien L’Angelier (Bourges); Jean Laurens (Bordeaux); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean II Varice (Angers); Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 152–154 & 561; La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° VII & XII; Peach  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 64, 88, 110, 112, 144, 144a, 155, 239, 265, 270, 278, 288, 288a, 290; Vervliet (Vine) n° 68, 133, 154, 160, 162 & 173  Documents: AD Vienne G 1466, G 1709  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 22–51; Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 183; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 72; Delalain p. 136; Répertoire n° 6699. 1930.  Marnef, Jean IV de  Active: 1572–1592  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au Pelican’; ‘Dans la grande salle du Palais’  Biography: The son of Jean III and Marie Audebert, he married Jeanne de La Coupelle, with whom he had six children. Nicolas Courtois was godfather to one of his sons. Pierre Dasnières bought his house in 1571 during which year Jean IV took over the late Enguilbert III’s stall in the royal palace of Poitiers. He had, however, the sale of the family shop cancelled the very next year and instead sold the stall. He had inherited his father’s material and ‘three old presses’ but he seems to have acted solely as a bookseller, printing a few titles pages in order to refresh and sell old stock. As a publisher, he mainly sought to have traditional bestsellers printed and thus commissioned large print runs of books of hours and psalters. He died before 12 February 1592 when his cousin, Pierre II, with whom he had worked on occasion, bought his materials and books.

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 Commercial partners: Hugues Barbou (Lyon); Guillaume II Bouchet (Poitiers); Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Jacques II Bouchet (Poitiers); Gabriel Buon (Paris); Louis Contis (Poitiers); Antoine de Harsy (Lyon); Jean Main (Poitiers); Pierre II de Marnef (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers); Olivier de Minières (Angoulême); Antoine Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 52; Clouzot (1907) p. 48; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 142 1931.  Marnef, Jean V de  Active: 1597–1615  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Cordeliers’, ‘Au Pelican’  Biography: The son of Pierre II, he married Renée Bugeant, who succeeded him at his death in 1615. He was printer to the king and to the university of Poitiers (1597). He bought 100 lt’s worth of the stock of the bookseller Simon Frère after the latter’s death in 1599.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 153; Clouzot (1907) p. 49; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 153; Répertoire n° 6700. 1932.  Marnef, Pierre I de  Active: 1516–1517  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was Jean I’s son and Enguilbert II’s brother. He seems to have initially succeeded his father at the head of the Marnef workshop, but his career was short and by 1518 his brother had taken over the running of the business.  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 15; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 54 1933.  Marnef, Pierre II de  Active: 1571–1610  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Contre le pelican’ (until 1588), ‘Au pelican’ (after 1594)  Biography: The son of Enguilbert III and the brother of Enguilbert IV, he was born on 24 November 1547. He married Jeanne Laviré with whom he had three children, of which Jean V who took over his shop at his death. He started his career slowly, initially as a bookseller, before becoming a publisher, though even then his activity was limited to some modest imprints. He acted as a printer until 1594, before

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reverting to his role as a bookseller, obtaining a stall in the royal palace in 1597. He bought the material and the books of Jean IV Marnef in 1592 for 30 écus and accepted to take on his debts. Aimé Mesnier opposed his printing of royal letters in 1588 and, following Mesnier’s request, the municipal authorities banned Marnef from selling his own imprint thereof. François Audebert, to whom he was probably related, resided in his house in 1587. He was elected to the prestigious position of an adjudicator of lex mercatoria in 1606. He died before 1620.  Commercial partners: Isaac Barraud (Poitiers); André Citoys (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 53; Clouzot (1907) p. 49; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 487; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 149 1934.  Martel, Simon  Active: 1579–1609  Name variations: Marthel, Simon  Location: Toul, Three Bishoprics (1579–1588 & 1609); Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine (1599–1609)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He sold books that he sourced in Lyon when in Toul. By 1599 he had moved to Pont-à-Mousson where he had books brought from Antwerp by cart. He was still there in 1609 but also as had an address in Toul. As a publisher, he had an edict printed in Troyes in 1585. In the documents that name him he is described as Simon Martel and a bookseller, but from 1615 to 1629 a Simon Saint-Martel is active as a printer. It seems unlikely that they are one and the same person, not least because Martel would have taken up printing at a late age and produced suddenly a large number of imprints after over 35 years purely as a bookseller.  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon); Jan Moretus (Antwerpen); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 171 f. 112, 219  References: Baudrier II 230, 232 & 234, III 179; Voet II 488 & 514; Répertoire n° 8725. 1935.  Martial, François  Active: 1549  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He is only known for having published Clément Marot’s Complainte d’un pastoureau, of which no copy is now known (USTC 40713).  References: Du Verdier v2r, p. 231 1936.  Martin, Étienne  Active: 1565–1566  Location: Caen, Normandy (1565), Dieppe, Normandy (1565–1566)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was of Protestant faith. It has been suggested that this was only a pseudonym for Simon Mangeant, but he appears also in documentary evidence and seems to have genuinely existed.  Motto: ‘Ceux qui s’en vont sur la mer dedans navires, Iceux voyent les oeuures du Seigneur. Psalme. 107. ver. 23. 24’  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 331; Lesens p. 336 1937.  Martin, François  Active: 1548–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 233, F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 352 1938.  Martin, Guy  Active: 1590–1599  Location: Laval, Maine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  References: RB XXVIII; Angot II 792 1939.  Martin, Jacques  Active: 1568–1576  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is only known for two polemical pieces antagonistic to the Guises. In such a context, the address of ‘Reims’ is undoubtedly facetious, and the printer’s name invented – perhaps concealing a Genevan press.  References: RB XVII p. 109; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 288; Brunet p. 145

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1940.  Martin, Jean  Active: 1545–1550  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le Palais’  Biography: He is known for a series of legal editions for local use.  Commercial partners: Denis de Harsy (Lyon); Jean Pidié (Lyon); Pierre de Tours (Lyon)  References: RB XIII p. 56; Maignien p. LXXIV 1941.  Martin, Jean  Active: 1577–1579  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A fictitious printer whose name was used, it has been suggested, by Jean de Foigny or, more probably, by Swiss printers based in Basel and Geneva.  References: RB XVII p. 112; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 288; Répertoire n° 6749. 1942.  Martin, Nicolas  Active: 1573  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for an edition of a prognostication (USTC 34897) that was undoubtedly printed in Lyon, as is shown by the title page woodcut also used by the Arnoullet, Benoît Rigaud and Jean Patrasson.  References: RB XXI p. 95 1943.  Martin, Nicolas  Active: 1578  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single tract on the affairs of the Low Countries. The title page features the Florentine fleur-de-lys previously used by Jacques Moderne in Lyon and the printer is only mentioned in the colophon – neither of these characteristics is common in Reims imprints. There is also no ornamental material, which indicates that the printer of the work was looking to cover his tracks.

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 References: RB XVII p. 114; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 288 1944.  Martin, Noël  Active: 1580  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 187 1945.  Martin, Pierre  Active: 1544  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Sernin quarter but died the very first year that he appeared on the tax registers.  References: Claudin (2) p. 97 1946.  Martin, Pierre  Active: 1579  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: A native of Troyes, he was the father of Jean, who was a bookseller in Geneva. He is, however, not the printer of the tract La legende de Charles, cardinal de Lorraine (USTC 6637) that used his name.  References: RB XVII p. 115; Muller p. 93; Colvelle p. 302 1947.  Martin, Pierre  Active: 1579  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: A fictitious printer responsible for the pamphlet La legende de Charles, cardinal de Lorraine (USTC 6637), not to be confused with his namesake really in activity in Reims. The ornate L on ¶2r was copied on the letter used by Christophe Plantin in Anwerp (cf. BaTyR n° 11648), and was probably printed in Geneva. The name was reused independently as a false imprint in Tours in 1619.  References: RB XVII p. 115; Muller p. 93; Colvelle p. 302 1948.  Martin, Sébastien  Active: 1566  Location: Sisteron, Provence

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He imported books from Geneva.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 345–346  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) 1949.  Martin, Thévenin  Active: 1556  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Jacques quarter, the poorest in the city, and was described as too poor to pay taxes in 1556.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235 1950.  Martine, Mathurin  Active: 1592  Location: Mayenne, Maine  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  References: Angot II 793 1951.  Martinet, Guillaume  Active: 1573–1619  Location: Saumur, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Saint-Pierre’  Biography: He married Marie Ernoul, the sister of a bookseller. As a publisher he is known for a single edition: the customs of Anjou, printed in 1587 (USTC 66335). He died in 1619.  References: RB XVIII p. 121; Muller p. 105; Pasquier p. 248 1952.  Martinet, Jacques  Active: 1528–1542  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher, he is known for two works produced for the local Church.  Commercial partners: François Gueyart (Orléans); Jean Kerbriant (Paris)  References: RB X p. 12; Muller p. 56–57

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1953.  Martinet, René  Active: 1568–1579  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Foucault with whom he had at least eight children, of which Jacques followed him into the trade. They resided in the parish of Bonne-Nouvelle.  References: Herluison p. 35 1954.  Masars, Hugues  Active: 1596  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne de Cassin with whom he had a son named Claude on 4 October 1596. The bookseller Jean Masars was the godfather. They resided in the parish of Le Taur.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 695 f. 10r 1955.  Masars, Jean  Active: 1596–1597  Name variations: Mazars, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie du Boys on 3 August 1597 and resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. He was godfather to the son of Hugues Masars, Claude, on 4 October 1596.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 29 25r & GG 695 f. 10r Maslot, see Paris, Jean 1956.  Mascaron, Pierre  Active: 1594–1626  Location: Marseille, Provence (1594–1596); Avignon, Papal States (1608–1626)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in Avignon, he initially settled in Marseille as a bookseller but became a printer in return for an annual stipend of 300 écus. He was duly named the official printer to the city on 5 November 1594, promising to print free of charge all the ‘patentes, bulletins et passeports’ the authorities required. But the fall of Charles

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de Casaulx and of the ultra-Catholic faction in February 1596 led him to flee the city. He seems to have returned to his native city where he was active once more by 1608, though he only acted thereafter as a bookseller. As a printer, he is known for producing works in Provençal. He had acquired the device of Thomas Maillou and used it without altering the Aix printer’s merchant’s mark at the top of the device that featured the initials TM. His son, Antoine, worked as a bookseller for a while before becoming a lawyer.  Mottos: ‘Superbia humilitati sucumbit’; ‘Virtuti omnia parent’  Documents: AD Vaucluse B 585 & 920  References: RB XXVI p. 98; Bory p. 9; Billioud p. 271; Henricy p. 22 1957.  Masselin, Jean  Active: 1598  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He worked as a journeyman printer in the workshop of Simon Millanges in 1598.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1271r–1272r 1958.  Masselin, Marin  Active: 1527–1554  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1527–1544); Paris, Île-de-France (1548–1554)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He married Thomasse Durant and was the father of Robert. Before he started his career in the trade, he was a servant to the canon Pierre de Mellicourt in Rouen. By 1527 he was described as a printer and worked in the city until at least 1544. By 1548 he had moved to Paris with his son where he pursued his career in the book trade.  Commercial partners: Jacques Le Gentil (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3437; AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 33 f. 300  References: Gosselin p. 98; Renouard p. 299; Répertoire n° 6790. 1959.  Masselin, Robert  Active: 1548–1557  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1548–1553); Rouen, Normandy (1554); Thiers, Auvergne (1556–1557)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: The son of Marin, he worked in parallel to his father for much of his career. He moved to Paris in 1548 where he initially resided with his father in the ‘rue Saint-Jacques’ before renting his own house close to the church of Sainte-Genevière. He returned to Rouen in 1553, leaving the Parisian workshop to Marin. After having printed a couple of works in his native city, he moved to Thiers where he produced religious works for the local Benedictine order. He married Jacqueline Le Roy in October 1548 in the presence of the printers Louis Grandin and Mathieu David.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen)  Devices: Renouard 749  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 33 f. 300, XXXIII 34 f. 565, XXXIII 35 f. 203 & XLIX 44  References: Muller p. 111; RB VI p. 88; Renouard p. 300; Duff p. 101; Egullion p. 117; Répertoire n° 6791. 1960.  Massiac, Simon  Active: 1584  Location: Pau, Béarn  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He frequented the fairs of Lyon.  Commercial partners: Benoît Rigaud (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 181 1961.  Massieu, Robert  Active: 1532  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Godard.  References: Gosselin p. 92 1962.  Massot, Jean  Active: 1590  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Born in around 1570, he married Isabelle Durand with whom he had seven children. They lived in the parish of Saint-Martinle-Viandier. He was a journeyman bookseller and printer in Claude

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Cottereau’s workshop in 1590, but by 1596 he was a master bookseller in his own right. He died on 11 January 1624. His son Jean, born in 1598, succeeded him.  References: Feyel p. 723 1963.  Mathey, Bernard  Active: 1510–1513  Name variations: Mately; Matoli  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was originally from Cocumont. He served in the shop of Jean Chabron in 1512.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 81  References: Claudin (1) p. 20 1964.  Mathieu, Bernard  Active: 1528–1539  Name variations: Maynieu, Bernard  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Floirac quarter of the town. He stocked the books of the Lyon publisher Martin Boillon. He was stabbed and murdered by one of his workers in February 1538/9.  Documents: AM Agen CC 15  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 49; Marboutin p. 21; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 69 1965. Mathurin  Active: 1492  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Renée. They resided in the parish of Saint-Pierre.  References: Pasquier p. 187 1966.  Mauditier, Jean  Active: 1499–1513  Name variations: Jean de Lorraine  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des Oies’ (1500); ‘Rue Saint-Martin, près le pont de Seine’ (1503–1504); ‘Rue de l’Écureuil’ (1504–1508)  Biography: He was sometimes referred to as Jean de Lorraine and as a result is listed twice in some reference works. He printed seemingly exclusively for other members of the trade, working with Laurent Hostingue and Jamet Loys (circa 1500), with Pierre Olivier (1501– 1505) near the church of Saint-Maclou, and with Pierre Olivier and Guillaume Gaulmier (1502). He reused an adapted version of Jean Le Bourgeois’s device from which he had removed the bookseller’s name. He notably produced liturgical works for the English market.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); André Hodian (Angers); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Jean I Richard (Rouen)  Device: Polain n° 184a  Motto: ‘Benedictum sit nomen Domini’  Types: TW ma04050–ma04065  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 17, XXII p. 35–37; RB XXII p. 34; B. Normande p. 91–92 & 131–136; TW of1454; Duff p. 94 & 101; Lepreux III 315; Aquilon p. 306; Hellinga p. 217; Répertoire n° 6827. 1967.  Mauduict, Guillaume  Active: 1527–1531  Name variations: Mauduit, Guillaume; Mauduyet, Guillemme; Maudhuy, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A parchment maker with the same name is found ‘au portail des libraires’ in 1566. As a publisher, he is known for a single ephemeral edition (USTC 88385).  Commercial partners: Jean Ferrand (Rouen)  References: B. Normande p. 280; Beaurepaire p. 395 1968.  Mauduict, Jean  Active: 1545  Name variations: Mauduit, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2542 1969.  Maugard, Claude  Active: 1545  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 536 1970.  Mauger, Jean  Active: 1514–1515  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue aux prétresses, à la porte dorée’  Biography: The son of Pierre and Guillemine, he resided in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 72; Lepreux III 317 1971.  Mauranger, Martin  Active: 1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 1972.  Maurel, Jean  Active: 1588  Location: Saint-Maximin, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AM Saint-Maximin CC 4 1973.  Maurice, Pierre  Active: 1570  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 189 1974.  Maurin, Antoine I  Active: 1497–1554  Name variations: Morin, Antoine; Mauri, Antoine; Maury, Antoine; Morei, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. A stationer of the university of Toulouse in 1529, he was also described as treasurer of the institution in 1537. He also worked on commissions for the bishop of Carcassonne. He formed part of a number of temporary corporations, in particular a very large one for the printing of a grammar book in 1535. He also published alone, obtaining for instance a privilege from the local parlement to print a calendar for the use of Saint-Étienne in 1544. He was well connected and maintained business relations with the main book centres. He held a stall for the books of the Paris publisher Jean Petit. He was invited, but declined, to travel to Bordeaux to pass judgement in a case opposing the booksellers Nicolas Castel and Michel Parmentier in 1539. The same year, he contracted a considerable debt of 1400 lt to the Parisian bookseller Oudin Petit, a debt that he still owed eight years later. He represented the Lyon booksellers Gilet Bruyères and Jacques Crozet in Toulouse, the latter underlining in 1554 the excellent commercial relationships they maintained and that all the goods they had exchanged had been duly paid for. He also bought properties that belonged to Crozet in 1547. His device incorporated a coat of arms that featured the lamb of god and a banderole with his name.  Commercial partners: Gilet Bruyères (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jacques Crozet (Lyon); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Jean II du Pré (Paris); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Gilbert Grosset (Montauban); Jean II Grosset (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Jean II Petit (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  Device: Silvestre n° 129  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne B 37 f. 777; AN Minutier Central étude LXXIII carton 42  References: RB XX p. 51; Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 132; Roudié & Desgraves n° 6; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60; Baudrier I 110; Répertoire n° 6837. 1975.  Maurin, Antoine II  Active: 1562  Name variations: Maury, Antoine  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562. The dates make it likely that he is Antoine I’s son or a younger relative.  References: Haag II 58 1976.  Mautirant, Étienne  Active: 1564–1567  Name variations: Maultirant, Étienne  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was of Protestant faith. He took on Jean II Hantet as an apprentice in 1564.  Documents: AD Cher E 1153 f. 48  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862 1977.  Mazelli, Barthélemy  Active: 1525–1526  Name variations: Mazele, Barthélemy  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Poitiers, he married Jeanne Mayerque of Sarrians on 23 February 1526.  References: Pansier II 47 1978.  Mazenoud, Louis  Active: 1558  Location: Rohan, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 258 1979.  Mazureau, Jean  Active: 1530  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 190 1980.  Méchard, Michel  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc

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 Role: Printer  Biography: He was Guyon Boudeville’s son-in-law and served as a journeyman in his workshop. Like his father-in-law, he converted to Protestantism. It was during a Calvinist celebration that he inadvertently set off his arquebus, killing one person and maiming others. He was tried and hanged on 31 July 1562.  References: Bessis p. 11 1981. Melieyres, Jean  Active: 1548  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au Terral’  Biography: He died before 1550.  References: Lançon p. 212 1982.  Ménard, Mathurin  Active: 1562–1578  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He married Louise Ledies, who was perhaps the sister of the bookseller Julien Dies. Their daughter, Jeanne, was held over the baptismal font by the daughter of the bookseller Gabriel Le Plat, Noëlle. He was also the godfather of Pierre, son of the bookseller François Boucher. He was described as bookseller of the town of Nantes in 1575.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 258; Granges de Surgères n° 65 1983.  Menissel  Active: 1590  Location: Melun, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller  References: Muller p. 52 1984.  Menjot, Jacques  Active: 1493  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 545

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Mentcle, Jean, see Clément, Jean 1985.  Mercier, J.  Active: 1559–1560  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Anne Vanhas. He died before 1571 and was survived by his wife.  References: Puech (Jaquy) p. 213 Mercier, Pierre, see Marchand, Pierre 1986.  Merley, Claude  Active: 1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter and was described as too poor to pay taxes in 1585.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265 1987.  Mes, Jean de  Active: 1503–1513  Name variations: Damus, Jean; Nuss, Jean de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (1) p. 15 1988.  Mesnage, Jean  Active: 1506–1515  Name variations: Managus, Joannes  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Paris, he used some of the Paris printer Antoine Denidel’s material. The device that he used on his first imprints featured both his name and that of an ‘A. Charron’ whose identity and place of activity remains unknown.  Commercial partners: A. Charron  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 54–55; Renouard p. 305; La Bouralière (Vienne) p. 63

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1989.  Mesnier, Aimé  Active: 1572–1600  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En l’allée du palais’ (1572–1588), ‘près le gros horloge’ (1588– 1599)  Biography: He married Antoinette Paumier/Panyerb the daughter of a merchant tailor, on 20 March 1572, then after her death remarried to Anne Decombes with whom he had a number of children. He was also named as the godfather of Aimé, the son of Virgile Tréhand in 1579. The cousin of Bertrand Noscereau, he began his career working with him, learning from his cousin’s proximity to local institutions – a practice he cultivated during the rest of his own career. Like Noscereau, he became the official printer to the city and to the university, to which he added the positions of printer to the king, then to the League. He defended these rights vigorously, calling on the municipal authorities to condemn Pierre II Marnef’s printing of royal letters in 1588. The challenge was successful as Marnef was banned from selling his imprint. In the early stages of his career, he printed with Antoine Delacourt (1573–1577). He reused the device of the Moine brothers in 1598 and that of Nicolas Logeroys in 1584. He died before 10 September 1600 when a shop was sold by his widow to the merchant Guillaume de Marnef. His son, Antoine, followed him into the trade.  Commercial partners: Isaac Barraud (Poitiers); Pierre Boizateau (Poitiers); Antoine Delacourt (Poitiers); Pierre du Vergier (Poitiers); Simon Frère (Poitiers); Jean Main (Poitiers); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Pierre II de Marnef (Poitiers); Bertrand Noscereau (Poitiers)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XIX & XXV  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 103–112; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 196; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 488 & 493; Répertoire n° 6936. 1990.  Mespla, Jean  Active: 1541–1546  Name variations: Mespolie, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter.  References: Claudin (2) p. 91 1991. Messandeau, Laurent  Active: 1535–1541

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 Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Jousseaulme and lived in the parish of La Celle.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 266 1992.  Mestrard, Thomas  Active: 1535–1551  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la porte Saint Michel près la cour de Rennes’ (1535–1553); ‘Entre la porte saint Michel et l’auditoire de la cour de Rennes’ (1543– 1546); ‘Près la porte Saint Michel à l’enseigne sainct Thomas’ (1547)  Biography: He married the widow of the bookseller Roland Le Franc. After her death, before 1533, he remarried to Jeanne Robin. He was one of the most active members of the Rennes book world with links to the closest centres of print: Poitiers, Rouen and Paris. After Jacques Berthelot’s arrival in the city, he commissioned a series of editions from the latter’s workshop – a business relationship no doubt in part built on the fact that Berthelot had married Marie Robin, possibly Jeanne’s sister, with whom Mestrard continued to work after her husband’s death. However, by 1545 Marie had abandoned printing and Mestrard decided to take over her workshop and material, employing well-trained journeymen such as Pierre Régnier of Rouen. Thereafter he worked increasingly as a printer, sometimes for other booksellers. He used Baudouyn’s device representing a printing workshop and inserted his name on the press.  Commercial partners: Jacques Berthelot (Rennes); Philippe Bourgoignon (Angers); Georges Cleray (Rennes); Jean Georget (Rennes); Jean Lermangier (Rennes); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Marie Robin (Rennes)  References: RB XIX p. 48–50; Muller p. 94; Walsby (Brittany) p. 258; Lepreux IV 101 1993.  Mestre, Gérauld  Active: 1599  Name variations: Meste, Gérauld  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He was a bookseller at the parlement and married Madeleine Carles in 1599. They lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 223 f. 125r 1994.  Mestre, Guillot  Active: 1537–1541  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the quarter of Saint-Sernin.  References: Claudin (2) p. 12 1995.  Mestre, Jacques  Active: 1482–1535  Name variations: Maistre, Jacques  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the father of Antoinette. He bought the house of Gui Brisson in 1482. He was described as a bookseller in 1482, then as a bookbinder in 1489 and 1493. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 215 H 49  References: Claudin (1) p. 8; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 1996. Mestrès, Nicolas  Active: 1518–1538  Name variations: Maistre, Nicolas  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Marguerite Boussac, Auguste’s sister. He worked with Pierre Mestrès. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535 and another to print a breviary for local use.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 103; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 62; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 125 & 130

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1997.  Mestrès, Pierre  Active: 1528–1550  Name variations: Maistre, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He worked with Nicolas Mestrès. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535. He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 103; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 125 & 130 1998.  Metlinger, Peter  Active: 1482–1492  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1482?); Besançon, Franche-Comté (1485–1488); Dole, Franche-Comté (1490); Dijon, Burgundy (1491–1492)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au Petit-Citeaux rue Saint-Philibert’  Biography: Of German origin, he is probably the Petrus Mettlinger of Augsburg who matriculated at the university of Basel in 1461. He was in Paris in the early 1480s working for the Basel publisher Johannes Amerbach whose type he used in his own imprints after having moved to the Franche-Comté. As a master printer, he is known for editions of legal and religious texts executed in Besançon and Dole, finishing his career in nearby Dijon. He was the prototypographer of all three towns. The Cistercian Conrad Leontorius referred to him in 1504 as an Augustinian monk.  Types: TW ma03569 to ma03584, ma14115 to ma14118  References: Clément-Janin p. 1; Skora (Langres); TW of0343, of0353, of0354; Amerbach n° 10 & 66

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1999.  Mettayer, Jamet  Active: 1573–1605  Name variations: Messorius, Jean; Mettayer, Jean  Location: Blois, Touraine (1588– Illustration 98 1589); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594); Signature of Jamet Mettayer, 1591, AD Corbeil, Île-de-France (1590); Paris, Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 Île-de-France (1573–1588 & 1594–1605)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The father of Pierre, he had started his career in Paris in 1573 and had risen to prominence in particular thanks to his royal connections, first becoming the king’s official printer of mathematical books before simply being named ‘Imprimeur du Roy.’ He left Paris after Henry III’s departure following the day of the Barricades in 1588. On his arrival in the Loire Valley he initially sought to work with Barthélemy Gomet in Blois. Together they published four works, first in Blois, then in Tours in 1588 and 1589. Some bibliographers ascribe to Mettayer two brief periods of activity in Tours in 1577 and 1580, but this is based on a misinterpretation of the dates printed on the title pages of retrospective editions of earlier edicts. He had simply published a reissue of the original edict, with its original date on the title page. In a virtually identical edition, this was made more explicit by the insertion of two extra lines on the title page immediately above the date that explained that it was printed ‘Iouxte la coppie imprimee à Paris par Federic Morel’ who had originally published the text in 1577. The second work supposedly printed in Tours was simply an error of transcription (M.D.LXXX. instead of M.D.LXXX.) as the text was only written in 1590. During his time in Tours, Mettayer became the linchpin of the exiled Parisian book world, publishing over 300 editions between 1589 and 1594. He swore an oath of loyalty to the king when he was made his official printer, an act registered by the Tours parlement on 17 January 1590. He sold two of his presses and some of his material to Maurice Bouguereau, as well as his bookseller’s stock in Tours, in 1594. He returned to Paris following the city’s submission and kept his title of printer to the king until his death in 1605.  Commercial partners: Louis de Bonart (Tours); Maurice Bouguereau (Tours); Georges Drobet (Tours); Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Barthélemy Gomet (Blois); Zacharie II Griveau (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Vincent Le Febvre (Tours); Pierre L’Huillier (Blois);

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Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Marc Orry (Tours); Théodore Reinsart; Jean Richer (Tours)  Devices: Silvestre n° 494, 722, 925; Renouard n° 768–773  Motto: ‘Omni prestantior arte’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 73, 272, 278, 298  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AN X/1A 9230 f. 176  References: RB XXIII p. 15–17 & 74–125, XXI p. 15; Muller p. 8, 15 & 113; Porcher p. 72; Giraudet p. 18; Walsby (Mobility) p. 266; Lepreux I 382; Répertoire n° 6960.

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2000. Mettayer, Pierre  Active: 1588–1639  Location: Blois, Touraine (1588); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594); Paris, Île-de-France (1595–1639)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He was Jamet’s son, first marrying Marguerite Bernard and, after her death, Jeanne Bourgeois. He seems to have followed his father to the Loire valley after the Day of the Barricades and is thought to have worked with him in his workshop. He was mainly active in Paris and opened a shop there in his own name in 1595 or 1596. He then followed in his father’s footsteps, using his material and devices, and becoming printer to the king. He later obtained the title of printer to the city of Paris (1602). He died on 3 January 1639 and was succeeded by his widow.  Motto: ‘Omni prestantior arte’, ‘Rectus ubique’  References: Giraudet p. 43; Lepreux I 390; Répertoire n° 6962. 2001.  Meusnier, Daniel  Active: 1578  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He became an apprentice in the shop of René Chassat on 9 September 1578.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 504 2002.  Meyer, Heinrich  Active: 1484–1497  Name variations: Mayer, Henricus  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Basel where he had studied at university, he settled in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter in Toulouse. By 1490 he had racked up considerable debts and ended up in prison in 1491. An ambitious printer, he undertook complex, sometimes illustrated, works that perhaps help explain his financial difficulties. A Mathelin was a journeyman in his workshop where André Fabre and Jacques Walter also worked. Jean Grandjean bought his material in 1501 in a deal in which Johannes Parix intervened to assess the value of the goods. It has also been suggested that Johann Schilling worked in his workshop, but without proof.

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 Commercial partners: Pierre Hongre (Lyon); Johannes Parix (Toulouse)  Device: Silvestre n° 1188; TW ma00892, ma04093, ma04086, ma04087; Polain n° 196 & 197; Meyer n° 182–183  Types: TW ma04071–ma04085, ma00891  References: Claudin (1) p. 7; Blanc-Rouquette p. 17; TW of0183; Répertoire n° 6855. 2003.  Micheau, Guyot  Active: 1498  Name variations: Michot, Guyot  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died before 1523.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 500 2004. Michel, Claude  Active: 1585–1624  Name variations: Michiel, Claude  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1585–1588); Tournon, Languedoc (1588–1624)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he was the brother of the printer Étienne Michel. He married Suzanne Molin, the daughter of a mercer, in August 1585. He started his career in Lyon before leaving the city in the aftermath of his brother’s insolvency to settle in Tournon. There, he became the official printer to the university and imported books from Lyon and in particular from Jean Pillehotte. His proximity to the Jesuits of Tournon was shown by his device that featured the order’s device and the motto ‘the name of God is the strongest tower’ (Proverbs 18:10). He published a number of works with the bookseller Guillaume Linocier after 1589 and worked with institutions of other local towns. In 1597 he was condemned alongside the Lyon bookseller Thomas Soubron for having produced a counterfeit version of an edition by the Parisian bookseller Abel l’Angelier for which they were fined.  Commercial partners: Jacques Faure (Avignon); David de Gabiano (Lyon); Jean de Gabiano (Lyon); Guillaume Linocier (Tournon); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon); Thomas Soubron (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 1067

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 Motto: ‘Beati qui audiunt verbum Dei et custodiunt illud’; ‘Beatus venter qui te portavit et ubera quae suxisti’; Turris fortissima’; ‘Nomen Domini turris fortissima’  Documents: AD Drôme E 8782, E 9358; AM Tain CC74  References: RB VII p. 60–68; Muller p. 13; La Perrière p. [167]; Gallier p. 341; Delalain p. 144; Balsamo & Simonin p. 461; Répertoire n° 7010. 2005.  Michel, Timothée  Active: 1600–1601  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6729 2006. Michonis, Jean  Active: 1477  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  References: Pansier I 154 2007.  Miègeville, Martin  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was originally from Morlas near Lescar. He was an apprentice in Jean Grandjean’s workshop in 1508.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2008. Milhières, Jérôme  Active: 1510  Name variations: Bilhières, Jérôme  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Jean Grandjean in 1510.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2009. Millanges, Antoine  Active: 1581–1587  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller

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he had seven journeymen printers working for him. He died in early June 1623 and was succeeded by his son Jacques who died in turn the following year.  Commercial partners: Lucas Barilhard (Agen); Pierre Barilhard (Agen); Gabriel Buon (Paris); Jean Canut (Toulouse); Aymard Dalvy (Périgueux); Jacques Dangicourt (Fontenay-le-Comte); Pierre Dustin (Rodez); Raphaël du Petit Val (Rouen); Jean de Gabiano (Lyon); Pierre de Ladime (Bordeaux); Guilhem de Lamothe (Bordeaux); Abel L’Angelier (Paris); Jean Mimard (Bayonne); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp); Géraud Raignac (Agen); Jean Savoye (Bordeaux); Guillaume Vergnes (Agen); Jean Veyrat (Lyon)  Device: Silvestre n° 477; BaTyR n° 3049  Motto: ‘Millia millium ministrabant ei’; ‘Labore et studio assequamur’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 21, 44, 74, 98, 123, 126, 140, 152, 189, 242, 295, 349  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 396 n° 266, 1 B 406 n° 276, 1 B 411 n° 128, 1 B 424 n° 359, 1 B 432 n° 254, 1 B 465 n° 483, C 4740, 3 E 14800, G 290; MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334, 110 f. 169, 111 f. 32  References: Desgraves (Millanges); Muller p. 9; RB I p. 29–65; Labadie p. 77; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 559; Cadart; Loirette; Chabé (Pimandre); Bordeaux 108; Delalain p. 128; Balsamo & Simonin p. 460; Répertoire n° 7042. 2011.  Millis, Jean de  Active: 1529–1538  Name variations: Milles, Jean de; Milly, Jean de; Myles, Jean de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was perhaps related to the Lyon bookseller Guillaume de Millis and the numerous other booksellers who bore that surname. He resided in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. It is unclear what his relationship was to his namesake who drew up his will in Avignon a few years later.  References: Claudin (1) p. 157; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Baudrier IV 195 2012.  Millis, Jean de  Active: 1542  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller

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 Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he was the son of Jean with whom he worked. A Protestant, he married Anne Texier in around 1590. He took over his father’s workshop in 1581 but had already set up his own workshop in 1575. He was the official printer to the city of Angoulême and his accommodation was paid for by the municipality. He followed his father’s tradition of reprinting Parisian editions. He died in 1602.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Berton (La Rochelle); Jacques du Peyron (Bordeaux); Jean IV de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Main (Poitiers); Jean de Minières (Angoulême)  Device: Silvestre n° 814  Motto: ‘Per verbum Draco victus est’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 70  References: Muller p. 4; RB II p. 17–25; Desgraves (Angoulême) p. 935; Fleury p. 20; Répertoire n° 7060. 2017.  Miraillet, Paul  Active: 1567  Location: Crêches-sur-Saône, Burgundy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Jacques Betz in the sixth volume of the Répertoire bibliographique reasserts that Miraillet published the only work printed in Crêches-sur-Saône during the sixteenth century, but Baudrier showed that the device had been altered. Furthermore, Miraillet died in 1557, ten years before the book was printed and was never active as a printer, only as a bookseller. The device had undoubtedly been sold on and was reused once Miraillet’s initials had been chiselled out. The real printer is therefore yet to be identified, though Baudrier suggested that it might have been Benoît Rigaud in Lyon for a bookseller based in Crêches.  Motto: ‘Non veni pacem mitere sed gladum’  References: Muller p. 15; RB VI p. 65; Baudrier III 116 Mirebeau, see Gachon, Pierre 2018.  Mitantier, Pierre  Active: 1562–1606  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He married Jacquette Houssier who was godmother to Blaise Boutart’s daughter on 24 August 1589. His shop was taken over

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by the printer Blaise Boutart. He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247, F 261, F 265, F 272, F 274, F 276, GG 7 15 f. 17v  References: Turquois p. 353 2019.  Moine, Jean  Active: 1555–1577  Name variations: Moyne, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the brother of Pierre I with whom he worked in partnership between 1557 and 1560. They published on a variety of subjects ranging from legal works to educational books, all published in the smaller formats. Their device was used by Aimé Mesnier in 1598. He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  Commercial partners: Pierre Moine (Poitiers); Bertrand Noscereau (Poitiers)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XXV  Motto: ‘Post tenebras spero lucem’  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 94–95; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 269; Répertoire n° 7084. 2020.  Moine, Pierre I  Active: 1540–1579  Name variations: Moyne, Pierre  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la salle du palais près le parquet’  Biography: The brother of Jean, he worked in partnership with him between 1557 and 1560. After that date, he published alone despite the fact that his brother was still active as a bookseller. They published on a variety of subjects ranging from legal works to educational books, all published in the smaller formats. Their device was later used by Aimé Mesnier in 1598. He lived in the parish of Saint-Germain in 1540. He died before 1584.  Commercial partners: Étienne Delugré (Poitiers); Jean Moine (Poitiers); Pierre Portier (Saint-Maixent)  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XXV  Motto: ‘Post tenebras spero lucem’

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 Documents: AD Vienne G 1171  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 94–95; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 269; Clouzot (1907) p. 49; Répertoire n° 7085. 2021.  Moine, Pierre II  Active: 1592–1597  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The nature his relationship to the other Moines of Poitiers is unclear. He is indicated as owning land in Bonnillet in 1592 and as renting a stall in the royal palace previously used by Jacquette Regnault in 1597.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 269 2022.  Moingesse, Claude de  Active: 1590–1593  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Guignoire with whom he had Simon (11 January 1586), Isabelle (13 February 1588), Catherine (24 November 1590), and Felix (19 March 1593). He was condemned along with Nicolas on 28 January 1593 for selling copies of Louis Gollut’s Mémoires historiques which, though it was printed in nearby Dole (USTC 6345), was seen as dangerous for both the city of Besançon and the authority of the Emperor. They both pleaded ignorance of the book’s content.  References: AM Besançon BB 43 f. 85v, GG 170 f. 10 & 17, GG 171 f. 9, GG 172 f. 2 2023.  Moingesse, Florent de  Active: 1569  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He requested and obtained the position of verger of the university of Dole on 23 July 1569.  References: AM Besançon BB 32 f. 105r 2024.  Moingesse, Nicolas de  Active: 1591–1622  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He married Antonie Longue in February 1586. By 7 November 1599 they had relocated to the parish of Saint-Pierre where they had a daughter named Marguerite baptised. The bookseller Pierre Mouchas was named as her godfather. Another daughter, Françoise, was baptised in 1603 and Raymond Colomiès was named as her godfather.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 102 f. 18r, GG 524 2027.  Molinier, Jacques  Active: 1509–1536  Name variations: Mounié, Jacques; Moune, Jacques; Moynier, Jacques; Moyne, Jacques; Monier, Jacques  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511 before becoming the corporation’s administrator (bayle) in 1524. He resided in the SaintPierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city before moving to the Daurade quarter by 1536. He stocked the books of the Lyon bookseller Martin Boillon whom he represented in the city.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Antoine Foissac (Montauban); Jean Grandjean (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 6184 67r, 3 E 12003 n° 45  References: RB XX p. 64; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 23; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 2028.  Molinier, Jean  Active: 1546–1565  Name variations: Moulnier, Jean; Mounier, Jean; Moynier, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines in 1546. As a publisher, he commissioned a number of works between 1551 and 1554, mostly legal texts with his local colleague Guyon Boudeville who printed the editions. The rest were produced in Lyon by Macé Bonhomme, who appeared alongside him on the title pages.  Commercial partners: Macé Bonhomme (Lyon); Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jean de Fleurs (Toulouse); Jean Perrin (Toulouse)

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 Device: Silvestre n° 505  Motto: ‘Duce virtute comite glora’; ‘Ou vertu guide honneur suit’  References: RB XX p. 163; Claudin (2) p. 100 2029. Molinier, Marguerite de  Active: 1593–1630  Name variations: Colomiez, veuve Jacques; Colomiès, veuve Jacques II  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Saint-Orens’; ‘Rue Dagulheres, devant les moines Saint-Sernin à l’enseigne du Nom de Jésus’  Biography: She married Jacques II Colomiès who she succeeded in 1593. Amongst others, she printed for the Estates of Languedoc. She was named godmother to the daughters of the bookseller Jean Chasot in 1584 and of the local official Arnaud Viguier in 1602.  Commercial partners: Raymond Colomiès (Toulouse)  Motto: ‘In te Domini speravi’  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 1 J 866, C 699; AM Toulouse GG 523, GG 574 f. 18v, GG 557 p. 253  References: RB XX p. 192–194; Muller p. 112; Arbour p. 145; Répertoire n° 2206. 2030.  Molinier, Pierre  Active: 1510–1515  Name variations: Moinié, Pierre; Moynier, Pierre; Monier, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511.  References: Claudin (1) p. 19; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–1 2031.  Mollard, Olivier  Active: 1545  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He was described as a printer to the king in Bordeaux in 1545 by Desgraves. The document on which this was based, in fact referred to Olivier Mallard, who was active in Paris and Rouen and was simply acting as a proxy in Bordeaux for Martin du Bellay.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 563

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2032.  Momoton, Jean  Active: 1549–1563  Name variations: Monmolon; Momelo, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Anne de Pis in February 1563 and lived in the parish of Le Taur. He was probably the same person as the ‘Jean Momelo’ living in the Saint-Sernin quarter in 1549 and the ‘Monmolon’ arrested as a Protestant during the 1562 purges.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 220 f. 99v  References: Haag II 53; Claudin (2) p. 106 2033.  Monestier, Antoine  Active: 1514–1531  Name variations: Du Monestiers, Antoine; Monestiès, Antoine  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1514); Toulouse, Languedoc (1528–1531)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was Henri’s nephew. His uncle made him his heir in 1514, at which point he was active in Lyon. He was later to settle durably in Toulouse in the Saint-Étienne quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (1) p. 158; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Martin (Le Puy) 2034.  Monestier, Henri  Active: 1514  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was originally from Saint-Pol-de-Léon in Brittany and was the uncle of Antoine. He sourced the books he sold in Lyon and also seems to have been active in Mende, where he perhaps also had a shop. He wrote his will on 5 June 1514 making his nephew his heir. The Mende bookseller Antoine Astruc and the Lyon printer Aymon Juste were named as possible executors. He died that same year.  Commercial partners: Antoine Amouroux (Le Puy); Aymon Juste (Lyon)  References: Martin (Le Puy) p. 6 2035.  Mons, Antoine de  Active: 1585–1586  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la Porterie’

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 Biography: He married Jeanne de Labarie in January 1586 and resided in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 221 f. 170r 2036.  Monson, Noffre  Active: 1529  Location: Limoux, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition, a breviary for local use (USTC 111550).  References: RB XVIII p. 89 2037.  Montagnac, Jean  Active: 1531  Location: Agen, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He stocked books sent to him by the Lyon publisher Simon Vincent.  Commercial partners: Simon Vincent (Lyon)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 70 2038.  Montar, Antoine de  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was an apprentice to Jean Grandjean in 1508.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2039.  Monteil, Claude  Active: 1588  Location: Grasse-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son-in-law of Jean Baro.  Commercial partners: Jean Baro (Sisteron); Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 237 2040. Montel, René  Active: 1541–1549  Name variations: Moutel, René

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 Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known as a publisher for works of local interest that he commissioned in partnership with other local booksellers. He was a bookseller to the university of Angers.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Buffet (Paris); Jacques Buraudier (Angers); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Claude Piverd (Angers)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 190; Répertoire n° 7153. 2041.  Montignon, Jacques  Active: 1547–1549  Location: Nevers, Nivernais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He bought books in Paris and in Bourges by correspondence.  Commercial partners: Marc Guérin (Bourges); Guillaume Le Bret (Paris); Denise de Marnef (Paris)  References: Delisle 2042.  Montpézat, Arnauld Guillaume  Active: 1518  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Espaon, he was employed in the workshop of Jean Grandjean in 1518.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2043.  Montricoci, Arnauld  Active: 1535  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (2) p. 8 2044.  Montr’oeil, Claude de  Active: 1564–1604  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1564–1588 & 1599–1604); Blois, Touraine (1588–1589); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594)  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: He was placed for his apprenticeship in 1564 in the shop of Jean Syonneau in Paris. He married Catherine, the daughter of the printer Guillaume II Nyverd and Noëlle Paquot. He spent most of his career in the city but left in the aftermath of the Day of the Barricades in 1588 and joined the court in Blois and later in Tours. There he signed an agreement to publish a host of titles in partnership with other Parisian exiles. He returned to Paris following the city’s submission. He died in 1604 and was succeeded by his widow.  Commercial partners: Amadis Dagoubert (Tours); Georges Drobet (Tours); Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Marc Orry (Tours); Jean Richer (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252, 3E5/250  References: RB XXIII p. 18–19 & 126–132; Muller p. 8 & 113; Porcher p. 78; BVH Minutes; Giraudet p. 18; Répertoire n° 7143. 2045.  Morange, Pierre  Active: 1523–1533  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller (?), publisher  Biography: A merchant of Clermont, he seems also to have played the role of bookseller-publisher. An imprint produced in Paris by Claude Chevallon (USTC 145606), though the book itself bears no mention of Morange, was printed on his behalf, as is revealed by the contract set up for its publication. He acted as a proxy for the Parisian bookseller Jean Petit when he needed to receive a payment from the bookseller Michel Graciade. He also purveyed paper.  Commercial partners: Claude Chevallon (Paris); Michel Graciade (Clermont); Jean Petit (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII carton 13 f. 447v, étude XXXIII carton 7 f. 408  References: Egullion p. 108; Coyecque p. 168; Jimenes p. 50 & 192; BVH Minutes 2046.  Moreau  Active: 1589  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was suspected of being a royalist at the beginning of the wars of the Catholic League. He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  Documents: AM Dijon B 227 ff. 66–67  References: Gros p. 116

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2047.  Moreau, Denis  Active: 1592–1593  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42 2048. Moreau, François  Active: 1591–1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272, F 274  References: Turquois p. 352 2049.  Moreau, Gilbert  Active: 1580  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261  References: Turquois p. 353 2050.  Moreau, Jean  Active: 1548  Location: Vendôme, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  References: Rochambeau p. 26 2051.  Moreau, Jean I  Active: 1559–1589  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He inherited the workshop of Jean II Le Coq as he was his son-in-law and used the Le Coq device on his imprints. Like the Le Coqs, he worked extensively for the Church. He was an active member of the local trade representing his colleagues at a municipal gathering in 1562 and signing in their name the text sent to the Estates General meeting of 1576. He was the official printer to the king in Troyes, though in this he was opposed to Claude Garnier who had his right confirmed on 21 November 1583. During the wars of the Catholic League, he

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obtained a general privilege from the League’s council in Paris to print all works on the developing political situation. This led him to adopt the title of official printer to the League. He was the wealthiest printer of Troyes and lived in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Pierre Chevillot (Troyes); Jean II Oudot (Troyes); Gilles Vatard (Troyes)  Documents: AM Troyes AA 40 n. 37, F 247, F 261, F 265, F 272; AN X/1a 9189 f. 113, X/1b 712  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 51–68; Troyes p. 129; Corrard de Breban p. 59; Lepreux II 167; Turquois p. 352; Assier p. 107; Morin (Ligue) p. 6; Répertoire n° 7173. 2052. Moreau, Jean II  Active: 1589–1597  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près notre dame’  Biography: He styled himself the official printer to the king in Troyes in 1590 and one of the official printers of the Catholic League following the death of Jean I, a fact he advertised on his title pages. His choice of virulent works led the local cathedral chapter in October 1590 to require that he should submit his texts for their approval before publication. He also hid behind false addresses, using Didier Millot’s name on at least one of his imprints, as well as those of Nicolas and Pierre du Boys in Châlons-en-Champagne. As part of a consortium of booksellers, he opposed a privilege that was given to Jean II Collet in 1594. He had died before 1597.  References: Turquois p. 352; Morin (Troyes) p. 24 2053.  Moreau, Macé I  Active: 1544–1550  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, pedlar  Biography: A Protestant, he was sentenced by the Paris parlement on 5 October 1546 to be burnt for having peddled prohibited books. The volumes had been provided by Laurent de Normandie.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AN X/2a 95

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 References: Muller p. 114–115; Troyes p. 128; Corrard de Breban p. 58; Lepreux II 166; Turquois p. 354; Morin (Troyes) p. 20 2054. Moreau, Macé II  Active: 1591  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2055.  Moreau, Noël  Active: 1595–1636  Name variations: Also known as Le Coq  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, printer  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame, à l’enseigne du coq’  Biography: He was the son of Jean, married Barbe Taffignon and resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. He succeeded his father and took over the running of the workshop that had traditionally belonged to the Lecoqs whose name he appended to his own. He also printed copper engravings. By the end of the century the amount of taxation he paid had multiplied by ten, proof of a successful business. He died in 1636; an inventory of his stock was carried out in 1638. The sole edition attributed by Jacques Betz to a Noël Moreau in 1545 in the volume of the Répertoire bibliographique (RB XII p. 34) was undoubtedly printed in the seventeenth century by this printer. Nicolas II Oudot succeeded him.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274, F 275, F 276  References: Morin (Heures) p. 151; Lepreux II 171; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 282; Répertoire n° 7178. 2056.  Moreau, Pierre  Active: 1540  Location: La Ferté-Bernard, Maine  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Macé des Bois (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII 172 2057.  Moreau, veuve Jean I  Active: 1591–1597  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: She lived in the Beffroy quarter, the wealthiest in the city, and paid the considerable sum of 6 lt in tax in 1597.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272, F 274, F 275 2058.  Morel, Cardin  Active: 1521  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Amand.  References: Gosselin p. 80; Lepreux III 326 2059.  Morel, Claude  Active: 1600  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: His activity in Rouen is linked to a single imprint (USTC 64202). The reliability of the address is, however, dubious. Claude Morel was otherwise consistently active in Paris where he had just set up shop a year earlier, moreover the edition features a spelling of the town that is generally associated only to false imprints (Rouan), the title page bears the device of the Parisian Antoine du Breuil and was probably printed by him.  References: Muller p. 96–103; F. Lachèvre, Les recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques publiés depuis 1600 jusqu’à la mort de Théophile, 1626 (Paris: H. Champion, 1922) suppl. p. 5; Lepreux I 435 2060. Morelli, Johannes  Active: 1476–1477  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He worked in association with Jean de La Tour.  Commercial partners: Jean de La Tour (Angers)  Device: TW ma03547  Types: TW ma03542, ma03543, ma03544, ma03545, ma03546  References: Pasquier p. 163; TW of0337 2061.  Morice, Gilet  Active: 1488  Location: Chartres, Orléanais

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was also described as a scribe and lived in the parish of Saint-Michel.  References: Jusselin p. 4 2062.  Morice, Henri  Active: 1547  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: Though he was described as a bookbinder, he was arrested and tried by the Chambre ardente in Paris for selling a number of pernicious books. He was sentenced on 18 May 1547 to do amende honorable in front of the church of Saint-Gargan in Tours.  References: Weiss p. 5 2063.  Moriceau, Barthelémy  Active: 1591  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint which described him on the title page as the printer to the city (USTC 21177). However, this was in fact printed with the material of the Poitiers printer François Le Page who shared the edition – though his issue no longer survives. It is unclear if Le Page took his material to Limoges or, as seems more likely, he printed for Moriceau in Poitiers.  Commercial partners: François Le Page (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 21; RB III p. 43; Guibert 17; Fray-Fournier Morin, see Bigin, Nicolas 2064. Morin, André  Active: 1592  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 239 2065.  Morin, Jean  Active: 1522–1534  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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 Role: Printer  Address: ‘Devant l’église Saint-Jean à la fleur de lys’ (after 1534)  Biography: He was the eldest son of Martin and inherited his father’s workshop. Louis Bouvet acted as a proxy for him after his father’s death, securing a shop in his name in 1534. His production, with the exception of a single missal (USTC 111411), is unknown.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6270  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 82; B. Normande p. 279; Lepreux III 333 2066. Morin, Jean  Active: 1527–1544  Name variations: Moron, Jean  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de l’aiguillerie’  Biography: He married Anne de Linières with whom he had at least two children.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121, G 1184  References: Pasquier p. 190 & 191; Port II 744 2067.  Morin, Jean  Active: 1588  Location: Le Mans, Maine; Paris, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la grande église de Saint-Julien’ (Le Mans); ‘Rue des Amandiers, près les Grassins’ (Paris)  Biography: He was simultaneously active in Paris and Le Mans.  References: RB XXVIII; Renouard p. 318; Répertoire n° 7210. 2068.  Morin, Martin  Active: 1483–1522  Name variations: Morinus, Martinus  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1483–1487); Rouen, Normandy (1490–1522)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le prieuré de Saint-Lô, à l’enseigne Saint Eustache’  Biography: Born in Orbec, probably around 1460, he had two sons from his first marriage: Jean, who inherited his workshop, and Romain,

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who became a printer in Lyon. A third son, from his second marriage, also named Jean, became a bookseller in Paris. His second wife was Marguerite Bruyère who survived him and remarried to the Parisian bookseller Robert Regnault. He served his apprenticeship in Paris, between 1483 and 1487, and was employed as a journeyman in the workshop of Guillaume Le Talleur in Rouen until 1491, when he succeeded him. He looked after the distribution of some of his own editions, selling sometimes large quantities to booksellers in Normandy, but also further afield. He seems to have been very successful, residing in his own spacious town house in the parish of Saint-Lô by 1505. In 1509, he set up a local proxy in Amiens to receive payment and the return of hundreds of volumes he had sent to be sold in the shop of the bookseller Jean Laurens. His address was indicated in French on his device. He died in 1522.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Gilles Dufour (Amiens); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Louis Gaulmier (Alençon); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Jean Laurens (Amiens); Guillaume Le Fevre (Beauvais); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Pierre Le Paveur (Amiens); Guillaume Le Talleur (Rouen); Robert I Macé (Caen); Girard Neel (Falaise); Antoine Papolin (Nantes); Michel Papolin (Nantes); Pierre Regnault (Rouen); Jean I Richard (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 68, 715 & 716; Polain n° 189 & 190; Meyer n° 178; BaTyR n° 2884; TW ma04015  Types: TW ma03985–ma04014, ma14043; Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 58; Jennings p. 246–247  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 216, G 7419; AM Amiens FF 33 f. 53v  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB XIV p. 19–47; B. Normande p. 5–33; Gosselin p. 55–59; Labarre p. 337; TW of0426; Duff p. 107; Lepreux III 327; Renouard p. 318; Aquilon p. 306; Hellinga p. 217; Delalain p. 140; Répertoire n° 7212. 2069. Morin, Odet  Active: 1580  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Grande Rue’  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 49

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2070.  Morin, Pierre  Active: 1502–1530  Name variations: also known as de Romme  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite and had died before 1541.  Documents: AD Vienne G 1707, G 1709  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 248 2071.  Morin, Pierre  Active: 1590–1622  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant bookseller, he fought a number of court cases against local merchants in the early seventeenth century. His inheritance was appraised and split between his inheritors after his death in 1632.  Commercial partners: René Troismailles (Niort)  Documents: AD Charente-Maritime B 1473, B 1537, B 1538  References: Audiat p. 42 2072.  Morin, Robert  Active: 1514  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 218 2073.  Moriset, Gabriel  Active: 1592  Name variations: Morisset, Gabriel  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice printer  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Pierre de Ladime.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 572 2074.  Morpain, François  Active: 1521–1563  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer

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 Address: ‘Près des Carmes’  Biography: Originally from Saint-Vincent d’Ivrac, he married Marie Geoffre, who took over his workshop at his death. He became an apprentice to Jean Guyart on 28 March 1521, and was described as a printer in his own right in 1541, succeeding his master. He modernised the workshop and the output adopting Roman type and venturing into new fields: he was responsible for the first known imprint in Basque, the Linguæ Vasconum Primitiæ, for which he obtained a privilege in 1545. Most of his output was traditional, however. He was a printer to the local university which he supplied with books, and produced a large number of edicts for which he obtained privileges from the local parlement as well as religious works. He died in 1563.  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 140  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 105 n° 9, 1 B 115 n° 158, 1 B 121 n° 341, 1 B 133 n° 4v, 1 B 126 n° 221, 1 B 127 n° 38, 1 B 136 n° 174, 1 B 146 n° 109, 1 B 147 n° 59, 1 B 159 n° 133, 1 B 160 n° 60, 1 B 175 n° 61, 1 B 187 n° 161, 1 B 191 n° 184, 1 B 210 n° 459, 1 B 212 n° 116, 1 B 228 n° 47, 1 B 257 n° 207, C 4087, E LXVII 7  References: Muller p. 9; RB I p. 18–21; Labadie p. 84; Delpit p. 68; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 574; Patry p. 99; Répertoire n° 7223. 2075.  Morront, Guillaume  Active: 1595  Name variations: Maurond, Guillaume; Maurront, Guillaume; Morond, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au grand portail Nostre Dame’  Biography: He was the father of Adrien who followed him into the trade.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3452  References: Mellot p. 194 2076.  Mortières, Lucas de  Active: 1563  Location: Saint-Désert, Burgundy  Role: Printer  References: Belle p. 493

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2077.  Motin, Pierre  Active: 1509–1528  Name variations: Moti, Pierre; Moty, Pierre; Mot, Pierre; Mutin, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He took part in the literary academy known as the ‘collège de la Gaie Science’. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He stocked books that he obtained from the Lyon bookseller Cyriac Hochberg. Gervais Bolet worked for him.  Commercial partners: Cyriac Hochberg (Lyon)  References: Claudin (1) p. 17; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 2078.  Mottier, Amans  Active: 1549  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a daughter named Françoise.  References: Lançon p. 212 2079.  Mottier, Claude  Active: 1579–1624  Name variations: Motier, Claude; Moutier, Claude  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  Biography: He was the son of Jean and was born in around 1562. He worked as a binder and a stationer for the local authorities. He also acted as publisher in the early seventeenth century. His son and inheritor, Jean, became a notary.  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 125; Lançon p. 213 2080. Mottier, Jean  Active: 1547–1569  Name variations: Motier, Jean; Mothier, Jean; Jean de Lyon  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’ (1553)

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 Biography: He was described as having come from Lyon, where he undoubtedly learnt his trade, to settle in Rodez. He married Hélix Celles, with whom he had a son, Claude, who followed him into the trade. They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame. He was owed over 400 lt by his brother-in-law, Gabriel Celles, a student, in 1565. He is known for having published two volumes printed in Lyon. His success is shown by his gradual expansion, moving into a prime commercial location in 1553 on the square of the new market, before opening a second stall four years later. He died on 14 November 1569.  Commercial partners: Corneille Septgranges (Lyon)  Documents: AD Aveyron 3 E 1707 f. 213  References: RB XVIII p. 117; Muller p. 96; Affre p. 95; Lançon p. 212 2081.  Mottier, Pierre  Active: 1582–1584  Name variations: Mathieu, Pierre  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He attended the fairs of Lyon and still owed money to Antoine Gryphe in 1583 for books that he had bought. The debt was then passed on to Jean de Tournes and Symphorien Béraud.  Commercial partners: Antoine Gryphe (Lyon); Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 127; Cartier p. 151 2082.  Mouchar, Jean  Active: 1575–1577  Name variations: Mouchart, Jean  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A fictitious printer whose name was probably used by a printer from Basel.  References: RB XVII p. 111; Muller p. 93; Lepreux II 293; Brunet p. 153; Répertoire n° 7251. 2083.  Mouchas, Pierre  Active: 1599  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was named as godfather to Marguerite, the daughter of the bookseller Antoine Molinet on 7 November 1599.

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 Documents: AM Toulouse GG 524 2084.  Moulin, Bastien  Active: 1517–1525  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of Pierre.  References: Gosselin p. 72 2085.  Moulin, Pierre  Active: 1560–1561  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller Illustration 101  Biography: He was the son Signature of Pierre Moulin, 1560, AD of Bastien and lived in the Seine-Maritime 2E1 432 parish of Saint-Michel.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Mullot (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/432 p. 57  References: Gosselin p. 73 2086.  Moulinier, Raymond  Active: 1598  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, printer  Biography: He married Jeanne Denis and died before 18 November 1601.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 499 2087.  Mourot, Martin  Active: 1502–1527  Location: Longeville-en-Barrois, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in around 1450, he was a priest but learnt printing and published a series of religious works, some at the behest of the duke of Lorraine. His device was copied on that of Pierre Jacobi with whom he had probably perfected his knowledge of printing. His imprints are remarkable for the high quality of the typographical work undertaken.  Motto: ‘Memento mori’  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1006

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 References: Muller p. 22; RB VII p. 7; Dannreuther; Marot; Jacquot p. 17; Lepreux II 382; Beaupré (Recherches) p. 27; Répertoire n° 7270. 2088.  Mousnyer, Rose  Active: 1578  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Apprentice printer  Biography: The daughter of a merchant, she was taken on as an apprentice for two years in the workshop Morineau Philippon.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 50 2089.  Moynet, Claude  Active: 1539–1569  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Puch-des-Cazaux’ (1549), ‘Rue Saint-James’ (1550)  Biography: He married Marianne Bodeau. As a bookseller, he was close to the local Parlement and had obtained the right to charge 50 sous for those who wished to set up stall near the institution’s pillars. He was named as an executor of Étienne Thoulouse’s will in 1552.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 192 n° 99, 1 B 198 n° 48, 1 B 221 n° 75, 1 B 246 n° 257, 1 B 258 n° 331, 1 B 260 n° 77, C 4087, G 3077 f. 2, G 3079  References: Labadie p. 86; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 576; Giteau 2090. Moyssac, Pierre  Active: 1579  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a daughter named Marguerite baptised in the parish of Saint-Pierre on 25 November 1579.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 522 2091.  Moysset, Danier  Active: 1589  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer  Biography: A Protestant, he was born in 1563. He married Michelle Janyn (marriage contract dated 24 August 1589). Timothée Jouan attended his wedding. Members of his family were inhabitants of Geneva in 1589.

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 Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/247  References: BVH Minutes 2092.  Mulart, Étienne  Active: 1547  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Pedlar  Biography: He was arrested in Langres and accused of carrying scandalous books along with Adrien Canal. They were taken to be tried by the Chambre ardente in Paris where they were heard on 17 August 1547.  References: Weiss p. 13 2093.  Mullot, Guillaume  Active: 1550–1582  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Made­ leine Chenu and lived in the parish Illustration 102 of Saint-Jean. He was described as a Signature of Guillaume Mullot, 1550, burgher of the city. He died before AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 1302 1583 and was survived by his widow.  Commercial partners: Pierre Hubault (Rouen); Pierre Moulin (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/405 p. 416, 2E1/438 p. 53, 2E1/442 f. 282r, 2E1/1302 f. 34v, 2E1/1305 p. 43  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 73; Lepreux III 335 2094.  Mullot, Nicolas I  Active: 1509–1521  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He worked as a printer alongside Richard Goupil and Jacques Le Forestier early in his career. He seems to have been a successful businessman who could afford to lend money other members of the trade such as Jamet Loys and, in 1520, Guillaume Aubérée (25 lt). He bought Robert Paré’s house in the ‘rue Étoupée’ in 1520, but continued to reside in the parish of Saint-Jean.  Commercial partners: Richard Goupil (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Richard Macé (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 68 & 75; Lepreux III 335

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2095.  Mullot, Nicolas II  Active: 1573–1599  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue écuyère, au nom de Jésus’  Biography: The father of Pierre, he was described as ‘late’ in 1599, but a book appeared under his name in the same year. He tended not to date the books he published.  Commercial partners: Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen); Richard Petit (Rouen); Jean Vattes (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2171  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 194; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 335; Aquilon p. 306 2096. Mullot, Pierre  Active: 1559  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII 254 2097.  Mullot, Pierre  Active: 1599–[1614]  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au nom de Jésus’  Biography: The son of Nicolas II, he was a master bookseller in 1599.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 194; Lepreux III 335 2098.  Muret, Pierre  Active: 1514  Location: Bort-les-Orgues, Limousin  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bordalet (Laval); Mathieu du Mont (Toulouse) References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2099.  Mustel, Jean  Active: 1536–1561  Name variations: Mutel, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1536–1551); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1551)

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived initially in the parish of Saint-Éloi before relocating to Saint-Maclou in 1538. A Protestant, he fled to Geneva in 1551.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  Documents: AE Genève Archives de Famille, Normandie, 2 bis art. 378  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie); Gosselin p. 94; Lesens p. 332 2100.  Mustel, Michel  Active: 1533  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen though his shop was at the law courts.  References: Gosselin p. 93 2101.  Myllar, André  Active: 1503–1508  Name variations: Myllar, Andrew  Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (1503 and 1507–1508); Rouen, Normandy (1505–1506)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: Along with Walter Chepman, he was responsible for introducing the first presses into Scotland. Chepman sent him to Rouen to learn his trade and acquire the necessary material to print in Edinburgh. Whilst in Rouen he had at least two works printed for him by Pierre Violette. The device he later used was undoubtedly cut during his stay in the city. He probably died in 1508.  Commercial partners: Pierre Violette (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; Duff p. 108; ODNB Naples, see Raquet 2102. Narvoust, Blaise  Active: 1548  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Printer  Commercial partners: Pierre Jouault (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 12

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2109.  Neel, Girard  Active: 1515  Location: Falaise, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Louis Gaulmier (Alençon); Martin Morin (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 17; RB XIV p. 7 2110.  Negre, Guillaume  Active: 1533–1546  Name variations: Lonegre, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city with Thomas de Fert between 1536 and 1546. A Guillaume Negre, listed simply as a merchant, was arrested as a Protestant during the 1562 purges.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Haag II 52; Claudin (2) p. 10 2111.  Nepveu, Georges  Active: 1586–1623  Name variations: Neveu, Georges  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la Chaussée Saint Pierre’  Biography: He married the widow of the bookseller Jean Poupy, Denise Hotot, on 13 February 1586 in the parish of Saint-Maurille. A resident of the parish of Saint-Pierre, he was a sworn bookseller to the university of Angers. The bookseller René Huard was godfather to his daughter, Julienne, in 1586. He had a son, also named Georges, who entered the trade.  Device: Silvestre n° 222  Documents: AM Angers GG 112 f. 22r

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 References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 191 2112.  Nervault, Vincent  Active: 1548–1559  Name variations: Nervoust, Vincent; Narmont, Vincent  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Documents: AM Troyes F 233, F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353 2113.  Neumeister, Johann  Active: 1470–1507  Name variations: Numeister, Johann  Location: Foligno, Italian States (1470–1472); Mainz, Holy Roman Empire (1479–1480); Albi, Languedoc (1481–1482); Lyon, Lyonnais (1483–1507)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Of German origin, he claimed to be from Mainz in his colophons and it is possible that he learnt his trade in Gutenberg’s workshop. He worked in Italy, where he printed the first edition of Dante’s Divine comedy, before returning to Mainz. He soon left once more, this time for France, printing in Albi before settling in Lyon. There, he failed to set up a successful business, falling into poverty and having to work for Michel Topié.  Types: TW ma03539–ma03541  References: TW of0126; F. Barbier, ‘Émigration et transferts culturels : les typographes allemands et les débuts de l’imprimerie en France au XV e siècle’, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, CLV (2011), 651– 679; Portal p. 220. 2114.  Neustadt, Gerhard von  Active: 1481–1483  Name variations: Nova Civitate, Gerhardus de  Location: Trier, Holy Roman Empire (1481); Metz, Three Bishoprics (1481–1482); Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (1483)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Of German origin, he worked in Cologne and Trier before leaving for Metz where he briefly settled. He was the prototypographer of that city where he worked with Johannes Colini, before moving on to Cologne.

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 Commercial partners: Johannes Colini (Metz); Nikolaus Goetz (Cologne); Johann Guldenschaff (Cologne)  Types: TW ma06328–ma06330  References: TW of0365; Répertoire n° 7359. 2115.  Nicolas, Barthelémy  Active: 1520  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Martin (Le Puy) p. 9 2116.  Nicolas, Claude  Active: 1564–1567  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Maignien p. LXXVI 2117.  Nicolas, Jean  Active: 1592–1593  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42 2118. Nicolay, Jacques  Active: 1491–1500  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Principale.  References: Pansier I 154 2119. Nicolet, Georges  Active: 1508–1510  Name variations: Nycollet, Georges; Nicholet, Georges  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place Sainte Croix’  Biography: He married Jeanne, with whom he had a son named Georges in 1508. As a publisher, he is only known for a single work that he published in partnership with other Angevine booksellers (USTC 112153).

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 Commercial partners: Jean Arnoul (Angers); Léon Cailler (Angers); Mathieu Latheron (Tours)  References: RB XXVI; Pasquier p. 192 2120.  Nicolle, Guillaume  Active: 1529  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Perelle Gelée and lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 92 2121.  Nicou, Claude  Active: 1584–1587  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was an apprentice to César Luquet on 31 July 1584 before moving on to Antoine Gouzet’s shop on 11 January 1587.  Documents: AD Gard 2 E 37/109 2122.  Nobilly, Germain I  Active: 1570–1595  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘En la grande rue, proche Saint-Germain’  Biography: He married Madeleine du Boys, the daughter of the bookseller Rémi, with whom he had Germain II, who succeeded him.  References: Lepreux II 298; Lhote p. 13 2123.  Nobilly, Germain II  Active: 1595–1635  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘En la grande rue, proche Saint-Germain’  Biography: The son of Germain I, he was born in 1570 and took over his father’s shop in around 1595. He married Catherine Leconvert in 1594. As a bookseller, he worked with the local bishopric, only becoming a printer in 1615. He retired in 1635 and died on 23 November 1637.  References: Lepreux II 298; Lhote p. 31

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2124.  Nogent, Noël de  Active: 1584–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Despite living in the Beffroy quarter, the wealthiest of the city, he was described as poor in 1585.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265  References: Turquois p. 354 2125.  Noguier, Jacques  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He took on Bernard de Abat as an apprentice bookseller in his shop in 1511.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 54v 2126.  Noscereau, Bertrand  Active: 1557–1572  Name variations: Nauzereau, Bertrand  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Enseigne de Saint-Martial’, ‘En la grande salle du palais’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle. He was bookseller to the town and university of Poitiers. Though seemingly a Catholic, he was accused of taking part in the ransacking of the cathedral in 1562. A very active printer, he is known for almost a hundred editions, the majority of which were edicts and ordinances. A number of these imprints were copied on the Parisian editions of publishers such as Robert Estienne or Jean Dallier. In the final year of his career, he acted solely as a publisher alongside the local printer Aimé Mesnier, who was his cousin and who replaced him in his official capacities.  Commercial partners: Louis Contis (Poitiers); Aimé Mesnier (Poitiers); Jean Moine (Poitiers)  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 81–93; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 180; Clouzot (1907) p. 49; Répertoire n° 7427. 2127.  Nouvelles, Étienne de  Active: 1522–1548

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 Name variations: Novellys, Étienne de; Denouvelles, Étienne; Nouvel, Étienne de; Nouvelles, Étienne de  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Born in Montferrat in Italy, he had moved to Lyon where he lived for over a decade. Whilst in that city he married and then moved to Poitiers before 1522. There, he lived in the parish of Saint-Porchaire. He had at least three children and was naturalised French in July 1546.  Commercial partners: Vincent de Portonariis (Lyon)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XLIX 23, JJ 257(1) n. 231 f. 120  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 263; Clouzot (1907) p. 50 Nova Civitate, Gerhardus de, see Villeneuve, Gérard de Novalius, Guilielmus, see La Nouaille, Guillaume de 2128.  Noyron, Gaultier  Active: 1467–1501  Name variations: Héron, Gaultier; Néron, Gautier  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was successively described as a ‘libratier’ in 1483 and then a bookseller in 1493, at which point he was in business with his son, Geoffroy. He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2519, G 2925  References: Gosselin p. 55; Beaurepaire p. 396 2129.  Noyron, Geoffroy  Active: 1493  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was in business with his father, Gaultier.  References: Gosselin p. 55 Nuss, Jean de, see Mes, Jean de

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2130.  Nyon, Jean  Active: 1598–1644  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Born in October 1573, he was the son of Michel, a book gilder, and Jeanne Maître. He married Jeanne, daughter of the Orléans bookseller Olivier Boynard, in 1598. At that date he opened his shop in that city thanks, in part, to a loan of 20 écus from his uncle, Guillaume Nyon, a Parisian master gilder. He took over Olivier Boynard’s shop at his death in 1619.  Commercial partners: Olivier Boynard (Orléans)  References: RB X p. 102; Herluison p. 41; Répertoire n° 7453. 2131. Nyort, Gracianne de  Active: 1521  Name variations: Boudet, veuve Pierre; Baudet, veuve Pierre; Bodet, veuve Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She was widowed before 1521 at which date she seems to have sought to abandon the trade. She moved to dissolve the business association her husband had set up with Louis Rostelin and Louis Maritain, selling her part in the business for 500 lt. and getting them to agree to furnish the widow with food until the sum was fully paid. However, on 18 January 1526/7 she contracted a marriage to another bookseller, Étienne Thoulouse, who survived her.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 252v & 286v–288r 2132.  Nystel, Michel  Active: 1523–1526  Name variations: Nistel, Michel  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2529, G 2530, G 6800 2133.  Nystel, Nicolas  Active: 1541  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He is known for a single imprint, an edict published with Claude Le Roy (USTC 55906).  Commercial partners: Claude Le Roy (Rouen) Nyvet, Michel, see Le Moyne, Michel 2134.  Odien, André  Active: 1490  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  References: Pasquier p. 192 2135.  Olagnier, André  Active: 1552–1575  Name variations: Olanier, André  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marguerite Perronnet with whom he had a number of children. He was wealthy enough to own a house named ‘le viol des Royans’ by the time he wrote his will on 5 June 1575. He had previously rented out property to a Lyon merchant and possessed vines for which he was taxed.  Documents: AD Drôme 42 H 7 (II B 9), E 3618; AM Romans CC 3, CC 75, CC 80, CC 85, CC 90, CC 559  References: Perrossier p. 313 2136.  Olivel, Hélie  Active: 1495–1496  Name variations: Olivelli, Helias  Location: Valence, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He was bookseller to the university of Valence. He sold what seem to be manuscript books worth 5.5 lt to a local student on 7 October 1495 that he promised to deliver bound and illuminated. He also published an edition Guido Papa’s commentaries that he had printed in Lyon (GW 11835).  Commercial partners: Nicolaus de Benedictis (Lyon); Jacobinus Suigus (Lyon)  Documents: AD Drôme E 2552 f. 90  References: Vallentin p. 53

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2137.  Olivel, Louis  Active: 1508–1515  Name variations: Olivelli, Louis  Location: Valence, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A sworn bookseller to the local university, he was described as a councillor to that institution in 1508. His device representing Saint Louis appeared on an edition of a legal text that is the only work he is known to have published (USTC 112237). The work was reprinted in Paris the following year and reproduced the verses included at the end of the original edition in praise of Olivel.  Commercial partners: Jean Belon (Valence)  Device: Silvestre n° 192  Motto: ‘Spes alit agricolas’  References: RB XXV p. 74; Muller p. 116; Brun-Durand II 204 2138.  Olivier, Adrien  Active: 1523–1540  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He lived in the quarter of the Terral and obtained the right to have a breviary for the use of the diocese printed in 1540. He died before the end of 1541.  References: Muller p. 96; Lançon p. 213 2139.  Olivier, Jacques  Active: 1579–1580  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single work, Las obras of Augier Gaillard (USTC 80552), that was written in Occitan – a controversial collection of poems that was banned.  References: Muller p. 9; RB I p. 66; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 587 2140.  Olivier, Jérôme  Active: 1553–1595  Name variations: Olivier, Hierosme; Ollivier, Jérôme  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Printer, publisher, bookseller  Address: ‘Au palais, joignant la petite porte, près Saint-Julien’

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 Biography: Born in around 1531, he was originally from Lorraine but settled in Le Mans where he lived in the parish of Le Crucifix. He married Madeleine Ysambart with whom he had eleven children, including Gervais (1574), François (1581) and Jérôme (1592), all of whom also became printers. A militant Catholic, he was printer to the king in Le Mans after 1577 and edicts and ordinances dominated his output. His house was situated next to the cathedral. When the church was hit by lightning on 5 May 1583, the spire caught fire and crashed onto the bookseller’s house. He was buried on 11 January 1595 and was succeeded by his widow who continued his business until her death in 1614.  Commercial partners: Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Louis Gaignot (Le Mans)  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 316; Recueil K (Paris: 1760) p. 126; Chardon p. 65; Répertoire n° 7488. 2141.  Olivier, Mathurin  Active: 1551  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Gallianne Auriget.  References: Guibert p. 32 2142.  Olivier, Pierre  Active: 1500–1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue damiette’ (1500–1501), ‘rue des oies’ (1502), ‘jouxte l’église’ (1501–1502), ‘rue Saint-Martin’ (1503–1504), ‘près le pont de Seine’ (1504), ‘près l’église Saint Vivien’ (1504–1511)  Biography: Originally from Rouen, he was a very active printer, working mainly on commission for Rouen booksellers. He often shared these with other local printers, working in partnership with Jean Mauditier, also known as Jean de Lorraine (1501–1505), even splitting some work with the duo of Guillaume Gaulmier and Jean Mauditier in 1502. In all, he was responsible for the production of well over a hundred editions, though identification of his imprints is made more complex by the fact that he only signed a portion of the tasks he undertook.  Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Michel Angier (Caen); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Jean I Burges (Rouen); Jacques Cousin (Rouen); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen);

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Guillaume Hebert (Rouen); André Hodian (Angers); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); François Regnault (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 1205  Motto: ‘Gy ay fyance’  References: RB VIII p. 17; RB XXII p. 34–71; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 93–130; Duff p. 115; Lepreux III 337; Aquilon p. 307; Hellinga p. 217; Répertoire n° 7490. 2143.  Olivier, Pierre  Active: 1586  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Pillehotte (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 233 2144.  Olivier, Thomas  Active: 1598  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A native of Saint-Étienne-de-Niort, he married Renée Cibot, the widow of Pierre I du Vergier. The marriage contract was dated 16 June 1598.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 50 2145.  Ollivier, Aubin  Active: 1546–1547  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned by the Parlement of Paris in February 1546/7.  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 290 2146.  Ollivier, François  Active: 1551  Location: Narbonne, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place de cité’  References: Cros-Mayrevieille p. 53

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2147.  Orange, Antoine  Active: 1597–1628  Name variations: Orenge, Antoine  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Devant Notre Dame, au portail des libraires’  Biography: He married before 1619. He became a master printer in 1597, but only seems to have published after 1620. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1622.  References: Mellot p. 196; Lepreux III 338; Répertoire n° 7502. 2148.  Orival, Jean d’  Active: 1560  Name variations: Oreval, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for the edition of a Catholic refutation by Artus Désiré of Clément Marot’s translation of the Psalms, published in the small sextodecimo format.  References: Du Verdier p. 93 2149.  Orival, Marguerin d’  Active: 1557–1558  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au haut des degrés du palais’ (1557), ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1558)  Biography: He seems only to have published with Jaspar de Remortier.  Commercial partners: Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jaspar de Remortier (Rouen)  References: Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 7511. 2150.  Orléans, François d’  Active: 1572  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Of Protestant faith, according to Crespin he was killed in the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.  References: Herluison p. 35

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2151.  Orry, Marc  Active: 1584–1610  Location: Tours, Touraine (1589–1594); Paris, Île-de-France (1584–1588 & 1594–1610)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au coin des rues de la Scellerie et Traversaine’ (Tours)  Biography: He married Jeanne, the daughter of the Parisian printer Jamet Mettayer, who succeeded him at his death on 27 June 1610. During the wars of the Catholic League he fled Paris and settled in Tours with the royal court. There, he rented his shop from a silk merchant in 1593.  Commercial partners: Georges Drobet (Tours); Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart; Jean Richer (Tours)  Motto: ‘Ad astra per aspera virtus’  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252, 3E5/257; MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334  References: Giraudet p. 18; BVH Minutes; Renouard p. 331; Répertoire n° 7517. 2152.  Osmont, Jean  Active: 1597–1645  Name variations: Hosmontius, Joannes  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘La cour du palais’, ‘Rue aux juifs, au nom de Jésus’  Biography: He was warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1603, 1615, 1625 and 1632. He sold the books he printed in his workshop in the ‘rue aux juifs’ and at the parlement.  Commercial partners: Romain de Beauvais (Rouen); Théodore Reinsart (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 1254  Motto: ‘Beat quos vult deus’  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 197; Lepreux III 339; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 7533. Otho, Pierre, see Hotot, Pierre

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2153.  Oudot, Jean I  Active: 1521  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller Illustration 103  Biography: He paid the considera- Signature of Jean Oudot, 1596, AM ble sum of 10 lt in tax to fund the fes- Troyes Boutiot AA 43 6 tivities of Francis I’s entry into Troyes in 1521.  Documents: AM Troyes K 5 2154.  Oudot, Jean II  Active: 1589–1612  Name variations: Odotius, Janus  Location: Paris, Île-de-France; Troyes, Champagne (1589–1612)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame au chapon d’or couronné’  Biography: He was Nicolas’s brother and lived in the Croncels quarter of the city. It has been suggested that he initially worked for Mamert Patisson in Paris, before moving to Troyes where he was a journeyman printer in the workshop of Claude Garnier. He was chosen to be a representative of the printers and booksellers of Troyes in 1594, date at which he styled himself as the printer to the king. As part of a consortium of booksellers, he opposed a privilege that was given to Jean Collet in 1594. However, a year later was described in 1595 as his associate. He used Claude Garnier’s material after the latter’s death as well as his motto. He undertook tasks for the local Church, but also reprinted a text strongly opposing the Catholic League using the original address of Leonhard Ostein in Basel. He died in 1612 and was succeeded by his widow.  Commercial partners: Pierre Chevillot (Troyes); Jean II Collet (Troyes); Jean I Moreau (Troyes); Gilles Vatard (Troyes)  Device: Silvestre n° 1277  Motto: ‘Patientia pauperis non peribit in finem’  Documents: AM Troyes A 24 p. 309, AA 40 n. 37, AA 43 6e liasse 1 & 2; F 272, F 274, F 275, F 276; AN X/1b 712  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 86–88; Troyes p. 141; Corrard de Breban p. 65; Lepreux II 172; Turquois p. 353; Robert (Oudot) p. 42; Assier p. 107; Socard & Assier p. 67; Morin (Ligue) p. 28; Répertoire n° 7544.

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2155.  Oudot, Nicolas  Active: 1594–1636  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Notre Dame à l’enseigne du chapon d’or couronné’  Biography: He was Jean’s brother and married Jacqueline, the daughter of Claude Garnier, in 1597. Together, they resided in the Croncels quarter of the city. He later remarried Guillemette Journée with whom he had two sons who followed him into the trade, Nicolas and Jean. He was initially a journeyman printer in Garnier’s workshop before setting up his own business, though he was a representative of the printers and booksellers of Troyes as early as 1594. His imprints were often rudimentary, perhaps because they were produced rapidly. He is often seen as the father of the ‘bibliothèque bleue’. His widow and, later, his son, Nicolas II succeeded him.  Documents: AM Troyes F 275, F 276  References: Turquois p. 353; Robert (Oudot) p. 42; Lepreux II 175; Répertoire n° 7547. 2156.  Ouyn, Pierre  Active: 1577–1580  Name variations: Ouy, Pierre; Houyn, Pierre  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The Genevan-based peddler Jean de Campanon stayed in his house and dictated his will there in January 1580.  Commercial partners: Jean de Campanon (Geneva)  References: Audiat p. 42; Droz (Campanon) p. 145 2157.  Ouzeille, Nicolas  Active: 1527–1529  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du muret, à l’enseigne du Saint-Esprit’  Biography: He married Ysabeau Chauvin. It has been suggested that he succeeded Raoullet Jouan, though he seems to have established his business in 1527. In acts after 1529 he was simply described as a merchant. He was still alive in 1546.  References: Jusselin p. 2; Feyel p. 703

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2158.  P., Ja.  Active: 1485  Location: Tréguier, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Nothing is known of the prototypographer of Tréguier beyond the fact that he used material that seems to have come from the Low Countries.  Types: TW ma04102–ma04103  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 258; Booton p. 229; TW of1337 2159.  Pache, Clément  Active: 1566–1577  Name variations: Pasche, Clément  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’entrée de la salle du palais’  Biography: He bought books from Antoine Gryphe in Lyon for which he still owed money in 1583 when the debt was transferred to Jean de Tournes and Symphorien Béraud. As a publisher, he is only known for an edition of poetry that he had printed in Lyon (USTC 76494) and that bore the device of the Gryphes.  Commercial partners: Jean Beraud (Lyon); Antoine Gryphe (Lyon); Thibaud Payen (Lyon); François Trilloton (Aix-en-Provence)  References: Baudrier IV 208; Cartier p. 151 2160. Pageot, Hugues  Active: [1470]–1502  Name variations: Paigeot, Hugues; Pageot, Huguenin  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was born in Courcelles-les-Sombernon. He was close to local religious institutions and published a book of hours for local use as well as selling printed books to the cathedral chapter. He seems to have had a difficult career, contracting considerable debts that he struggled to pay off. He resided next to the church of Notre-Dame in 1502 when he developed leprosy. He died before 1506 at which point some of his lands were sold on by the local Church. In a document dated 1518 dealing with land he had previously owned, he was described as both a notary and a bookseller.  Commercial partners: Thielmann Kerver (Paris)

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 Documents: AD Côte-d’Or B 11302, E cart. 63 f. 48, G 165 f. 50, G 436, G 513 f. 85, G 1474  References: Clément-Janin p. 102; Skora (Langres); TW of1797; Oursel p. 355 2161.  Pageot, Philiber  Active: 1491–1503  Name variations: Paigeot, Philibert; Paigerot, Philibert  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AM Dijon LL 679  References: Skora (Langres) 2162.  Pagès, Antoine  Active: 1567–1582  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 2163.  Paien, Georges  Active: 1595  Name variations: Payen, Georges  Location: Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He took Jean Tainturier on as an apprentice in 1595.  Documents: AD Vendée 3 E 37/259

Illustration 104 Signature of Georges Paien, 1595, AD Vendée 3 E 37 259

2164.  Paigne, Pierre  Active: 1530–1562  Name variations: Peigne, Pierre; Paigné, Pierre  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of a Jean Paigne. He was described as a journeyman bookseller in 1530, then as a bookseller in 1551.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121  References: RB XXVI; Pasquier p. 198 2165.  Palier, Jean I  Active: 1539–1548

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 Name variations: Peluti, Joannes; Pelluti, Jean; also known as Marchand  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais et au bout de Sainte-Croix, au Lion couronné’  Biography: Born in the diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, he was the elder brother of Jean II. He owned a store in Paris first in the ‘cour d’Albon’ in 1540, then in the college of Navarre in 1542 and finally near Saint-Hilaire in 1544. He used the same sign of the crowned lion in Metz and Paris. Some editions were explicitly printed in Metz and sold in Paris and, after he seems to have abandoned his Parisian store, he worked with booksellers such as Vivant Gaultherot to ensure his works’ distribution. One of his devices bore the date 1539.  Commercial partners: Vivant Gaultherot (Paris); Poncet Le Preux (Paris); Laurent Tallineau (Metz)  Device: Silvestre n° 156, 174 & 612; Renouard (Marques) n° 864 & 865  Motto: ‘Serva mandata Dei’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 184  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 20–22; Teissier p. 32; Renouard p. 332; Répertoire n° 7590. 2166.  Palier, Jean II  Active: 1543–1551  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics (1543–1546); Toul, Three Bishoprics (1546–1551)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in the diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, he was the younger brother of Jean I and sometimes called Jean ‘le jeune’. After starting his career in Metz, he moved to Toul where he worked for the local bishop.  Commercial partners: Jacques Daulnois (Toul)  References: RB VII p. 56; Muller p. 112; Répertoire n° 7591. 2167.  Pallier, Antoine  Active: 1516  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Lodève, he is described as a student and a bookseller. On 13 January 1548, a printer named Antoine Pallier married in Paris, but there seems little evidence to connect the two.  References: Pansier II 48; Renouard p. 332.

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2168.  Panthoul, Macé  Active: 1493–1521  Name variations: Panhou, Macé  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue à l’enseigne saint Jean l’évangeliste auprès du pelican’  Biography: A very active bookseller and publisher, he worked both with local printers and with others based in Paris. He furnished books and stationery to the local clergy. He drew up the inventory of the library of the canon Jacques Dorey in 1493 with Jean de Brienne. He was forced to correct the synodal statutes that he had printed in 1503 and have certain sheets reprinted. The books he bound sometimes bore his name (‘M. Panhou’), or his initials with his device. These were also represented in the stained-glass window he commissioned. He was still active and paying taxes in 1521.  Commercial partners: André Bocard (Paris); Jean I Le Coq (Troyes); Philippe Pigouchet (Paris); Guillaume Tavernier (Provins); Simon Vostre (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 148 & 791  Documents: AD Aube G 133 & 2299; AM Troyes K 5  References: Muller p. 114–115; Troyes p. 39; TW of1910; Assier p. 98; D. Gid & J.-F. Genest, ‘Sur quelques livres donnés à Clairvaux par Antoine Vérard et reliés à Troyes dans l’atelier de Macé Panthoul’, Revue française d’histoire du livre, XXXVI (1982) 303–314; Catalogue de la collection de feu M. Le Brun Dalbanne (s.l., s.n., 1884) n° 124; Répertoire n° 7602. 2169.  Paon, Bérard  Active: 1500–1529  Name variations: also known as Girard  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au clos saint-Ursin’; ‘Près du boeuf couronné, rue Boubonnoux’  Biography: He worked for the Marnef brothers in Bourges. He obtained from the local court the right to print an edition in 1511/2, though his name does not appear on the title page (USTC 26219).

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 Commercial partners: Jacques Maillet (Lyon); Geoffroy de Marnef (Paris); Pierre de Sartières (Bourges)  References: RB XIII, Boyer p. 45; Répertoire n° 7605. 2170.  Paon, Jean  Active: 1552–1553  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the brother of Michel and lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier.  Documents: AM Bourges CC 15 p. 15  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; BVH Minutes 2171.  Paon, Michel  Active: 1541–1556  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was Jean’s brother and lived initially in the parish of Saint-Pierre before moving to Saint-Jean-des-Champs. He was one of the two official booksellers to the university and was described in 1556 as a ‘fort riche marchant’. Amongst other things, he owned vineyards for which he paid dues in 1542.  Documents: AD Cher D 280, E 1113; AM Bourges CC 15 p. 34  References: RB XIII, Boyer p. 45; BVH Minutes 2172.  Paperote, Guilhem  Active: 1542  Name variations: Pappollotte, Guilhem  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 596 2173.  Papillet, Jean  Active: 1488–1489  Name variations: Paupillat, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He was named a fellow (suppôt) of the university in 1488.  References: Claudin (1) p. 7

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2174.  Papolin, Antoine  Active: 1516–1545  Name variations: Pacolyn, Antoine  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘La grande rue au carrefour Saint Denis’ (1516); ‘La grande rue saint Pierre et aux changes’ (1532)  Biography: He married Catherine Tacher and was Mathurin’s father. La Borderie thought that he had been a printer, but all his works seem to have been printed elsewhere at his request. He worked in tandem with Michel, his cousin. He was described as a bookseller of the university of Nantes. A devout Catholic, he donated wine to the local Hôtel-Dieu. He died between 22 October 1545 and 2 June 1546.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bodin (Nantes); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Guillaume Brunel (Vannes); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Enguilbert II de Marnef (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Michel Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 1, XXXIII 8 f. 426; AM Nantes GG 708; AD Loire-Atlantique G 147  References: Muller p. 54; RB XIX p. 15–16; Walsby (Brittany) p. 258; Booton p. 221; La Borderie I p. 59; Granges de Surgères n° 68; Lepreux IV 248 2175.  Papolin, Mathurin  Active: 1544–1561  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux changes’  Biography: He was the son of Antoine. After having had a child born out of wedlock in 1544 with Marthe Le Rat, he married Jacquette Moquart with whom he had two legitimate children: a son named Jean in 1545 and, in 1546, a daughter named Catherine whose godmother was Antoine Papolin’s widow. He was described as a bookseller of the university of Nantes and had inherited Antoine and Michel’s business. Though his early children were baptised in Catholic churches, Mathurin became a Protestant and by 1560 was an elder of the Nantes Calvinist church. His house was ransacked that same year and his Protestant books were ripped apart and burnt. Papolin himself was hauled in front of the governor, though the latter was lenient and more interested in obtaining a French language Bible than in condemning the bookseller. The following year his stall was once more vandalised,

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the town accepting this time to pay for the necessary repairs. In 1559 he submitted a request with other Nantes booksellers to have the exclusive right to print and sell the decisions of the court, replacing Philippe Bourgoignon as the official printers to the Parlement. He also acted as an intermediary for the export of books to Spain by the Ruiz, receiving barrels from Paris and Lyon and transferring them on to seafaring ships bound for Bilbao. As a publisher he is known for a single work of liturgy for local use that he published in partnership with Gabriel Le Plat.  Commercial partners: Julien Dies (Nantes); Nicolas Garnier (Nantes); Jean Le Blanc (Paris); Gabriel Le Plat (Nantes)  Documents: AD Ille-et-Vilaine 1 Bf 5 n° 1, 1 Bf 1588 f. 11r; AM Nantes CC 300, CC 369, GG 295, HH 189 f. 109; AD Loire-Atlantique G 147  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 188 & 259; Granges de Surgères n° 70; Bèze II 749 2176.  Papolin, Michel  Active: 1516–1541  Name variations: Pacolyn, Michel  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue saint Pierre et aux changes’ (1532)  Biography: He was described by La Borderie as a printer, but all his works seem to have been printed elsewhere. He worked in tandem with Antoine, his cousin. He was described as a bookseller of the university of Nantes. He had died before 1542.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bodin (Nantes); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Guillaume Brunel (Vannes); Olivier Ganereau (Nantes); Robert Ganereau (Nantes); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Enguilbert II de Marnef (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Antoine Papolin (Nantes)  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII 8 f. 426; AM Nantes GG 708, GG 710, GG 711, II 104  References: RB XIX p. 15–16; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 259; Booton p. 239; La Borderie I p. 59; Granges de Surgères n° 69; Lepreux IV 248 Parcus, Jacobus, see Estanges, Jacques 2177.  Paré, Robert  Active: 1509–1520  Location: Rouen, Normandy

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2181.  Paris, Nicole  Active: 1542–1547  Name variations: Paris, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne (1542–1546); Larrivour, Champagne (1546– 1547)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Prés du chef saint Jean, rue de l’espisserie’  Biography: He was born in around 1510 in Troyes where he had a son named Claude baptised in 1543. He studied at the university of Paris where he obtained a master’s degree in the arts in 1529. He settled in his home city in 1542 where he immediately undertook the publication of a host of titles for a diverse readership. We know that when he undertook a task for the local bishopric that year he had a workshop that employed three journeymen printers. He also used his Parisian connections, working with the bookseller Nicolas Duchemin with whom he published and who distributed some of his books. He was also prompt to challenge Jean Foucher’s edition of Budé’s Institution du prince in 1547, setting up a mutually beneficial arrangement to disseminate the copies that had been printed. He grew close to the local abbott Jean de Luxembourg whose texts he published, seemingly moving his press to the abbey of Larrivour so that his patron could oversee his work. He used both Gothic and Roman types, the former mainly in rubricated texts for the local clergy. He also undertook ambitious works such as the large illustrated antiphonary produced for the Cistercians. Though he worked extensively for the Catholic Church, Paris’s own faith remains unclear: his proximity to Dolet and his printing of verses by Marot suggest that he may have had evangelical sympathies.  Commercial partners: Étienne Dolet (Lyon); Nicolas Duchemin (Paris); Jean Foucher (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 175, 402 & 1083  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XLIX carton 22, étude LXXIII carton 10  References: Muller p. 20 & 114–115; RB XII p. 30–33, XVIII p. 81; Troyes p. 158; Corrard de Breban p. 72; Lepreux II 184; Turquois p. 353; Assier p. 103; Socard & Assier p. 40; Répertoire n° 7617. 2182.  Paris, veuve Jean de  Active: 1556–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Printer  Biography: She resided in the Croncels quarter of the city and was described as too poor to pay taxes both in 1556 and 1557.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236 2183.  Parix, Johannes  Active: 1472–1501  Name variations: Papies, Jean; Parix, Juan  Location: Segovia, Spain (1472–1474); Toulouse, Languedoc (1475–1501)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près du Pont-Vieux’  Biography: Originally from Heidelberg, he moved to Segovia before finally settling in Toulouse. There he printed with Henricus Turner before the latter’s death in 1477. He adapted his style to the local market, adopting for the first time a small amount of Gothic type. His output included a significant number of Spanish works which he probably exported to Spain using the networks he had established during his time in Segovia. He sold his material to Jean Grandjean in 1501.  Commercial partners: Claude Bon (Toulouse); Stephan Cleblat (Toulouse); Heinrich Meyer (Toulouse); Henricus Turner (Toulouse)  Device: TW ma04093; Silvestre n° 302; Polain n° 198; Meyer n° 181  Types: TW ma04067–ma04070, ma04088–ma04092  References: Claudin (1) p. 3; Blanc-Rouquette p. 16; TW of0182, of0184; Répertoire n° 7619. 2184.  Parizat, Jean  Active: 1505–1507  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He stocked the books of Pierre Mareschal and Barnabé Chaussard of Lyon.  Commercial partners: Barnabé Chaussard (Lyon); Pierre Mareschal (Lyon)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 274 2185.  Parmentier, Imbert  Active: 1542–1584  Name variations: Primautier, Imbert  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Place Saint Didier’  Biography: He married Anne Clerc/Clergesse, the daughter of a cobbler and widow of a draper, on 17 June 1542 and, after her death, Marguerite Guiard. He began his career in Lyon in Michel Parmentier’s shop, before taking over his Avignon branch until the latter’s death in 1558. He stocked the books of Antoine Gryphius. He died before 24 October 1584.  Commercial partners: Antoine Gryphius (Lyon); Michel Parmentier (Lyon); Pierre Roux (Avignon); Mathieu Vincent (Avignon)  Documents: AD Vaucluse B 137  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 33; Pansier II 136; Baudrier X 383 2186.  Parressel, Pierre  Active: 1514–1520  Location: Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, Lorraine  Role: Printer  Biography: He was also a priest. No editions from his workshop have yet been identified.  References: Muller p. 105; P. Marot, ‘Pierre Parressel, imprimeur à Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (1520)’ Revue historique de la Lorraine, I (1930), 97; Choux p. 51 2187.  Pasquier, Pierre  Active: 1492–1514  Name variations: Paquier, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘rue de la porterie’  Biography: He was initially active as an illuminator, as early as 1477, but became a bookseller in 1492. The confraternity of booksellers inherited his books and his house at his death in 1514.  References: Claudin (1) p. 3; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 61 2188.  Paterelli, Pierre  Active: 1507–1512  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He is only known for indulgences produced in large print runs.  References: Pansier II 53

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2189.  Paterin, Guillaume  Active: 1493  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was Jacques Buyer’s factor in Avignon.  Commercial partners: Jacques Buyer (Lyon)  References: Pansier I 155 2190.  Patyn, Thomas  Active: 1544  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204 2191.  Pauleau, Honorat  Active: 1565–1568  Location: Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Languedoc (1565); Orange, Holy Roman Empire (1565–1568)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he began his career in Bagnols before moving to Orange in 1565. In order to encourage him to settle, the municipality declared that he would be free of all taxes for a period of four years. He lived in the Pourtoules quarter of the town.  References: Leemans p. 458 2192.  Pausa, Simon  Active: 1536–1538  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 10 2193. Pautier, Sanche  Active: 1522–1523  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 263

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2194.  Pavye, Guillaume  Active: 1569–1584  Name variations: Pavie, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher Illustration 105  Address: ‘Près le grand portail notre Dame’ Signature of Guillaume  Biography: He married Isabeau Morron Pavye, 1569, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 464 and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He died before February 1589.  Commercial partners: Richard Auber (Rouen); Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Jean I Crevel (Rouen); Robert Mallard (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/464 f. 106r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 94; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 7662. 2195. Pavye, Jean  Active: 1534–1569  Name variations: Pavie, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the brother of Raoulin and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He was described as a master bookseller and bookbinder in a contract he passed with the cathedral chapter of Chartres in 1552 which led to him moving to Chartres for four months in order to bind two antiphonaries.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2537  References: Gosselin p. 94; Jusselin p. 17 2196.  Pavye, Raoulin  Active: 1534–1569  Name variations: Pavie, Raoulin  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was the brother of Jean and lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  References: Gosselin p. 94; Beaurepaire p. 395 2197.  Pebernard, Durand  Active: 1567

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Olfro in July 1567 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 574 f. 15r 2198.  Pechbernard, Jérôme  Active: 1507  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Jean Grandjean in 1507.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2199.  Pecher, Jacques  Active: 1552  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 599 2200.  Pedie, Pierre  Active: 1578  Name variations: Pedic, Pierre  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single polemical tract (USTC 5497).  References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 65; Lepreux II 385; Jacquot p. 18 2201.  Peigné, Lubin  Active: 1587–1642  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, printer  Address: ‘Près la grande boucherie’  Biography: He was born in around 1562 in Meslay-le-Grenet, the son of a farmer. He began his career as a journeyman bookseller and printer in Claude Cottereau’s workshop in 1587. By 1590 he was described as a printer-bookseller in his own right. He married Anne, one of Richard Cottereau’s daughters, with whom he had nine children. They lived in the parish of Saint-Saturnin. He became a publisher in

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the seventeenth century. He died on 22 November 1642. Two of his sons, both named Claude, followed him into the trade.  References: Feyel p. 609 Pejont, Guillaume, see Pichon, Guillaume 2202. Pelipon, Claude  Active: 1553  Name variations: Polipon, Claude  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was sent by the town of Besançon to bring back a school master from Poitiers for which the town council paid him 6 écus.  Documents: AM Besançon BB 27 f. 40r  References: Robert p. 47 2203.  Pelissier, Antoine  Active: 1584–1593  Location: Le Puy, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean where he had a son, André, and a daughter named Gabrielle baptised on 1 August 1591 and 9 August 1593 respectively.  Documents: AM Le Puy-en-Velay E 23–2 f. 46v & 89r, E 23 f. 105r  References: Rouchon p. 39 2204. Pelletier, Gilles  Active: 1552–1553  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233  References: Turquois p. 353 2205.  Pelletier, Martial  Active: 1568  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 285 2206.  Pelletier, Nicolas I  Active: 1522–1552  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le palais, à l’enseigne du pélican’, ‘À l’enseigne de la fontaine’  Biography: He married Jeanne Boisseau, the widow of Jean I de Marnef, and was the father of Nicolas II. He died before 17 March 1559 and was survived by his wife.  Commercial partners: Jacques Bouchet (Poitiers); Jean Coussot (Poitiers)  Device: Silvestre n° 585  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 271  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 170 2207.  Pelletier, Nicolas II  Active: 1550–1566  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne de la fontaine’  Biography: The son of Nicolas I, he was probably a protestant in 1562. He seems to have been close to the Marnefs and bought half of Jean III de Marnef’s share in the control of wine sales in Poitiers in 1561. An active publisher, he produced mainly ordinances and legal works. His device was later used by François le Page.  Device: La Bouralière (Poitiers) n° XVII  Motto: ‘Sitivit anima mea ad Deum fontem vivum’  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 78–80; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 171; Répertoire n° 7712. 2208. Pellisson, Claude  Active: 1535–1560  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher he is known for works produced for the use of the local diocese.  Commercial partners: Jean Petit (Paris); Gilles Richebois (Sens)  References: RB XVII p. 33; Skora (Langres)

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2209.  Pellisson, Martial  Active: 1555  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Porchaire.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282 Pelluti, Jean, see Palier, Jean 2210.  Penateau, Jean  Active: 1483–1512  Name variations: Peyto, Jean; Porto, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He seems originally to have been an illuminator and signed the appeal addressed to the magistrates of Toulouse to protect this profession in 1481. Jacques Huguetan of Lyon visited his shop in 1497. He had died by June 1512.  Commercial partners: Jacques Huguetan (Lyon)  References: Claudin (1) p. 5; Corraze (Tououse) p. 65 2211.  Perera, Johann  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is only known through two imprints, neither of which were signed by the printers. One (USTC 80292) was attributed to Jean Faure by Claudin, but this has been contested.  Commercial partners: Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Jean de la Place (Lyon); Jacques Myt (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 16; Désazars de Montgaillard p. 345; P. Martín Baños, ‘La Obra en gramática, poesía y rhetórica del bachiller Fernando de la Pradilla, discípulo de Nebrija’, in Luis Merino Jerez, Eustaquio Sánchez Salor & Santiago López Moreda (eds), La recepción de las artes clásicas en el siglo XVI, Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1996, p. 131–138, n° 37. 2212.  Peret, Guillaume  Active: 1526  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 602

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2213.  Pérez, Antonio  Active: 1591  Location: Pau, Béarn  Role: Printer  Biography: He was added to Muller’s Dictionnaire as a result of a misinterpretation of a title quoted in Kolb’s Bibliographie des französischen Buches. Perez was in fact the author of a tract that was published anonymously in 1591.  References: Muller p. 89; Kolb 366 2214.  Perier, Denis  Active: 1546–1547  Location: Niort, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned by the Parlement of Paris for having sold forbidden books and was exiled from France on 14 April 1547.  Documents: AN X/2a 98, X/2a 102  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 290 2215.  Perier, Guillaume  Active: 1527  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  References: Gosselin p. 91 2216.  Perier, René  Active: 1588  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la cour près la porte Saint Michel’ (1588)  Biography: He is known as the publisher of a single imprint (USTC 14339).  References: RB XIX p. 77; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260 2217.  Peronne, Nicolas  Active: 1547  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Claude Delanerie.  References: Lhote p. 11

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2218.  Perrin, Guillaume  Active: 1505–1538  Name variations: Peri, Guillaume; Perrini, Guillaume; Peyrin, Guillaume; Perri, Guillaume; Prim, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des imaginaires’, ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He married Peyrane Sugaston, who succeeded him at his death in 1538. He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He developed the pre-existing commercial links between Lyon and Toulouse, ordering books from Jacques Huguetan in 1515 and serving as Simon Vincent’s proxy. He was the administrator (bayle) of the confraternity of Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste in 1527 and was elected to represent the profession in 1533. He formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jacques Huguetan (Lyon); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse); Antoine Vincent (Lyon); Simon Vincent (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 120; Claudin (1) p. 143; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64– 65; Blanc-Rouquette p. 22; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130 2219.  Perrin, Jean  Active: 1551–1562  Name variations: Perry, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562. As a publisher, he concentrated on the production of works for the local legal community.  Commercial partners: Macé Bonhomme (Lyon); Guyon Boudeville (Toulouse); Jean Molinier (Toulouse)  Motto: ‘In mortis agone solatium’  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12026 f. 56v  References: RB XX p. 162; Haag II 58

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2220.  Perrin, Pierre  Active: 1589  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is only known for the production of a Leaguer pamphlet printed in 1589 of which three variant editions survive, suggesting that his is probably a fictitious printer.  References: RB X p. 91; Répertoire n° 7779. 2221.  Perrottin, Gervais  Active: 1552  Location: Moulins, Bourbonnais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Katherine Guillonart. His son, Jean, started an apprenticeship with Poncet Le Preux in Paris in 1552. His colleague Jacques Evrard looked after the arrangements.  Commercial partners: Poncet Le Preux (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 19 2222.  Persius, printer of  Active: 1477  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The identity of the protypographer of Angers remains unknown.  Types: TW ma06178  References: TW of1599 2223.  Persons, Robert  Active: 1581–1585  Name variations: Parsons, Robert  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1581–1585)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in 1546, he was a Jesuit priest known for his production of pamphlets for the English market. He set up a secret press in England with the printer Stephen Brinkley which was forced to change location on two occasions before being seized in the summer of 1581. He fled abroad to Rouen where he worked initially with Georges Loyselet. George Flinton worked for him in Rouen, manning his press.

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He also used the false address: Bologna, Joannes Baptista Algazarius. He died in 1610.  Commercial partners: Georges Loyselet (Rouen)  References: ODNB; Girard p. 499 2224.  Peschier, Richard  Active: 1537–1538  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir 1 E 118 2225. Petit, Bertrand  Active: 1513  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was originally from the diocese of Carpentras.  Commercial partners: Jean de Channey (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 48 2226.  Petit, Étienne  Active: 1541–1542  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 78 2227.  Petit, François  Active: 1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274 2228.  Petit, Jean  Active: 1506  Location: Honfleur, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: This printer was in fact active in 1606 and not 1506.  References: RB XXVIII p. 62

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2229.  Petit, Jean I  Active: 1526–1552  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: Originally from Troyes, he lived in the parish of Saint-Laurent. He married Jeanne Roger. Along with Louis Bouvet he quarrelled with Pierre Lynant over the publication of an antiphonary. He worked mainly as a printer, his very active workshop producing imprints for local booksellers. He did have, however, his own device that he sometimes included on the title pages of the books that other publishers were to sell. The type he used in later years was cut by Claude Garamont who sold some of the type and lent the rest. He died in 1552. His widow was active in the trade after his death. Lesens conflates the three Jean Petit whilst Muller’s dictionary erroneously places him in Troyes in 1520 and 1533.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Nicolas Aubin (Rouen); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Louis Bouvet (Rouen); Nicolas de Burges (Rouen); Claude Garamont (Paris); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Georges Jouenne (Rouen); Robert Le Houé (Rouen); Jean Le Marchant (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Claude Le Roy (Rouen); Guérault Sebire (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 340  Motto: ‘Pluma, Venus, Venter laudem fugienda sequenti’; ‘la fin d’amour n’est que melancholye’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 146  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3200, G 6801, 2E1/407 p. 4  References: Muller p. 96–103 & 115; Gosselin p. 90; Lepreux III 353; Lesens p. 333. 2230.  Petit, Jean II  Active: 1554–1588  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder, publisher Illustration 106 Signature  Biography: He was possibly the fa- of Jean Petit, 1570, AD ther of Jean III and lived in the parish of Seine-Maritime 2E1 471 Saint-Laurent. He helped pay for the refurbishment of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas of Rouen in 1580. He was condemned in 1556 for having contravened the terms of Martin I

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Le Mesgissier’s privilege to print royal ordinances. Richard I Lallemant learnt his trade in his shop and, later, helped him oppose the sale of the goods of an absent hosier in 1570. He probably died in 1588, at which point his widow seems to have taken over his workshop. Lesens conflates the three Jean Petit.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Denis Bouvet (Rouen); Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Thomas I Mallard (Rouen); Robert Masselin (Rouen); Nicolas II Mullot (Rouen); Richard Petit (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 987  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2171, G 4667, G 6341, G 6801, G 7330, 2E1/471 f. 109r  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 356; Lesens p. 333; Répertoire n° 7798 2231.  Petit, Jean III  Active: 1591–1612  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘La cour du palais’ (1600); ‘Devant saint Éloi, près l’oranger’; ‘Rue aux Juifs, à la temperance’ (1598)  Biography: A Protestant, probably the son of Jean II Petit, he married Marie/Marion Maufilz before 27 February 1598. He was fined 2 écus for having printed an ABC des Chrestiens (29 November 1599), though the fine did not dissuade him from continuing to print illegally and in 1605 he was languishing in the local prison, his wife keeping his business alive. Lesens conflates the three Jean Petit. He died in 1612 and was succeeded by his widow.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3452, G 6618  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 204; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 306; Skora (Rouen); Répertoire n° 7800. 2232.  Petit, Jeanne  Active: 1574–1607  Name variations: Janson, veuve Jean I  Location: Nancy, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: She married Jean I Janson. After her husband’s death in 1573, she took over the running of the workshop, notably printing for the duke of Lorraine. In 1580 she sought to renew her material, bringing

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new type from Lyon. She worked on occasion in partnership with her son Jean II. The last book printed in her name dates from 1584, but the accounts of the house of Lorraine indicate that a payment was made for her materials (naming Blaise Andréa) in 1607.  Commercial partners: Jean II Janson (Nancy)  Documents: AD Meurthe-et-Moselle B 1164, B 1183, B 7350  References: RB VII p. 39; Arbour p. 294; Jacquot p. 18; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 20 2233.  Petit, Louis  Active: 1587  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was sufficiently involved in the publication of an edition of joyful culture that he was summoned by the parlement of Normandy following a complaint made on behalf of the cardinal of Bourbon in 1587. The work was described as scandalous and his shop was visited by the local authorities. He is also known for republishing a polemical work, probably printed the same year.  Commercial partners: Nicolas II du Gort (Rouen); Pierre du Gort (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 1 BP 9361  References: Aquilon p. 306 2234.  Petit, Nicolas  Active: 1533–1544  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1533–1544); Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne (1538–1539)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married the daughter of Jacques Mareschal. He also owned a shop in the ‘rue mercière’ in Lyon where he worked in partnership with Hector Penet, but seems genuinely to have sought to settle in Clermont. He continued to be active in Lyon until his death sometime before November 1544.  Commercial partners: Jean I Durand (Clermont-Ferrand)  References: RB XXIV p. 13; Muller p. 15; Egullion p. 109 2235.  Petit, Nicolas  Active: 1582–1587

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 Location: Autun, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au chapître’  Biography: In 1582 he rented a shop owned by the cathedral for an annual rent of 50 sous.  References: Charmasse p. 315 2236.  Petit, Richard  Active: 1551–1594  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: His first wife died in 1591 and was buried in the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Rouen. He remarried and his second wife, Barbe Geneviève, succeeded him at his death before 1597. Lesens describes him as a Protestant. During the early part of his career, he seems to have mainly published newsbooks, but turned towards more substantial undertakings after 1580  Commercial partners: Nicolas Aubin (Rouen); Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Jacques Kerver (Paris); Richard I Lallemant (Rouen); Thomas II Mallard (Rouen); Nicolas II Mullot (Rouen); Jean II Petit (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2171, G 2558, G 3200, G 6901, G 7330  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lesens p. 333; Aquilon p. 307; Répertoire n° 7805. 2237.  Petit, Thomas  Active: 1541  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Gosselin p. 90 2238.  Petit, veuve Jean II  Active: 1588–1591  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  References: Arbour p. 422 2239.  Petrail, Blaise  Active: 1585–1590

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 Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was a printer to the university of Nantes where he had acquired Jean Gaudin’s material. A privilege of a 1588 edition stated that he was based in Rennes, but this seems to have been a textual error. In reality, Petrail worked with Rennes booksellers, as is demonstrated by the 1586 edition of the customs.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bretel (Rennes); Vincent Hucet (Nantes)  Motto: ‘Rami mei honoris et gratiae et honestatis’  References: RB XIX p. 22; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; La Borderie I p. 75; Granges de Surgères n° 71; Lepreux IV 103 & 260 2240.  Peyrot, François  Active: 1537–1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He stored the books of the Lyon bookseller Michel Parmentier who had himself journeyed to Toulouse in 1536 in order to set up a stall to distribute some of his books. This was clearly successful as Peyrot was still playing that role six years later. He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  Commercial partners: Michel Parmentier (Lyon)  References: Haag II 58; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Claudin (2) p. 9 2241.  Peyrusse, Guillaume  Active: 1572–1586  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 2242.  Peyrusse, Jean  Active: 1566–1587  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married and was survived by Bonne de Fabre. His son was also named Jean (born circa 1571). He was described as a bookseller in Toulouse in 1574. He furnished books to the court of Navarre in 1578 and 1585. He died on 29 July 1587.  Commercial partners: Jean de Safors (Bordeaux)

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 Documents: AD Tarn-et-Garonne 5 E 250 ff. 46–51; AD PyrénéesAtlantiques B 2344, B 2745  References: Conner p. 199 2243.  Pezomain, Jean  Active: 1552–1553  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the main street in the parish of Saint-Bonnet.  Documents: CC 15 p. 189  References: BVH Minutes 2244.  Philipeau, Bernard  Active: 1512  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Originally from Tysac near Cahors, he was an apprentice to Jean Grandjean in 1512.  References: Corraze (Grandjean) p. 83 2245.  Philippe, Gaspard  Active: 1499–1520  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1499–1512); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1513– 1520)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Sainte-Colombe’ (Bordeaux); ‘À l’enseigne des trois pigeons’  Biography: He married Gilette Moline who later married Jean Guyart, who succeeded him. He started his career in Paris, working in the ‘rue Saint-Jacques’ already using the sign of the three doves which, in various guises, would remain his habitual sign. He left Paris in 1512, probably moving directly to Bordeaux where he used the same material as before. Jean Guyart already worked for him as a journeyman printer in Paris and moved with the master printer. He died in 1520 and was buried in the parish church of Sainte-Colombe.  Devices: Renouard (Marques) n° 914–916; Silvestre n° 110–111 & 1160  References: Muller p. 9 & 84; RB I p. 7–10; Labadie p. 92; Delpit p. 18; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 604; Chabé (Philippe); Desgraves (Impressions); Hubrecht; Renouard p. 344; Répertoire n° 7836.

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2246. Philippe, Jean  Active: 1526–1543  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was named as the official bookbinder to the university of Caen in 1521 and sought, unsuccessfully, to become one of their booksellers five years later. He requested the right to open a stall under the stairs that led to the theological school in 1522. He had become a burgher of the city by 1543. Pierre Vymont started an apprenticeship in his shop in 1529.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. lxxii 2247.  Philippe, Jean  Active: 1569  Location: Lisieux, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  References: Deville (Lisieux) p. 204 2248.  Philippe, Louis  Active: 1572  Name variations: Philippes, Louis  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Labadie p. 94; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 605 2249.  Philippe, Louis  Active: 1586–1595  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Françoise Poupineau and had two sons Michel (1586) and Louis (1589). They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 292 2250.  Philippe, Martin  Active: 1541–1564  Location: Caen, Normandy (1550–1564); Rouen, Normandy (1541)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: A Protestant, he worked with Pierre Philippe between 1550 and 1557. A Martin Philippe is named in the Protestant registers of the city as having married a Françoise on 15 November 1562. He

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imported books from the Plantin workshop in Antwerp in 1564 for the use of local students.  Commercial partners: Robert II Macé (Caen); Pierre Philippe (Caen); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp)  Device: Silvestre n° 631  Motto: ‘Concutiunt summas torrentia fulgura quercus’  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 96–103; B. Normande p. 316–318; Lepreux III 489; Pallier (Normandie) p. 255; Répertoire n° 7838. 2251.  Philippe, Pierre  Active: 1541–1572  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Having converted to Protestantism, he counterfeited the Genevan anchor device used by Jean Crespin to produce books that would both be widely accepted in the Huguenot community and conceal the publisher’s identity from the Catholic authorities. He rapidly became the most active Protestant press in France, undertaking even large and complex jobs such as a pirated edition of the Genevan Bible in English in 1562. This edition used the woodcuts also featured in Simon Mangeant’s Saint-Lô Bible. He worked with Martin Philippe between 1550 and 1557. A committed Calvinist, he seems to have served as an Elder of the church locally. He used type that had been designed by Pierre Haultin. His store was visited by the town authorities in 1572 as part of a clampdown on the publication and sale of Protestant material.  Commercial partners: Martin Philippe (Caen); Robert Macé (Caen)  Device: Silvestre n° 631  Motto: ‘Concutiunt summas torrentia fulgura quercus’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 21, 72, 140  Documents: AD Calvados 1 B 3 f. 150  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 96–103; B. Normande p. 316–325; Pettegree p. 47–56; J.-F. Gilmont, Jean Crespin. Un éditeur réformé du XVIe siècle (Geneva: Droz, 1981), 101–105; Lepreux III 489; Répertoire n° 7839. 2252.  Philippe, Pierre  Active: 1598–1620  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer

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 Biography: He was initially a journeyman printer in the workshop of Olivier Hardy, before becoming a master printer in his own right in 1598/9.  References: Mellot p. 205 2253.  Philippon, Morineau  Active: 1578  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Fabienne Boineau and worked both as a printer and a type caster. He took on Rose Mousnyer, daughter of a local merchant, as an apprentice for two years.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 50 Philiseus, see Ringmann, Mathias 2254.  Picard, Catherine  Active: 1511–1527  Name variations: Brugnet, veuve Jean  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The widow of Jean Brugnet, she succeeded him and had her own stall on the cathedral square. She was replaced in 1527 by Pierre Grolin.  References: Pouy p. 201; Labarre p. 42 2255.  Pichat, François  Active: 1516–1545  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place du Mal-Conseil’  Biography: As a publisher he is known for an edition of a local legal work printed after 1508.  Commercial partners: Barthelemy Bertholet (Grenoble); Jean Belon (Valence)  References: Muller p. 18; RB XIII p. 51; Maignien p. LXXI 2256.  Pichon, François  Active: 1521–1528  Name variations: Picho, François

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Pierre Regis (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 145; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2257.  Pichon, Guillaume  Active: 1528–1563  Name variations: Pejont, Guillaume; Pigo, Guillaume; Pejo, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1528); Rodez, Guyenne (1538–1563)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Terral’ (Rodez)  Biography: He seems to have begun his career in Toulouse alongside François before leaving for Rodez. There, he obtained privileges to print religious works for the use of the diocese from Georges d’Armagnac. He sold the books of the Toulouse publisher Jacques Colomiès in his shop. He was an active member of the municipality, becoming a councillor in 1547 and 1555. He died before 1566.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: Lançon p. 214; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2258.  Picot, Nicolas  Active: 1546–1547  Location: Châteaudun, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of a Marie Lelarge. A copy of Baptista Mantuanus’s works printed in 1502 in Bologna (USTC 857180), now in the municipal library of Alençon (N 11 9), was bought from him for 40 sous.  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir E 2952 2259.  Picquenot, René  Active: 1568–1577  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le Palais royal, à l’enseigne Saint Julien’ (1570); ‘En Brecigné, à l’enseigne saint Julien’ (1569)  Biography: The son of Richard, he married Françoise Desnotz. He presumably took over his father’s workshop. In 1583 he was described simply as a merchant but had before then served as the official printer and bookseller to the university of Angers (1569–1570). He sought

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to diversify his output, travelling to Spain in 1565 to agree a deal in Salamanca to have playing cards printed by a French immigrant printer referred to as ‘Juan Franco’. He sometimes reprinted texts already published in Paris and Poitiers. He died before 23 January 1593.  Device: Silvestre n° 323  Motto: ‘Ex infimis ad superiora’  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 199; Port III 87; Morisse n° 242; Répertoire n° 7860. 2260.  Picquenot, Richard  Active: 1525–1529  Name variations: Pichenot, Richard  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Place neuve, à l’enseigne du cygne’  Biography: He was the father of René. He took on Macé Guillemyn as an apprentice for two years in 1528. He was probably the master printer selling copies of the now lost first edition of the Le pourpoint fermant à boutons in Angers published in 1533. His material was also used in the Vroy Gargantua probably printed at the same date (USTC 14979). At his death, some time before 1544, his wife inherited his workshop.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Pierre Arnoul (Angers); Pierre Bodin (Nantes)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 198; Port III 87; Cappellen (Ni) n° 5 2261.  Picquenot, veuve Richard  Active: 1544  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Place neuve, à l’enseigne du cygnet’  Biography: She succeeded her husband after his death but is only known for the publication of a single work (USTC 7933).  Commercial partners: Jean I Elis (Angers)  References: Arbour p. 425 2262.  Picquery, Antoine  Active: 1566  Location: Meaux, Champagne  Role: Bookseller

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 Biography: He was the son of a Guillaume, a wool comber from Meaux who had sought refuge in Geneva where he had become an inhabitant by 1560. He seems to have initially followed his father into this trade as he worked with textiles in 1554. However, he seems to have moved towards the book trade, owing money with Jean Megret and Pierre Langlois to Laurent de Normandie. He also bought 1500 lt’s worth of books from Nicolas de Courcelles, a merchant from Amiens, on 29 October 1566.  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII/181  References: Schlaepfer (Laurent de Normandie) p. 191 2263.  Picquet, Arnauld  Active: 1544  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 97 2264.  Picquot, Simon  Active: 1543–1560  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Catherine Nepveu on 30 July 1543 and had a daughter named Jeanne who married the bookseller Michel Villager. They lived in the parish of Saint-Martin-le-Viandier. He was sued alongside his associates by the widow of Jean Pisson for an edition of the local synodal statutes printed in 1555. He died on 29 February 1560 and was succeeded by his son-in-law.  Commercial partners: Richard Cottereau (Chartres); Philippe Hotot (Chartres)  References: RB XXVIII p. 30; Feyel p. 711; Répertoire n° 7863. 2265.  Pidie, Pierre  Active: 1517  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married the widow of Lactantio Ferri, the rector of the school. He was described as a citizen of the city.  References: Castan p. 274

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2266.  Pierre, Françoise  Active: 1573–1575  Name variations: Berton, veuve Barthélemy  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue Chaudellerie’  Biography: The widow of Barthélemy Berton, she continued his polemical output. She later married Théophile Bouquet. It was her workshop that was responsible for a pamphlet printed using the name of the heirs of Johannes Oporinus and the false address of Basel (USTC 674), as well as two editions that claimed to be produced by Martin Cousin. Pierre Davantès inherited her shop in 1575.  References: Muller p. 95–96; Arbour p. 72; Répertoire n° 787 2267. Piet, Jean  Active: 1519–1544  Name variations: Pyet, Jean  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près la porte du Peyrou’  Biography: He lived in the quarter of Sainte-Croix and had died by 1544, at which time his heirs paid the taxes on his house.  Documents: AM Montpellier CC61 f. 1 2268.  Pietrequin, Guy  Active: 1533  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition of a missal for local use (USTC 185338). A burgher of the city of Troyes, he became one of the city’s wealthiest inhabitants. It is unclear if his involvement in the publication was anything more than that of an investor.  Commercial partners: Veuve Jean I Lecoq (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris); Thibault Trumeau (Troyes)  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 26 2269.  Pillehotte, Nicolas  Active: 1592–1621  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1592); Aix-en-Provence, Provence (1595–1621)  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He was related to the Lyon booksellers Antoine and Jean Pilehotte. He witnessed an act signed in Lyon in 1592 by the bookseller of Aix-en-Provence André Morin, though it is unclear where Pillehotte was active. By 1598 at the latest he had settled in Aix where he published editions of local interest in partnership with Jean Tholosan, the official printer of the city. He acquired Jean Caffin’s stock in 1617.  Commercial partners: Jean Tholosan (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI p. 21; Muller p. 2; Baudrier II 240 & 364; Billioud p. 273 2270.  Pilon, Barthélemy  Active: 1537–1550  Name variations: Also known as Casus; Piton, Barthelémy  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He initially rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city, before moving to Saint-Sernin by 1543.  References: Claudin (2) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2271. Pilon, Simon  Active: 1573–1579  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 609 2272.  Pinart, Jean  Active: 1562–1580  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1562), Rouen, Normandy (1564, 1574–1578); Paris, Île-de-France (1569, 1578–1580)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Barbeau, près le pont de Robec’ (Rouen); ‘Rue Saint Étienne des Grecs’ (Paris, 1569)  Biography: He seems to have moved between Lyon, Paris and Rouen, printing and publishing in each of these cities. He appears to have started his career in Lyon where he printed an edition of the Livre des marchans written by the Calvinist pastor Antoine Marcourt. Though undated, it was probably published in 1562 when the town was controlled by the Protestants. It is possible he left Lyon following its return to the Catholic fold, working in Rouen in 1564, then in Paris in 1569, only reappearing again in 1574 when he was described as bookseller

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of Rouen and published with the well-established local bookseller Richard I Lallemant. The archives suggest that he was still there in 1577–1578, though he left for Paris at some point during the latter year. He seems to have found it difficult to settle: even during his short Parisian sojourn he used four different addresses in under three years.  Commercial partners: Richard I Lallemant (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 9068  References: Renouard p. 347; Baudrier I 343; Répertoire n° 7910. 2273.  Pinay, Pierre  Active: 1598  Name variations: Pimy, Pierre  Location: Langres, Champagne (1598); Paris, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single work produced in Langres (USTC 77825).  References: RB XVII p. 45; Muller p. 20; Skora (Langres); Daguin & Frionnet p. 173 2274.  Pingault, Charles  Active: 1533–1560  Name variations: Pingot, Charles  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais; Toulouse, Languedoc (1533–1536); Bordeaux, Illustration 107 Signature of Charles Pingault, 1552, AD Guyenne (1537–1560) Gironde 3 E 848  Role: Bookseller, illuminator  Address: ‘Près du palais de l’ombrière’  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he was the son-in-law of the Lyon bookseller Michel Parmentier. Also initially described as an illuminator in 1538, he was styled a bookseller later the same year. He represented his father-in-law in the long-running lawsuit that opposed him to the Bordeaux bookseller Nicolas Castel. He rented for three years a shop close to the palace in 1538. He appraised the books of Étienne Thoulouse after his death in 1552 at which point he was a sworn bookseller to the university.  Commercial partners: Michel Parmentier (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 133 n° 411v, 3 E 848, 3 E 850, 3 E 9816 f. 100, 3 E 9830 f. 327

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 References: Labadie p. 98; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 611; Roudié & Desgraves n° 4–10; Giteau 2275.  Pion, Isaac  Active: 1584–1587  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He attended the Lyon fair.  Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon); Jean Stratius (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 365 2276. Pion, Martin  Active: 1488–1491  Name variations: Pyon, Martin  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had married a woman named Gilon. He was also described as a scribe and lived in the parish of Sainte-Foy.  References: Jusselin p. 4 2277. Piot, Cardin  Active: 1515–1517  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Born in Pierreville, he was the son of a Greffin.  References: Gosselin p. 72; Lepreux III 363 2278.  Piot, Jacques  Active: 1585  Location: Saint-Pons, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He attended the Lyon fair.  Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 365

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2279.  Pisson, Guillaume  Active: 1560–1567  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Près la tour du roi’  Biography: He was Jean II’s brother with whom he worked as a binder for the local cathedral chapter. He married Mathurine Dinocheau with a dowry of 100 lt before 1561. As a publisher, he had his books printed in Paris.  References: RB XXVIII; Jusselin p. 20; Feyel p. 717 2280.  Pisson, Jean I  Active: 1542–1547  Name variations: Pinson, Jean; also known as Danhault  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was succeeded by his wife by 1556.  References: Jusselin p. 20; Feyel p. 714 2281.  Pisson, Jean II  Active: 1560–1571  Name variations: also known as Danhault  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He married Catherine Lemaire with whom he had six children, including a son named Pierre who followed him into the trade. He was the brother of Guillaume, with whom he initially worked as a binder for the local cathedral chapter, before undertaking the task

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alone. As a publisher, he is known for a single edition of a decision rendered by the local bishop (USTC 112479). He died on 31 July 1571.  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir 1 E 151, E 155, 1 E 179, 1 E 181, 1 E 199, 1 E 228  References: RB XXVIII; Jusselin p. 20; Feyel p. 715 2282.  Pisson, Pierre  Active: 1585–1607  Name variations: also known as Danhault  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was the son of Jean II and was born in around 1558. He married Marie Roussignol and lived in the parish of Sainte-Foy. He worked as a bookbinder for the local ecclesiastical institutions. His son François followed him into the trade.  References: Feyel p. 720 2283.  Pisson, veuve Jean I  Active: 1556–1564  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le marché du blé’  Biography: She successfully launched a lawsuit to defend a privilege to print the local synodal statutes that eventually appeared in a new edition in 1558 (USTC 112478). She had her books printed in Paris.  References: RB XXVIII n° 31; Arbour p. 430; Jusselin p. 20 2284.  Pius II, printer of  Active: 1475–1480  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Though he was an active printer, responsible for some sixteen known editions in the space of six years, it has so far not been possible to identify him. 2285.  Piverd, Claude  Active: 1543–1544  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais’

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 Biography: He is known for two works of local interest published as joint projects with Angevine booksellers and printed in Paris.  Commercial partners: Jacques Buraudier (Angers); René Montel (Angers)  References: RB XXVI; Pasquier p. 202; Répertoire n° 7941 Plantier, Guillaume, see Du Plantier, Guillaume 2286.  Plantin, Christophe  Active: [1537]–1589  Location: Caen, Normandy (1537?–1546?); Paris, Île-de-France (1546?– 1549?); Antwerp, Low Countries (1549?–1589)  Role: Bookbinder, printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: One of the best known and most important printers and publishers of the sixteenth century, he was born in 1514 in Saint-Avertin near Tours. But it was in Caen that he seems to have begun his career and where he learnt the art of bookbinding in the workshop of Robert II Macé. The strength of the Norman connection is underlined by his marriage to Jeanne Rivière in around 1546, though he left the province soon afterwards for Paris and, later, for Antwerp where he settled durably and developed his business.  References: Voet p. 8–11; Gruel p. 131 2287.  Plat, Pierre  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant during the great purge of 1562. He is listed separately from Plat de Boys, and is therefore probably a different bookseller.  References: Haag II 67 2288.  Plat de Boys  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant during the great purge of 1562. He is listed separately from Pierre Plat, and is therefore probably a different bookseller.  References: Haag II 59

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2289.  Platens  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer’s apprentice  Biography: He began an apprenticeship in Jean Faure’s workshop in 1511.  Commercial partners: Jean I Faure (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (2) p. 280 Podio, Guillaume de, see Du Puy, Guillaume 2290.  Poillier, Martin  Active: 1488–1489  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married a woman named Jacquette. He was also described as a scribe and lived in the parish of Saint-Hilaire.  References: Jusselin p. 4 2291.  Pollevert  Active: 1590  Name variations: Le Vert, Paul  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He is mentioned on the title page of a pamphlet that asserted that it was copied from an edition that he had published (USTC 12380).  References: RB X p. 93 2292.  Pomaret, Antoine  Active: 1590–1619  Name variations: Poumaret, Antoine  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in Agen circa 1560, he became printer to the town. As a publisher, he concentrated on local requests and small-format books, sometimes reprising texts that had previously been published elsewhere. During the wars of the Catholic League, he produced Leaguer tracts. He left his shop to Raymond Fumadères.

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 References: Muller p. 1; RB II p. 13; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 57; Répertoire n° 8004. 2293.  Poncet, Jean  Active: 1596  Location: Marseille, Provence  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 19329) that he did not sign.  References: RB XXVI 2294.  Pons, Jacques  Active: 1575–1603  Name variations: Ponts, Jacques  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1575–1584); Aix-en-Provence, Provence (1597–1603)  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue mercière’ (Lyon)  Biography: Originally from Aix-en-Provence, he seems to have begun his career as a ruler of books in Paris before leaving the city to work briefly for Christophe Plantin in Antwerp from 7 January to 30 May 1572 where he was paid on the basis of three lt a month. However, his role as an actor in the book trade began in Lyon where he acted initially as a bookseller and then, from 1582 onwards, as a printer of ephemeral works. As a printer and a publisher in Aix, he is known for a single imprint (USTC 49292), but he also imported books from Lyon to be sold locally.  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch 32 f. 65r  References: Baudrier IV 348 & I 350 2295.  Ponsaa, Arnaud de  Active: 1506  Location: Orthez, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: He married the widow Catherine de Balansun in 1529.  Commercial partners: Brunet d’Astis (Orthez)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques E 904  References: Dubarat p. LI–LII

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2296.  Ponte, Pierre  Active: 1573  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was named as the godfather of Peronet, the daughter of the bookseller Louis La Forgue on 10 July 1573.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 554 p. 112 2297.  Portau, Jean  Active: 1576–1590  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The father of Thomas, he was a Protestant printer. In his imprints, he used Barthélemy Berton’s material and, when necessary, adopted the address of Michel de Hamont in Bruxelles to publish sensitive material. He printed on occasion at the behest of the king of Navarre.  Commercial partners: Marin Villepoux (La Rochelle)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2888  References: RB XVI p. 43–50; Muller p. 95–96; Audiat p. 32–33; Desgraves, La Rochelle p. 763; Répertoire n° 8022. 2298.  Portau, Thomas  Active: 1590–1623  Location: Pons, Poitou (1590–1594); Niort, Poitou (1594–1600); Saumur, Anjou (1594 & 1600–1623)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Jean, he was born and grew up in La Rochelle. He followed in his father’s footsteps and entered the trade, becoming an important Protestant printer. He married his second wife Madeleine Hay in 1603 with whom he had five children. One of his daughters from his first marriage, Marie, married the printer Jean Moussat, who was the father-in-law of René Troismailles. He initially set up shop in Pons at the behest of the local pastor, but because of the increasing insecurity following the Croquant uprising, he relocated to Saumur, briefly, before settling in Niort. He stayed in that town until Duplessis-Mornay asked him to move his press to Saumur in 1600. Though his shop there was pillaged in 1621, he was able to build a very successful business. In his imprints, he sometimes used the address of Jacques Le Bas in Caen. Though Pasquier suggests that he also adopted the name of Pierre Colle when printing in Saumur in the early seventeenth century, this

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seems to be an unsubstantiated and unlikely claim. The material he used was of a similar design to that used by the Haultins. A prolific printer, he is known for over 180 editions in the three cities in which he worked, also printing on occasion for other publishers such as Simon Frère in Poitiers. He died on 20 January 1623.  Commercial partners: Jacques Dangicourt (Fontenay-le-Comte); Simon Frère (Poitiers)  Device: Silvestre n° 540 & 1203  Motto: ‘Ex spina rosa, ex cruce corona’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 74, 189, 271  References: Muller p. 56, 92 & 105; RB II p. 73–75, IV p. 19–24; Pasquier p. 288; Walsby (Mobility) p. 261–262; L. Desgraves, ‘Thomas Portau, imprimeur à Saumur (1601–1623)’, Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, CXXVI (1968), 63–133; Répertoire n° 8023. Portier, Jérôme, see Jacobi, Jérôme 2299.  Portier, Pierre  Active: 1569  Location: Saint-Maixent, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Pierre Moine (Poitiers)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 270 2300.  Portonariis, Dominique I de  Active: 1526–1559  Name variations: Portunaire, Dominique de  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence (1539–1543); Lyon, Lyonnais (1526 & 1547–1559); Medina-del-Campo & Salamanca, Spain (1533–1547)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was from an Italian family originally from Trino that had settled in Lyon at the end of the fifteenth century where he was himself active in 1526. He left for Spain where he worked in both Medina-del-Campo and Salamanca at various times between 1533 and 1547. He benefitted from part of the inheritance of Vincent de Millis in 1541 but seems to have been mainly active in Aix, where he was an inhabitant and bookseller in 1539. At the death of his brother Vincent in 1547 he transferred his attentions to Lyon where he had a shop in the ‘rue mercière’. He had four sons who all followed him into the trade, three of whom later settled in Spain. His daughters Marguerite and

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Madelaine respectively married the bookseller Guillaume Rouillé and printer Gaspard Trechsel.  Commercial partners: Thibaud Payen (Lyon)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 2; Baudrier V 379; Billioud p. 273 2301.  Portonariis, François de  Active: 1539–1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was from an Italian family originally from Trino that had settled in Lyon at the end of the fifteenth century. He represented Vincent de Portonariis in Toulouse and had a shop in the SaintPierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  References: Baudrier V 386; Claudin (2) p. 14 2302.  Pothier, Nicolas  Active: 1508–1509  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2303.  Pothier, Pierre  Active: 1500–1509  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He is known to have worked for the local cathedral.  References: Turquois p. 354; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279 2304.  Pouet, Mathieu  Active: 1504–1505  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/19  References: BVH Minutes 2305.  Poulain, Antoine  Active: 1585  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He attended the fairs of Lyon.

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 Commercial partners: Antoine Tardif (Lyon); Thomas Lombry (Nîmes)  References: Baudrier IV 366 2306.  Poullain, François  Active: 1513  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Michelle Thiboust and lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien. Lepreux believes him to have only been a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 69; Lepreux III 363 2307.  Poullain, Jacques  Active: 1514–1554  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Marion Vagias and lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou. Lepreux believes him to have only been a journeyman printer.  References: Gosselin p. 70; Lepreux III 363 2308.  Poullet, Nicolas  Active: 1600  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 276 2309.  Poupard, Lucas  Active: 1573–1586  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He initially resided in the parish of Saint-Hippolyte before moving to Saint-Jean-des-Champs in 1585. He was described as a printer in 1573, then as a bookseller eight years later. He worked as a journeyman printer in Pierre I Bouchier’s workshop in 1583 and helped appreciate his stock after his death that very year. In 1586 he was considered too poor to be taxed.  References: Jenny (État provisoire) p. 900; Jenny (Notes) p. 902

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2310.  Poupy, Jean  Active: 1574–1585  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1574–1582); Angers, Anjou (1583–1585)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Place du pilory, à la Bible d’or’ (Angers)  Biography: Born in Cheffes, he married Denise Hotot with whom he had six children. He initially worked in Paris where he succeeded Claude Frémy. As a publisher, his output was dominated by small-format imprints. In 1583 he settled in Angers, keeping the sign of the gold Bible that he had used in Paris. He continued to have his books printed in Paris and maintained his strong commercial relationship with his uncle, the Parisian bookseller Nicolas Chesneau, until Poupy’s death on 7 December 1585. He was buried in the Cordeliers’ church in Angers. His stock was then bought by Antoine Hernault, who also adopted his device. His widow married the bookseller Georges Nepveu the following year.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Chesneau (Paris); Julien Noyau (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 487 & 744  Motto: ‘Scrutamini scripturas’  Documents: AM Angers GG 112 f. 21v  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 4; Pasquier p. 202; Renouard p. 352 2311.  Pourcelet, Simon  Active: 1493–1494  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne du pélican’  Biography: He was the prototypographer of Tours. His sign suggests that he was working on the behalf of, or with, Jean I de Marnef. He used a canting device that featured a piglet on his imprints.  Device: TW ma04099; Polain n° 200; Meyer n° 184  Motto: ‘Je atens le glan a choir’  Types: TW ma04094–ma04098  References: TW of0185 2312. Pourchel, Louis  Active: 1551  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Patrice.

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 Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/403 f. 232r  Commercial partners: Robert Auber (Rouen) 2313.  Pournée, Jean  Active: 1496  Location: Falaise, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He sought to be named as one of the booksellers to the university of Caen in 1496.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. cxxiii 2314.  Pourret, Guychain  Active: 1549  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 618 2315.  Poutoulain, Jean  Active: 1519–1532  Name variations: Pantelain, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Paroisse Saint-Maclou, Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was the son of Martin and married Catherine. He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou. His finances seem to have been fragile and he called upon Guillaume I Bénard to lend him 10 lt on three separate occasions. Of Protestant faith, one of his cousins established himself as a bookseller in England, whilst Poutoulain decided to seek refuge in Geneva in 1558.  Commercial partners: Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Jean de Burges (Rouen); Jacques Le Gentil (Rouen)  References: Gosselin p. 67 & 76; Beaurepaire p. 395; Lesens p. 332 2316.  Pouvrasseau, Bertrand  Active: 1529  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the father of Jacques.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862

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2317.  Pouvrasseau, Jacques  Active: 1553  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Bertrand.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862 2318.  Poyteret, Claude  Active: 1599–1602  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was a part-time bookseller, serving also as a messenger for Savoy and Franche-Comté in 1599. In 1602 he bought with the bookseller Nicolas de Moingesse a secondhand collection worth 610 francs.  Commercial partners: Abraham Cloquemin (Lyon)  Documents: BM Besançon Ms 1213 f. 8  References: Baudrier IV 36 2319.  Poyvre, Henri  Active: 1526–1552  Name variations: Piper, Henri; Poivre, Henri; Poyvure, Henri  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1526–1551); Pau, Béarn (1552)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was the son-in-law of Agnet Ribiera, whose workshop he shared in Toulouse. There, he lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter before moving to Pau in 1552 when he agreed to terms with the Estates of Béarn to print an edition of the local customs. The transport of the press and material from Toulouse was paid for by the Estates, which also agreed to move them back once the work was completed. When in Pau he published in partnership with Jean de Vingle and undertook other jobs such as the constitutions of the bishopric of Lescar. It is unclear whether he stayed in Pau after 1552.  Commercial partners: Jean de Vingle (Pau); Agnet Ribiera (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 5958  References: Muller p. 89; RB IV p. 35; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 192; Claudin (1) p. 394; Lacaze p. 23; Répertoire n° 7996.

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2320.  Poyvre, Jean  Active: 1587–1588  Name variations: Poivre, Jean  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He mainly published ordinances and worked in partnership with Jean Ravoillot.  Commercial partners: Antoine Dominique (Dole); Jean d’Ogerolles (Lyon); Jean Ravoillot (Dole)  References: RB XXI p. 54; Muller p. 16 2321.  Préaulx, Manassès de  Active: 1597–1629  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller; bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le portail des libraires’  Biography: He married Catherine Maubert and died in 1629.  References: Mellot p. 207; Répertoire n° 8082. 2322.  Préel, Jacques  Active: 1553  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 619 2323.  Préel, Simon  Active: 1542–1549  Name variations: Pouël, Simon; Priel, Simon  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1542–1543); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1547– 1549)  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’ (Bordeaux)  Biography: He first appeared in Toulouse where he was described as a poor journeyman bookseller in the tax registers of the city in 1542 and 1543. However, he seems to have enjoyed better fortune as the years passed. He moved to Bordeaux where he was able to set up his own shop. There, he took on an apprentice for three years in 1548.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 617 & 620; Claudin (2) p. 93

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2324.  Preta, Gauché  Active: 1497–1520  Name variations: Prestat, Gauthier  Location: Châlons-en-Champagne, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Près de saint Alpin’  Biography: He married Jeanne Thibault and is known for publishing liturgical works for local use that he had printed in Paris. The bookseller Gauthier du Boys was his nephew.  Commercial partners: Thielmann Kerver (Paris); Philippe Pigouchet (Paris)  References: RB XVII p. 10; TW of1798; Lhote p. 9 2325.  Preurauld, Aymeric  Active: 1515–1544  Name variations: Prévault, Aymeric; Peneraud, Aymeric; Prévérand, Aymeric  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Catherine Passaret (Piscoret?) who had died before 1535. The bookseller Léonard Daviot was present when the marriage contract of their daughter, Marguerite, was drawn up in 20 November 1535 in Preurauld’s bookshop.  Documents: AM Nîmes QQ 15, QQ 17; AD Gard 2 E 36/202, 2 E 37/26  References: Bulletin des séances de l’Académie de Nîmes (1894), 20. 2326.  Prével, Jean  Active: 1510–1528  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1510–1513); Paris, Île-de-France (1517–1528)  Role: Printer  Address: ‘En la rue Judas’, ‘Rue de Bièvre à l’image Saint-Michel’ (Paris)  Biography: He married Simone Duchastel in 1510. Though he signed his books printed in Paris, it has as yet not been possible to identify any of his Rouen imprints.  Device: Silvestre n° 333; Renouard (Marques) n° 926  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 68; Renouard p. 353; Lepreux III 364; Répertoire n° 8084. 2327.  Prevost, Adrian  Active: 1556  Location: Laon, Île-de-France

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 Role: Bookseller  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII 252 2328.  Prévost, Jean  Active: 1574–1587  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 2329.  Prevost, Richard  Active: 1579–1598  Name variations: Le Prevost, Richard  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was described as a journeyman printer in 1579, but clearly had a successful career as he was elected warden of the community of printers and booksellers of the city in 1597 and 1598.  References: Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 16 2330.  Prigent, Alain  Active: 1516–1519  Location: Landerneau, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: As a publisher he is known for an edition of the breviary for the use of Saint-Pol-de-Léon printed in Paris (USTC 183613).  Commercial partners: Didier Maheu (Paris); Yvon Quilleveré (Paris)  References: RB XXVIII p. 65; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; Booton p. 219 2331.  Primoult, Jean  Active: 1540–1559  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Raouline Illustration 109 Bataille and was the father of Pierre. Signature of Jean Primoult, 1555, AD They initially lived in the parish of Seine-Maritime 2E1 426 Saint-Maclou but moved on a number of occasions, first to the parish of Saint-Godard in 1541, then in 1555 to Saint-Éloi, and finally to Sainte-Marie-la-Petite in 1559. He produced and printed engravings that he sold exclusively to a consortium

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of trunk-makers who furnished the paper and checked the designs before the reams were printed and delivered. In 1559, he was arrested and locked up in the local jail at the request of his wife.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/413 p. 401, 2E1/426 p. 243 & 390  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 94; Lepreux III 364 2332.  Primoult, Pierre  Active: 1574–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: The son of Jean, he married Suzanne Prevost. He was one of the printers who opposed the request made in 1579 by the booksellers of Rouen to be allowed to house a press in their shop.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 94; Lepreux III 364 2333.  Puignault, Jean  Active: 1540–1558  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À l’écu de Bâle’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 278 Puteus, Petrus, see Dupuis, Pierre 2334.  Pycavet, Jacques  Active: 1539  Name variations: also known as de Paris  Location: Clamecy, Burgundy  Role: Printer  References: Mynard 2335.  Pynet, Jacques  Active: 1481–1502  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He also worked as a scribe and executed commissions for local ecclesiastical institutions.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 278

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2336.  Pynot, Olivier  Active: [1542]  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Documents: AM Nantes GG 710  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 260 2337.  Pyonine, Jean  Active: 1531  Location: Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 78 2338.  Pyot, Henri  Active: 1570–1580  Name variations: Piot, Henri  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes and was described as a poor bookseller in 1580.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261  References: Turquois p. 354 2339.  Pyot, Jacques  Active: 1548–1580  Name variations: Piot, Jacques  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married a woman named Edmée with whom he had at least two children. They resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. Though he was never particularly prosperous, he fell on hard times during the Wars of Religion and was exempt from paying municipal taxes in 1573 and 1580.  Documents: AM Troyes F 233, F 235, F 236, F 247, F 261, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 354 2340.  Pyot, Jean  Active: 1584  Name variations: Piot, Jean

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 Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2341.  Pyot, Pierre  Active: 1598–1630  Name variations: Piau, Pierre/Parre  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer  Address: ‘Rue perdue’ (ca 1620)  Biography: He was the brother of the Parisian printer Jean Pyot. He married Jeanne, the daughter of the bookseller Pierre de Villiers, with whom he had a son, Jean, who followed him into the trade. Their daughters, Elisabeth and Nicole, both married Troyes bookbinders: the first was betrothed to Titien Hasley and the second to Bonaventure Roy. He began his career as a bookseller but later expanded into printing. He lived in the Croncels quarter of the city. In 1608, he was in Dole where he requested and obtained a certificate that confirmed his ‘bonne vie et moeurs’. He was a widower by 1609.  Documents: AM Troyes F 276, AD Doubs B 348  References: Turquois p. 353; Turquois (Molière) p. 152 Quadier, Jacques, see Estanges, Jacques 2342.  Quesnot, Pierre  Active: 1562–1595  Location: Saint-Lô, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Rue des menuyères’  Biography: Travers, and Lepreux in his wake, have suggested that he was only the proprietor of the shop in which Jacques Le Bas and Thomas Bouchard worked. But he is known to have signed an edition of the Psalms in 1562 with Robert Le Crosnier. He was also mentioned in an act of 30 October 1595. A Protestant, he was described as a burgher of the city.  Commercial partners: Robert Le Crosnier (Saint-Lô)  References: Travers p. 18; Lepreux III (2) 31; Calviniana II 1045; A. Claudin, ‘Les origines de l’imprimerie à Saint-Lô en Normandie’, Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire (1894), 277.

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2343.  Queyron, Antoine  Active: 1540  Name variations: Cayron, Antoine  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He commissioned an edition of a book of hours for local use (USTC 40044).  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: RB XXIV p. 24 2344.  Quijoue, Gilles  Active: 1480  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The prototypographer of Caen, he is known for a single edition (GW 13504).  Commercial partners: Jacques Durandas (Caen)  Types: TW ma03586  References: Delisle (Caen) p. XI; TW of0345 2345.  Quilleveré, Yvon  Active: 1516  Location: Landerneau, Brittany; Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is mistakenly given as a bookseller based in Brittany by Diane Booton. He was in fact active in Paris, ‘rue de la Bucherie’ between 1498 (or more probably 1516) and 1540.  References: Booton p. 247; Renouard p. 358 2346.  Rabier, Louis  Active: 1562–1606  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1562); Orléans, Orléanais (1563–1569); Montauban, Languedoc (1577–1588); Orthez, Languedoc (1583–1590); Lescar, Béarn (1591–1606)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was from a Protestant family from Orléans that fled to Geneva in 1554. He became a burgher of Geneva in 1557 and served as apprentice to Conrad Badius until March 1562. He returned to Orléans the following year where he published Protestant works using a wide array of type mainly cut by Pierre Haultin, type that he undoubtedly

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brought back from Geneva. With the increasingly anti-protestant climate in Orléans after the end of the second religious war, he decided to leave the city before 1570, reappearing in Montauban in 1577. The municipal authorities were keen for him to settle, offering him a spacious house. However, by 1579, Henry of Navarre became aware of his work and in 1581 encouraged him to move to Orthez – much to the Montauban authorities’ displeasure. He became the official printer to the king of Navarre and received a stipend of 200 lt a year. The foundation of a Protestant academy in Lescar convinced him to relocate once more in 1591. He remained in that town for the remainder of his career. He married Marie de Bernard, the sister of the bookseller Arnaud de Bernard in Tulle. His output of some 45 editions emphasises his commitment to the Protestant cause, though he did also publish Auger Gaillard’s Lou libre gras that was considered scandalous by Catholics and Calvinists alike. He also worked for the Estates of Béarn, requesting a 300 lt advance to print the Fors du Béarn for them. He wrote his will on 30 June 1606 and died shortly after. He was succeeded by Abraham Rouyer.  Commercial partners: Vincent Ratoyre (Orléans)  Device: Silvestre n° 726  Motto: ‘Vicit leo de tribu juda’  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 4, 21, 44, 54, 74, 98, 123, 140, 217, 272, 295; Vervliet p. 278 n° 31, p. 283 n° 38; Vervliet (Vine) n° 184  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques C 701, E 1245  References: RB IV p. 10–12 & 31–32, X p. 79; Muller p. 21, 52 & 56–57; RIECH; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 130; Dubarat; Walsby (Mobility) p. 257–260; Lacaze p. 51; Forestié p. 41; Répertoire n° 8193. 2347.  Racquet  Active: 1502  Name variations: Also known as Naples  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Drôme 42 H 7 (I B 14) 2348.  Raffina, Jean  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65

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Rahier, Macé, see Le Royer, Macé 2349.  Raignac, Géraud  Active: 1573–1586  Name variations: Rainiac, Géraud; Reignac, Géraud  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1573); Agen, Guyenne (1573–1586)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A nobleman by birth, he married on 21 May 1571 Béatrice de Lestrade with whom he had three children. He was described as a master bookseller in Toulouse and was an inhabitant of Agen in 1573. Alongside Guillaume Vergnes, he was asked by Simon Millanges to retrieve a consignment of books that had been seized at a local toll. His will, written in 1584, confirms that he was of Catholic faith. The bookseller Antoine Chrestien was one of his witnesses. He died before 17 November 1586 at which point his widow had taken over the running of his shop. His daughter, Bourguine, married Antoine Chrestien the following year.  Commercial partners: Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AM Agen FF 34  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 58; Marboutin p. 21 2350.  Rambault, Vincent  Active: 1548–1554  Location: Troyes, Champagne (1548); Bordeaux, Guyenne (1554)  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of Troyes in 1548, and appeared a few years later as a sworn bookseller in Bordeaux.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 629; Turquois p. 353 2351.  Ramburitre, Silvestre  Active: 1498  Name variations: Ramburitrus, Sylvester  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint, an edition of Laurent Le Grand’s Apologia pro fratribus minoribus de familia S. Francisci that is now lost.  References: Lepreux III 365

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2352.  Ramiere, Jean  Active: 1511–1539  Name variations: Ramiera, Jean; Ramieres, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He lived in the SaintPierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city in 1539.  References: Claudin (1) p. 21; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–62 2353.  Ramon, Hugues  Active: 1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2354.  Ranteau, Denis  Active: 1540–1558  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Daudyne, and was the father of Hélie, who followed him into the trade, and Madeleine, who married the bookseller Barthélemy Guillot. He lived in the parish of Notre-Damela-Petite in 1540 before moving to La Celle some time before 1558. He had died by 1559.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 268; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 502 2355.  Ranteau, Hélie  Active: 1559  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of Denis, he bought his deceased father’s stock for 20 lt in 1559.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 268 2356.  Rapy, Jean  Active: 1504  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Apprentice

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2359.  Ravisse, Antoine  Active: 1596–1615  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1596– 1598 & 1615); Toulouse, Languedoc (1600) Illustration 110 Signature of Antoine Ravisse, 1598,  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for an edi- AD Gironde 3 E 14800 tion of Juvenal’s Satyres and a work by the Bordeaux lawyer Bernard Automne (USTC 683962). The book was printed with the material of Simon Millanges in Bordeaux but bore the imprint ‘Basileae’. This has led scholars to conclude that Ravisse was a fictitious character. However, there is no reason to believe that he did not indeed print this work as, despite what had been suggested, archival documents confirm the existence of the printer. He worked as a journeyman printer in the workshop of Simon Millanges in 1598, whilst the registers of the Estates of the local diocese indicate that he printed for them in his own right in 1600 though no copies of this work have survived. At this point he was described as a master printer. He was later once again active in Bordeaux in the workshop of the Millanges in 1615, though this time he was once more characterised as simply as a journeyman printer in Anne Millanges’s will.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne C 702, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1271r–1272r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 630 2360.  Ravoillot, Jean  Active: 1587–1588  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Aux allées’  Biography: He mainly published ordinances and worked in partnership with Jean Poyvre, but also appeared alone on some title pages.  Commercial partners: Antoine Dominique (Dole); Jean d’Ogerolles (Lyon); Jean Poyvre (Dole)  References: RB XXI p. 54 & 60; Muller p. 16 2361.  Ravynell, Jacques  Active: 1495–1496  Name variations: Ravynel, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1495–1496); London, England

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 Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was an English typographer and, from the material he used, seems to have learnt his trade in Paris with Jean du Pré with whom he remained in contact when he attempted to set up shop in Rouen. His stay in Rouen was probably short and he was described as a stationer active in London in an undated petition that he submitted against a lawsuit initiated by another English stationer over an unpaid debt for various books Ravynell had purchased.  Commercial partners: Jean du Pré (Paris); Richard Pynson (London); Pierre Regnault (Rouen)  Device: Polain n° 208; Meyer n° 179  Motto: ‘Junior fui etenim senui et non vidi justum derelictum nec semen ejus querens panem’  Types: TW ma04037–ma04039  References: TW of0428; Duff p. 130; Lepreux III 365; E. G. Duff, ‘Early Chancery Proceedings Concerning Members of the Book Trade’, The Library, VIII (1907), 408–420; Hellinga p. 217 2362.  Rayer, Thomas  Active: 1519–1522  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Address: ‘Au moulin de saint Ouen’  Biography: He seems only to have worked on commission for other members of the book trade. He used Gothic type.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Simon Gruel (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 96–103; RB VIII p. 34–35; B. Normande p. 263–264; Lepreux III 366; Aquilon p. 307 2363.  Raymond, Antoine  Active: 1563  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Savoy, he was a journeyman printer in the workshop of Barthélemy Berton where he placed his son, Louis, as an apprentice in 1563.  References: Droz (La Rochelle) I 26 2364.  Raymond, Louis  Active: 1563

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 Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Apprentice  Biography: The son of Antoine, he started as an apprentice in the workshop of Barthélemy Berton for two years and six months on 1 August 1563.  References: Droz (La Rochelle) I 26 2365.  Raynaud  Active: 1589  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Apprentice  Biography: He was taken on as an apprentice in Simon de Millanges’s workshop on 4 January 1589.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 632 2366.  Razine, Simon  Active: 1499  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  References: Pansier I 155 2367.  Réau, Vincent  Active: 1543–1571  Name variations: Réal, Vincent  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue Saint-James’  Biography: He married Catherine Hébrard and lived in the parish of Saint-Éloi. A master bookseller, he took on an apprentice in 1550. Along with his colleague Marc Vignolles, he took part in the trade of books from Lyon and, in particular, those of the printer and publisher Jean Temporal. This was not a happy venture: the lawsuit that arose from the growing disagreement between Temporal and the Bordeaux booksellers began almost a decade before Réau’s death and rumbled on thereafter. He also went to court in a case that opposed him to the local bookseller Jean Lancolle in 1560. He converted to Protestantism and sought, in difficult circumstances, to continue as a bookseller in the town. His faith was well known in Bordeaux, a fact that some sought to profit from: in 1569, soldiers dragged him out of his shop then arrested him for having left his house so that they could fine him 10 lt.

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The local court investigated the matter and ordered that he should be reimbursed. He died in 1571. The inventory of his shop, drawn up after his death, reveals an array of works that reflected his beliefs including the works of Protestant authors such as Calvin, Viret and Bullinger. His stock was composed of over 3000 titles. He was probably the “maistre Vincens” who was paid 40 lt. for having bound books for the court of Parlement of Bordeaux in 1571.  Commercial partners: Jean Lancolle (Bordeaux); Louis Rostelin (Bordeaux); Jean Temporal (Lyon); Marc Vignolles (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 144 n° 211, 1 B 223 n° 470; 1 B 244 n° 130, 1 B 319 n° 16, 1 B 347 n° 275, G 1718 f. 82  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 633; Jostock p. 77 2368.  Reboul, Antoine  Active: 1526–1547  Name variations: Robolh, Antoine; Rebol, Antoine; Rebul, Antoine; Reboglio, Antonio  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of Guillaume, he probably acquired his material in Limoges. He became the official printer to the town, for which role he received 5 lt in 1540. Though one of his books was censured by the Sorbonne, it has so far proved impossible to establish a clear connection between this printer and his namesake who was active in Geneva between 1556 and 1562 – though historians such as Jean-François Gilmont suppose that they were one and the same person. After his disappearance in 1547, his material resurfaced two years later in the workshop of Guillaume Gobert in Nérac.  References: Muller p. 1; RB II p. 8–9; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 59; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 634; Calviniana p. 1102; Répertoire n° 8259. 2369.  Reboul, Guillaume  Active: 1523–1531  Name variations: Robolh, Guillaume; Rebol, Guillaume; Rebul, Guillaume  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The father of Antoine, he was the prototypographer of Agen. His material was bought by Guillaume Gobert. He was also an

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active bookseller, stocking volumes sent to him by the Lyon publisher Simon Vincent.  Commercial partners: Simon Vincent (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 1; RB II p. 7; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 60; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 70; Marboutin p. 21 2370.  Rebuffi, Guiraud  Active: 1540  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known as a publisher for a single edition produced for the local university and printed in Paris (USTC 112213). Though the title page did not name him, and the colophon only described him as a merchant, the privilege explicitly referred to him as a merchant bookseller.  Commercial partners: Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  References: RB XXIV p. 23; Muller p. 53 2371. Recoleyne, Gaston  Active: 1510–1541  Name variations: Recolena, Gaston; Recolene, Gaston; Rocalench, Gaston  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in 1493, he was an apprentice to Jean Faure in 1510 for 3 years. He was referred to as a bookseller by 1521 and his career continued to develop over the following years, with him becoming the administrator (bayle) of the confraternity of Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste in 1527. He bought some of his stock from Lyon booksellers and worked on commissions for the bishop of Carcassonne. He resided in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. After 1539 he was also described as a ‘chandelier’.  Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Jean II du Pré (Paris); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Jean I Faure (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean II Grosset (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Antoine Le Blanc (Toulouse); Jacques Mareschal (Lyon); Jean Mareschal (Lyon); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse);

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Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Hugo de Turquis (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 6184 f. 67r  References: RB XX p. 52; Claudin (1) p. 145; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 132; Répertoire n° 8266. 2372.  Redon, Antoine  Active: 1529–1550  Name variations: Also known as Le Moru  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines and Saint-Sernin quarters.  References: Claudin (1) p. 157 2373.  Regis, Jean  Active: 1549–1550  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the quarter of Saint-Sernin and was in partnership with Pierre d’Albi and Guillaume Lescuyer.  Commercial partners: Pierre d’Albi (Toulouse); Guillaume Lescuyer (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (2) p. 106 2374.  Regis, Pierre  Active: 1522–1535  Name variations: Ragis, Pierre  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city. He died before 1537.  Commercial partners: François Pichon (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 146; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 2375.  Regnard, Pierre  Active: 1566–1572  Name variations: Requard, Pierre; Regnart, Pierre  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Au coin de la rue du bocassin, près Saint Martin’ (1569–1561); ‘En la rue de la Sellerie, près la rue neuve, à l’enseigne Saint Jean l’Évangéliste’ (1567)  Biography: He rented the priory of Semblançay from the abbey of Marmoutier in 1569. He also printed ordinances for the city of Tours. In 1567, he occupied both a workshop in the ‘rue de la sellerie’ and two bookstalls located near Saint-Martin’s church and at the ‘palais’. He was perhaps the same person as the Poitiers bookseller who ceased to be active in 1563.  Commercial partners: Zacharie I Griveau (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); René Siffleau (Tours); Olivier Tafforeau (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 1121 & 1287  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/160, H 325; AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 61  References: RB XXIII p. 67–68; Muller p. 113; BVH Minutes; Grandmaison p. 341; Répertoire n° 8276. 2376.  Regnart, Pierre  Active: 1559–1563  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He sought to obtain the position of notary in Vouillé in 1563. He could be the same person as his namesake, the Tours printer who started to work in 1566.  Documents: AD Vienne G 1588  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 284 2377.  Regnault, Claude  Active: 1570–1575  Name variations: Regnaud, Claude  Location: Troyes, Champagne (1570); Paris, Île-de-France (1575); Burgos, Spain (1575)  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: He probably learnt his trade in Paris as a journeyman printer, leaving to work in Troyes where he was in 1570 alongside Antoine Bernard with whom he probably worked and who was part of the same network of Parisian journeymen printers. He left for Spain to work for Mathieu Marestz in Burgos in 1575 after signing a three-year contract that promised a monthly wage of 8 ducats.

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 Documents: AN Minutier Central étude XXXIII carton 209  References: Turquois p. 354 2378.  Regnault, Denis  Active: 1513–1519  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: The son of Pierre, he worked in his father’s shop and was elevated to the role of partner in 1513. He studied law at the university of Caen and left the book trade to become a lawyer at his father’s death. He was still active in that profession in 1530.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. XIII 2379.  Regnault, Frobert  Active: 1556–1573  Name variations: Regnaud, Frobert  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city. He was described as a poor bookseller in all three taxation registers of 1556, 1557 and 1573.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236, F 247  References: Turquois p. 353 2380.  Regnault, Jacques  Active: 1556–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Saint-Jacques quarter, the poorest of the city, was described as a poor printer and was exempt from municipal taxation. He bound books for the Cathedral.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 265  References: Troyes p. 168; Lepreux II 194; Turquois p. 353–354; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 2381.  Regnault, Jacques  Active: 1557  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He is known for a single imprint published in partnership with two other secondary figures of the Rouen book world (USTC 54034).  Commercial partners: Jean Froger (Rouen); Pierre Gaultier (Rouen); Georges Loyselet (Rouen) 2382.  Regnault, Jacquette  Active: 1572  Name variations: Delugré, veuve Étienne  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: She had married Étienne Delugré, whom she succeeded at his death in 1572. She sold her books at a stall in the royal palace.  References: La Beauluère (Poitiers) p. 271 2383.  Regnault, Jean  Active: 1504–1567  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He converted to Protestantism.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; Jenny (État provisoire) p. 871 2384.  Regnault, Jean  Active: 1548–1584  Name variations: Regnaud, Jean  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2385.  Regnault, Pierre  Active: 1489–1520  Name variations: Reginaldus, Petrus  Location: Rouen, Normandy; Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘À l’Université’ (Caen); ‘Rue froide à l’image de saint Pierre’ (Caen, 1492); ‘Rue ganterie, à l’enseigne des trois fers à cheval’ (Rouen, 1506–1509)  Biography: He was the father Denis, who worked in his shop, and had a daughter named Madeleine. He was named as the official bookseller

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to the university of Caen on 15 September 1492. He also owned a shop in Rouen. He was also sometimes referred to as a printer and some of his books indicate that he printed them himself. This, however, seems unlikely and certainly the vast majority of his output as a publisher came off the presses of workshops in Rouen and Paris. By 1513 his stock was so large that he asked the university to name his son as his partner as he feared that he would not sell the books he owned before his death. By 1519, he had fallen into relative poverty and was unable to pay his taxes, which forced him to sell some of his lands. As a binder, he used two plaques with his initials representing Christ with Mary Magdalene and Saint John the Baptist. He was probably related to the Paris bookseller François Regnault who seems to have owned his bookshop after his death.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Anabat (Paris); Richard Auzoult (Rouen); André Bocard (Paris); Guillaume Gaulmier (Rouen); Richard Goupil (Rouen); Noël de Harsy (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Étienne Jehannot (Paris); Thielman Kerver (Paris); Jean Le Bourgeois (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Jean Maurand (Paris); Martin Morin (Rouen); Pierre Olivier (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris); Philippe Pigouchet (Paris); Jacques Ravynell (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris); Pierre Vidoue (Paris); Pierre Violette (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 247 & 248; Polain n° 10 & 11; Meyer n° 7; TW ma01998, ma04049  Motto: ‘Faire et taire’; ‘Quidquid agas memori mente teneto mori’  References: Muller p. 10–11 & 96–103; B. Normande p. 36–45; Delisle (Caen) p. XIII; Lepreux III 498; TW of0429; Lepreux III 368; Gid & Laffitte n° 55 & 143; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 8284. 2386.  Regnier, Pierre  Active: 1536–1570  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1536–1540); Rennes, Brittany; London, England (1554–1555); Paris, Île-de-France (1555); Blois, Touraine; Lyon, Lyonnais (1556–1559); Barcelona, Spain (1559–1570)  Role: Printer  Biography: He was born in Esteville near Rouen in around 1520 and married Isabelle Sandre. He left home in 1536 to learn his trade as an apprentice for four years to a local printer whom he named as Pierre Cupin. He worked for several years in Rouen before leaving the city

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for Rennes where he worked for Thomas Mestrard and Jean Georget for three or four years. He then returned to Normandy, finding employment in the workshops of Nicolas Le Roux and Pierre I Hubault, before moving on to London in 1554 where he worked for Jean Le Roux for ten months. He returned to Rouen, then briefly went to Paris but after two months he was on the move again, leaving for Blois where he was employed for six months in the L’Angelier workshop. Thereafter, he settled in Lyon where he worked for four years in various establishments, notably those of the widow of Corneille de Septgranges, Cécile Peysson, and Thibaud Payen, converting to Protestantism during his stay in the city. He later moved to Barcelona, finally setting up his own business and becoming a master printer. He was arrested there in 1570 by the inquisition and condemned to the galleys.  References: Griffin p. 133; Morisse n° 257 2387.  Regnoult, Guillaume  Active: 1561–1582  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1561); Toulouse, Languedoc (1567–1582)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was initially active in Lyon in 1561 where he printed three works by the bishop of Valence, Jean de Monluc. He reappeared a few years later in Toulouse where, using some of the same material, he printed a legal commentary by Jean de Coras in 1567. There, he married Anthoinette de La Rogne in 1582 and lived in the parish of La Taur. He shared an edition of a Jesuit text with the Lyon printer Jean Stratius in 1582 (USTC 141899). In between his departure from Lyon and his arrival in Toulouse, in 1562, there was an edition published with his name but without place of printing. The text, Guy de Brès’s Le baston de la foy chrestienne, was militantly Protestant and out of keeping with the rest of his production and might well have been a false address.  Commercial partners: Jean Stratius (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Suis quisque fungitur moribus’  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 221 f. 91v  References: RB XX; Baudrier VI 434 Reims, Pierre de, see Laistre, Pierre de

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2388.  Reinsart, Théodore  Active: 1577–1618  Name variations: Rainsart, Théodore; Rinsart, Théodore; Rynzaert, Théodore Illustration 111  Location: Paris, Île-de-France Signature of Théodore Reinsart, 1594 (1577, 1589–1591 & 1595–1596); Museum Plantin Moretus Archive 92 Antwerp, Low Countries (1577–1578 & 1591–1595); Lyon, Lyonnais (1580–1586); Rouen, Normandy (1597–1618)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais’ (Rouen), ‘Près la porte du palais, à l’homme armé’ (Rouen, 1598–1606)  Biography: Originally from Antwerp, he was Gilles Beys’s nephew. He began his career working for his uncle in Paris as an apprentice and was received as a master bookseller. He left for Antwerp in late 1577 where he seems to have continued initially to serve Beys, but by 1580 he had moved on to work for the Lyon bookseller Antoine de Harsy and, by 1589, for the Gabianos in Paris. In these years he developed a good knowledge of the French book world, notably tracking down all Harsy’s debts in all the towns of the kingdom. Using this experience, he sought to make the most of the disruption caused by the wars of the Catholic League by exporting books to France from the Plantin-Moretus shop in Antwerp, adopting the role of an itinerant bookseller. As peace returned, he worked for the widow of Gilles Beys in Paris in September 1595 but, after her remarriage in August 1596, he resumed his peripatetic lifestyle. He finally settled down permanently in Rouen where he had opened a shop by autumn 1597, though without due authorisation and so for which he was fined 2 écus on 24 October 1597. He married the wealthy widow of Thomas II Mallard, Madeleine Dufour, that very year and then, after her death, Jeanne Lardant in 1615. In Rouen, his production was a mixture of reeditions of literary, religious and scientific works. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1606 and master of the confraternity in 1615. He died in 1618. For all his activity, Reinsart seems to have been a mediocre businessman; Jan Moretus did not trust him and his inability to settle until late in his career stands testament to his limitations. Despite his advantageous first marriage and having published over 80 editions, he was described as a poor bookseller at the time of his death and was buried without a coffin.

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 Commercial partners: Romain de Beauvais (Rouen); Pierre Doriou (Nantes); Jacques Du Peyron (Bordeaux); Isaac Gentil (Tours); Jérôme Haultin (La Rochelle); Timothée Jouan (La Rochelle); Adrien de Launay (Rouen); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Marc Orry (Tours); Jean Osmont (Rouen); Christophe Plantin (Antwerp); Jean Savoye (Bordeaux); Jacques Thoulouse (Bordeaux); Marin Villepoux (La Rochelle)  Device: Silvestre n° 899  Motto: ‘Fortuna Invidiam domat’  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 17 f. 413r, 110 f. 180 & 323; AD SeineMaritime 5 E 489, G 7563, G 8381  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 208; Gosselin p. 117–119; Renouard p. 359; Lepreux III 368; Aquilon p. 306; Baudrier I 397; La Perrière p. 27; Répertoire n° 8300. 2389.  Remortier, Gilles de  Active: 1598–1601  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne Tribout and was the uncle of Nicolas.  References: Mellot p. 208 2390.  Remortier, Jaspar de  Active: 1548–1570  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’ Illustration 112  Biography: He resided in the Signature of Jaspar de Remortier, 1566, AD parish of Saint-Maclou. Jean I Seine-Maritime 2E1 446 Viret served as his apprentice for three years in 1570. He shared a stall at the fair of Guibray with Thomas II Mallard before selling it on to Robert Mallard in 1565. As a publisher he was responsible for a series of works of popular interest published in French and in small formats between 1555 and 1561, mostly in association with other booksellers. Only one of these works, a history of Normandy, represented a significant financial undertaking. In 1566, he appointed a representative to force the bookseller Jean Le Pryme to honour an agreement made five years earlier.  Commercial partners: Jacques Aubin (Rouen); Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Raoulin Boullenc (Rouen); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Martin I Le

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Mesgissier (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Jean Le Pryme (Saint-Lô); Georges Loyselet (Rouen); Thomas I Mallard (Rouen); Thomas II Mallard (Rouen); Marguerin d’Orival (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 8749, 2E1/446 f. 29v  References: Gosselin p. 105; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 8316. 2391.  Remortier, Nicolas de  Active: 1598  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the nephew of Gilles. He became a master bookseller in 1598.  References: Mellot p. 209 2392.  Retif, Pierre  Active: 1591–1592  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This probably fictitious printer is only known for an edition of the works of Du Bartas printed in duodecimo over two years. The device was copied on one used by the Lyon publisher Benoît Rigaud (see Baudrier n° 19) and bears the hallmarks of Lyonese or Genevan publishing. As the other known editions from that time were printed in La Rochelle and Geneva, Rouen – then a leaguer city – seems a highly unlikely origin for this imprint.  References: Delalain p. 140 Ribe, see Adam, Mathieu 2393.  Ribereau, Guy  Active: 1588?  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died before April 1589.  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 50 2394.  Ribiera, Agnet  Active: 1529–1550  Name variations: Rivière, Annet; Riviera, Agnet; Aguet  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc

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 Role: Printer  Biography: The father-in-law of Henri Poyvre, they shared a workshop. He lived in the same house as Antoine Bousquet in 1533, in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city.  Commercial partners: Henri Poyvre (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 394 2395.  Ribot, Simon  Active: 1541  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AN Minutier Central étude CXXII 1125 2396.  Richard, Benoît  Active: 1537  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He is described as residing with Louis Rostelin in 1537.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 636 2397.  Richard, Guillaume  Active: 1467  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He also worked as a scribe.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 861 2398.  Richard, Jacques  Active: 1544  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of Jean II, he married Marguerite Cauvin. He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou.  References: Gosselin p. 62 2399.  Richard, Jean  Active: 1528–1556  Name variations: Ricard, Jean  Location: Albi, Languedoc

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 Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He seems to have been the main stationer for the town, binding the town’s account register for the years 1534–1535 and providing other bindings over the following years. He also worked for local ecclesiastical institutions in Albi but also in Roquecourbe. He replaced Philippe Donadieu as the main outlet for the books of the Lyon publisher Martin Boillon in Albi. His bindings are often signed by his initials blind-stamped on the covering leather.  Commercial partners: Martin Boillon (Lyon); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Tarn 4 EDT CC 237 f. 24, CC 240, CC 244 f. 25, CC 459, G 677 f. 36  References: RB XVIII p. 9–10; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 131; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 69; Portal p. 255 2400. Richard, Jean  Active: 1581  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a sworn bookseller of the university of Angers in 1581.  References: Pasquier p. 204 2401.  Richard, Jean I  Active: 1489–1530  Name variations: Ricard, Jean; Richard, John  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Address: ‘Devant l’église Saint Nicolas, au coin de la rue de la croixde-fer’; ‘Devant l’hôtel du grand conseil ou collège du Pape’; ‘Au portail des libraires’ (1489–1522)  Biography: He never married and Jean II, his nephew, took over his shop at his death. He lived in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. He had a lawsuit involving Guillaume I Bénard in 1497. He was very involved in the trade of books to England, especially religious works. The Oxford bookseller Guillaume Lescuyer (William Lesquier) was heavily indebted to him. He initially sold books in front of the main entrance of the cathedral before moving in 1492 to the more traditional booksellers’ gate. He died in around 1530.

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 Commercial partners: Jean Alexandre (Angers); Guillaume I Bénard (Rouen); Philippe Costé (Rouen); Noël de Harsy (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Thielman I Kerver (Paris); Jean Mauditier (Rouen); Martin Morin (Rouen); Jean Petit (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 261; Polain n° 209  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2514–2515, G 2523, G 3042–3043, G 3047, G 4634  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 61; Beaurepaire p. 395; Duff p. 92 & 136; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 8387. 2402.  Richard, Jean II  Active: 1530  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Devant l’église Saint Nicolas, au coin de la rue de la croix-de-fer’  Biography: He was the nephew of Jean I and the father of Jacques. He took over his uncle’s shop in 1530 and also resided in the parish of Saint-Nicolas.  References: Gosselin p. 62 2403.  Richard, Laurent  Active: 1541–1567  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue de sellerie à l’enseigne Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste, près les Augustins’  Biography: He published in partnership throughout his career; initially working with Michel Richard between 1541 and 1545, and then with other local booksellers.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bourgeat (Tours); Mathieu Chercelé (Tours); Zacharie I Griveau (Tours); Pierre Regnard (Tours); Michel Richard (Tours); Jean Rousset (Tours); Olivier Tafforeau (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 54 & 63; Répertoire n° 8389. 2404.  Richard, Michel  Active: 1541–1545  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘En la rue de sellerie à l’enseigne Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste, près les Augustins’  Biography: He published in partnership with Laurent Richard.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Chercelé (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); Jean Rousset (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 54 2405.  Richard, Pierre  Active: 1553–1568  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Initially a Protestant, he was said to have taken part in the pillaging of the churches of Saumur and of the abbey of Saint-Florent in 1562. However, he seems to have converted to the traditional faith as his sons Michel and Étienne were baptised in Catholic churches in 1565 and 1568 respectively.  References: Pasquier p. 204 2406. Richart, Jean  Active: 1524–1546  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue de sellerie à l’enseigne Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste, près les Augustins’  Biography: As a publisher, he initially worked exclusively with the Parisian printer Jean Kerbriand to produce three works for the clergy of the diocese of Tours. The rise of the Chercelé press after 1534 enabled him to switch to a local printer with whom he worked thereafter.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Chercelé (Tours); Jean Kerbriand (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 322  References: RB XXIII p. 46–47 2407.  Richebois, Gilles  Active: 1556–1562  Name variations: Richeboys, Gilles  Location: Sens, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A Protestant, he nevertheless printed a series of works for the local Catholic Church. The Troyes printer Nicolas Luce printed a privilege in 1561 (USTC 12025) that asserted that it had been obtained

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in concertation with the Parisians Jean Dallier and Mathurin Breville as well as with Richebois, though the Dallier and Breville editions do not feature the provincial publishers’ names and no copy of a Sens edition has yet been identified. He and his wife were murdered on 12 April 1562 during a massacre of Protestants when his house was pillaged.  Commercial partners: Mathurin Breville (Paris); Jean Dallier (Paris); Nicolas Luce (Troyes); Claude Pellisson (Langres)  Device: Silvestre n° 780 & 907  References: Muller p. 106; RB VI p. 71–72; Chandenier (Sens) p. 168; Chandenier (Richeboys); Bèze II 398 2408.  Richer, Jean I  Active: 1572–1595  Location: Blois, Touraine (1588–1589); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594); Paris, Île-de-France (1572–1588 & 1594–1595)  Role: Bookseller, publisher, printer Illustration 113  Biography: An active Parisian book- Signature of Jean Richer, 1591 AD seller who learnt his trade in Charles Indre-et-Loire 3 E 5 252 Périer’s workshop, he married Gillette Jullian and was the father of Jean III and Étienne. During his self-imposed exile from Paris at the time of the Catholic League, he worked with Claude de Montr’oeil. He made Antoine Arnault his proxy in 1591, when he was described as having taken refuge in Tours. He returned to Paris after the city submitted in 1594 and died soon later.  Commercial partners: Antoine Hernault (Angers); Amadis Dagoubert (Tours); Georges Drobet (Tours); Sébastien du Molin (Tours); Mathieu Guillemot (Tours); Jamet Mettayer (Tours); Claude de Montr’oeil (Tours); Marc Orry (Tours)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E5/252, 3E5/250  References: RB XXIII p. 18–19 & 126–132; Muller p. 8 & 113; BVH Minutes; Porcher p. 79; Giraudet p. 18; Renouard p. 371; Répertoire n° 8400. 2409.  Richer, Jean III  Active: 1584–1627  Location: Blois, Touraine (1588–1589); Tours, Touraine (1589–1594); Paris, Île-de-France (1584–1588 & 1594–1595)  Role: Bookseller, publisher, printer

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 Biography: Born in around 1567, he was the son of Jean I and he learnt his trade in Adrien Périer’s workshop as an apprentice in 1584. He followed his father during the Catholic League to Blois then Tours. It is difficult to separate out the role he played from that of his father, as they were active simultaneously. He returned to Paris after the city submitted in 1594 and continued to trade there until late 1627.  References: Renouard p. 371; Répertoire n° 8401. 2410.  Rigault, Pierre  Active: 1530–1550  Name variations: Rigailh, Pierre  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1530–1545), Toulouse, Languedoc (1549– 1550)  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: Described as a bookseller, when he was active in Bordeaux, he seems to have left for Toulouse in the late in 1540s, where he was listed in the tax registers as a printer. There, he resided in a house next door to the workshop of the Colomiès where he probably worked. Jean Alaux took over his workshop in 1553.  Commercial partners: Guy Champorel (Bordeaux); Julien Loup (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 638; Claudin (2) p. 107 2411.  Rillé, Robert  Active: 1538  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described simultaneously as a bookseller and a scribe. He resided in the parish of Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen.  References: Beaurepaire p. 398 2412.  Ringmann, Mathias  Active: 1510–1511  Name variations: Rithmann, Mathias; Philiseus  Location: Saint-Dié, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: An author, corrector and editor, he also printed towards the end of his life.  References: Ronsin (Saint-Dié)

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Rinz, Pierre de, see Laistre, Pierre de 2413.  Riparia, Jean de  Active: 1500–1502  Name variations: La Rivière, Jean de; Riparius, Joannes  Location: Arles, Provence (1501); Avignon, Papal States (1500–1502)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Le Mans, he was studying law at the university of Avignon in 1499. He left Avignon before 1503.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bochard (Avignon)  References: Muller p. 5–7; RB VI p. 7; Pansier I 197 2414.  Rival, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Bernarde du Tein/d’Anti at the end of May 1595 and resided in the parish of Saint-Sernin. He had a son named Claude born on 6 April 1596.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 575 f. 79v, GG 695 f. 8v 2415.  Rivery, Abel  Active: 1572–1596  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1572–1577 & 1585–1587); Basel, Swiss Confederation (1579); Heidelberg, Holy Roman Empire (1593); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1594–1596)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Au lys royal’  Biography: Originally from Vendôme, he was the son of Jean and, like him, entered the trade, becoming a printer in Geneva and acquiring François Perrin’s material in 1572. His personal and professional life were, however, difficult and he left Geneva in 1577, appearing in various cities before moving to Sedan in March 1594. His stay there was as unsuccessful as the rest of his career, and he left the city two years later.  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 189, 282  References: Muller p. 106; RB XIII p. 66–67; J.-G. Monfroy, Maître Abel ou l’imprimeur trompé (Paris: Éditions des cendres, 1990); RIECH; Droz (Fausses addresses) p. 386; Répertoire n° 8445.

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2416. Rivery, Jean  Active: 1550–1565  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1550–1554 & 1559–1565); Lausanne, Swiss Confederation (1556–1559); Sedan, Holy Roman Empire (1561)  Role: Printer, publisher, pedlar  Biography: The father of Abel, he was a very active Protestant printer, working in Lausanne and in Geneva. He also seems to have worked as a pedlar in France, selling books in Blois in partnership with Jean Barrac for Laurent de Normandie in 1561. That same year, he is also thought to have become the prototypographer of Sedan. He died in 1565.  Commercial partners: Laurent de Normandie (Geneva)  References: RB XIII p. 63; RIECH 2417.  Roault, Pierre  Active: 1485–1512  Name variations: Rohault, Pierre; Rouhault, Pierre; Rohaut, Pierre; Rouault, Pierre  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1485–1499, 1507–1512); Avignon, Papal States (1499–1506)  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Amiens, he had recurring financial problems. Michel Topié rented his material to him in 1500. He died in 1512.  Commercial partners: Domergue Anselme (Avignon); Michel Du Ruzeau (Avignon); Richard Le Gentilhomme (Avignon); Georges Serre (Avignon); Michel Topié (Lyon)  Device: TW ma03562  Types: TW ma03559, ma03560, ma03561  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 17; Lyon XVe 125; Pansier I 186; TW of0340; Baudrier I 377 2418.  Robert, Antoine  Active: 1598–1602  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He sold the books of Lyon publishers in Toulouse. He was named as godfather to a cobbler’s daughter in 1602, at which point he was described as a merchant bookseller.  Commercial partners: Moïse Desprez (Lyon); Thomas Soubron (Lyon)

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 Documents: AM Toulouse GG 557 p. 245  References: Baudrier IV 348 2419.  Robert, Jean  Active: 1498–1534  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He also worked as an illuminator and executed commissions for local ecclesiastical institutions.  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279 2420.  Robin, Jacques  Active: 1547–1565  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Georgette Jannot, the widow of a Guillaume Bontemps, and was the father of Jean. Together they had a house, shop and garden situated behind the court of the prévôté. They held the property with the express permission of the seneschal on condition that they would open and close the court when requested. In 1565 they provided documents that proved that they had held the shop since 1547, giving a pound of wax to the court every year before the system was reformed.  Documents: AD de Loire-Atlantique B 2190 2421.  Robin, Jean  Active: 1595–1639  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Jacques whom he followed into the trade. He was received into the community of printers and booksellers in 1595.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; Lepreux IV 105 2422.  Robin, Marie  Active: 1542–1545  Name variations: Berthelot, veuve Jacques  Location: Rennes, Brittany  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne saint Jean l’évangeliste à bout de cohue’  Biography: She was the widow of Jacques Berthelot and continued running the workshop after his death. By 1544 she seems, however, to

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have relinquished control of the presses to Thomas Mestrard who had married Jeanne Robin, who was possibly her sister. Thereafter she continued solely as a bookseller.  Commercial partners: Thomas Mestrard (Rennes)  References: RB XIX p. 60; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; Arbour p. 71 2423.  Robion, Jean  Active: 1511–1515  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais; Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Despite the address given on some works, he seems to have remained in Lyon and worked with booksellers already established in Toulouse.  Device: Silvestre n° 1090  References: RB XX p. 23, Blanc-Rouquette p. 21 2424.  Rocar, Jean  Active: 1589  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  References: Boyer p. 50 2425.  Roduriès, Simon  Active: [1525]  Name variations: Roduries, Simon; Raduriès, Simon  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died before 1528.  Documents: AD Tarn H 705 & H 707  References: Portal p. 249 2426.  Roger, Jean  Active: 1548–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: After 1548, he was consistently described as a poor bookseller. He lived in the Comporté quarter of the city with his wife, Simonne with whom he had at least three children.  Documents: AM Troyes F 232, F 233, F 235, F 236, F 265, BB 14 liasse 1  References: Turquois p. 354

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2427.  Roger, Jeanne  Active: 1552–1554  Name variations: Petit, veuve Jean I  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller  Biography: She continued running the workshop of her husband after his death until at least 1554, working for a variety of local booksellers. In April 1553, she promised to return the type that Claude Garamont had lent her late husband. She was unable to sign her name, marking documents with a cross.  Commercial partners: Bonaventure Belis (Rouen); Jeanne de Burges (Rouen); Jean I du Gort (Rouen); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/407 p. 4  References: Arbour p. 422 2428.  Roger, Ogier  Active: 1513–1527  Name variations: Royer, Ogier  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Grande rue’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Jean.  References: Turquois p. 354; Assier p. 98; Rondet (Relieurs) p. 279 2429.  Rogier, Jean  Active: 1545–1579  Name variations: Rogé, Jean; Rougué, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Villarie. He resided in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines between 1545 and 1548 but by 1572 had relocated to the parish of La Dalbade and was referred to as a master bookseller. There, he had a daughter, Marguerite, baptised on 21 February 1572. The bookseller Jacques André was her godfather. A Jean Rogé worked as a printer for Christophe Plantin in Antwerp in 1575 and 1576.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 1 f. 13v; MPM Antwerp Arch. 32 f. 201–6v and 265v  References: Claudin (2) p. 100 & 104

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2430.  Rogier, Richard  Active: 1501–1506  Name variations: Rogerie, Richard  Location: Caen, Normandie (1501–1505); Morlaix, Brittany (1505–1506); Saint-Brieuc, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue’ (Morlaix); ‘Au portail de la grant église’ (Saint-Brieuc)  Biography: Originally from Hudimesnil in the diocese of Coutances, he agreed to become an apprentice in Robert I and Jean Macé’s shop in Caen for three years on 12 January 1502 n.s., before leaving to set up his own business in Brittany, probably at the end of that period. As a publisher, he had all his books printed in Rouen but only one of them bears a date (1505). It is unclear if Rogerie continued in his career as a bookseller: a merchant of Morlaix with the same name entered into a partnership to develop a forge for artillery pieces in 1544.  Commercial partners: Michel Angier (Caen); Richard Auzoult (Rouen); Laurent Hostingue (Rouen); Jamet Loys (Rouen); Jean Macé (Rennes); Robert I Macé (Caen)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude CXXII carton 42  References: RB XIX p. 7 & 83; Muller p. 53 & 103; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; Booton p. 243 2431.  Rogueret, Jérôme  Active: 1581  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier III 126 2432.  Roize, Étienne  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Printer  Biography: Cited by Muller as a printer alongside his brother JeanBaptiste, following Deschamps’s assertion that they were sixteenthcentury printers and Regiae Universitatis ordinarii typographi. They were actually active a century later.  References: Muller p. 2; P. Deschamps, Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l’usage du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1870) p. 85.

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2433.  Roize, Jean-Baptiste  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Printer  Biography: Cited by Muller as a printer alongside his brother JeanBaptiste, following Deschamps’s assertion that they were sixteenthcentury printers and Regiae Universitatis ordinarii typographi. They were actually active a century later.  References: Muller p. 2; P. Deschamps, Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l’usage du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1870) p. 85. 2434.  Rome, Alain de  Active: 1466–1487  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: The father of Joachim and Pierre, he gave his belongings to Joachim in 1487. He was the official bookbinder to the city of Avignon in 1473 and sold the books of the Lyon publisher Barthélemy Buyer. He died before 1495.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Buyer (Lyon)  References: Pansier I 155 2435.  Rome, Barthélemy  Active: 1600–1602  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Cazeau and rented a room from François Budier in 1600. He died two years later.  Commercial partners: François Budier (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 646 2436.  Rome, Joachim de  Active: 1466–1487  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: The son of Alain and brother of Pierre, he married Marie d’Entraigues on 23 November 1471. He sold the books of the Lyon publisher Barthélemy Buyer in Avignon. In 1478, he bound books for René d’Anjou. Three years later, he formed a partnership with the bookseller and illuminator Jean Donati. His father gave him his belongings in

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1487. He left the trade and became a papal messenger before 1495 and was still alive in 1503.  Commercial partners: Jean de Basel (Avignon); Barthélemy Buyer (Lyon); Jean Donati (Avignon); Jean Sibert (Lyon)  References: Pansier I 155 2437.  Rome, Pierre de  Active: 1482–1484  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He was the son of Alain and the brother of Joachim. He died in 1495 after having left to establish himself in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.  References: Pansier I 155 Romme, see Morin, Pierre 2438.  Ros, Jean  Active: 1527  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was closely associated to the church of Saint-Quentin.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 2439.  Rosnohen, François  Active: 1474–1494  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: He was described as a bookbinder (1474–1483), and then just under the name of François, as a bookseller (1491–1494).  References: Booton p. 223–224 2440.  Rossaron, André  Active: 1520  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2441. Rossel, Jean  Active: 1520–1544

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 Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Firmin quarter of the city. He had died before 1554 at which point his heirs had inherited his house.  Documents: AM Montpellier CC 58 f. 148r 2442.  Rossignol, Pierre  Active: 1529  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: It is unclear if he was genuinely a bookseller or simply a merchant who financed the printing of editions printed in Toulouse.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: RB XVIII p. 7; Muller p. 2 2443.  Rostelin, Louis  Active: 1515–1543  Name variations: Roustoullain, Louis; Roustolan, Louis; Rostalyn, Louis; Roustoulayn, Louis  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue neuve’  Biography: He married Catherine Clauselle and was the father of Pierre. He initially worked with Pierre Bodet but by the time of the latter’s death in 1521, he had moved on to become his business associate with a third bookseller, Louis Maritain. They had agreed to share equally their stock which meant that following his death, they drew up a combined inventory of their books and debts. At that point Bodet’s widow sold her share for 500 lt to the two other associates. Until they had paid up, Rostelin and Maritain agreed to furnish the widow with food. Rostelin later developed a second company, publishing with Étienne Thoulouse. He was a bookseller to the university. He died on 6 August 1543 and was succeeded by his son.  Commercial partners: Étienne Thoulouse (Bordeaux); Paul Berton (Limoges); Antoine Vincent (Lyon); Sébastien Gryphe (Lyon); Louis Maritain (Bordeaux); Pierre Bodet (Bordeaux); Vincent Reau (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 252v & 286v–288r, G 1723 f. 9, G 1824 f. 18  References: Labadie p. 102; Muller p. 9; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 647

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2444.  Rostelin, Pierre  Active: 1543–1551  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Louis whom he succeeded. He sold 20 lt’s worth of books of law to Pierre Gavaldan in 1548.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gavaldan (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 648 Rouge, Simon de, see Vouges, Simon de 2445.  Rous, François  Active: 1533  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 2446.  Rousseau, André  Active: 1489  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 861 2447.  Rousseau, Claude  Active: 1600–1622  Location: Cahors, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the son of Jacques whom he succeeded. He was printer to the local university. He died before 1628 and was succeeded by his widow.  References: Muller p. 11; RB II p. 50; Répertoire n° 8621. 2448.  Rousseau, Jacques  Active: 1570–1597  Name variations: Rouxeau, Jacques  Location: Nantes, Brittany (1570–1572); Illustration 114 Toulouse, Languedoc (1581); Moissac, Signature of Jacques Rousseau, 1572, Guyenne (1582); Agen, Guyenne (1582– AM Nantes BB 148 1594); Cahors, Guyenne (1585–1597); Montpellier, Languedoc (1595)

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 Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le grand Horloge’ (Agen)  Biography: Originally from Anjou, he was the father of Claude who followed him into the trade. He first came to prominence in Nantes where he was named as the official printer to the city authorities that, as a result, helped him acquire a new set of type. Whilst in Brittany, he also worked for the local Chambre des comptes. He left Nantes after 1572, resurfacing temporarily in Toulouse in 1581, then in Moissac, before settling more durably in Agen in October 1582 and then Cahors. He was the official printer to the university of Montpellier (1585–1595), where he perhaps moved his press temporarily in 1595 before returning to Cahors. During the wars that broke out in 1588, he printed for the Catholic League though by 1594 he had returned to the loyalist fold. Despite mainly producing works typical of sixteenth-century provincial printing, he also published a number of more adventurous editions such as the prophecies of Nostradamus, poetry on harvesting grapes, and Auger Gaillard’s works. By 1600 he had been succeeded by his son.  Commercial partners: Antoine Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Loire-Atlantique B 590 f. 40; AM Nantes BB 48; AM Agen FF 37  References: Muller p. 1 & 11; RB II p. 12 & 46–49; Walsby (Brittany) p. 260; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 62; Granges de Surgères n° 81; Walsby (Mobility) p. 262–265 2449.  Rousseau, Jean  Active: 1540–1564  Name variations: also known as de Chouppes  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Louise Barreau and lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 265; Clouzot (1907) p. 50 2450.  Rousseau, Pierre I  Active: 1511  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He furnished the town of Poitiers with paper in 1511.  References: La Bouralière (Débuts) p. 49

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2451.  Rousseau, Pierre II  Active: 1559  Name variations: Rouzeau, Pierre  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Ballard and was an apprentice to Enguilbert II de Marnef in 1559.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 85 2452.  Rousseau, René  Active: 1522–1523  Name variations: also known as de Chouppes  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Didier.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 265 2453.  Rousselin, Robert  Active: 1517  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 651 2454.  Rousset, Jean  Active: [1517]–1561  Location: Vendôme, Touraine ([1517]–1536), Tours, Touraine (1544–1561)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant les Cordeliers, près Saint Vincent’ (Tours)  Biography: The son of an Arnoul Rousset, probably the one listed as a bookseller established at the end of the fifteenth century in Tours by Giraudet but without context or date, he was himself a very active printer and publisher. He first appeared in Vendôme where he worked, like the city’s prototypographer, in the local Benedictine monastery. Like Latheron, he left for Tours where he undertook jobs for the city as well as producing a variety of medical, judicial and other works. In 1547 he sold what probably represented part of his material to a silk merchant, Jean Lambert. The contract for that sale showed that he owned at least four different types as well as illustrative material in copper, lead and tin. These, along with a press and 500 unbound books, sold

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for 350 lt in total. Raphaël Cappellen identifies him as having also used the name and address of the Parisian bookseller Michel Fezandat in 1552 to publish an edition of Rabelais’s Quart livre. A decade later, he published anonymously, this time, Rabelais’s Isle sonante.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Bourgeat (Tours); Michel Richard (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours); Martin I Siffleau (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 1057  References: RB XVIII p. 130, XXIII p. 49–53; Giraudet p. 15 & 81; Muller p. 113; Grandmaison p. 320; Cappellen NRB 49 & 53; Rochaumbeau p. 16; Répertoire n° 8631. 2455.  Roussin, Pierre II  Active: 1572–1621  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1572); Nevers, Nivernais (1589–1621)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He married Marie Guérin who survived him. He learnt his trade in Lyon as an apprentice in the workshop of Louis Roussin, to whom he was undoubtedly related. He moved to Nevers in 1589 at the behest of Duke Louis de Gonzague, and served as his official printer and then, in a similar capacity, to the duchess of Nevers (1598). He received 20 écus per year from the city of Nevers ‘pour luy aider à s’entretenir à son imprimerye’. He continued to receive this payment until his death in 1621. He published a wide variety of genres mainly in the small octavo format, copying on occasion royal proclamations that had previously been printed in other cities. He was succeeded by Jean Millot.  Device: Silvestre n° 772  Motto: ‘Non sine labore’  Documents: AM Nevers BB 21, CC 163, CC 234, CC 238, CC 239, CC 289  References: Muller p. 55; RB III p. 84–87; Répertoire n° 8638. 2456.  Routier, Étienne  Active: 1577  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Guillaume Routier and was close to the author Élie Vinet. He died before 1591.  References: Labadie p. 103; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 653

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2457.  Routier, Guillaume  Active: 1558–1579  Name variations: Rotier, Guillaume; Botier, Guillaume  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The father of Étienne, he married Marie Hirvoize.  References: Labadie p. 102; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 106 & 654 2458.  Roux, Antoine  Active: 1540–1581  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single edition of a breviary in 1540 of which no surviving copy is known (USTC 110529). Billioud has him as still active in 1581.  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 31; Billioud p. 274 2459.  Roux, Étienne  Active: 1557–1579  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of an innkeeper, he was Pierre’s brother. He was a shoemaker as well as a bookseller. At Barthélémy Bonhomme’s death, he bought the sheets of the twelfth book of Amadis de Gaule along with the local bookseller Mathieu Vincent to whom he later sold his portion. He nevertheless remained active in the book world, accompanying his brother as his associate when financially necessary though Pierre’s name is the only one to feature on the imprints.  Commercial partners: Pierre Roux (Avignon); Mathieu Vincent (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 138 2460.  Roux, Pierre  Active: 1557–1586  Name variations: Ruffus, Petrus; Rosso, Pietro  Location: Avignon, Papal States (1557–1586); Aix-en-Provence, Provence (1575–1578)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au devant la grand église, Saint-Saulveur’ (Aix-en-Provence); ‘À l’enseigne de la sphère’ (Avignon)  Biography: The brother of Étienne, he was the son of an innkeeper. He bought Barthélémy Bonhomme’s material along with Jean

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Tremblay and Denis Bourgeois in 1557. This included a press and 14 cases of type as well as other tools. They resold the press and material to Mathieu Vincent the following year, for which Pierre received 140 lt. But Vincent facing too many debts saw his material seized and, in fine, resold to Étienne and Pierre Roux for just 60 lt. Pierre seems thus to have been a shrewd operator capable of setting up profitable operations. He worked for local institutions that guaranteed full payment. He was named the official printer to the archbishopric of Avignon in 1564 and printed for the municipality. In 1574, he entered into negotiations with the town of Aix, signing a contract that stipulated that he would print in the town in return for a payment of 50 lt a year and a house. Though he moved to Aix, he continued to publish in Avignon simultaneously until he decided to return there in 1578. He also sought to assert his place within the wider pantheon of printers through his device: his first device, an imitation of the Gryphe device, was inherited from Barthélemy Bonhomme, whilst his second replicated the thistle employed by Étienne Groulleau in Paris. A prolific printer, he is known for over sixty imprints, predominantly of a religious nature but that also included medical, legal and literary texts. He died before March 1586.  Commercial partners: Claude Bouquet (Avignon); Pierre Girard (Aixen-Provence); Antoine Gouzet (Nîmes); Thomas Maillou (Aix-enProvence); Imbert Parmentier (Avignon); Étienne Roux (Avignon); Jean Tramblay (Avignon)  Motto: ‘Coelo tutissima basis’; ‘Nul ne s’y frotte. Patere aut abstine’.  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI 40–47, XXVI; Pansier II 140; Billioud p. 274; Henricy p. 2; Répertoire n° 8647. 2461.  Rouzeau, Étienne  Active: 1545  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie Ballard.  References: Herluison p. 13 Rouzier, Jean de, see Des Rosieres, Jean 2462.  Roy, Jacques  Active: 1580–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265 2463.  Roy, Jean  Active: 1492  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier I 160 2464.  Roy, Jean  Active: 1580  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city and was described as too poor to pay taxes in 1580.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261 2465.  Roy, Laurent  Active: 1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He resided in the Croncels quarter of the city and was described as too poor to pay taxes in 1585.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265  References: Turquois p. 354 2466.  Roy, Perrette  Active: 1562–1564  Name variations: Danoux, Mongeot  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: She was the widow of Mongeot Danoux and had succeeded him by 1562. She is known for having published various ordinances.  Commercial partners: Symphorien Barbier (Lyon); Jean I des Planches (Dijon)  References: RB XXI p. 49; Arbour p. 163

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2467.  Royal, Claude  Active: 1590–1621  Location: Nérac, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he married Rachel David. He tried to move to Agen in 1621, but the move was denied to him because of his faith.  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 141 2468.  Royer, Jacques  Active: 1579–1586  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  Biography: Born in Colombier near Lusignan, he married Catherine, the daughter of a Pierre Mesnier, in 1579 at which point he was described as a journeyman printer. He was buried on 3 November 1586. His widow remarried to another printer, Jean Blanchet.  Documents: AD Vienne 4 E 24/10  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 214; Clouzot (1907) p. 50 Rubeus, see Le Rouge 2469.  Rueau, Pierre  Active: 1572  Location: Narbonne, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a missal for local use (USTC 111552). It was a careful piece of printing mixing Roman and Gothic type with generous rubrication. He was buried on 29 July 1574 in the church of Saint-Just.  References: RB XVIII p. 101; Muller p. 55 2470. F Ruffin, Jean  Active: 1589  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue neufve’  Biography: The existence of a printer named Jean Ruffin in Tours is based on an imprint attacking Henry III printed with a false privilege (USTC 7678). The subterfuge is all the better for using the identity of an existing printer, active in Paris in 1572 and still present in 1604. A

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Protestant (he was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Germain), the use of his name might well have been intentional. The pamphlet itself was probably printed in Paris.  References: RB XXIII p. 133; C. Read, ‘Cimetières et inhumations des huguenots principalement à Paris aux XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles (1563–1792)’, Bulletin de la société d’histoire du protestantisme français, XII (1863), 274–284 at p. 276; Répertoire n° 8692. 2471. Ruffy, François  Active: 1507  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: Originally from Montfort near Lectoure, he worked in Antoine du Bosc’s shop in 1507 for three years.  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2752 f. 297 2472.  Ruissault, Pierre  Active: 1539  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 660 Rupt, de, see Danoux 2473.  Sabost, Jean  Active: 1501  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Aube G 4217 f. 196r  References: Turquois p. 354; Morin (Troyes) p. 314 2474.  Sabros, Pierre  Active: 1505  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2475.  Sacaze, Étienne de  Active: 1545  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller

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 References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 662 2476.  Sacey, François  Active: 1580–1585  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265 2477.  Sacey, Jean  Active: 1590–1613  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  References: Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 2478.  Sacey, Nicolas  Active: 1584–1626  Name variations: Sace, Nicolas  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes. He bound books for local ecclesiastical institutions.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265, F 272, F 276  References: Turquois p. 354; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281 2479.  Sacquespée, Guillaume  Active: 1536  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marguerite Sorel.  Documents: AD Eure-et-Loir E 2088  References: Feyel p. 706 2480.  Safors, Jean de  Active: 1574  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was described as a burgher of the city in 1574.  Commercial partners: Jean Peyrusse (Montauban)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 663; Labadie p. 105

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2481.  Sainctes, Étienne  Active: 1599  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Géraulde Nizaret on 20 June 1599. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 223 f. 126r 2482. Saint-Alamanno  Active: 1511  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 49 2483.  Saint-Amour, Pierre de  Active: 1538–1551  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He also worked as a scribe for the town. He was described as ‘maître’.  Documents: AD Tarn 4 EDT CC 244 f. 28, CC 253  References: Portal p. 279 2484.  Saint-Denys, François de  Active: 1545  Name variations: Sainct-Denys, François de; Saint-Denis, François de  Location: Soissons, Île-de-France  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Born in Paris, he was condemned by the Parlement of Paris for scandalous statements.  Documents: AN X/2 A 99  References: Renouard (Documents) p. 291 2485.  Saint-Jean, Pierre de  Active: 1582–1598  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he was the son of a notary also named Pierre who had settled in Montpellier. He married Clairemonde Rivière on

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25 December 1582. He was still listed as owning vines in 1598 and lived in the parish of Saint-Firmin.  Documents: AD Hérault 1 B 11032 n° 3053  References: Clerc Saint-Paoul, see Thomas 2486.  Saint-Sever, Jean de  Active: 1572  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue saint-James’  References: Labadie p. 105; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 666 Sales, Claude, see Celles, Claude 2487.  Sales, Isaac  Active: 1594–1602  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: He married Anne Joses / Goyses on 21 November 1602. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 104 f. 65r, GG 223 p. 245, GG 557 p. 23 2488.  Sales, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue du palais’  Biography: He married Marguerite Salvie on 4 June 1595. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 103 f. 34v, GG 222 f. 206v 2489.  Salesse, Jacques  Active: 1597–1615  Location: Sedan, Holy Roman Empire  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: He replaced Abel Rivery in Sedan in 1597, becoming printer of the city with an annual stipend of 72 lt, though the first surviving work we have is dated 1600. He had died by 1615.  References: Muller p. 106; RB XIII p. 69; Lepreux II 44; Répertoire n° 8735. 2490.  Sallé, Antoine  Active: 1586–1589  Name variations: Salle, Antoine; Salé, Antoine  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1586); Poitiers, Poitou (1587); Chartres, Orléanais (1589)  Role: Pedlar, publisher  Biography: He was born in 1564 and seems to have moved from city to city selling his books and publishing short tracts – though these were mostly printed in Paris.  References: Muller p. 91–92; RB V p. 121; La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 295; Renouard p. 390 2491.  Salles, Pierre  Active: 1592–1603  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1592–1598 & 1603); Toulouse, Languedoc (1599)  Role: Bookseller Illustration 115 Signature of Pierre de la Salle,  Address: ‘Rue de Nazareth’  Biography: He lived in the parish of 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 Saint-Pierre in Bordeaux. He seems not to have shared the good education of many other booksellers and signed with his initials rather than his whole name. Despite this he was described as a master bookseller. He married Suzanne de Thamat in Toulouse on 22 August 1599, at which point they were both described as parishioners of Saint-Étienne.  Documents: AD Gironde C 3888, 3 E 14800 f. 1192r; AM Toulouse GG 223 f. 133r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 669 2492.  Salomon, Claude  Active: 1591  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Journeyman printer

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 Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes. He was considered too poor to pay taxes in 1591.  Documents: AM Troyes F 272  References: Turquois p. 353 2493.  Salomon, Jean  Active: 1554  Location: Saint-Jean-d’Angély, Saintonge and Angoumois  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned by the parlement of Guyenne on 9 August 1559 for having sold forbidden books with Nicolas Lavardin. The books were ripped apart and burnt in front of the main church.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 144 n° 135  References: Patry p. 169 & 191 2494.  Samoz, Pierre de  Active: 1538  Location: Albi, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Tarn 4 EDT CC 244 2495.  Sanceleri, Antoine  Active: 1489  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was originally from Parma.  References: Pansier I 160 2496.  Sanson, Claude  Active: 1545–1551  Name variations: Sauxon, Claude  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais’  Biography: He lived in the quarter of Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines. He co-published the local edition of the edict of Châteaubriand.  Commercial partners: Jean II Chazot (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 161; Claudin (2) p. 99

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2497.  Santat, Jean  Active: 1573  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Anne Clareté at the end of July 1573 and resided in the parish of La Dalbade.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 28 f. 36r 2498.  Sappet, Guillaume  Active: 1516  Location: Romans, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Perrossier p. 313 2499.  Sarbot, Julien  Active: 1565  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 162 2500.  Sarignac, Pierre  Active: 1508  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2501.  Sartières, Nicolas de  Active: 1543–1567  Location: Bourges, Berry (1543–1551 & 1563–1567); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1551–1563)  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he initially worked in lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre in Bourges before leaving and became an inhabitant of Geneva in July 1551 and, by 1556, a burgher. However, after a decade in the Swiss city he returned to Bourges, most likely in 1563. He had three sons named Claude, Pierre and Charles.  Documents: AD Cher E 1113  References: Chaix p. 174; Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862; Haag V 263; Covelle p. 252

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2502. Sartières, Pierre de  Active: 1504–1535  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la fleur de Lys d’or’; ‘Près saint Pierre le puillier’  Biography: As a publisher he produced a mix of legal texts for the university and liturgical works for local use, often with other booksellers.  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Barthault (Bourges); Paul Berton (Limoges); Simon de Colines (Paris); Jacques Ferrot (Bourges); Jean de Jonvelle (Lyon); Enguilbert I de Marnef (Poitiers); Bérard Paon (Bourges); Jean Petit (Paris); Berthold Rembolt (Paris); Pierre Vidoue (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 378  Motto: ‘Tout se passe fors Dieu aymer’  References: RB XIII; Boyer p. 46; Répertoire n° 8787. 2503.  Sasin, Jean  Active: 1509  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He acquired books from the Parisian publisher Antoine Vérard in 1509 which he received partially in lieu of payment for services rendered to Vérard in Tours. The consignment contained 37 copies of an edition of the customs of Touraine.  Commercial partners: Antoine Vérard (Paris)  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/23  References: BVH Minutes 2504.  Saugrain, Jean I  Active: 1555–1586  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1555–1573); Pau, Béarn (1573–1586)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder, publisher  Biography: He was born in Ferrières-Haut-Clocher near Évreux in Normandy in 1518. However, it was in Lyon that he started his career as a publisher in 1555, and it was in that city that he married Claudine Vallet in 1558. He later remarried Claude Séronne in Pau (1576), and finally Madeleine de Saut (1581). He was the father of Abraham and Jean II, his elder son, who initially worked with Jean I in Pau. Both were sons of his first marriage. He is thought to have spent time learning in trade in Germany, Italy and Spain before settling in Lyon. There, he

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worked extensively in partnership with his uncle Benoît Rigaud until 1559 when he started publishing alone. He published numerous pamphlets, sometimes anonymously, that he had printed in a variety of different local workshops. His specialisation in the production of short brochures was further strengthened by his position as official printer to the king in Lyon to which he was appointed in 1568. However, by 1573, he had decided to relocate to Pau, probably because of his Protestant faith. There, he undertook work for the king of Navarre to whom he furnished books and Florentine paper. In turn, the king came to his aid when he was in need of help in 1584. He worked in partnership with Durand Badel with whom he had signed an official agreement in 1580 for ten years – an agreement only broken by his death, at some point after 22 June 1586. In 1580, Saugrain estimated his stock to be worth just under 650 livres – some of which were books he had printed in Lyon. At that time, he also owned a shop in Orthez.  Commercial partners: Durand Badel (Pau)  Device: Silvestre n° 1234  Motto: ‘Ultro succedere votis’  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2398, B 2730, E 2002, E 2003, E 2004  References: Muller p. 89; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 196; Lacaze p. 39; Baudrier IV 317; Répertoire n° 8802. 2505.  Saugrain, Jean II  Active: 1583–1586  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue des cordeliers’  Biography: According to La Bouralière, he was the son of Jean I. He married and was survived by Isabelle Jousseulme. He resided in the parish Saint-Didier and rented two contiguous shops in the city in 1583 in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. He died in 1586.  Commercial partners: Louis Contis (Poitiers)  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 290; Clouzot (1907) p. 50; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 505 2506.  Saulce, Guillaume  Active: 1556–1582  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1556–1571 & 1582); Rouen, Normandy (1572)

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 Role: Printer  Biography: Described by Renouard as printer of engravings, who worked in the ‘rue Montorgueil’, Lepreux believed him to be simply a journeyman printer. On 1 May 1569, he married Marie Deffrue, the widow of Guillaume Vigoureux, probably also a printer of engravings. His time in Rouen seems to have been short: he returned to Paris where he died in January 1582. His stock passed on to Charles Petit.  References: Gosselin p. 106; Lepreux III 372; Renouard p. 391; Répertoire n° 8808. 2507.  Saulnier, Nicolas  Active: 1546–1550  Location: Nevers, Nivernais  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He is mainly known as a bookbinder who worked for the city of Nevers.  Documents: AM Nevers CC 121, CC 124, CC 127 Saupiquet, see Garnier, Claude 2508.  Saussipot, Philippe  Active: 1519–1526  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a stall on the cathedral square that previously belonged to Guillaume Dufour.  References: Labarre p. 46 2509.  Savary, Simon  Active: 1593  Location: Dinan, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne du nom de Jésus’  Biography: He is known for a single Leaguer pamphlet (USTC 19037).  Commercial partners: Julien Aubinière (Dinan)  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 261 2510. Savine, Jean  Active: 1568–1617  Name variations: Savyne, Jean

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 Location: Sens, Champagne (1568–1569 & 1581–1599); Auxerre, Burgundy (1579–1580); Cîteaux, Burgundy (1602); Nancy, Lorraine (1606–1617)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue, à l’enseigne de l’espérance’ (Auxerre)  Biography: Originally from Troyes, he married Marie Le Moyne. His career was marked by regular changes of residence, suggesting limited success. He worked mainly for the Catholic Church with works printed in the abbey of Cîteaux and the abbey of Clairlieu in Nancy, as well as a book of hours in Sens. His initial move from Sens to Auxerre seems to have been prompted by the bishop of the town, Jacques Amyot, for whom he printed a breviary before returning to Sens. Whilst there he probably printed an edition for Robert Collot of Orléans, though he did not include his name on the book. His work was considered to be shoddy and his workshop made problematic errors in the printing of the customs of Auxerre. His limitations were underlined by the fact that his production for Clairlieu was done under the close supervision of a clergyman named as a “typographiae praefectus” by the abbey. His son, Pierre, became an apprentice in Paris in the shop of Jacques Grégoire in 1587.  Commercial partners: veuve Gabriel Buon (Paris); Pierre Chevillot (Paris); Jean de La Mare (Sens); François Plumion (Paris); Léon Savine (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 1037  Motto: ‘Spes mea in Deo est’; ‘J’espère en Dieu qui m’aidera’  Documents: AN Q/1 1099/206 B f. 37, Minutier central étude XXXIII/203 & VII/547.  References: Muller p. 6 & 106; RB VI p. 12 & 73–75; Chandenier (Sens) p. 169; Gaber, Sanlis & Tisserant; Cullière (Contrats); Jacquot p. 19; Ribière p. 17; Répertoire n° 8820. 2511.  Savoye, Jean  Active: 1590–1621  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: Originally from L’Isle-sur-Serein in Burgundy, he married Catherine Bon on 4 March 1590, and later Gaillardine de Breuilh. He acted as a proxy for Simon Millanges in 1590 and was probably employed in his workshop.  Commercial partners: Simon Millanges (Bordeaux); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart

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 Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 673 2512.  Schenck, Peter  Active: 1481–1495  Name variations: Bouttellier, Pierre; Pincerne, Pierre  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné (1481–1484); Lyon, Lyonnais (1485–1495)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He probably learnt his trade in Basel before moving to France, settling in Vienne where he took over Eberhard Frommolt’s workshop in the early 1480s, perhaps after having worked for him. He adopted a more recent type and is known to have published a handful of titles of French popular texts in 1483–84. He used numerous woodcuts, often copied on those he found in other imprints. By 1485, he had moved to Lyon as the city developed into an increasingly important typographical centre. He died there in 1495.  Types: TW ma04121  References: TW of0433; Dalbanne & Droz p. 47; Répertoire n° 8850. 2513.  Schilling, Johann  Active: 1472–1479  Name variations: Solidi, Johannes  Location: Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (1472–1474); Basel, Swiss Confederation (1474–1477); Vienne, Dauphiné (1477–1479)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born near Mainz, he was educated at the universities of Basel and Erfurt and started his career as a typographer either in Cologne in 1472, or perhaps more likely, by 1476 in Basel – though it is possible that he was already active a few years earlier. He acquired his type from Hans Franck contracting a debt that he was unable to pay off and in January 1477 he left the city after a court ordered that his belongings be seized. He attempted to relaunch his career in France, becoming Vienne’s prototypographer. His workshop was taken over by Eberhard Frommolt who used some of his material in his editions. He has been linked to Heinrich Meyer’s workshop in Toulouse in the 1480s but without substantive proof.  Types: TW ma04115–ma04118  References: Dalbanne & Droz p. 35; TW of0431; Répertoire n° 9092.

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Schmidt, Johann, see Faure, Jean I 2514.  Sebire, Guérault  Active: 1539–1544  Name variations: Sibère, Guéroult; Sbire, Guéroult  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Devant le palais’, ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He is placed in Paris by both La Croix du Maine and Du Verdier in their Bibliothèques for his undated edition of Simon de Vallambert of which no copy survives. A 1561 edition of Hegendorf’s Dialogi puriles is indicated for sale by Techener, but this seems to an inversion of the L and X on the title page as the colophon specified 1541 in Arabic numerals. He worked mainly with the printer Jean I Petit whose device featured on some of his editions.  Commercial partners: Robert I du Gord (Rouen); Jean I Petit (Rouen)  Motto: ‘E coelo rex adveniet per saecla futurus’  References: Muller p. 96–103; Renouard p. 398; Techener I, 322; Aquilon p. 306; Du Verdier p. 1138 2515.  Segretain, René  Active: 1589–1619  Name variations: Secretain, René  Location: Tours, Touraine (1589); Mayenne, Maine (1605); Angers, Anjou (1607–1619)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was the son of Jean and Marie Moreau. As a publisher in the sixteenth century, he is known for a single edition of a lamentation on the assassination of Henry III (USTC 20376). By the start of the seventeenth century he had relocated to the town of Mayenne where he was active as a bookseller in 1605. Two years later, he was described simply as a merchant and a resident of Angers, but he seems to have remained in the trade as in 1619 he co-published a celebration of the entry of Marie de Medici into the city (USTC 6804331).  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 5  References: RB XXIII p. 134 2516.  Seigle, Arnauld  Active: 1543

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 78 2517. Serre, Georges  Active: 1501–1504  Name variations: Sure, Georges  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Originally from the diocese of Vercelli, he settled in Avignon in 1501. As a bookseller, he relied on books he sourced from Lyon booksellers also originally from Italy. He is also known to have published two editions during his time in Avignon, but seemingly without great success as he had left the city by early 1504.  Commercial partners: Bonin de Boninis (Lyon); Balthazard de Gabiano (Lyon); Vincent de Portonariis (Lyon); Pierre Roault (Avignon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 18; Baudrier V 397 & VII 5; Pansier II 49 2518.  Serre, Jean  Active: 1548  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: One of his journeymen booksellers named Louis was arrested for heresy in his house. By the time the case came to be dealt with by the Chambre ardente in Paris on 24 October 1548, Serre had already died.  References: Weiss p. 300; La Beauluère (Poitiers) p. 277 2519.  Servain, Claude  Active: 1557  Location: Vienne, Dauphiné  Role: Printer  Commercial partners: Luxembourg I de Gabiano (Lyon)  References: Baudrier VII 47 2520.  Sève, Antoine  Active: 1588–1598  Name variations: Sever, Antoine; Cebe, Antoine

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 Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Marie d’Amblays with whom he had a daughter named Jeanne on 14 July 1594 and a son named Antoine on 29 September 1595. They resided in the parish of Le Taur. His shop stocked books sent from Lyon. As a publisher, he is known for a single work (USTC 74493).  Commercial partners: Étienne Michel (Lyon); Adrien Perier (Lyon)  Documents: AD Rhône 3 E 393; AM Toulouse GG 695 f. 3v & 7v, GG 557 p. 121  References: RB XXIX 2521.  Siffleau, Martin I  Active: 1522–1546  Name variations: Sifflant, Martin  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la sellerie’ (1522), ‘Près monsieur Saint Gacian’ (1534)  Biography: He married Guillemine Guespin. He published works of local interest. He died before 1570 at which point his widow was still alive.  Commercial partners: Charles de Bougne (Angers); Mathieu Chercelé (Tours); Jean Rousset (Tours)  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121  References: RB XXIII p. 48 2522.  Siffleau, Martin II  Active: 1581–1595  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Vincente Rou with whom he had two children and lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne. By 1595, he had remarried to Étiennette Marchant.  References: Ardouin-Weiss p. 51; Grandmaison (Registres) p. 165 2523.  Siffleau, Michel  Active: 1588–1616  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1588); Tours, Touraine (1592–1616)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la sellerie, devant les cordeliers’

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 Biography: Born in or around 1568, he was the son of René and of his first wife. He first married Françoise Roy, before 1595, with whom he had ten children and, after her death in 1608 at the age 35, he remarried to Catherine Besnard in 1609 with whom he had a further four children. None went into the trade. They lived in the parish of Saint Vincent. He began his apprenticeship in Paris in the workshop of Léger Delas in 1588, but by 1592 had set up shop in his native city. Though he took over the family business, as a printer, he seems to have diversified his production and undertaken more complex tasks, perhaps as a response to the arrival of the exiled Parisian booksellers and printers in the city during the wars of the Catholic league. He died in early July 1616. His second wife survived him and sold his business on to Jean Vatard for 1500 lt in November 1619.  Commercial partners: Isaac Gentil (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 144; Pallier p. 504; Ardouin-Weiss p. 49; Répertoire n° 9019. 2524.  Siffleau, Pierre  Active: 1552–1553  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne Saint Pierre le Martyr, près Saint Gacian’  Biography: As a publisher, he is known for an edition of the local customs.  Commercial partners: Mathieu Chercelé (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 528  References: RB XXIII p. 58 2525. Siffleau, René  Active: 1569–1577  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la sellerie, devant les cordeliers, à la fleur de lis d’or couronnée’  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint Michel. He sometimes printed on behalf of the town. By 1576 he styled himself printer to the king and to the archbishop on his imprints and mainly produced short octavo editions of edicts and ordinances. He died before 1580 at which point his widow, Jeanne Gillot, who was his second wife, had

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succeeded him. His son, Michel, one of six children, followed him into the trade.  Commercial partners: Pierre Regnard (Tours)  References: RB XXIII p. 69–70; Muller p. 113; Ardouin-Weiss p. 49 2526.  Simon, Daniel  Active: 1589  Name variations: Also known as Vertu  Location: Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was prosecuted in 1589 for selling pamphlets without due authorisation and was condemned to the traditional amende honorable.  Documents: AD Meuse B 571 2527.  Simon, Geoffroi  Active: 1504  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had previously worked as a scribe.  References: Jenny (Nouvelles recherches) p. 862 2528.  Simonet, Pierre  Active: 1598  Location: Marseille, Provence  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 77827).  References: RB XXVI; Bory p. 36 2529. Sochon, Jacques  Active: 1569–1600  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was present at various postmortem auctions between 1570 and 1581. He rented his shop for six years for 2 écus (1583).  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 3427, G 3433, G 3464 G 3203  References: Mellot p. 219 2530.  Soignerot, Guillaume  Active: 1489–1500

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 Name variations: Soingneret, Guillaume; Seigneret, Guillaume; Seignoret, Guillaume  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1493–1499); Langres, Champagne (1500)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Active as early as 1489, he had an edition of the breviary for the use of Autun printed by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris (GW 5247). Monceaux declares him to be active in that city, but without proof. As he was taxed in Lyon as an inhabitant of the city four years later, he is generally described as resident there by incunabulum bibliographies for the Le Rouge imprint. By 1500, he had left and resided in Langres as he was ordered to complete within 24 hours the incomplete books he had sold and in return the buyer was to pay him the full sum of 10 écus he owed.  Documents: AD Haute-Marne 2 G 9 f. 14v; AM Lyon CC 107 f. 23v  References: Monceaux I 232; Skora (Langres); Baudrier I 405 2531. Soignerot, Philibert  Active: 1501–1503  Name variations: Saynnerot, Philibert  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in front of the church of Notre-Dame. He had no inherited wealth and lived solely from his shop, though this was sometimes difficult as he asserted in 1501 that he sold very little as food was too expensive for people to have disposable income for books. He further described himself as a poor bookseller two years later when asking the local municipality to reduce the tax he owed.  Documents: AM Dijon LL 679 2532.  Soldarie, Jean  Active: 1529–1540  Name variations: Soldana, Jean  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc (1529); Montpellier, Languedoc (1540)  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was cited in the notarial records as active in Toulouse in 1529, but by 1540 he had settled in Montpellier where he undertook the binding of a register for the local municipal authorities.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65; Guiraud p. 207 Solidi, Johannes, see Schilling, Johann

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Solin, Edmond, see Coullin, Edmond 2533.  Sordet, Jean  Active: 1545  Name variations: Sordeti, Jean  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  References: Pansier II 51 2534.  Soyart, Jean  Active: 1510  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2535.  Squirot, Antoine  Active: 1511  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Apprentice  Biography: Born in Auzeville in 1496, he was an apprentice in the workshop of Jean Chabron in 1511 for six years.  Commercial partners: Jean Chabron (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 2487 f. 61v 2536.  Statboen, Herman  Active: 1471–1474  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He died in 1474.  References: Pasquier p. 205 Stey, Nicolas, see Estey, Nicolas d’ 2537.  Store, Bernard  Active: 1580  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 689 2538.  Sugaston, Peyrane  Active: 1539–1560

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 Name variations: Perrin, veuve Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: She took over the shop of her husband, Guillaume Perrin, at his death, before renting it out to Louis Yvernage whom she married before 5 September 1541. She continued to work with him until the 1560s. Simon Vincent’s heirs owed her considerable sums of money in 1539 which shows the vitality of her shop.  Commercial partners: Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 22 2539.  Swierler, Michel  Active: 1486–1487  Name variations: Svierler, Michel  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A native of Ulm. He signed an agreement to bring to Bordeaux a master, Jean Walter, and journeymen printers. However, it is unclear if he kept his side of the bargain as no imprints of this period are known.  References: Labadie p. 112; Desgraves (Introduction) p. 594; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 691 2540.  Symart, veuve Pierre  Active: 1552–1553  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Turquois p. 354 2541.  Symon, Nicolas  Active: 1512  Location: Saint-Nicolas-du-Port, Lorraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was also a deacon in the Catholic Church and is known for having printed a placard on an ordinance by the duke of Lorraine on the circulation of money (USTC 80479). He used the material of Pierre Jacobi and Beaupré conjectured that he was part of Pierre Jacobi’s workshop, though his name appeared alone on his imprint. His device used the woodcut employed by Jacobi but featured his own name.

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 References: Choux p. 46; Muller p. 105; RB VII p. 49; Beaupré (Recherches) p. 51 2542.  Symonet, Jean  Active: 1562–1591  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1562); Lyon, Lyonnais (1566– 1571, 1580 & 1585–1591); Montluel, Savoy (1579); Neuville-sur-Saône, Burgundy (1580–1584)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he seems to have started his career in Geneva where he resided in 1562. However, by 1566 he had moved back to Lyon where he set up his own workshop and worked in particular for the heirs of Jacques Giunta, printing amongst others with Civilité type. This seems to have become his usual place of residence, with interludes in Montluel and Neuville-sur-Saône. In between these he worked in Lyon where he finished his last known imprint in 1585. He was, however, still active in that city in 1591.  Commercial partners: Symphorien Béraud (Lyon); Etienne Michel (Lyon)  Motto: ‘Nec plus nec minus, nisi dominus custodierit’  References: RB XXI p. 75; RIECH; Baudrier I 412 2543.  Synault, Jacques  Active: 1544–1545  Location: Valence, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was born in Angers. He attended the wedding of the bookseller François Garaut in Nîmes in 1545.  Documents: AD Gard E 284 f. 297 Tabardel, see Calmels, Jean Tabaret, see Garret, André 2544.  Tabourot, Jean  Active: 1589–1595  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près la grande église’

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 Biography: Born in Dijon in 1520, he had a multifaceted career as clergyman who was also an author and musician. His role as printer came late in life. After having invited the printer Jean des Preyz to settle in the city, he bought his printing material from Arnoul, a canon in Troyes, and from Passard, a Parisian merchant, and began using them himself in 1589. In 1591 he passed on the material to Des Preyz but retained usufruct thereof until his death that occurred four years later.  Commercial partners: Jean des Preyz (Langres)  References: RB XVII p. 41; Muller p. 20; Skora (Langres); Lepreux II 355; Répertoire n° 9247. 2545.  Tabuet, Jacques  Active: 1564–1567  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Conner p. 199 2546.  Tachet, François  Active: 1544–1551  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for having published three legal works and one religious text – all in 1549, though one was reissued in 1551.  Commercial partners: Hector Penet (Lyon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 32; Pansier II 162; Répertoire n° 9248. 2547.  Tafforeau, Olivier  Active: 1563–1569  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près les cordeliers’ (1565), ‘À l’enseigne de l’arche de Noé’ (1569)  Biography: He used as a device a woodcut coin with the cryptic inscription ‘Carolus VIII Dei G. Francorum rex MDLXI’. He printed on occasion on behalf of the city and, in 1563, worked in partnership with Jean Bourreau. He seems to have specialised in the production of short works predominantly printed in octavo.  Commercial partners: Jean Bourreau (Tours); Zacharie I Griveau (Tours); Pierre Regnard (Tours); Laurent Richard (Tours)  Device: Silvestre n° 988

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 References: RB XXIII p. 64–66; Muller p. 113; Grandmaison p. 337; Répertoire n° 9253. 2548.  Tainturier, Jean  Active: 1595  Location: Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou  Role: Apprentice bookseller  Biography: He started his apprenticeship in the shop of Georges Paien on 10 January 1595. His father was also named Jean.  Documents: AD Vendée 3 E 37/259 2549.  Talbot, Jean  Active: 1579–1600  Name variations: Tallebot, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Described as a journeyman in 1579, he became a master printer in 1600.  References: Mellot p. 220; Gosselin p. 116 2550.  Tallineau, Laurent  Active: 1539  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known thanks to a single work produced with Jean I Palier (USTC 76299).  Commercial partners: Jean I Palier (Metz)  References: Muller p. 52; RB VII p. 19; Teissier p. 30 2551.  Tarabat, Tarabin  Active: [1588]  Location: Épernay, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A fictitious printer known for a single edition (USTC 63019) which claims that the publisher came from Frankfurt. Lepreux thought that the name was used by Jean de Foigny. This has been contested by Jean-Marie Arnoult in the Répertoire bibliographique, though no other identification has been suggested.  References: RB XVII p. 29; Muller p. 17; Lepreux II 320; Répertoire n° 9264.

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2552.  Tarlot, Jean  Active: 1572–1592  Location: Dole, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He drew up probate inventories of the collections of members of the local parlement and was an active member of the local book trade. A consignment of his books was intercepted in 1590 in Saint-Jean-de-Losne. Two years later, he was fined for having bought up too much paper at the start of the local fair. As a publisher, he is known for a having works printed in Lyon for local distribution.  Commercial partners: Pierre Roussin (Lyon); Sébastien Nivelle (Paris)  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII 188 f. 891  References: RB XXI p. 51; Muller p. 16; Franche-Comté p. 78 2553.  Tarsis, Simon  Active: 1533–1546  Name variations: Targys, Simon  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city before moving to the Saint-Sernin quarter where he rented rooms from 1537 with Antoine Barrière with whom it seems he was in partnership. He was described as a poor bookbinder in the tax registers of 1546.  Commercial partners: Antoine Barrière (Toulouse)  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64; Claudin (2) p. 3 2554.  Tartres, Antoine de  Active: 1543–1571  Location: Gap, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was born in Lyon in around 1506.  Documents: AD Hautes-Alpes 7 E 16, 7 E 17, G 838 f. 128v, G 842 f. 81v, G 911 Tassin, Fiacre, see Cassin, Fiacre 2555.  Tavernier, Guillaume  Active: 1496–1509  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: His output was marked by the diversity of the subject matter of his editions printed in quarto format. In his edition of Jean Le Liseur’s Regle des marchans, he partially reused a woodcut that had previously been employed in an edition published in Troyes by Guillaume Le Rouge (USTC 37415).  Commercial partners: Jacquette Lebée (Provins); Macé Panthoul (Troyes)  Types: TW ma02628–ma2630  References: RB XVII p. 51; Muller p. 93; Stein (Provins) p. 218; TW of1548; Monceaux II 180 2556.  Ternery, Pierre  Active: 1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested as a Protestant as part of the great purge of 1562.  References: Haag II 60 2557.  Ternon, Jean  Active: 1496–1505  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the nephew of the bookseller Regnault Fillolle whose daughter, Jeanne, had married his father, who was also named Jean.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/20, 3E8/291  References: BVH Minutes 2558.  Terondel, Johan  Active: 1472–1475  Location: Montpellier, Languedoc  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: A member of the local clergy, he worked as a bookbinder for the town and for local religious institutions.  References: Clerc p. 1814 2559.  Tertulier, Michel  Active: 1571–1579  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher

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 Biography: He is known for a series of imprints including poetry, astronomy and politics. 2560.  Texier, François  Active: 1524–1541  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: The son of Jean, he probably learnt his trade with his father and took over his workshop. He was publishing in his own name by 1524. He is known for a small number of imprints, all of local interest. Jacques and Marc Batas took over his workshop. He used as his device the Florentine fleur-de-lys to which he appended his initials.  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 67; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 645; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 224; Etchechoury p. 9. 2561.  Texier, Jean  Active: 1507–1531  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The father of François, he succeeded Jean Carant. He was an important figure in local affairs, becoming a consul of the town in 1522, but as printer he is known for only two titles. He was succeeded by his son, perhaps as early as 1524.  References: Muller p. 89; RB II p. 66; Desgraves (Périgueux) p. 645; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 225; Dujarric-Descombes p. 12; Etchechoury p. 9. 2562.  Teyssières, Pierre  Active: 1549  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: Possibly of the same family as the Texiers, he was investigated in 1549 by the parlement of Guyenne along with his servant, Antoine Brousse, for suspected Protestant sympathies.  References: Patry p. 55 2563.  Thenot, Louis  Active: 1561  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Apprentice

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 Biography: He was taken on as an apprentice in the workshop of Jean II de Marnef in May 1561 for five years.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 487 2564.  Thierrici, Jean  Active: 1499–1500  Name variations: Thieri, Jean  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He bought some of the decorative binder’s material sold after the death of Simon Razine.  References: Pansier I 160 2565.  Thierry, Gilles  Active: 1522–1551  Name variations: Also known as Brienne  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookbinder  Address: ‘Grande rue, près Saint-Urbain’  Biography: He worked as scribe and illuminator but also bound books for local ecclesiastical institutions. He was perhaps Jean’s son.  References: Rondot p. 51; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 279. 2566.  Thierry, Jean  Active: 1522  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 147 2567.  Thierry, Jean  Active: 1467–1513  Name variations: Also known as Brienne  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He is known for having drawn up the inventory of the library of the canon Jacques Dorey with Macé Panthoul in 1493. He was simultaneously a bookseller, scribe, illuminator and bookbinder, and represented the booksellers, embroiders and painters of the city in 1513. He worked extensively for local ecclesiastical institutions.

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 Documents: AD Aube G 2299  References: Rondot p. 47; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 277. 2568.  Tholosan, Jean  Active: 1593–1627  Location: Lyon, Lyonnois (1593–1596); Aix-en-Provence, Provence (1597–1627)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: Initially active in Lyon, he worked there as a printer principally for Pierre Landry, though he did publish some short works under his own name. He moved to Aix-en-Provence in 1597 when the local authorities called on his services, seemingly after his having been recommended by the local man of letters, François Duperier, who welcomed him into his home. In Aix, he became the official printer to the king and to the city, replacing Jean Courraud in that role in 1598 with an annual stipend of 100 lt that later rose to 150 lt. He published only in the smaller quarto and octavo formats but was a very active printer with over two hundred works to his name in the city. He died in 1627 and was succeeded by Étienne David, his son-in-law.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Pillehotte (Aix-en-Provence)  References: RB XXVI p. 2 n° 13; Billioud p. 275; Henricy p. 14; Répertoire n° 9351. 2569.  Thomas  Active: 1520  Name variations: Also known as de Saint-Paoul  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Amand.  References: Gosselin p. 77 2570.  Thomas, Étienne  Active: 1563–1578  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À la franche rue, près le carrefour aux namps’  Biography: He royal obtained letters naming him the official printer to the king in Caen on 26 August 1563 despite the fact that he was probably a Calvinist. His store was visited by the town authorities in 1572 as part of a clamp down on Protestant material. His daughter, Françoise,

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married Jacques Le Bas and it is possible that his business was taken over by his son-in-law at his death.  Documents: AD Calvados 1 B 3 f. 150  References: Muller p. 10–11; B. Normande p. 366–371; Pettegree p. 56; Lepreux III 500 2571.  Thomas, Françoise  Active: 1593–1609  Name variations: Le Bas, veuve Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: The daughter of Étienne, she had married Jacques Le Bas whose workshop she took over at his death in 1593. Their son, Jacques II, succeeded her in 1609. She printed a variety of works from educational editions to anti-leaguer tracts as well as official texts since she had inherited her husband’s role of printer to the king.  References: B. Normande p. 394–397; Arbour p. 324; Lepreux III 469 2572.  Thomas, Jean  Active: 1490  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Jeanne.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1  References: BVH Minutes 2573.  Thomas, Louis  Active: 1532  Name variations: also known as de Barra  Location: Mâcon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for the publication of a missal for the use of the local diocese.  Commercial partners: Denis de Harsy (Lyon); Henri Savore (Lyon)  References: RB XXI p. 72; Muller p. 50 2574.  Thorel, Michel I  Active: 1525  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer

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 Biography: The son of Marin, a surgeon, he lived in the parish of Saint-Pierre-l’honoré.  References: Gosselin p. 89 2575.  Thorel, Michel II  Active: 1600–1630  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller 2576.  Thorin, Bonaventure  Active: 1588–1595  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue, à l’enseigne de l’ancre’  Biography: He was the official bookseller to the university. Bernard speculates that he might have been the son of Geoffroy Tory.  Commercial partners: Veuve Nicolas Levez (Bourges)  References: RB XIII; Boyer p. 51; A. Bernard, Geoffroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier imprimeur royal, réformateur de l’orthographe et de la typographie sous François Ier (Paris: E. Tross, 1865), p. 368–369. 2577.  Thouars, Jean de  Active: 1461–1479  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Vienne G 1524, G 1582  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 247 2578.  Thoucault, Julien  Active: 1560–1567  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He worked for the town of Angers and published a few works of mainly local interest.  References: RB XXVI p. 62; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 208; Port III 584 2579. Thoulouse, Étienne  Active: 1524–1552  Name variations: Thoulouze, Étienne; Toulouse, Étienne

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 Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Gratianne de Nyort, the widow of Pierre Bodet – their marriage contract is dated 18 January 1526/7. After her death, he remarried Jeanne Cousturier who survived him. He was the father of Pierre. He was asked by the courts to estimate the value of a consignment of books in the case opposing Nicolas Castel and Michel Parmentier in 1539. He worked with Louis Rostelin in 1543. At his death in 1552, his shop contained around 2000 different titles, of which a third were published in Lyon. At this point he had two houses, the one situated ‘place de l’ombrière’ was where he had his shop and his books. Claude Moynet was named an executor of his will.  Commercial partners: Paul Berton (Limoges); Louis Rostelin (Bordeaux)  References: Muller p. 9; Labadie p. 114; Delpit p. 77; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 699; Roudié & Desgraves n° 6; Giteau 2580.  Thoulouse, Jacques  Active: 1575–1608  Name variations: Toulouze, Jacques  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue saint-James’  Biography: He was the son of Pierre for whom he initially worked.  Commercial partners: François Budier (Bordeaux); Arnaud du Breil (Bordeaux); Jan Moretus (Antwerp); Théodore Reinsart; Jean Veyrat (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde H 637  References: Labadie p. 115; Baudrier IV 396; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 700 2581.  Thoulouse, Pierre  Active: 1527–1575  Name variations: Toulouse, Pierre de  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue de la sau ou désirade’  Biography: The son of Étienne and the Illustration 116 father of Jacques, he was described as Signature of Pierre Thoulouze, a master bookseller in 1543 and named 1552, AD Gironde 3 E 848 a burgher of the city of Bordeaux on 2 August 1571. He was a sworn bookseller to the university and worked extensively with the local

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Parlement. He was described as having the usufruct of his father’s goods in the latter’s inventory after death. He is known to have sourced the books he sold in Lyon.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 135 n° 307, 1 B 171 n° 58, 1 B 252 n° 221, 1 B 256 n° 34, 1 B 270 n° 77, 1 B 304 n° 127, 1 B 369 n° 294, 1 B 376 n° 70, 1 B 380 n° 301, 1 B 387 n° 390, 1 B 390 n° 221, G 524, H 834 f. 342v  References: Labadie p. 115; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 701; Bordeaux 143; Giteau; Jostock p. 77 Threhon, see Hébert, Guillaume 2582.  Tiffailleau, Augustin  Active: 1582–1608  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Marie Hardy with whom he had a number of children, notably Pierre who became a bookseller. They lived in the parish of Notre-Dame-la-Petite. He sold a press and some printing material to Virgile Tréhand in 1582. His wife survived him and sought, with her new husband, to continue selling books in 1612, for which she was condemned.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 225; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 495 2583.  Tiphaine, Claude  Active: 1557  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He used the material of the Lyon printer Antoine du Ry (active 1516–1533) – including his device. His workshop is only known for a single imprint (USTC 41445). 2584.  Tochet, Pierre  Active: 1589  Location: Blois, Touraine  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This figure is known for a single imprint (USTC 20293). This uses the material that the Wechel workshop and, later, Andreas Cambier used in Heidelberg as well as presentational devices common in the Germanic world.  References: RB XXIII p. 20; Muller p. 8; Porcher p. 83; Répertoire n° 9400.

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2585.  Tonillon, Jean  Active: 1559  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 261; Granges de Surgères n° 84 2586.  Toubeau, Jean  Active: 1594–1596  Location: Bourges, Berry  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Rue Bourbonnoux’  Biography: His shop had passed on to Hilaire Toubeau by 1629.  References: Jenny (Topographie) p. 21 2587.  Tougard, Nicolas  Active: 1528–1541  Name variations: Also known as Hauville  Location: Paris, Île-de-France (1528); Rouen, Normandy (1541)  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Hauville, he worked initially in Paris before settling in Rouen where he lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  References: Gosselin p. 97; Lepreux III 379; Renouard p. 201 2588. Toulorge, Michel  Active: 1565–1571  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Protestant, he lived in the Saint-Pierre quarter of the city and married a Rauline.  References: Lart p. 132, 178, 456. 2589.  Tournier, Pierre  Active: 1554  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: A Calvinist, he had sent a youth in his employment named Arnaud Bernard – probably the same person who was later a bookseller in Tulle – to take some Protestant books to a client when he was intercepted by the authorities. When the contents were discovered, Tournier fled and was condemned to death in absentia. His

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brother-in-law, Peyronelle Massanelle, was later arrested, tried and condemned for heresy.  References: C. Devic & J. Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc (Toulouse: Édouard Privat, 1872), XII, 75; Mentzer p. 138 2590. Tourquetil, Guillaume  Active: 1509  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue des carmes, à l’enseigne de Saint Jean’  Biography: He is known for a single imprint executed for the local clergy.  References: RB XIX p. 14; Muller p. 54; Walsby (Brittany) p. 261; Booton p. 228; La Borderie I p. 48; Granges de Surgères n° 85 2591.  Tours, Jean de  Active: 1590  Location: Montauban, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Known for three anti-leaguer tracts all published in July 1590, this is in fact a fictitious printer. The layout of the title page, the type and the typographical ornament used on the title pages are those also used for the pseudonym Jean de Tours and Jean Le Court in Langres. They were in fact printed in the Swiss Confederation using the material of Conrad Waldkirch in Basel.  References: RB IV 2592.  Tours, Jean de  Active: 1591  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This is a fictitious printer: he is only known for one antileaguer tract (USTC 19152), not printed, as suggested by the Rothschild catalogue, in the Low Countries (the octavo format would have been problematic) nor in Montauban, but in fact in the Swiss Confederation. The layout of the title page, the type and the typographical ornament used on the title page are those also used for the pseudonym Jean de Tours in Montauban and Jean le Court in Langres and were employed in the workshop of Conrad Waldkirch in Basel.  References: RB XVII p. 43

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2593.  Tours, Philippe de  Active: 1577–1578  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A fictitious printer: he is only known for editions of Jean du Tillet’s Mémoires et recherches that analysis of the material used indicates was in reality printed on Genevan presses.

Illustration 117 Device used by ‘Philippe de Tours’, 1578, USTC 7020

2594.  Tourteau, Guillaume  Active: 1557–1580  Location: Troyes, Champagne (1557–1558); Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1558–1580)

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 Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was arrested in Troyes for possessing Protestant material in 1557. His books were burnt though he was released. He sought refuge in Geneva where he was received as an inhabitant on 31 October 1558 and seems to have continued to work in the trade as a bookseller.  References: Turquois p. 354; RIECH; Chaix p. 225 2595. Touzé, Guillaume  Active: 1480–1481  Name variations: Tousé, Guillaume  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He organised the publication of a breviary for the use of Nantes with Venetian printers in 1480. He entrusted the itinerant seller Guillaume de L’Espine with 500 Breton livres worth of books to be sold in Lower Brittany on the promise of a 10 livres stipend, but when the stock was sold L’Espine disappeared with the money.  Commercial partners: Franciscus Renner de Hailbrun (Venice); Guillaume de L’Espine (Brittany); Adam de Rotweil (Venice); Petrus de Piasiis de Cremona (Venice); Bartholomaeus de Blavis de Alexandria (Venice); Andreas Torresanus de Asula (Venice)  Documents: AD Loire-Atlantique B 9 f. 180  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 261; Booton p. 228 2596.  Tramadi, Philibert  Active: 1493–1494  Location: Mâcon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was responsible for the edition of a missal for local use.  Commercial partners: Michael Wenssler 2597.  Tramblay, Jean  Active: 1557–1558  Name variations: Tremblay, Jean  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Moisselles, he bought Barthelémy Bonhomme’s material along with Pierre Roux and Denis Bourgeois in 1557.

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 Commercial partners: Claude Bouquet (Avignon); Pierre Roux (Avignon); Mathieu Vincent (Avignon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; Pansier II 163 2598.  Tranchant, Jacques  Active: 1590  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: He was employed in the workshop of Simon Millanges in 1590, but later became a master printer in his own right. He married Anne Destadens who survived him. He died before 3 September 1601.  Documents: AD Gironde G 2567  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 709 2599.  Travaud, Étienne  Active: 1521–1540  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 63–65 2600. Travers, Alexis  Active: 1548  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He was imprisoned for having bound Protestant books.  References: Gosselin p. 108 2601.  Trebuchet, Nicolas  Active: 1521  Location: Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine  Role: Bookseller  References: Servais p. 85 2602.  Trechsel, Gaspar  Active: 1524–1570  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1524–1539 & 1542–1549); Medina del Campo, Spain (1529–1530 & 1564–1570); Vienne, Dauphiné (1541–1542)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was born in Lyon, the son of the printer Jean Trechsel, and married Madeleine, the daughter of Dominique I de Portonariis.

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He was mainly active in Lyon and Spain and was particularly involved in the international book trade. Following the great strike of 1539, he left Lyon to settle temporarily in Vienne at the invitation of the local archbishop. However, the lure of Lyon was difficult to resist, and he soon returned to the city where he worked until the end of the decade. He resumed his Spanish career in the 1560s in Medina del Campo where he died in late 1570 with a stock of some 17,000 volumes that belonged to Guillaume Rouillé.  References: RB XXI p. 93; Baudrier; Muller p. 117; Répertoire n° 9467. 2603.  Tréhand, Virgile  Active: 1579–1582  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Jeanne Rabine and lived in the parish of Saint-Sornin, a suburb mainly populated by agricultural workers. Aimé Mesnier and Jean Main were godparents to his son Aimé in 1579. He bought a press and other material from Augustin Tiffailleau in 1582.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 213; La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 495 2604.  Trepperel, Pierre  Active: 1545–1572  Name variations: Treppenet, Pierre  Location: Angers, Anjou (1545); Paris, Île-de-France (1548); Orléans, Orléanais (1547–1572)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de l’écrivainerie, devant la porte du cloître sainte croix’  Biography: The son of the Parisian printer Jean II, he was related to some of the most powerful members of the Parisian book world. He left the city and sought initially to settle in Angers before relocating to Orléans in 1547, perhaps spending some time in Paris where a book was printed for him in 1548 (USTC 41408). He became a burgher of Orléans before 1566 and married Noëlle Privert or Privelle. However, he still owned and continued to acquire property in Paris for instance letting out a shop in 1550 to the printer François Girault who was to pay him the 30 lt rent in printed sheets. He served as the receiver-general of the university after 1558 – though in this capacity he was regarded as something of an impostor and was known for not handing in the accounts on time. Of Protestant faith, his shop was ransacked during

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the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572 and Trepperel was murdered as he was about to convert to Catholicism. His widow remarried to the bookseller Jean Curtin.  Commercial partners: Galliot II du Pré (Paris); Éloi Gibier (Orléans); François Girault (Paris); Fleury Prevost (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 756  Motto: ‘In silentio fortitudo’  Documents: AN S 1653 ff. 184–189, Y 3449 f. 310, Y 3461 ff. 206–208, Minutier central étude XXXIII/34 f. 240v, Minutier central étude XXXIII/35 f. 227, Minutier central étude XXXIII/36 f. 424, Minutier central étude VI/20  References: RB X p. 77; Muller p. 56–57; Herluison p. 33; Renouard (Documents) p. 291; Read p. 359; Ridderikhoff et al. II xxxv & III 216; Renouard p. 414; Pichon & Vicaire p. 45; Répertoire n° 9479. 2605.  Tresfeilh, Antoine  Active: 1598–1599  Name variations: Tresfer, Antoine  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Journeyman printer Illustration 118  Biography: He worked as a journey- Signature of Antoine Tresfer, man printer in the workshop of Simon 1598, AD Gironde 3 E 14800 Millanges. Unlike the other journeymen working there, he does not seem to have been able to sign his name.  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1271r–1272r  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 710 2606. Treszet, Claude  Active: 1549  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This fictitious printer was known for an edition of an evangelical text written by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (USTC 12585). Pierre Aquilon identified this as probably having been printed in Lyon.  References: RB XXII p. 75; Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 313 2607.  Treville, Étienne  Active: 1584  Location: Autun, Burgundy

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 Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Charles Pesnot (Lyon); Claude Malot (Dijon)  References: Baudrier III 130 2608.  Triholet, André  Active: 1515–1526  Name variations: Triollet, André  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Rue de la sellerie’  Biography: He was referred to simply as a bookbinder in 1515. His son René was said to have been cured of blindness by Saint Francis of Paola on 17 April 1523. He rented a house opposite the church of the Franciscans in 1526 for three years.  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/28  References: Grandmaison p. 307; BVH Minutes 2609. Trilloton, François  Active: 1577  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Beraud (Lyon); Clément Pache (Aix-enProvence); Thibaud Payen (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 211 2610.  Trilloton, Michaud  Active: 1548  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented a house in the parish of La Celle in 1548 for which he owed an annual rent of 24 lt and a cake to be delivered each year in time for Epiphany.  References: La Bouralière (Supplément) p. 501 2611.  Troadec, Jan  Active: 1576–1584  Location: Le Conquet, Brittany  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A printer and cartographer, he followed in the footsteps of Guillaume Brouscon whose workshop he took over.  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 261

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2612.  Troismailles, René  Active: 1570–1610  Name variations: Trois-mailles, René; Trimallaeus, Renatus  Location: La Flèche, Anjou (1575); Angers, Anjou (1570–1583); Niort, Poitou (1600–1610)  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue du Petit-Prêtre, devant la chapelle Follet’ (Angers, 1576); ‘En la rue Saint-Lô, près la Salamandre’ (Angers, 1582–1583)  Biography: He married Barbe Vidame with whom he had a son, François, whose godfather was the bookseller Pierre Elis. After his wife’s death, he remarried to Élisabeth, the daughter of Thomas Portau, who survived and succeeded him. He started his career in Angers where he was a printer to the university by 1570, but also spent time in La Flèche where he became the town’s prototypographer in 1575, printing two editions before moving back to Angers the very same year. There, he relied on local patronage, becoming the official printer to the bishop of Angers in 1577. He took over Thomas Portau’s workshop in Niort in 1600 and used his material. This material and the oval frame that he used on his title page were recycled by Agrippa d’Aubigné’s press to print his Tragiques in 1616. He died in 1610.  Commercial partners: Pierre Morin (La Rochelle); Pierre Elis (Angers); René Huard (Angers)  Device: Silvestre n° 860  Motto: ‘La maille sauve le denier’  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire G 24  References: RB IV p. 26, XVIII p. 61, XXVI; Muller p. 4, 17 & 56; Port III 634; Répertoire n° 9489. 2613.  Trousseau, Pierre  Active: 1527–1528  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was godfather to the son of Tite Corroyer in 1528.  References: Pasquier p. 211; Port III 636 2614.  Troye, Jean de  Active: [1508]  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Cour de Bèze’

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 Documents: AM Dijon 422  References: Skora (Langres) 2615.  Truchet, Antoine  Active: 1521  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookbinder  Biography: He was originally from Lyon. He seems to have been of limited means as he borrowed 1 écu from the bookseller Pierre Bodet – a sum he still owed after the latter’s death.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bodet (Bordeaux)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 6650 f. 252v  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 711 2616.  Trumeau, François I  Active: before 1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookbinder  Biography: He is known only though a mention of his widow who had succeeded him by 1573.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247 2617.  Trumeau, François II  Active: 1557–1592  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘En la rue Notre-Dame, près les trois écus’  Biography: The son of Thibault, he was born in 1538. He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes, in the parish of Saint-Jean. He published a series of short topical works, often using texts already printed in Paris, as well as an unauthorised edition of Ronsard’s Remonstrance au peuple de France in 1563. His use of Gothic type for the ecclesiastical market spilt over into his other printing and his pamphlets also used this largely outmoded type. He was still active in 1592, printing notably for the local Church and the student market.  Motto: ‘Ad praeceptum Dei elevabitur aquila. Job 39’  Documents: AM Troyes F 272  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 36–38; Troyes p. 174; Corrard de Breban p. 78; Lepreux II 202; Turquois p. 354; Assier p. 102; Socard & Assier p. 43; E. Droz, ‘Encore une édition gothique inconnue de

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Ronsard : Remonstrance au peuple de France’, in Refugium animæ bibliotecæ: Festschrift für Albert Kolb (Wiesbaden: G. Pressler, 1969), 225– 234; Morin (Ligue) p. 21. 2618.  Trumeau, Guillaume  Active: 1526–1548  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’homme sauvage près du pont au poisson’  Biography: He was the son of Jean I and brother of Thomas and Thibault. He began his career in the parental workshop where he was in partnership with his mother in 1526. He subsequently took over the business where he probably printed though he is simply described as a bookseller.  Commercial partners: Veuve Jean Trumeau (Provins)  References: Stein (Provins) p. 221 2619.  Trumeau, Jean I  Active: 1507–1520  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Sur le pont au poisson’, ‘À l’homme sauvage près du pont au poisson’  Biography: The father of Guillaume, Thomas and Thibault, he died before 1521 and was succeeded by his widow. There is a record of a bookseller named Jean Trumeau active at the same address in 1451, though this was probably his father.  References: RB XVII p. 52–55; Muller p. 93; Stein (Provins) p. 226; R. Gandilhon, ‘Impressions inconnues de Jean Trumeau de Provins (début du XVIe siècle)’, in Recueil de travaux offert à Clovis Brunel (Paris: École des Chartes, 1955), 504–509 2620.  Trumeau, Jean  Active: 1566  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 353

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2621.  Trumeau, Jean II  Active: 1577  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272 2622.  Trumeau, Nicolas  Active: 1536  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Michel I Lointier (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris)  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 27 2623.  Trumeau, Nicolas I  Active: 1529–1563  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘près l’église Notre Dame’  Biography: He was the father of Nicolas II. He worked for the town and seems to have only printed simple edicts and ordinances at the municipality’s behest. He rented a house in the courtyard of Notre Dame in 1557. He was sentenced to death by a court in Reims, a condemnation that was confirmed on 26 February 1563 by the Parlement of Paris.  Documents: AN X/1a 130 f. 294  References: RB XVII p. 61; Muller p. 93; Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272; Lepreux II 322 2624.  Trumeau, Nicolas II  Active: 1552–1555  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Nicolas I. He rented a stall in the cloister of Notre-Dame in 1552 which he was still renting three years later.  References: Jadart (Trumeau) p. 272 2625.  Trumeau, Thibault  Active: 1525–1552  Location: Troyes, Champagne

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 Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He first married a daughter of the Le Coq family, later remarrying to Jeanne Gombault, who succeeded him at his death. He was the brother of Thomas and Guillaume, son of Jean I and father of François II. He was Jean I Lecoq’s son-in-law and worked in collaboration with his mother-in-law after Lecoq’s death. He participated in the procession organised to celebrate the entry of the queen in the city in 1533 and wore a costume of purple and white satin. As a publisher his known output is limited to liturgical works for local use.  Commercial partners: veuve Jean I Le Coq (Troyes); Jean Petit (Paris); Guy Pietrequin (Troyes)  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 7–20; Troyes p. 170; Corrard de Breban p. 76; Lepreux II 200; Turquois p. 353; Morin (Troyes) p. 316; Socard & Assier p. 24 2626.  Trumeau, Thomas  Active: 1532–1533  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He was the third son of Jean I and the brother of Thibault and Guillaume. He undertook tasks for the local Church.  References: Lepreux II 200; Assier p. 102 2627.  Trumeau, veuve François I  Active: 1573  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: She lived in the Croncels quarter of the city and paid the second highest amount of tax amongst the members of the trade in 1573.  Documents: AM Troyes F 247 2628.  Trumeau, veuve Jean I  Active: 1521–1526  Location: Provins, Champagne  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’homme sauvage près du pont au poisson’  Biography: She had taken over her husband’s workshop by 1521, working initially alone. By 1526, however, she was in partnership with

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her son Guillaume who was included in the colophon of the edition they printed and who succeeded her.  Commercial partners: Guillaume Trumeau (Provins)  References: Stein (Provins) p. 220; Arbour p. 505 2629.  Tugero, Jean  Active: 1542  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He rented rooms in the Saint-Sernin quarter of the city.  References: Claudin (2) p. 93 2630.  Turgis, Jean  Active: 1492–1528  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Generally described simply as a merchant or merchant draper, he was nevertheless described as a bookseller in 1492 when he admitted to beating the bookbinder Pierre Bruchereaulx for which he was fined ten livres. He presented along with Benoît Bigot a project for the printing of missals and breviaries for the use of Besançon to the Chapter of the cathedral on 26 April 1497. His plea was clearly successful as he was thanked by the chapter on 26 October 1498 for the imprints and for sending copies of the missals before they were commercialised (probably GW M24277). He played a role in their sale, including a copy printed on vellum in 1500. Following up on this early success he requested on 8 May a monopoly on the breviaries. He helped finance and, presumably, sell further editions in 1508 and 1519, as he submitted a plea to this effect over the sale of breviaries on 15 July 1528. He is also known to have sold books retail. His overall business was similarly a success and he became a respected burgher of the city. He had a daughter named Anne. He had moved to Paris by 1540 where he pursued a career as a draper.  Commercial partners: Jean Du Pré (Paris); Thielman Kerver (Paris); Didier Maheu (Paris)  Documents: AD Doubs G 189, G 193  References: Muller p. 8; RB XIII p. 7; Castan p. 47; Répertoire n° 9505.

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2631.  Turner, Henricus  Active: 1475–1477  Location: Rome, Italian States; Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from Basel where he studied at the university, he settled in Rome before moving to Toulouse, abandoning his wife, Ursula. No editions have been attributed to him with any degree of certainty. He died in July 1477.  Commercial partners: Johannes Parix (Toulouse)  Types: TW ma04066  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 16; TW of0181 2632.  Turpin, Nicolas  Active: 1525  Name variations: Thurpin, Nicolas  Location: Tours, Touraine  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Indre-et-Loire 3E1/28  References: BVH Minutes 2633.  Turpin, Pierre  Active: 1544  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Commercial partners: Jean Clément (Bordeaux)  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 712 2634.  Turquis, Hugo de  Active: 1509–1535  Name variations: Turquy, Guy/Hugo de; Turquin, Guy/Hugo de; Turqui, Guy/Hugo de; Tartays, Guy/Hugo de; Turquis, Gonin de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines quarter of the city. He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He sold breviaries and missals in Auch thanks to a prebendary, Vital Cahuzac, in 1520 and formed part of a temporary corporation for the printing of a grammar book in 1535. He died that same year.

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 Commercial partners: Jean de Clauso (Toulouse); Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse); Henri Court (Toulouse); Jean Dembat (Toulouse); Jean Denis (Toulouse); Guillaume du Puy (Toulouse); Thomas de Fert (Toulouse); Jean Julian (Toulouse); Benoît La Pujade (Toulouse); Jean Macé (Toulouse); Eustache Mareschal (Toulouse); Antoine Maurin (Toulouse); Nicolas Mestrès (Toulouse); Pierre Mestrès (Toulouse); Guillaume Negre (Toulouse); Guillaume Perrin (Toulouse); Gaston Recoleyne (Toulouse)  References: Claudin (1) p. 18; RB XX p. 62; Muller p. 112; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60; Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130 Turre, Johannes de, see La Tour, Jean de 2635.  Tuveel, Guillaume  Active: 1517–1521  Name variations: Thumel, Guillaume; Thimel, Guillaume; Thunel, Guillaume; Thuvel, Guillaume  Location: Rouen, Normandy (1517–1521); Caen, Normandy (1521)  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou in Rouen and seems to have worked for established booksellers.  Commercial partners: Raulin I Gaultier (Rouen); Charles Gendron (Rouen); Thomas Laisné (Rouen)  References: Muller p. 10 & 96–103; Gosselin p. 74; RB VIII p. 14 & 36; B. Normande p. 266; Delisle (Caen) p. cxxxi; Lepreux III 380 & 500; TW of1551 2636.  Vacque, Bertrand  Active: 1599–1601  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marie de Sainctes on 30 January 1599 and resided in the parish of Le Taur. In 1601, he was named as godfather to the daughter of a card-maker who had married a Jeanne Vacque.  Documents: AM Toulouse GG 29 f. 36v, GG557 p. 196 2637.  Vadasot, Lancelot  Active: 1560–1577  Name variations: Vardezot, Lancelot; Verdezot, Lancelot  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne (1560–1561); Bergerac, Guyenne (1577)  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher

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 Biography: He was imprisoned and condemned along with Antoine Vauzelle by the parlement of Bordeaux for printing banned books in 1560. One of the titles, listed as the Briefve remonstrance des estatz de France by the parlement survives (USTC 66663), indicating that the books had time to circulate in the city and beyond before the authorities intervened. The poor quality of the imprint suggests that Vadasot was not a well-established printer. He seems, however, to have survived this ordeal and was active in 1577 in Bergerac where he published a medical tract by Laurent Joubert entitled ‘Santance de deus belles questions sur la curacion des arcbusades et autres playes’ which was reprinted by Jacob Stoer in Geneva that same year (USTC 47605) and for Jean Parant in Paris as part of the response by Alexandre Dionyse in 1581 (USTC 54729) with a sham 1577 title page.  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 220 n° 1, 1 B 223 n° 435  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 714 2638.  Vaillan, Claude  Active: 1600  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 83201). 2639.  Vaillant, Antoine  Active: 1576  Location: Limoges, Limousin  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 7360).  References: RB III 2640.  Valensaut, Hugues  Active: 1564  Location: Nîmes, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He attended the fairs of Lyon.  Commercial partners: Claude Ravot (Lyon)  References: Baudrier IV 292 2641.  Valentin  Active: [1549]  Location: Dijon, Burgundy  References: Skora (Langres)

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2642.  Valentin, Florent  Active: 1549–1562  Name variations: Vallentyn, Florent  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: The son of Robert I, he married and was survived by Perette, the daughter of the bookseller Jean I Illustration 119 Mallard. She later married Henri Le Signature of Florent Valentin, Mareschal. Florent worked with his 1559, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 424 father after 1556. As a publisher, he was responsible mainly for religious works as well as a couple of newsbooks. He lived in the parish of Saint-Lô and died before 1564.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Robert I du Gort (Rouen); Richard Hamelin (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Martin I Le Mesgissier (Rouen); Robert I Valentin (Rouen)  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 140  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AD SeineMaritime G 3200, 2E1/424 p. 549, 2E1/426 p. 196, 2E1/427 p. 421  References: Muller p. 96–103; Gosselin p. 106; Duff p. 161; Aquilon p. 306; Répertoire n° 9547. 2643. Valentin, Pierre  Active: 1573–1634  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’; ‘Devant le point du jour’  Biography: Nicolas Loyselet was godfather to his son on 26 September 1593. Described as a bookseller in 1573, but as a printer in 1580, he was named official printer to the king, a position confirmed by royal letters on 21 April 1597. He was named master of the confraternity of booksellers and printers of Rouen in 1599 and warden in 1602. In 1574 he held a stall that belonged to the parish of Saint-Herbland which stipulated that he had to close his shop on the parish’s saint’s day and other religious feast days. He served as treasurer of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas of Rouen in 1589.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6618, G 6710, G 7330  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 223; Gosselin p. 116; Lepreux III 381; Répertoire n° 9548.

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2644.  Valentin, Robert I  Active: 1523–1562  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires, à Illustration 120 Signature of Robert I Valentin, 1561, l’image de la Vierge Marie’  Biography: He married Jeanne de AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 431 Burges and was Florent’s father and worked alongside his son after 1556. He also had a daughter named Marguerite who married a wool merchant in 1547. He resided initially in the parish of Saint Denis but by 1561 had relocated to the parish of Saint-Nicolas. There, he served as treasurer of the parish church in 1559. He was also an engraver of woodcuts often signed with his initials, though one of his publisher’s devices was of simple facture with inverted Ns in his surname. He might well, for some of his editions, have acted as a printer though he seems never to have used the title. He published texts, and in particular primers, for the English market during the reign of Mary I. He was the last Rouen publisher to do so in the sixteenth century. He died before March 1569.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Robert II de Burges (Rouen); Galliot du Pré (Paris); Richard Hamelin (Rouen); Jean I Le Prest (Rouen); Nicolas Le Roux (Rouen); Florent Valentin (Rouen)  Device: Silvestre n° 168  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 154  Documents: AN Minutier central étude LXXIII 51 f. 204; AD SeineMaritime G 2824, G 3200, G 7329, 2E1/1301 p. 115, 2E1/1306 p. 188, 2E1/431 p. 400, 2E1/458 f. 101v  References: Muller p. 96–103; Duff p. 161; Aquilon p. 306; Girard p. 495; Répertoire n° 9549. 2645.  Valentin, Robert II  Active: 1597–1651  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Dans la cour du palais, près la grand-porte’  Biography: He was of Protestant faith. He is also thought to have printed in nearby Quevilly where the Protestant temple was located. He was elected warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1616 and again in 1633. He died in 1651.  Motto: ‘Omne periculum est in mora’

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 References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 223; Lesens p. 333; Lepreux III 381; Répertoire n° 9550. 2646.  Valeton, Nicolas  Active: 1533  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 64 2647. Vallée, Pierre  Active: 1595  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 274 Vandosme, Jean, see Allard, Jean 2648.  Varice, Jean I  Active: 1520–1523  Name variations: Varicus, Johannes  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He was described as a bookbinder in 1523.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121 2649.  Varice, Jean II  Active: 1510–1547  Name variations: Varicus, Johannes  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘À l’enseigne de la licorne, place Sainte Croix’ (1525); ‘À la chaussée Saint-Pierre’ (1531–1545)  Biography: He first married Perrine Godebille then Jacquette Turpin, the daughter of a merchant draper, who outlived him. The second marriage contract, dated 20 November 1510 though registered in 1519, indicates that he was promised a dowry of 200 livres. He was the father of seven children, the eldest of whom, Pierre, succeeded him. He worked extensively with Parisian members of the book trade and in particular with Maurice de La Porte. He was active both as a publisher – often in

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partnership with other Angevine booksellers – and as a distributor of Parisian imprints. Despite the agreements he reached in this domain to publicise their wares, this was not a particularly smooth relationship and he was imprisoned in Paris for not having paid his debts in 1547. He died before 1550.  Commercial partners: Clément Alexandre (Angers); Jean André (Paris); Jean Bonhomme (Paris); Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Jacques I Bouchet (Poitiers); Charles de Bougne (Angers); René Chaudière (Paris); Tite Corroyer (Angers); Guillaume Godard (Paris); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Maurice de La Porte (Paris); Enguilbert III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean III de Marnef (Poitiers); Jean Petit (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris); Étienne Roffet (Paris); Michel Vascosan (Paris); Pierre Vidoué (Paris)  Device: Silvestre n° 23  Motto: ‘Audaces fortuna juvat’  Documents: AN MC étude CXXII 1 and étude LXXIII 10; AD Maineet-Loire 5 E 121, G 1182  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 213; Port III 662; Répertoire n° 9717. 2650. Varice, Pierre  Active: 1544–1565  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of Jean II, he was baptised on 11 November 1528. As a publisher, he is known for the publication of liturgical works for local use. He died in 1565 without children.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Philippe Bourgoignon (Angers)  References: RB XXVI; Muller p. 3; Pasquier p. 214 2651.  Varin, Didier  Active: 1561  Location: Besançon, Franche-Comté  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for a liturgical work for local use (USTC 111198).  References: RB XIII p. 12 Vascosan, see Dupuis, Pierre

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2652. Vaslet, Pierre  Active: 1573–1576  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: André Bodin (Poitiers)  References: Clouzot (1907) p. 46 Vatan, see Clémens, Jean 2653.  Vatard, Gilles  Active: 1594  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: As part of a consortium of booksellers, he opposed a privilege that was given to Jean II Collet in 1594.  Commercial partners: Pierre Chevillot (Troyes); Jean I Moreau (Troyes); Jean II Oudot (Troyes)  Documents: AM Troyes AA 40 n. 37; AN X/1b 712  References: Lepreux II 202 2654.  Vatard, Pierre  Active: 1584–1613  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘En la grande rue Saint-Siméon, à l’enseigne de l’imprimerie’  Biography: He married Marie Moreau in Auxerre on 6 December 1581, and later Marguerite Bonnemain, also in Auxerre, on 22 August 1601. He seems to have begun his career printing mainly works of local interest, expanding his repertoire in the early seventeenth century as well as printing ordinances. His first device was based on that of Jean Savine whose motto he shared. He had acquired some of Savine’s stock that was of local interest and in 1598 refreshed his 1581 edition of the customs, correcting some of the mistakes and adding others as well as reusing a large number of the original printed leaves. He was also an adroit bowman. He died on 4 October 1613 and was succeeded by his son, Denis.  Device: Silvestre n° 1257  Motto: ‘J’espère en Dieu qui m’aydera’; ‘Assez va qui fortune passe’

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 Documents: AD Yonne 3E14–111, E 430, E 432; AD Côte-d’Or B 2665, B 2666, B 2673  References: Muller p. 6; RB VI p. 13; Ribière p. 21 2655.  Vattes, Jean  Active: 1559–1573  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: Born in around 1538, he Illustration 121 resided in the parish of Saint-Nicaise Signature of Jean Vattes, 1559, AD of Rouen in 1559. As a publisher, he is Seine-Maritime 2E1 427 known for a single imprint, an edition shared with Nicolas II Mullot (USTC 59664).  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/427 p. 471  Commercial partners: Nicolas II Mullot (Rouen) 2656. Vaucelles, Mathieu  Active: 1529–1568  Name variations: Vaucelles, Macé  Location: Le Mans, Maine  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Au palais royal, entre les merciers’  Biography: He was born on 18 January 1507. He wrote poems attacking Clément Marot that were printed in Paris in 1537 in which he referred to his own name through the anagram ‘Mal au cul se selle’ – in later life he preferred the more pious ‘Dieu veult l’ame chaste’. Marot responded by ridiculing the low quality of his verse describing him as a calf and a ‘torchecul’. His early career as a publisher concentrated on the production of works of local interest often issued in association with other booksellers. In 1567–1568 he was in partnership with Marin Chalumeau with whom he printed a series of royal letters. He did not give up on his literary pretensions and later wrote poems and prose works on the Jesuits, on the sciences as well as composing songs and carols that he published himself. La Croix du Maine, who seems to have known him, refers to him as printer as well as a bookseller. He died on 1 January 1578 at the age of 71.  Commercial partners: Yolande Bonhomme (Paris); Charles de Bougne (Angers); Marin Chalumeau (Le Mans); Regnault Chaudière (Paris); Alexandre Chouen (Le Mans); Pierre Cochery (Le Mans); Macé des Bois (Paris); Denis Gaignot (Le Mans); Jean Haultin (Le Mans); Julien Lunel (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prevost (Paris)

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 Documents: AN Minutier central étude XLIX 43  References: RB XXVIII; Cauvin p. 314; La Croix du Maine p. 317 2657. Vaultier, Jean  Active: 1569–1589  Name variations: Vautier, Jean; Valter, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: He was the father of Nicolas.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 2572  References: Gosselin p. 106 2658.  Vaultier, Nicolas  Active: 1583–1614  Name variations: Vautier, Nicolas  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Au portail des libraires’  Biography: The son of Jean, he married Marie Sentier. He worked as a bookseller and a bookbinder for local religious institutions. He sued those who attempted to keep him from illuminating and decorating the books he sold (1592–1594). He became warden of the community of booksellers and printers in 1604. As a publisher, he is known mainly for a book of hours and small works of popular piety. He often left his editions undated, using outmoded Gothic type and worn woodcuts as illustrations.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 5 E 485, G 6246  References: Mellot p. 228; Lepreux III 16 2659.  Vaulx, André de  Active: 1584–1595  Name variations: Vauldée, André de  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the Comporté quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 265, F 272, F 274 2660. Vaulx, Jean de  Active: 1535  Location: Dijon, Burgundy

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 Role: Pedlar  Biography: He was arrested for having sold three of Erasmus’s books in 1535.  References: Skora (Langres) 2661.  Vedis, Gérard  Active: 1570–1584  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  References: Turquois p. 353 2662.  Veille, Étienne  Active: 1494  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He resided in the parish of Saint-Rémy.  Documents: AD Aube G 4217 f. 108r  References: Turquois p. 354; Morin (Troyes) p. 314 2663.  Velquin, Michel  Active: 1599–1636  Name variations: Vellequin, Michel  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Catherine Robelot before 1592 with whom he had a son, Abraham, who followed him into the trade but predeceased him in 1622. His daughter married the Rouen printer Jean Loyselet in 1610. A Protestant, he lived in the parish of Saint-Maclou and became a master printer on 1 February 1599. He died in 1636.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Mellot p. 230; Lepreux III 386 2664.  Velu, Abel  Active: 1553–1557  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He lived in the Croncels quarter of Troyes.  Documents: AM Troyes F 235, F 236  References: Turquois p. 353

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2665.  Venable, Jean  Active: 1557  Location: Dieppe, Normandy  Role: Pedlar  Biography: Originally from Gaillon, he moved to Geneva from where he took Protestant books to sell in France. He brought the first Calvinist works to Dieppe in late August 1557.  References: Haag V 162 2666.  Vendosme, Philippe  Active: 1598  Location: Nantes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘À l’écu de Lorraine’  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 14283).  References: Walsby (Brittany) p. 261 2667.  Ventin, Jean  Active: [1514]–1520  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He bound books for religious institutions both in Langres and in Chaumont, notably for the collegiate church of Saint John the Baptist in Chaumont in 1520.  Documents: AD Haute-Marne 19 J 4 f. 183  References: Skora (Langres); La Boullaye n° 907; Daguin & Frionnet p. 170 2668.  Verdier, Guillaume  Active: 1581–1619  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘À l’entrée de la salle du Palais’  Biography: He was the father of Pierre who followed into the trade. He was the official printer to the king (1616–1619) but was already printing royal texts in the late sixteenth century. He requested to be received as a burgher of the city on 31 March 1581. He died in 1619 and was succeeded by his son.  References: Maignien p. XII; Répertoire n° 9827.

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2669.  Verdier, Jean  Active: [1578]  Name variations: Verrier, Jean  Location: Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy; Dijon, Burgundy  References: Skora (Langres) 2670.  Verdier, Peyroton  Active: 1519–1521  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 142 2671.  Verdure, Philippe  Active: 1564  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller Illustration 122  Biography: He was born in around Signature of Philippe Verdure, 1542 and lived in the parish of 1564, AD Seine-Maritime 2E1 438 Saint-Jean. In 1564, he bought 100 lt’s worth of books in partnership with Matthieu Chedeville from the Genevan bookseller of Norman origin, Louis Lavanne, who had, in turn, bought his books from Laurent de Normandie. The transaction suggests that he was a Protestant.  Commercial partners: Matthieu Chedeville (Rouen); Louis Lavanne (Geneva)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/438 p. 120 2672.  Verger, Pierre  Active: 1583  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Molin (Lyon)  References: Baudrier II 182 Vergier, see also Bergier 2673.  Vergier, Michel  Active: 1566–1593  Location: Périgueux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, printer

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 Biography: He is known for having printed ordinances for the town, though no copies survive.  References: Etchechoury p. 9 2674.  Vergnault, François  Active: 1555  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He was lent 10 écus by Romain Blondel and a further four by Jean Houdin in the 1555. He lived in the parish of Saint-Vivien.  Commercial partners: Romain Blondel (Rouen); Jean Houdin (Rouen)  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime 2E1/414 pp. 167 & 374  References: Gosselin p. 78; Lepreux III 387 2675.  Vergnes, Guillaume  Active: 1575–1581  Name variations: Bergues, Guillaume  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jeanne, daughter of Lucas Barilhard whom he succeeded. Like his predecessor and successor, his stock seems mainly to have come from Bordeaux and from Lyon – he owed 720 lt to Antoine de Harsy at his death. He furnished books to the court of the king of Navarre in 1576 and 1578. Alongside Géraud Raignac, he was asked by Simon Millanges to retrieve a consignment of books that had been seized at a local toll. He died in 1581. His shop was taken over at his death by his brother-in-law Pierre Barilhard, at which point his eclectic stock, which included Protestant works, was estimated to be worth 1203 lt. His wife’s good morals were called into question by the local courts after his death and she was banned from exiting the town.  Commercial partners: Antoine de Harsy (Lyon); Antoine Millanges (Bordeaux); Simon Millanges (Bordeaux)  Documents: AM Agen FF 37; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2260, B 2344  References: Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 63; Marboutin p. 21 2676.  Vermhendon, Léonard  Active: 1497–1511  Name variations: Vernhadon, Léonard  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc

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 Role: Bookbinder, bookseller  Biography: He was also a priest. He was described as a bookseller in 1498 and was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He bought books from a Lyon provider.  References: Claudin (1) p. 11; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60 2677.  Vernet, Charles  Active: 1573–1592  Location: Geneva, Swiss Confederation (1573–1588); Orange, Holy Roman Empire (1592)  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: The son of a Claude of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, the family fled to Geneva in 1554 where he became a burgher in 1567 and married Aymé, the daughter of the Genevan bookseller Philippe Grene in 1577. As a publisher, he is known thanks to a single imprint – a pro-royalist tract (USTC 64869) produced in Orange in 1592. However, he had by then a long career as a bookseller behind him: he had set up his own shop in Geneva in 1573. In 1579, however, he came on hard times and was forced to sell his belongings to pay his debts. He nevertheless continued in the trade, selling books further afield and was mentioned in the accounts of the king of Navarre in 1588 as a bookseller of Geneva.  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 2988  References: RIECH 2678.  Vernet, Paul  Active: 1585  Location: Aix-en-Provence, Provence  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known thanks to a single imprint that was printed in Lyon by Jean Stratius (USTC 59466). Stratius also printed an issue with his own name on the title page.  Commercial partners: Jean Stratius (Lyon)  References: RB XXVI p. 18; Baudrier II 383 2679.  Vernoy, Georges  Active: 1587–1599  Name variations: Vienois, Georges  Location: Moulins, Bourbonnais  Role: Bookseller, publisher

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 Address: ‘Près le palais’  Biography: He frequented the fairs in Lyon and bought books from the city’s booksellers. As a publisher, he is known for an edition of the local customs (USTC 37580).  Commercial partners: Barthélemy Honorat (Lyon); Claude Morillon (Lyon)  References: RB XXIV p. 38; Muller p. 54; Baudrier I 93 & IV 121 Vertu, see Simon, Daniel 2680.  Veysselier, Jean  Active: 1520  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place saint-Didier’  Biography: He rented a shop next to Saint Michel’s college from the bookseller Pierre Bochard in 1520.  Commercial partners: Pierre Bochard (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 51 2681.  Viau, Sébastien  Active: 1580–1595  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Marguerite Mesnard with whom he had a son named Philippe in 1592. He was a sworn bookseller of the university of Angers.  Documents: AD Maine-et-Loire G 704  References: Pasquier p. 217; Port III 707 2682.  Viaudey, Mathieu  Active: 1555–1556  Name variations: Vyaudel, Mathieu  Location: Langres, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: He is known for an edition of the local synodal statutes that he had printed in 750 copies. Six hundred were to be bound in sheep skin by Arnoul Hubert.  Commercial partners: Nicolas Bacquenois (Reims); Arnoul Hubert (Reims)  References: RB XVII p. 34; Jadart (Bacquenois) p. 209; Skora (Langres); Daguin & Frionnet p. 171

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2683.  Viault, Jean  Active: 1552  Name variations: Vyault, Jean  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Mathurine Symonnet and lived in the parish of Saint-Didier. He died before 1567.  References: La Bouralière (Poitiers) p. 282; Clouzot (1907) p. 50 2684.  Vidal, Guillaume  Active: 1597  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is known for a single imprint (USTC 11952).  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 387 2685.  Vieillevigne, Guillaume  Active: 1508–1513  Name variations: Brelha Vincha, Guillaume  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was one of the founding members of the booksellers and bookbinders’ syndicate in January 1511. He lived in the parish of Saint-Étienne.  References: Corraze (Toulouse) p. 60–65; Claudin (1) p. 22 2686.  Viellard, Nicolas  Active: 1531–1541  Name variations: Bilhard, Nicolas; Vilhard, Nicolas  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘rue de la porterie, auprès du collège de Foix’ (1534–1537); ‘Rue de ville neuve, devant la maison commune’ (1538–1540)  Biography: He is thought to be the first Toulouse printer to adopt Italic type in 1540. Guyon Boudeville seems to have learnt printing in his workshop and took over the business after his death, probably in early 1541, acquiring his material for 60 livres from his widow. He used a crude woodcut of the royal coat of arms on some of his editions. He does not seem to have printed works for other booksellers.  Commercial partners: Galiot du Pré (Paris); Vidal de France (Toulouse); Noël Guyton (Paris)

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 Motto: ‘Judicium mutabile’  Types: Vervliet (Vine) n° 55  Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII carton 25 f. 73v; AD Haute-Garonne 3 E 12022 RP 119 f. 46r  References: RB XX p. 106–118; Muller p. 112; Claudin (1) p. 161 2687.  Viger, Fausset  Active: 1579  Location: Auxerre, Burgundy  Role: Printer  Documents: AD Yonne E 402bis 2688.  Vignolles, Marc  Active: 1558–1562  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: Along with his colleague Vincent Réau, he took part in the trade of books from Lyon and, in particular, those of the printer and publisher Jean Temporal. This was not a happy venture: the growing disagreement between Temporal and the Bordeaux booksellers resulted in a lawsuit between the former commercial partners. He also bound some of the registers of the Parlement of Bordeaux.  Commercial partners: Vincent Réau (Bordeaux); Jean Temporal (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 194 n° 55, 1 B 244 n° 130  References: Labadie p. 120; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 725 2689.  Viguier, Daniel  Active: 1592–1593  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Bookseller  References: Audiat p. 42 2690. Villager, Michel  Active: 1560–1563  Location: Chartres, Orléanais  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He married Jeanne, the daughter of the bookseller Simon Picquot in April 1560, just after her father’s death. He took over the running of the shop and lived in the parish of Saint-Martin-le-Viandier. As a publisher, he is known for a short pamphlet glorifying the duke of Guise (USTC 19279). He died before 1578 and was survived by his wife.

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 References: RB XXVIII; Feyel p. 713; Répertoire n° 9908. 2691.  Villeneuve, Gérard de  Active: 1482  Name variations: Nova Civitate, Gerhardus de  Location: Metz, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer  References: Teissier p. 7 2692.  Villepoux, Marin  Active: 1570–1593  Location: La Rochelle, Aunis  Role: Printer, bookseller, publisher  Biography: He was only described as a bookseller until 1584. He held a book stall in Poitiers and was present at the fair of Niort in 1571. He published a mix of works including seafaring manuals, Protestant texts and educational works. He also sold a selection of books to the queen of Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret. On 17 January 1593, the house he had just had built collapsed. He died before 1616.  Commercial partners: Théodore Reinsart; François Cibault (Poitiers); Jean Portau (La Rochelle); Jérôme Haultin (La Rochelle)  Documents: MPM Antwerp Arch. 92 p. 334; AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 20, B 3045  References: RB XVI p. 52–53; Muller p. 95–96; Audiat p. 33; Desgraves, La Rochelle p. 763 2693.  Villerval, Denis de  Active: 1575–1587  Name variations: Villenat, Denis  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Rue notre Dame’  Biography: He lived in the Comporté quarter of the city. As a publisher, he produced mainly short ephemeral works on a wide variety of subjects. He was prevented from printing the decisions of the Grands jours in 1583 as Claude Garnier had obtained a privilege. He was also an engraver. He died before June 1588.  Documents: AM Troyes F 261, F 265

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 References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 84; Troyes p. 175; Lepreux II 203; Turquois p. 353; Morin (Ligue) p. 27; Répertoire n° 9912. 2694.  Villerval, Louis de  Active: 1583  Name variations: Viterval, Louis  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer  Biography: He unsuccessfully contested Claude Garnier’s right to be the sole printer of royal letters in 1583, having himself obtained letters from the chancellery.  Documents: AN X/1a 9189 f. 20  References: Lepreux II 202 2695.  Villiers, Jean de  Active: 1483–1484  Name variations: Villes, Jean de; Villers, Jean de  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  References: Claudin (1) p. 4 2696.  Villiers, Pierre de  Active: 1586–1629  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Bookseller, printer, bookbinder  Biography: Born in around 1563, he married Suzanne Béjart, the daughter of a local notary, on 16 April 1586 at which point he lived in Paris. After his marriage, he returned to Troyes from where his family came and resided in the Comporté quarter of the city. Their sons, Claude and François, followed their father into the trade, whilst their daughter, Jeanne, married the bookseller Paul Pyot. He was a wealthy bookseller, paying on two occasions 5 lt or more in taxation. He worked on occasion for local ecclesiastical institutions as a binder. He was a representative of the printers and booksellers of Troyes from 1592 to 1594. His wife died on 29 September 1626 and was buried, wrapped in velvet, in the north aisle of the church of Saint-Jean, where her husband also later interred.

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 Documents: AM Troyes A 24 p. 2 & 309, F 272, F 274, F 275, F 276; AD Aube G 4167  References: Lepreux II 203; Turquois (Molière) p. 152; Rondot (Relieurs) p. 281

Illustration 123 Tomb stone of Pierre de Villiers and Suzanne Béjart, Church of St Jean, Troyes

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2697.  Villiers, Thomas de  Active: 1598  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Geneviève Regnard who was godmother to Robert Hotot’s daughter on 15 August 1598.  References: Herluison p. 78 2698.  Villote, Arnauld  Active: 1546–1552  Location: Agen, Guyenne  Role: Printer, publisher  Address: ‘Près de Saint Hylaire.’  Biography: Initially from Toulouse, if his material is to be believed, he settled in Agen at the time of Antoine Reboul’s departure, printing a work that would be censured by the Sorbonne in 1546.  References: Muller p. 1; RB II p. 11; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 64 2699.  Vincent, Antoine  Active: 1544  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Biography: A well-established Lyon bookseller and publisher, he had a shop in Toulouse in which Jean and Louis Yvernage worked and for which he paid tax. Though he was undoubtedly in Toulouse to ensure the setting up of the business, he never resided in the city or published there. The only work that bears his name in Toulouse was an edition of the local customs that were published in his shop but for Louis Yvernage.  Commercial partners: Antoine de La Gorce (Toulouse); Louis Yvernage (Toulouse)  References: RB XX p. 152; Claudin (2) 2700. Vincent, Jean  Active: 1529  Location: Narbonne, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Documents: AD Aude G 31 f. 81  References: Cros-Mayrevieille p. 53

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2701.  Vincent, Mathieu  Active: 1556–1559  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Originally from Lyon, he married the daughter of the bookseller Claude Bouquet on 8 October 1556. His dowry of 200 écus was paid in books. He bought the sheets of the twelfth book of Amadis de Gaule that had been printed by Barthélemy Bonhomme and reissued them under his own name. His ambition is shown by the fact that he also bought at considerable cost the material that Bonhomme had left at his death from a consortium including Pierre Roux. The price paid pushed Vincent into debt for which he was arrested and his material seized and resold to Roux at a third of the cost. Despite his ambitions he is only known today for four editions and undoubtedly his financial difficulties put pay to his aspirations as a publisher.  Commercial partners: Claude Bouquet (Avignon); Étienne Roux (Avignon); Pierre Roux (Avignon); Jean Tramblay (Avignon); Jacques Volo (Avignon)  References: Muller p. 6–7; RB VI p. 39; Pansier II 163 2702.  Vincy, Adam de  Active: 1503–1518  Location: Rodez, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Place du marché neuf’  Biography: He bound books for the local church of Saint-Amans in 1518.  References: Lançon p. 214 2703. Vingle, Jean de  Active: 1530–1552  Location: Zaragoza, Spain (1530–1550); Lescar, Béarn; Pau, Béarn (1552)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was probably the son of the Lyon printer Jean de Vingles. He started his career in Spain as early as 1530, where he developed not just his ability as a printer but also as an engraver. However, he returned to France and it was in Toulouse that he agreed terms with the Estates of Béarn to print an edition of the local customs. The transport of the press and material from Toulouse was paid for by the Estates who also undertook to move them back once the work

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was completed. When in Pau he published in partnership with Henri Poyvre and undertook other jobs such as the constitutions of the bishopric of Lescar. It is unclear whether he stayed in Pau after 1552.  Commercial partners: Henri Poyvre (Pau)  Documents: AD Pyrénées-Atlantiques B 5958  References: Muller p. 21 & 89; RB IV p. 35; Desgraves (Dictionnaire) 200; Lacaze p. 23; Morisse n° 326; Répertoire n° 9948. 2704.  Violette, Pierre  Active: 1486–1517  Name variations: Violate, Pierre  Location: Abbeville, Picardy (1486–1487); Rouen, Normandy (1500–1517)  Role: Printer  Biography: He had studied at the university in Caen in 1480 before learning his craft, starting his career alongside the Parisian printer Jean du Pré and Pierre Gérard in Abbeville. By the end of the century, he had settled in Rouen, perhaps working for Jacques Le Bourgeois. It was in his workshop that the Scottish printer Andrew Myllar learnt his trade. He printed a number of works for the English market. The colophon of a book that he produced for François Regnault (USTC 111394) indicates that he was printing in Paris, but this was probably badly phrased rather than an indication that the, by then, veteran printer had relocated.  Commercial partners: Jean Bienayse (Paris); Guillaume Candos (Rouen); Jacques Ferrebouc (Paris); John Gachet (York); Pierre Gérard (Abbeville); Noël de Harsy (Rouen); Jean Huvin (Rouen); Jacques Le Forestier (Rouen); Robert I Macé (Caen); Andrew Myllar (Rouen); François Regnault (Paris); Pierre Regnault (Caen); Guerard Wansfort (York)  Types: TW ma04040–ma04048  References: Muller p. 96–103; B. Normande p. 83–90; RB XIV p. 57–64; Ricci p. 514; Duff p. 162; Renouard p. 430; Lepreux III 388; Répertoire n° 9950. 2705.  Viret, Girard  Active: 1597–1624  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Jean and lived in the parish of Saint-Patrice. He had become a master bookseller before 1597.  References: Mellot p. 233

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2706.  Viret, Jean I  Active: 1570–1605  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: Born in 1542, he was the father of Girard, Jean and Abraham, all of whom followed him into the trade. He was an apprentice to Jaspar de Remortier in 1570 at the relatively late age of 28 for three years. He never seems to have acted as a publisher. He died in 1605.  Commercial partners: Raphaël du Petit Val (Rouen)  References: Mellot p. 235; Gosselin p. 114; Lepreux III 389 2707.  Virevaloys, Jacob  Active: 1598–1624  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He lived in the parish of Saint-Éloi. He was named Illustration 124 and signed in 1598 as the witness Signature of Jacob Virevaloys, 1598, AD of an act alongside the booksellers Gironde 3 E 14800 Guilhem de La Mothe and Pierre Abegou. Pierre Jagourt made him his proxy to recover debts in the city later that same year as did Pierre Barilhard. By 1608 he was firmly established and listed as one of the master booksellers of the city.  Commercial partners: Pierre Barilhard (Agen); Pierre Jagourt (Toulouse)  Documents: AD Gironde 3 E 14800 f. 1146r–1149r, 1220v–1221r & 1326r  References: Labadie p. 120 2708.  Viroys, Macé  Active: 1526–1533  Location: Issoudun, Berry  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près Saint-Cyr’  Biography: He published legal and liturgical works for local use, having 1,200 breviaries printed by Jean Kerbriant and 600 missals by Nicolas Prévost in 1526. Both projects were undertaken in partnership with the Parisian bookseller Ambroise Girault.  Commercial partners: Ambroise Girault (Paris); Jean Kerbriant (Paris); Pierre Leber (Paris); Jean Petit (Paris); Nicolas Prévost (Paris)  Motto: ‘Espoyr en Dieu’

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 Documents: AN Minutier central étude XXXIII carton 11 ff. 123 & 310  References: Coyecque XIII p. 42 & 50; Répertoire n° 9966. 2709.  Visa, Arnaud de  Active: 1532–1538  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He had a dispute with Jacques I Colomiès about the printing of a book of ordinances in 1532.  Commercial partners: Jacques I Colomiès (Toulouse)  References: Corraze (Colomiès) p. 130; Corraze (Toulouse) p. 65 2710.  Vivant, Louis  Active: 1556  Location: Troyes, Champagne  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: This printer is known for an edition of the works of François Rabelais printed with the elliptical name ‘Loys que ne se meur point’ / ‘Lys qui ne se meurt point’ on the title pages. This has been interpreted by Charles Nodier as being a reference to a Louis Vivant. But no such publisher, bookseller or printer is known in Troyes and the formulation was simply designed to conceal the real printer.  References: Muller p. 114–115; RB XII p. 35; Troyes p. 175; Lepreux II 256 2711.  Vivian, Jean  Active: 1535  Location: Carcassonne, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près le pont royal’  Biography: He is known for a single edition of a breviary for local use (USTC 157039).  Commercial partners: Jean Crespin (Lyon)  References: Répertoire n° 9976. 2712.  Vivian, Mathieu  Active: 1490–1491  Location: Orléans, Orléanais  Role: Printer, publisher  Device: Silvestre n° 9; Polain n° 82; Meyer n° 77; TW ma01344

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 Types: TW ma01341, ma01343, ma13078  References: Herluison p. 3; TW of1629 2713.  Volo, Jacques  Active: 1543–1559  Name variations: Volle, Jacques  Location: Avignon, Papal States  Role: Bookseller  Biography: The son of a Guillaume Volo, he served as an apprentice in the shop of Claude Bouquet until 1543, before becoming a master bookseller in his own right. He bought books locally from both his old master and the printer Mathieu Vincent.  Commercial partners: Claude Bouquet (Avignon); Mathieu Vincent (Avignon)  References: Pansier II 167 2714.  Vouges, Jacques de  Active: 1575–1577  Name variations: Bouché, Jacques  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was the son of Simon.  Commercial partners: Pierre Collé (Bordeaux)  References: Labadie p. 127; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 107 & 732 2715.  Vouges, Simon de  Active: 1554–1582  Name variations: Bruges, Simon de; Bourges, Siméon; Bouges, Simon; Rouge, Simon de; Bouché, Simon  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller, bookbinder  Biography: He married Marie Begnyn and was the father of Jacques who followed him into the trade. Both were considered to be Protestants and were arrested in 1570. He sourced some of the books he sold from Jean Temporel in Lyon, buying them in partnership with the bookseller Pierre Gontier. He also bound the registers of the Parlement of Bordeaux.  Commercial partners: Pierre Gontier (Bordeaux); Jean Temporel (Lyon)  Documents: AD Gironde 1 B 300 n° 68, 1 B 483 n° 57, C 4087

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 References: Labadie p. 12; Desgraves (Bordeaux) 108, 650 & 733; Haag II 980 2716.  Vyanet, Pierre  Active: 1594–1624  Location: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne  Role: Bookseller  Address: ‘Place devant la cathédrale’  Biography: He seems to have taken over the running of the shop that had previously belonged to Jean II Durand in 1594. In 1620 he lived in the parish of Le Port.  References: Eguillon p. 102 2717. Vymont, Pierre  Active: 1529  Location: Caen, Normandy  Role: Apprentice bookseller  Biography: Originally from the parish of Saint-Sauveur in Caen, he undertook an apprenticeship there in Jean Philippe’s shop on 3 March 1529. He is possibly the same Pierre Vymont as the one listed in the Protestant registers of the city in 1563.  References: Delisle (Caen) p. lxxii; Lart p. 42 2718.  Vynet, François  Active: 1552  Name variations: Bynet, François  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married C. Faure.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 734 2719.  Waldegrave, Robert  Active: 1568–1604  Location: London, England (1568–1589 & 1603–1604); La Rochelle, Aunis (1589–1590); Edinburgh, Scotland (1590–1603)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He began his career in London with an eight-year-long apprenticeship before printing in his own right in 1578. He published Puritan texts which caused him considerable problems. It has traditionally been believed that Waldegrave fled to La Rochelle in April 1589 following an indication given by his contemporary John Penry, though

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this has been contested. As yet, no archival evidence has been found to either substantiate or invalidate Penry’s assertion, though Waldegrave did use Pierre Haultin’s minion Roman, his long primer Roman and his second pica Roman – all types known to have been used in the city. Waldegrave reappeared in Edinburgh in March 1590 where he grew close to King James, following him to London in 1603. His return was, however, short lived as he had died by February 1604.  Types: Vervliet (Conspectus) n° 9, 44 & 74  References: Emmett, J. E., ‘Networks of Print, Patronage and Religion in England and Scotland 1580–1604: The Career of Robert Waldegrave’, Doctoral thesis, Plymouth University 2013, p. 197; ODNB 2720.  Waltear, Jean  Active: 1486–1487  Location: Bordeaux, Guyenne  Role: Printer  Biography: He was originally from Mindelheim.  References: Desgraves (Bordeaux) 735 2721.  Walter, Jacques  Active: 1492  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: Originally from the Holy Roman Empire, he worked in Heinrich Meyer’s workshop.  References: Blanc-Rouquette p. 17 2722.  Wapy, Jean  Active: 1592–1630  Name variations: Vapy, Jean  Location: Verdun, Three Bishoprics  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: Born in Verdun into a well-established local family, he was a burgher and counsellor of the city in 1600. In 1592 his – probably newly acquired – materials were seized by the men of the count of Brienne when they were on transit between Troyes and Verdun before being restored to him. He was the official printer to the bishop of Verdun and also worked at the behest of the local municipality. He died in 1637.

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 References: Muller p. 117; RB IV p. 69–70; Lepreux II 388; Jacquot p. 19; Beaupré (Nouvelles) p. 78; Répertoire n° 10035. 2723.  Wassepasse, Firmin I  Active: 1566–1579  Name variations: Vaspasse, Firmin; Waspasse, Firmin  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He married Jacqueline Lemaire and was the brother of Jean. He succeeded his father, Michel I, though he had by this time already been active in the trade for at least five years. He occupied a small book stall that gave onto the cathedral square. At his death in 1579, the content of his stall was estimated to be worth 273 lt by Jean Caron. His stock contained over 2700 volumes, which on average were considered to be worth no more than 1.5 sous each. His wife succeeded him.  Documents: AD Somme G 548  References: Labarre p. 47 & 342 2724.  Wassepasse, Jean  Active: 1578–1608  Name variations: Vaspasse, Jean; Waspasse, Jean  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près sainte Marie’  Biography: He was the son of Michel I and the brother of Firmin I. As a bookseller, he seems to have been ambitious, owning three stalls on the cathedral square between at least 1583 and 1596. As a publisher, he is known for a single work published for the local Church (USTC 110735).  References: RB IX p. 12; Pouy p. 64; Labarre p. 47 2725.  Wassepasse, Michel I  Active: 1524–1571  Name variations: Vaspasse, Michel; Waspasse, Michel  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Près la porte sainte Marie’  Biography: He married Jeanne Vasseur and was the father of Firmin I and Jean and lived ‘rue des soufflets’ close to the cathedral.

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He is known as a publisher for two missals for local use, both printed in Paris. He took over the stall of Pierre Le Paveur in 1535. He was succeeded by Firmin.  Commercial partners: Madeleine Boursette (Paris); Jean Caron (Amiens); Pierre Jouault (Paris); Oudin Petit (Paris)  Documents: AD Somme G 1190, G 1191  References: RB IX p. 10; Labarre p. 47 2726.  Wassepasse, Michel II  Active: 1585–1634  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His wife, Charlotte Cotterel, died in 1634.  References: Labarre p. 48 2727.  Wassepasse, Vincent  Active: 1596–1635  Location: Amiens, Picardy  Role: Bookseller  Biography: His wife, Marie Cuignet, died in 1635.  References: Labarre p. 48 2728.  Wenssler, Michael  Active: 1472–1498  Location: Basel, Swiss Confederation (1472–1491); Cluny, Burgundy (1492–1493); Mâcon, Burgundy (1494); Lyon, Lyonnais (1494–1498)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He was born in Strasbourg but studied at the university of Basel in 1462 and began printing there in 1472. Despite printing over a hundred editions in Basel, he was declared bankrupt in 1491 when he fled to France, working in various places mainly on specific tasks. He seems to have returned to Basel in 1499, but there is no trace of further activity. He died before 1512.  Device: Silvestre n° 1094; Polain n° 15 & 207; Meyer n° 11 & 70; TW ma03124  Types: TW ma03620–ma03622, ma14112–ma14113, ma03623–ma03626  References: Muller p. 50; TW of0352, of0383; ITB 2729.  Wood, Michel  Active: 1553–1554

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 Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: A series of tracts printed in ‘Roane’ feature this printer on their title page. Printed with a very simple but distinctive Roman type, they employed a false name to cover the fact that they were in reality produced by the press of John Day and Hugh Singleton, probably in London. The workshop ceased printing because of the sourcing of paper for such clandestine editions became increasingly complex in sixteenth-century England.  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 400; Girard p. 503; L. P. Fairfield, ‘The Mysterious Press of ‘Michael Wood’ (1553–1554)’, The Library, XXVII (1972), 220–232; E. Evenden, Patents, Pictures and Patronage. John Day and the Tudor Book Trade (Basingstoke: Ashagate, 2008), p. 29–35. 2730.  Yeury, Jacques  Active: 1587–1634  Name variations: Lieury, Jacques; Eurry, Jacques  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer  Biography: He married Judith Marie before 1587 and was also described as a ‘maître à gages’.  References: Mellot p. 239 2731.  Yeury, Jean  Active: 1589–1625  Name variations: Lieury, Jean; Eurry, Jean  Location: Rouen, Normandy  Role: Printer, bookseller, bookbinder  Address: ‘Près le Grand hotel’  Biography: He married Jacqueline Cohonnet.  Documents: AD Seine-Maritime G 6728  References: Mellot p. 239 Ymbert, Guillaume, see Humbert, Guillaume 2732.  Ysambart, Madeleine  Active: 1595–1614  Name variations: Olivier, veuve Jérôme  Location: Le Mans, Maine

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 Role: Bookseller, printer, publisher  Address: ‘Prés Saint-Julien’  Biography: She married Jérôme Olivier with whom she had eleven children and lived in the parish of Le Crucifix. After his death in January 1595, she took over the running of the business and continued to be active into the seventeenth century. She died on 5 May 1614 and was buried in the church of Gourdaine.  References: Cauvin p. 316; Arbour p. 407; Chardon p. 67 2733.  Ysambart, Marin  Active: 1599–1624  Location: Angers, Anjou  Role: Bookseller, printer  Address: ‘rue Saint-Michel’  Biography: He married Espérance Lirenbourg and later Renée Salmon with whom he had two sons one of whom, Marin, succeeded him. He died on 16 August 1624.  References: Pasquier p. 217; Port III 753 2734.  Ysoret, Jean  Active: 1576–1578  Location: Lyon, Lyonnais (1576–1577); Rouen, Normandy (1577–1578)  Role: Printer, publisher  Biography: He is only known for a single imprint (USTC 4099). There was a printer with this name active in Lyon in 1576–1577, but if he had moved to print this work, it was not to Rouen but to the Low Countries. The presence of ‘Rouen’ on the title page was made to echo where the letter was signed, but the type and the choice of format (quarto) are typical of the Southern Netherlands and the edition is included in the Belgica Typographica (n° 8653).  References: Muller p. 96–103; Lepreux III 401; Baudrier I 446; Répertoire n° 10203. 2735. Yvernage, Jean  Active: 1545  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was probably related to Louis as, like him, he held a shop for the Lyon bookseller Antoine Vincent in Toulouse in 1545 after Louis seems to have set up his own shop.

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 Commercial partners: Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  References: Claudin (2) p. 100 2736.  Yvernage, Louis  Active: 1539–1562  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Bookseller, publisher  Address: ‘Rue de la porterie’  Biography: Originally from Arvant near Lyon, Yvernage held a shop for the Lyon bookseller Antoine Vincent in Toulouse where he undertook to only sell copies of the latter’s editions in 1539, an arrangement that was still going in 1544. However, at that date he was described as a bookseller in his own right and acted as a publisher for a Latin edition of the customs of Toulouse for which he obtained the privilege (USTC 51278), though he did indicate that the book was to be sold ‘in officina Anthonii Vincentii’. He rented the shop of Guillaume Perrin from his widow, Peyrane Sugaston, who he then married before 5 September 1541. He seems to have been a successful bookseller and publisher, earning the title ‘sire’ in the registers of taxation by 1548.  Commercial partners: Jacques Colomiès (Toulouse); Jean Jagourt (Toulouse); Pierre Gavaldan (Bordeaux); Antoine de La Gorce (Toulouse); Antoine Vincent (Lyon)  References: RB XX p. 153; Blanc-Rouquette p. 22; Claudin (2) p. 89 2737. …, Alexandre  Active: 1536  Location: Metz, Three bishoprics  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was sentenced for having sold Protestant books in Metz on 16 June 1536.  Documents: BnF Fonds français nouvelles acquisitions 27000 f. 6 2738. …, Geoffroy  Active: 1560  Location: Reims, Champagne  Role: Journeyman printer  Biography: A Protestant, he was employed in the workshop of Nicolas Bacquenois.  References: Pussot p. 272

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2739.  …, Humbert  Active: 1564–1567  Location: Grenoble, Dauphiné  Role: Bookseller  References: Maignien p. LXXVI 2740.  …, Julien  Active: 1501–1502  Location: Vannes, Brittany  Role: Bookseller  References: Booton p. 238 2741.  …, Louis  Active: 1570  Location: Marennes, Saintonge and Angoumois  Role: Bookseller  Biography: He was condemned to death by the court of Bordeaux on 6 March 1570 for being a Protestant. Prior to becoming a bookseller, he had been a monk.  References: Haag I 670 2742.  …, Louis  Active: 1548  Location: Poitiers, Poitou  Role: Journeyman bookseller  Biography: He worked in Jean Serre’s shop in Poitiers when he was arrested for heresy. The case was dealt with by the Chambre ardente in Paris on 24 October 1548.  References: Weiss p. 300 2743.  …, Mathelin  Active: 1489  Name variations: Baylet, Mathelin  Location: Toulouse, Languedoc  Role: Printer  Biography: He worked as a journeyman printer in Heinrich Meyer’s workshop. He is perhaps the same person as Mathelin Johannety who was a bookseller in the city a few years later.  References: Claudin (1) p. 9

Index of Booksellers and Printers Falsely Indicated as Being Active in Provincial France during the Sixteenth Century F 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.

Badidald, Hubald (Vitry-le-François) Bauchu, Jean (Rouen and Poitiers) Blanchard, Louis (Troyes) Bontemps, Joachim (Rouen) Bosc, Pierre (Toulouse) Brioche, Gobille (Rouen) Cephalius Duromontanus, Pierre (Grenoble) Chaubert, Pierre (Embrun) Chouin, Jean (Bordeaux) Coffin, Vincent (Rouen) Damian, Jean (Troyes) Daniel, Jean (Avignon) David, Étienne (Aix-en-Provence) David, Joseph (Aix-en-Provence) David, veuve Charles (Aix-en-Provence) Des Hayes, Antoine (Amiens) Des Marescs, Guillaume (Rouen) Des Murs, Thibaut (Orléans) Des Rives, Trophime (Avignon) Drindron, Pierre (Rouen) Du Boys, Pierre (Châlons-en-Champagne) Du Mont, Adam (Orange and La Rochelle) Du Pré, François (Reims) Dubuc, Nicolas (Dieppe) Durerius, Ivo (Lusignan) Fermier, Barthelémy (Rouen) Ferrant, Jean (Basqueville) Fournier, Jacques (Toulouse) Freneau, Pierre (Rouen) Froit-d’Eau, Nicolas (La Rochelle) Garou, Jean (Rouen) Glamet, Noël (Quimpercorentin) Grenier, Guillaume (Villefranche) Joyeux, Jean (Montélimar) La Fontaine, Charles de (Lunéville) Larue (Bordeaux) Le Court, Jean (Langres)

38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68.

Le Fort, Jean (La Rochelle) Le Gascon, Jean (Rennes) Le Libertin (Montpellier) Le Rous, Nicolas (Rouen) Lenclume, C. (Avignon) Martin, Jacques (Reims) Martin, Jean (Reims) Martin, Nicolas (Reims) Martin, Nicolas (Vienne) Martin, Pierre (Reims) Miraillet, Paul (Crêches-sur-Saône) Mollard, Olivier (Bordeaux) Morel, Claude (Rouen) Mouchar, Jean (Reims) Pérez, Antonio (Pau) Petit, Jean (Honfleur) Quilleveré, Yvon (Landerneau and Saint-Pol-de-Léon) Retif, Pierre (Rouen) Roize, Étienne (Aix-en-Provence) Roize, Jean-Baptiste (Aix-en-Provence) Ruffin, Jean (Tours) Tarabat, Tarabin (Épernay) Tochet, Pierre (Blois) Tours, Jean de (Langres) Tours, Jean de (Montauban) Tours, Philippe de (Rouen) Treszet, Claude (Rouen) Vincent, Antoine (Toulouse) Vivant, Louis (Troyes) Wood, Michel (Rouen) Ysoret, Jean (Rouen)

Index of Family Trees I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII.

The de Burges of Rouen The Colomiès The Cottereau The Du Gort of Rouen The Haultin The Hotot The Le Coq of Troyes The Macé The Mallard of Rouen The Marnef of Poitiers The Pisson of Chartres The Siffleau of Tours

Index Cognominum Agnet, see Ribiera, Agnet Angoulesme, Jean d’, see Bergier, Jean, and Lysée, Jean Antesignanus Rapistagensis, see Davantès, Pierre II Ausel, Crespin, see Dusol, Crespin Aviset, Jean, see Croiset, Jean Barra, see Thomas, Louis Baylet, Mathelin, see ..., Mathelin Beaumont, Antoine, see Lesmont, Antoine Boniau, Guérin, see Boyau, Guérin Bories, Antoine, see Laborie, Antoine Bouché, see Vouges Boudin, Jean, see Angier, Jean Bouges, Simon, see Vouges, Simon de Bouttellier, Pierre¸ see Schenck, Peter Brienne, Jean de, see Thierry, Jean Cachard, see Le Forestier Camps, Jean, see Girard, Jean Candidus, Antonius, see Blanc, Antoine Casus, see Pilon, Barthélemy Cayron, Antoine, see Queyron, Antoine Chartres, see Claret, Jean Chouppes, see Rousseau, Jean Curia, Andreas de, see La Cour, André de Damus, Jean, see Mes, Jean de Danhault, see Pisson Davot, Jean, see Danoux, Jean Dufern, Thomas, see Fert, Thomas de Du Teurtre, see Le Deutre Farfant, see Faure, Jean I Forgues, Domenge, see Lafforgue, Dominique Gallus, Hercules, see François, Hercule Gaufridi, Denis, see Joffre, Denis Girard, see Paon, Bérard Gragourt, Jean, see Jagourt, Jean Hauville, see Tougard, Nicolas Helys, see Elis

Hemary, Isoard, see Eymar, Isoard Héron, Gaultier, see Noyron, Gaultier Imbert, Cornille, see Aubert, Cornille Judas, see Blanchet, Nicolas Kündig, Jakob, see Estanges, Jacques La Bouvette, see Le Forestier, Gilette La Couronne, see Garnier, Michel La Meignanne, see Lebreton, Jean La Vergne, Pierre de, see Du Vergier, Pierre I Le Breton, see Des Cloches, Thomas Le Lacquest, see Budier, François Lemonier, Philibert, see Armoynier, Philibert Le Moru, see Redon, Antoine Le Petit, see Le Febvre, Nicolas Leporarius, Joannes, see Le Lièvre, Jean Le Vert, Paul, see Pollevert Lexert, Jean, see Exertier, Jean L’Hermite, see Cloet, Benoît Liège, Jean de, see Marnef, Jean I Lieury, see Yeury Lorraine, Jean de, see Mauditier, Jean Lostingue, Bertrand, see Hostingue, Bertrand Lyon, Jean de, see Marie, Jean and Mottier, Jean Marc le libraire, see Eymar, Isoard Marchand, see Palier, Jean Maslot, see Paris, Jean Mentcle, Jean, see Clément, Jean Mercier, Pierre, see Marchand, Pierre Mirebeau, see Gachon, Pierre Molet, Odinet, see Basset, Odinet Morin, see Bigin, Nicolas Naples, see Raquet Natazi, Bonet, see Anastase, Bonet Nova Civitate, Gerhardus de, see Villeneuve, Gérard de Novalius, Guilielmus, see La Nouaille, Guillaume de

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Index Cognominum

Nuss, Jean de, see Mes, Jean de Nyvet, Michel, see Le Moyne, Michel

Rubeus, see Le Rouge Rupt, de, see Danoux

Otho, Pierre, see Hotot, Pierre

Saint-Paoul, see Thomas Sales, Claude, see Celles, Claude Saupiquet, see Garnier, Claude Schmidt, Johann, see Faure, Jean I Solidi, Johannes, see Schilling, Johann Solin, Edmond, see Coullin, Edmond Steyn, Nicolas, see Estey, Nicolas d’

Parcus, Jacobus, see Estanges, Jacques Paris, see Pycavet, Jacques Pejont, Guillaume, see Pichon, Guillaume Pelluti, Jean, see Palier, Jean Philiseus, see Ringmann, Mathias Piper, Henri, see Poivre, Henri Podio, Guillaume de, see Du Puy, Guillaume Portier, Jérôme, see Jacobi, Jérôme Puteus, Petrus, see Dupuis, Pierre Quadier, Jacques, see Estanges, Jacques Rahier, Macé, see Le Royer, Macé Reims, Pierre de, see Laistre, Pierre de Ribe, see Adam, Mathieu Rinz, Pierre de, see Laistre, Pierre de Romme, see Morin, Pierre Rouge, Simon de, see Vouges, Simon de Rouzier, Jean de, see Des Rosieres, Jean

Tabardel, see Calmels, Jean Tabaret, see Garret, André Tassin, Fiacre, see Cassin, Fiacre Threhon, see Hébert, Guillaume Turre, Johannes de, see La Tour, Jean de Vandosme, Jean, see Allard, Jean Vascosan, see Dupuis, Pierre Vatan, see Clémens, Jean Vergier, see Bergier Vertu, see Simon, Daniel Ymbert, Guillaume, see Humbert, Guillaume

Index of Women Booksellers and Printers Active Independently Aubry, Jacquette Berthelot, veuve Jacques, see Robin, Marie Berton, veuve Barthélemy, see Pierre, Françoise Blea, veuve Étienne I de Bonnemère, Jeanne Bonnyn, Anne, see Le Galloys, Jacques Bouchier, veuve Pierre I, see Guérin, Marie Boudet, veuve Pierre, see Nyort, Gracianne de Bouet, Marie Bouvet, veuve Louis, see Le Forestier, Gilette Boyvin, veuve Jean Boyvin, veuve Thomas Brugnet, veuve Jean, see Picard, Catherine Burges, Jeanne de Burteau, Isabelle Cavallis, veuve Vas, see Herbes, Marie d’ Cavellier, Jacqueline Clémence, veuve Abel Colomiès, veuve Jacques II, see Molinier, Marguerite de Fergent, Anne Collet, veuve Guyon, see David, veuve Charles (fictitious) Roy, Perrette Delaulne, Jeanne Delugré, veuve Étienne, see Regnault, Jacquette Des Planches, veuve Jean II, see Burteau, Isabelle Du Boys, Marie Dufour, Madeleine Dupont, veuve Sandrin Du Ruau, veuve Jean I, see Delaulne, Jeanne Du Ruau, veuve Nicolas Faure, veuve Jean, see Guimbaude, Mondete Fergent, Anne Flocquerey, veuve Éloi Foigny, veuve Jean de, see Jabot, Catherine

Gaulthier, veuve Jean Geneviève, Barbe Geoffre, Marie Gérard, veuve François Gibier, veuve Éloi, see Girault, Barbe Giffart, veuve François Gillot, Jeanne Girault, Barbe Gombault, Jeanne Gomet, veuve Barthelémy, see L’Angelier, Olive Guérin, Marie Guérineau, veuve Mathurin, see Aubry, Jacquette Guerlins, veuve Jean de Guesnay, Étiennette Guimbaude, Mondete Haultin, Marie Herbes, Marie d’ Hernault, veuve Antoine, see La Lande, Simone de Hérault, veuve Jean, see Lebée, Jacquette Honnel, Jeanne, veuve Martin Hoys, Jacquette Jabot, Catherine Janson, veuve Jean I, see Petit, Jeanne Laignel, veuve Guillaume La Lande, Simone de L’Angelier, Olive Lauverjat, veuve Jean, see Bouet, Marie Le Bas, veuve Jacques, see Thomas, Françoise Lebée, Jacquette Le Coq, veuve Jean I Le Coq, veuve Jean II Le Forestier, Gilette Le Forestier, veuve Jacques Lemaire, Jacqueline Lepelletier, veuve Nicolas, see Bonnemère, Jeanne Lestrade, Béatrice de

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Index of Women Booksellers and Printers Active Independently

Levez, veuve Nicolas, see Cavellier, Jacqueline Luce, veuve Nicolas Macabre, veuve Pierre Maheust, veuve Jacques Mallard, veuve Jean I, see Burges, Jeanne de Mallard, veuve Robert Marchant, veuve Claude, see Guesnay, Étiennette Marchand, veuve Pierre, see Hoys, Jacquette Maritain, Marguerite Molinier, Marguerite de Moreau, veuve Jean I Morpain, veuve François, see Geoffre, Marie Mousnyer, Rose Nyort, Gracianne de Olivier, veuve Jérôme, see Ysambart, Madeleine Paris, veuve Jean de Perrin, veuve Guillaume, see Sugaston, Peyrane Petit, veuve Richard, see Geneviève, Barbe Petit, Jeanne Petit, veuve Jean I, see Roger, Jeanne

Petit, veuve Jean II Picard, Catherine Picquenot, veuve Richard Pierre, Françoise Pisson, veuve Jean I Raignac, veuve Géraud, see Lestrade, Béatrice de Regnault, Jacquette Robin, Marie Roger, Jeanne Roy, Perrette Siffleau, veuve René, see Gillot, Jeanne Sugaston, Peyrane Symart, veuve Pierre Thomas, Françoise Trumeau, veuve François I Trumeau, veuve Jean I Trumeau, veuve Thibault, see Gombault, Jeanne Wassepasse, veuve Firmin I, see Lemaire, Jacqueline Ysambart, Madeleine

Index of Women Named as Having Married Male Booksellers and Printers Adam, Marie, see Le Villain, Claude Aignan, Marie, see Gibier, Éloi Aixe, Marsalle d’, see Le Moyne, Pierre Alamande, Danysa, see Barba, Pierre Allard, Marguerite, see Amouroux, Antoine Amblays, Marie d’, see Sève, Antoine Ameline, Geneviève, see Hotot, Thomas Andrieu, Antoinette, see Estayn, Nicolas Angelier, Jeanne, see Ligot, Jean Anti, Bernarde d’, see Rival, Jean Ardit, Mathive, see Bonnot, Élie Ardon, Marguerite, see Barraud, Isaac Arnaulde, Galharde, see André, Lancelot Arrest, Louise, see Girard, Jean Assyer, Marie, see Grand, Michel Auber, Madeleine, see Daré, Thomas Audayet, Jeanne, see Frère, Simon Audebert, Bernarde, see Marnef, Enguilbert III de Audebert, Marie, see Marnef, Jean III de Auge, Marie d’, see Angier, Michel Auriget, Gallianne, see Olivier, Mathurin Baillif, Anne, see Jounot, Pierre Baillif, Renée, see Elis, Pierre Bailly, Perrette, see Brayne, Aubry de Balaget, Claude, see Hamelin, Jean Balansun, Catherine de, see Ponsaa, Arnaud de Ballard, Marie, see Rousseau, Étienne Ballard, Marie, see Rousseau, Pierre II Barbou, Jacquette, see Guéroult, Guillaume Bardot, Marguerite, see Moingesse, Nicolas de Barilhard, Jeanne, see Vergnes, Guillaume Barreau, Louise, see Rousseau, Jean Barrée, Jacquette, see Bredin, Thibault Basauld, Catherine, see Boisseneau, Richard Bassete, Claire, see Foissac, Guillaume Bataille, Raouline, see Primoult, Pierre Baye, Jeanne de, see Delabarre, Pierre Beaudouin, Gratienne, see Cottereau, Claude Begnyn, Marie, see Vouges, Simon de

Béjart, Suzanne, see Villiers, Pierre de Bellin, Alison, see Le Bourgeois, Gaillart Belsaude, Jeanne, see Borde, Jean Bénard, Perrette, see Lenud, Jean Benavente, Maria de, see Laistre, Pierre de Bernard, Marie de, see Rabier, Louis Bernardin, Jeanne, see Bodet, Guillaume I Berry, Guillemette veuve André, see La Fosse, Jean de Bersiaud, Jeanne, see Borde, Jean Bertin, Marguerite, see Gouzet, Antoine Besnard, Catherine, see Siffleau, Michel  Besson, Glaudie, see Bochard, Pierre Beuschet, Marthe, see Lasne, Pierre Bienvenu, Anne, see Julian, Jean Bierge, Pierrette, see Gratian, Étienne Biliete, Jano, see Andyé, Jean Bisqueriis, Isabelle de, see Anselme, Domergue Blanchete, Guillemette, see Hébert, Étienne Bodeau, Marianne, see Moynet, Claude Boerii, Jeanne de, see Colomiès, Arnaud Boineau, Fabienne, see Philippon, Morineau Boisseau, Jeanne, see Bouchet, Jacques I Boisseau, Jeanne, see Marnef, Jean I de Boisseau, Jeanne, see Pelletier, Nicolas I Boisseau, Marie, see Leseurre, Claude Bolhaud, Jeanne, see Bochard, Pierre Bon, Catherine, see Savoye, Jean Bonhomme, Agnès, see Bassillon, Jean I Boniot, Andrée, see Main, Pierre Bonneau, Madeleine, see Bonmer, Pierre Bonnecaze, Galienne de, see Gavaldan, Pierre Bonnefous, Jeanne de, see Gontier, Pierre Bonnemain, Marguerite, see Vatard, Pierre Boucher, Madeleine, see Heuqueville, Nicolas de Boucher, Philippe, see Borde, Jean Boucherelle, Marthe, see Degoys, Pierre Bouchet, Guillaumette, see Bernard, Guillaume Bougne, Barbe de, see Lambert, Guillaume

896

Index of Women Named as Having Married

Bougne, Nicole de, see Bourgoignon, Philippe Boullant, Jacquine, see Le Paige, Guillaume Bouquet, see Vincent, Mathieu Bourbon, Perrine, see Dies, Julien Bourgeotte, Agnès, see Brayne, Pierre de Bourgeotte, Agnès, see Du Boys, Jacques Bourget, Jeanne, see Faverye, François Bourre, Delphine, see Millanges, Antoine Boussac, Marguerite, see Mestrès, Nicolas Boynard, Barbe, see Buveron, Jacques Boynard, Jeanne, see Nyon, Jean Boysson, Guillerme, see Le Blanc, Antoine Brelha Vincha, Guillaume, see Vieillevigne, Guillaume Breton, Anne, see Jouan, Timothée Breuilh, Gaillardine de, see Savoye, Jean Bridier, Jeanne, see Barbou, Hugues Bridier, Jeanne, see La Nouaille, Charles de Briffandic, Françoise, see Lagleise, Jean de Brillet, Françoise, see Chesneau, Nicolas Brillet, Renée, see Chesneau, Guillaum Brugeiron, Anne, see Daury, Nicolas Bruyère, Marguerite, see Morin, Martin Brunel, Françoise, see Grange, Michel Bugeant, Renée, see Marnef, Jean V de Burges, Jeanne de, see Valentin, Robert I Cabat, Gailharde, see Abegou, Pierre Cailleteau, Marguerite, see Courtois, Nicolas Canudo, Astrude, see Dembat, Bernard Cappelle, Perette, see Auger, Richard Carles, Madeleine, see Mestre, Gérauld Caron, Françoise, see Contis, Louis Carrière, Naudine, see Chabron, Jean Casal, Madeleine, see Brunet, François Cassin, Jeanne de, see Mayars, Hugues Cathalane, Bernarde, see La Forgue, Jean de Cauvin, Marguerite, see Richard, Jacques Cazal, Marie, see Gilles, Pierre Cazeau, Marie, see Rome, Barthélemy Cazes, Anne, see Maritan, Laurent Celles, Delphine, see Grandsaigne, Étienne Celles, Hélix, see Mottier, Jean Champeaux, Nicole, see Lointier, Denis Chandon, Agnès, see Blea, Étienne I de Chapitre, Jeanne, see Dasnières, Pierre Charcot, Louise, see Grangier, Pierre II Chasseur, Nicole, see Audouin, Nicolas Chastellard, Florine, see Bertheaut, Étienne

Chatal, Jeanne, see Blanc, Antoine Chauvin, Ysabeau, see Ouzeille, Nicolas Chenu, Madeleine, see Mullot, Guillaume Cherelles, Catherine, see Griveau, Zacharie I Cherot, Louise, see Grangier, Pierre II Chérubine, Catherine, see Gouzet, Antoine Chouen, Jeanne, see Gaignot, Louis Chynon, Jeanne de, see Leroy, Léon Cibot, Renée, see Du Vergier, Pierre I and Olivier, Thomas Citoys, Perrette, see Marnef, Jean III de Clareté, Anne, see Santat, Jean Clauselle, Catherine, see Rostelin, Louis Clément, Louise, see Doriou, Jean Clergesse, Anne, see Parmentier, Imbert Cochery, Madeleine, see Chouen, Alexandre Coderc, Jeanne, see Haultin, Denis Coffin, Perrine, see Alexandre, Clément Cohonnet, Jacqueline, see Yeury, Jean Colladon, Suzanne, see Chauvin, Arthur Collet, Marie, see La Huproye, Étienne de Collet, Marthe, see Du Petit Val, Raphaël Collot, Madeleine, see Bon, Pierre Cossot, Jeanne, see Augereau, Michel I Cottereau, Anne, see Peigné, Lubin Cottereau, Catherine, see Hotot, Saturnin Coturat, Jeanne de, see Cheze, Mathelin Coupeau, Anne, see Barrillet, Nicolas Courant, see Clou, Jean Courraud, see Coignat, Philippe Courtin, Perette, see Anceau, Jean Cousin, Ambroise, see Coustelle, Guillaume Cousin, Marie, see Le Caron, Jean I Coussot, Jeanne, see Arnault, Mathurin Couston, Lizette, see Cabat, Bellanger Cousturier, Jeanne, see Thoulouse, Étienne Cremillier, Anne, see Chaudière, Claude Cresagne, Marguerite, see Fleurs, Jacques de Crosade, Peyronne, see André, Jacques Crusade, Anne, see Celles, Claude Daillancourt, Jeanne, see Febvre, Nicolas Damborgés, Condor, see Astis, Brunet d’ Dangel, Guine, see Bodet, Guillaume II Daniel, Lise, see Astorg, Pierre I Dargny, Jeanne, see Lenouvel, Pierre Darsay, Françoise, see Citoys, Louis II Daudyne, Jeanne, see Ranteau, Denis

Index of Women Named as Having Married David, Rachel, see Royal, Claude Decombes, Anne, see Mesnier, Aimé Deffrue, Marie, see Saulce, Guillaume Degoys, Hilaire, see Dalvy, Pierre Deheurles, Marie, see Collet, Jean III Delacroix, see Hotot, Philippe Delahaye, Françoise, see Bougne, Charles de Delanerie, Claude¸ see Peronne, Nicolas Delrieu, Jeanne, see Barilhard, Lucas Demessac, Janine, see Ladime, Pierre de Denis, Jeanne, see Moulinier, Raymond Denys, Françoise, see Harsy, Denis de Deraisnes, Marie, see Boutin, Mathieu Des Bernards d’Alamont, Anne, see Faber, Abraham Deschamps, Hilaire, see Coussot, Jean Deschaney, Jeanne, see Chauvetet, Jean Desflottes, Jannette, see Barbou, Jacques Desnotz, Françoise, see Picquenot, René Des Planches, Gabrielle, see Chouet, Jacques Des Quynat, Marie, see Garaut, François Destadens, Anne, see Tranchant, Jacques Dinocheau, Mathurine, see Pisson, Guillaume Drappier, Françoise, see Cottereau, Claude Dreux, Ester, see Leseurre, Daniel Dubois, Andrée, see Fontaine, Martial Dubois, Jeanne, see Haultin, Denis Dubois, Marion, see Le Roy, Jean Du Boys, Madeleine, see Nobilly, Germain I Du Bust, Collette, see Du Gort, Robert I Du Cayre, Michellette, see Channey, Jean de Duchastel, Simone, see Prével, Jean Duchemin, Jeanne, see Gadouleau, Michel Du Cros, Jeanne, see Canut, Jean Ducrot, Jeanne, see Delabarre, Nicole Du Faur, Marguerite, see Blanc, Michau Dufour, Marie, see Ferrand, David I Dumeau, Jeanne, see Hotot, Saturnin Duperray, Isabeau, see Du Molin, Sébastien Du Pray, Marie, see Le Pryme, Jean Durand, Isabelle, see Massot, Jean Durand, Peyronne de, see Mareschal, Hélie Durant, Thomasse, see Masselin, Marin Du Sault, Gailharde, see Millanges, Simon Du Tac, Jeanne, see Chevillot, Pierre Du Tein, Bernarde, see Rival, Jean Dutour, Thomyne, see Bougne, Charles de Duval, Simonne, see Barrier, Louis

897

Entraigues, Marie d’, see Rome, Joachim de Ernoul, Jeanne, see Ausmont, Jean Ernoul, Marie, see Martinet, Guillaume Estas, Barbe, see Bernard, Guillaume Estienne, Catherine, see Anastaise, Étienne Estouard, Suzanne, see Dangicourt, Jacques Eygreteau, Jeanne, see Fontaine, Claude Fabre, Bonne de, see Peyrusse, Jean Farets, Marguerite de, see Anselme, Domergue Faure, Barbe, see Girard, Jean Faure, C., see Vynet, François Faure, Gaillarde, see Du Puy, Guillaume Ferrand, Joachim, see Frère, Jean Ferrand, Sarah, see Geoffroy, David Ferri, veuve Lactantio, see Pidie, Pierre Ferron, Isabeau, see Colonge, Jean Flatier, Joachine, see Hotot, Philippe Doich, Charlotte, see Hotot, Robert Fontane, Étiennette, see Gardes, Guillaume Fors, Jeanne, see Court, Henri Fortier, Catherine, see Levez, Maurice Foucault, Jeanne, see Martinet, René Frère, Antoinette, see Boysson, Guillaume Fresnes, Radegonde de, see Costel, Thomas Frotté, Perrine, see Girard, Jean Fulaine, Florentine de, see Faber, Dominique Gabillaud, Louise, see Boizateau, François Gaillard, Marie, see Linocier, Guillaume Garin, Jeanne, see Astorg, Arnaud Garnier, Jacqueline, see Oudot, Nicolas Gast, Marie, see Du Breil, Arnaud Gaubert, Guillaume, see Brunet, François Gaudeau, Anne, see Cottereau, Philippe Gaudin, Antoinette, see Fournier, Jean Gaulme, Françoise, see Foigny, Jean de Gaulmier, Ysabeau, see Guyon, Claude Gaultreau, Jeanne, see Leseurre, Claude Gautier, Catherine, see Du Vergier, Pierre II Gelée, Perelle, see Nicolle, Guillaume Gentys, Thenette, see Bodin, André Gilbert, Françoise, see Le Mesle, Pierre Girard, Jeanne, see Anequin, Antoine Giraud, Jeanne, see Boynard, Olivier Giroude, Marguerite, see Domaysel, Jean Godebille, Perrine, see Varice, Jean II

898

Index of Women Named as Having Married

Godet, Marguerite, see Burges, Nicolas de Gorin, Marie, see Le Cousturier, Abraham II Gravillaque, Jeanne, see Dufaur, Pierre Grene, Aymé, see Vernet, Charles Gruzon, Marie, see Lescuyer, Nicolas Guasquet, Élisabeth, see Delahe, Guillaume Guedon, Jeanne, see Marin, Pierre Guérin, Marie, see Bouchier, Pierre I Guérin, Marie, see Roussin, Pierre II Guespin, Guillemine, see Siffleau, Martin I Guiard, Marguerite, see Parmentier, Imbert Guichard, Delphine, see Le Coing, Gaspard Guignoire, Marie, see Moingesse, Claude de Guillaud, Radegonde, see Marnef, Enguilbert IV de Guillonart, Katherine¸ see Perrottin, Gervais Guy, Antoinette, see Bissac, Jean Hamelin, Marie, see Girard, Claude Hardy, Marie, see Tiffailleau, Augustin Hardy, Thiennette, see Briden, Edme Hastier, Barbe, see Corlet, Jean Hay, Madeleine, see Portau, Thomas Hébert, Jeanne, see Bellenger, Abel Hebert, Pasquière, see Gaulmier, Guillaume Hébrard, Catherine, see Réau, Vincent Hebrarde, Isabelle, see Jaquy, Sébastien Helm, Margaretha, see Estanges, Jacques Hirvoize, Marie, see Routier, Guillaume Hommet, Madeleine, see Le Roy, Claude and Le Mesgissier, Martin I Hotot, Anne, see Cottereau, Martin Hotot, Denise, see Poupy, Jean and Nepveu, Georges Houssier, Jacquette, see Mitantier, Pierre Huault, Marguerite, see Le Cousturier, Abraham III Huillart, Marie, see Ferrand, David I Huvin, Marion, see Cousin, Jacques Jannot, Georgette, see Robin, Jacques Janyn, Michelle, see Moysset, Danier Joannet, Anne, see Frère, Simon Joffroy, Jeanne, see Champorel, Guy Jollet, Claude, see François, Hercule Joses, Anne, see Sales, Isaac Jouan, Jeanne, see Du Clos, Julien Joubert, Isabelle, see Laverré, Joseph

Joubert, Renée, see Citoys, André Journée, Guillemette, see Oudot, Nicolas Jousseaulme, Jeanne, see Messandeau, Laurent Jousseulme, Isabelle, see Saugrain, Jean II Jullian, Gillette, see Richer, Jean I Labarie, Jeanne de, see Mons, Antoine de Lacoste, Esther, see Agoury, Étienne La Coupelle, Jeanne de, see Marnef, Jean IV de Ladmiral, Bénigne, see Mareschal, Quentin Ladmiral, Bénigne, see Guyot, Claude La Font, Béatrice de, see Bernard, François I La Haye, Suzanne de, see Citoys, Jean II Laistre, Marie de, see Hubert, Arnoul La Mangine, Catherine, see Lirey, Antoine de Lanelier, Lucas, see Blanchard, Antoine and Blanchet, Nicolas Lanyere, Jeanne, see Gaudy, Antoine La Porte, Marguerite de, see Main, Jean La Ragée, Guyote de, see Larcher, Claude La Rogne, Anthoinette de, see Regnoult, Guillaume La Strada, Beatrix de, see Danhat, Guiraud Lastres, Jeanne de, see Haultin, Denis La Thieulloye, Marguerite de, see Le Caron, Nicolas La Tour, Charlotte de, see Ferrot, Jacques Laurence, Bonmer, see Castera, Jean Laurens, Jeanne, see Champorel, Guy Lavastret, see Amouroux, Julien Laverot, Catherine, see Guyot, Claude Laviré, Jeanne, see Marnef, Pierre II de Le Bœuf, Barbe, see Hamelin, Jean Leblef, Barbe, see Du Boys, Rémi Le Bret, veuve Pierre, see Avenel, Bertrand Lebreton, Jacquette, see Elis, Jean I Le Caillabou, Henriette, see Boucher, François Le Claire, Marie, see Boutard, Blaise Leconvert, Catherine, see Nobilly, Germain II Le Coq, see Trumeau, Thibault Le Cousturier, Judith, see Delamare, Guillaume I Ledies, Louise, see Ménard, Mathurin Lefez, Esther, see Burges, Robert II de Le Forestier, Anne, see Le Gentil, Jacques

Index of Women Named as Having Married Legay, Claude, see Gentil, Isaac Legay, Marguerite, see Blondel, Romain Léger, Marie, see Caneau, Isaac Le Hullin, Perette, see Mallard, Olivier Le Maçon, Anne, see Arras, Jean I d’ Lemaire, Catherine, see Garreau, Edme Lemaire, Catherine, see Pisson, Jean II Lemaire, Simone, see Hotot, Fabien Le Mesgissier, Alix, see La Motte, Martin de Lemoyne, Catherine, see Flatrus, Richard Le Moyne, Marie, see Savine, Jean Leonhard, Justina, see Exertier, Jean Lepage, Mathurine, see Huard, Jean Le Plat, Noëlle, see Certain, Gratien Le Roux, Madeleine, see Chesnaye, Jean Le Roy, Jacqueline, see Masselin, Robert Le Sueur, Denise, see Bruneval, Claude Leule, Blancque, see Mareschal, Pierre Leuzière, Antonie de, see Bernard, François I Leuziere, Firmine de, see Bernard, François II Lhéritier, Étiennette, see Bacquenois, Nicolas Linières, Anne de, see Morin, Jean Lirenbourg, Espérance, see Ysambart, Marin Longue, Antonie, see Molinier, Antoine Louvain, Françoise de, see L’Angelier, Abel Maistre, Antoinette, see Macé, Jean Majorine, Jeanne, see Batailhe, Pierre Malignan, Suzanne, see Gillet, Jean II Mallard, Perrette, see Le Mareschal, Henri & Valentin, Florent Malrieu, Jeanne, see Grandsaigne, Pierre Marc, Catherine, see Cloquemin, Louis II Marchant, Anne, see Brayne, Hugues de Marchant, Étiennette, see Siffleau, Martin II Mareschal, see Petit, Nicolas Mareschalle, Jeanne, see Aurelle, Jean Marie, Judith, see Yeury, Jacques Marignon, Jeanne, see Malignan, Guido Maritan, Françoise, see Dustin, Pierre Marquet, Françoise, see Gentil, Isaac Martin, Oliver, see Heuqueville, Nicolas de Martinet, Marie, see Hernault, René Maslé, Collette, see Gillet, Jean Maubert, Catherine, see Préaulx, Manassès de Mauclerc, Françoise, see Guyotte, Jean Maufilz, Marie, see Petit, Jean III

899

Maugars, Anne, see Jouan, Raoullet Maugis, Marie, see Guérin, Marc Mayerque, Jeanne, see Mazelli, Barthélemy Mayres, Bernarde, see Lamic, Antoine Menant, Jeanne, see Cottereau, Richard Menard, Anne, see L’Angelier, Julien Meslus, Chrestienne de, see Loys, Jamet Mesnard, Marguerite, see Viau, Sébastien Mesnier, Catherine, see Blanchet, Jean Mesnier, Catherine, see Royer, Jacques Mettayer, Jeanne, see Orry, Marc Michel, Agnès, see Delabarre, Nicole Michel, Isabeau, see Daubet, Martin Millière, Bénigne, see Des Planches, Maximilien Millouet, Jeanne, see Darays, Jean Minoris, Andrine, see Luquet, Jean Mirallin, Verène, see Bardin, Noël Mirey, Marguerite, see Beauvais, Romain de Mitantier, Anne, see Boutart, Blaise Molin, Suzanne, see Michel, Claude Moline, Gilette, see Philippe, Gaspard Moline, Gillette, see Guyart, Jean Monbrott, Margaret, see Foillet, Jacques Monbrott, see Exertier, Jean Monfera, Jeanne de, see Barrier, Dominique Monteil, Claude, see Baro, Jean Montgeon, Philippe, see Alain, Pierre Moquart, Jacquette, see Papolin, Mathurin Moreau, Anne, see Hernault, Jean Moreau, Marie, see Vatard, Pierre Morieult, Perrette, see David, Germain Morron, Isabeau, see Pavye, Guillaume Motheron, Catherine, see Du Molin, Sébastien Moysagne, Marguerite, see Cazolas, Jean Munié, Françoise, see Collet, Nicolas Nainville, Marthe, see Du Petit Val, Raphaël Negre, Marie, see Jaquy, Sébastien Nepveu, Catherine, see Picquot, Simon Nevon, Renée, see Busson, Julien Nicodon, Catherine, see Destadens, Jean Novisse, Jeanne, see Foigny, Gilbert de Nyverd, Catherine, see Montr’oeil, Claude de Olfro, Jeanne, see Pebernard, Durand

900

Index of Women Named as Having Married

Pain, Guillemette, see Le Gentil, Jacques Pain, Marion, see Le Prest, Jean I Pantou, Alizon, see Houchard, Antoine Panyerb, Antoinette, see Mesnier, Aimé Papillon, Guillemette, see Grangier, Simon Papillon, Michelle, see Legrand, Jacques Paquot, Noëlle, see Montr’oeil, Claude de Passaret, Catherine, see Preurauld, Aymeric Patis, Jeanne de, see Marchant, Jean Paully, Marie, see Courtois, Jacques Paumier, Antoinette, see Mesnier, Aimé Pecatte, Marie, see Cochery, François Pennesen, Pettine, see Louarn, Jean Percheron, Anne, see Daré, Thomas Perouse, Françoise, see Escarcel, Geoffroy Perronnet, Marguerite, see Olagnier, André Peyrault, Nicolle, see Dache, Jean Phelippes, Louise, see Castel, Nicolas Pichon, Noëlle, see Le Noir, Macé Picquot, Jeanne, see Villager, Michel Pignot, Anne, see Lauverjat, Germain Pinchon, Marguerite, see Burges, Jean II de and Burges, Robert I de Pis, Anne de, see Momoton, Jean Pivain, Elisabeth, see Jouanneaux, René Plumé, Nicole, see La Fousse, Gervaise de Poisson, Catherine, see Alexandre, Jean Poncet, Jeanne de, see Colomiès, Raymond Poncte, Jeanne, see Fillolle, Regnault Poperon, Marie, see Cottereau, Richard Portau, Élisabeth, see Troismailles, René Portonariis, Madeleine de, see Trechsel, Gaspar Pouchaude, Salbio, see Bodet, Guillaume II Poupineau, Françoise, see Philippe, Louis Prévost, Marie, see Huard, René Prioux, Marie, see Du Boys, Nicolas Privelle, Noëlle, see Curtin, Jean & Trepperel, Pierre Privert, Noëlle, see Curtin, Jean & Trepperel, Pierre Prudhomme, Anne, see Le Mesgissier, Martin III Puimerol, Catherine de, see Marchant, Jean Quélen, Amice de, see Léau, Bernard de Rabine, Jeanne, see Tréhand, Virgile Raignac, Bourguine, see Chrestien, Antoine

Raison, Isabeau, see Angier, Michel Rambault, Ragonde, see Du Peyron, Jacques Rames, Marie, see Doriou, Pierre Ranteau, Madeleine, see Guillot, Barthélemy Raulx, Michelle, see Mallet, Charles Regnar, Marie, see La Place, Jean de Regnard, Geneviève, see Villiers, Thomas de Regnard, Nicole, see Bodineau, Hilaire Richard, Isabelle, see Luquet, César Richart, Peyronne, see Budier, François Rigollet, Jeanne, see Brayne, Geoffroy de Rivière, Clairemonde, see Saint-Jean, Pierre de Rivière, Jeanne, see Plantin, Christophe Rivière, Judith, see Griveau, Zacharie II Robelot, Catherine, see Velquin, Michel Robert, Héliète, see Laurens, Jean Robert, Marie, see Haultin, Jérôme Robert, Plézoue, see Léau, Bernard de Robin, Jeanne, see Mestrard, Thomas Rochereau, Marie, see Lauverjat, André Roigny, Marie de, see L’Huillier, Pierre Rossel, Jeanne, see Lombard, Georges Rou, Vincente, see Siffleau, Martin II Rouberte, Astrugue, see André, Jacques Rouillart, Françoise, see Le Houé, Robert Rousseau, Julienne, see Doriou, Pierre Rousseau, Madeleine, see Bichon, Guillaume Rousselet, Crespine, see Du Boys, Gauthier Rousselin, Florianne, see Aubin, Jean Roussignol, Marie, see Pisson, Pierre Roy, Françoise, see Siffleau, Michel  Sainct Laurent, Catherine de, see Bombart, Jacques Sainctes, Marie de, see Vacque, Bertrand Saint-Estienne, Agnès de, see Du Parc, Robert Saint-Po, Galharde de, see Bodet, Jean Saint-Tost, Cécile de, see La Croix, Jacques Salbert, Renée, see Doriou, Pierre Salmon, Catherine, see Dangicourt, Jacques Salmon, Renée, see Ysambart, Marin Salvie, Marguerite, see Sales, Jean Samparada, Jeanne de, see Maritan, Guillaume Sandre, Isabelle, see Regnier, Pierre Sappel, Jeanne, see Leloing, Macé Saut, Madeleine de, see Saugrain, Jean I Sauvyon, Jeanne, see Fleury, Melchior Seilhaut, Jeanne, see Hantet, Jean I

Index of Women Named as Having Married Sentier, Marie, see Vaultier, Nicolas Séronne, Claude, see Saugrain, Jean I Serpin, Bonne, see Loyselet, Pierre Serreau, Jeanne, see Cheron, Pierre Sertenas, Catherine, see Chancelier, Laurent Seurey, Catherine, see Bogueret, Jérôme Silvestre, Françoise, see Boudrot, Louis Sorel, Marguerite, see Sacquespée, Guillaume Soulier, Jeannette, see Degoys, Gilles Spitallière, Anne, see Ferrier, Jean Symonnet, Mathurine, see Brault, Jean Symonnet, Mathurine, see Viault, Jean Tabone, Martine, see Hucet, Vincent Tacher, Catherine, see Papolin, Antoine Taffignon, Barbe, see Moreau, Noël  Talhardade, Anthonie, see Fleurs, Jacques de Tarisel, Ysabeau, see Le Paveur, Léon Texier, Anne, see Minières, Olivier de Thamat, Suzanne de, see Salles, Pierre Theroulde, Jeanne, see Du Gort, Jean I Thévenet, Jeanne, see Boizateau, Pierre Thévenier, Germaine, see Dauphin, Nicolas Thibault, Jeanne, see Preta, Gauché Thiboust, Michelle, see Poullain, François Timel, Pasquette, see Marin, Pierre Tours, Marie de, see Le Plat, Gabriel Tribout, Jeanne, see Remortier, Gilles de Troyes, Colette de, see Charlot, Robert Turpin, Jacquette, see Varice, Jean II

901

Vadé, Marie, see Haultin, Pierre Vagias, Marion, see Poullain, Jacques Valentin, Marie, see Auber, Richard Vallet, Claudine, see Saugrain, Jean I Vanhas, Anne, see Mercier, J. Varlenoux, Louise, see Bernard, Raymond Varlet, Jeanne, see Ducros, Philippe Vasquete, Thonie, see Dalvy, Aymard Vasseur, Jeanne, see Wassepasse, Michel I Vatras, Marion, see Blondel, Romain Verdière, Marie, see Boudeville, Guyon Verel, Barbe, see Brenouzet, Pierre Verge, Hélys de, see Baluze, Pierre Vergiere, Esclarmonde, see Boutat, Pierre Verguette, Antoinette, see Dalvy, Aymard Veziat, Astrugette, see Maritan, François Viart, Guyonne, see Colines, Simon de Vidame, Barbe, see Troismailles, René Vile, Marie, see Chazot, Jean III Villarie, Marie, see Rogier, Jean Villemandy, Jeanne de, see Minières, Jean de Villeto, Jano, see Andyé, Jean Villiers, Jeanne de, see Pyot, Pierre Vivier, Jeanne, see Brault, Jacques Voisin, Jeanne, see Elis, Jean II Voyneau, Isabeau, see Clémenceau, Jean Vrandrap, Marguerite, see Foucault, Louis Yver, Nicole, see Cibault, François