14 Jan 1530 Jahr - 1530 Henri Estienne is the major printer in France

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Henri Estienne established himself sometime around the beginning of the 16th century. A scholar, publisher, and printer, he gained his reputation as a publisher of classical literature. His edition of Galen’s De sectis medicorum is an interesting early scientific work. Estienne, for a time, had as his adviser Geoffroy Tory, a scholar who later became a printer himself. Strongly influenced by Italian typography, Tory experimented with the use of floral ornamentation and ornate initial letters. In 1529 he wrote the first known treatise on the design of type, and in 1530 the title king’s printer was created for him.