On the outside are the words: 'By the King—Present, the Bishop of Thulles. Signed BAYARD; and sealed sur double cueue[521] with that lord's great seal.'
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LIST OF KING'S PRINTERS WHO PERFORMED THEIR FUNCTIONS AT PARIS, FROM THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTION OF THAT OFFICE.
GEOFROY TORY, 1530-1533.[522]
OLIVIER MALLARD, 1536-1542.
DENIS JANOT, 1543-1550.[523]
CHARLES ESTIENNE, 1551-1561.
ROBERT ESTIENNE II (nephew of CHARLES), 1561-1570.
JEAN METTAYER, 1575-1586.
JAMET METTAYER (brother of JEAN), 1586-1602.
PIERRE METTAYER (brother of JEAN and JAMET), 1602-1639.
MAMERT PATISSON, 1578-1601. His widow succeeded him and held the office from 1602 to 1606.
MICHEL DE VASCOSAN, 1560-1571.
PIERRE LE VOIRRIER, 1583.[524]
FEDERIC MOREL (VASCOSAN'S son-in-law), 1560-1581.
FEDERIC MOREL II (son of FEDERIC), 1582-1630.[525]
CLAUDE MOREL, 1617 (?).
CHARLES MOREL (son of CLAUDE), 1635-1639.
GILLES MOREL (son of CHARLES), 1639-1647.
PIERRE LE PETIT. Succeeded MOREL, June, 1647 'with the privileges and salary of 225 livres charged upon the State.'[526] He died in 1686.
GUILLAUME NYVERD II, 1561.
NICOLAS NIVELLE, } GUILLAUME CHAUDIÈRE, Printers of the Sacred Union, 1589-1594. ROLIN THIERRY, CLAUDE PREVOST, 1614-1629.
NICOLAS CALLEMONT, 1622-1631. His widow held the office in 1631.
PIERRE L'HUILLIER, 1610.
ANTOINE ESTIENNE, 1614-1664. In 1649 he called himself 'first king's printer.'[527]
HENRI ESTIENNE, his son, obtained the reversion of his father's office in 1652, but he died before him, in 1661, probably without acting.[528]
PIERRE MOREAU, 1640-1647. (For his bastard italic.)
ANTOINE VITRÉ, 1622-1674. 'Linguarum orientalium typographus regius.'
SÉBASTIEN CHAPELET, 1639.
JACQUES DE GAST, 1640.
SÉBASTIEN CRAMOISY, December 24, 1633. In 1640 he was appointed manager of the royal printing-office of the Louvre; in 1651 he resigned the office of king's printer in favour of his grandson, Sébastien Mâbre-Cramoisy, and died in 1669.
SÉBASTIEN MÂBRE-CRAMOISY (grandson of the preceding, through his mother), 1661-1687. He also held the office of manager of the royal printing-office.
SÉBASTIEN HURÉ, August, 1650.
SÉBASTIEN HURÉ II (son of the preceding), appointed in 1662, in place of HENRI ESTIENNE, Antoine's son; died in 1678.
PIERRE ROCOLET, April 14, 1635; died in 1662.
DAMIEN FOUCAULD (son-in-law of ROCOLET), succeeded him; 1662-1687(?).
FRANÇOIS MUGUET, appointed as locum tenens in November, 1661, was definitively appointed in 1671; resigned his letters in 1686, to replace PIERRE LE PETIT, at the salary of 225 livres. Muguet died in 1702.
FRANÇOIS-HUBERT MUGUET (son of the preceding) succeeded him; 1702-1742.
FRÉDÉRIC LÉONARD. Succeeded FRANÇOIS HURÉ; 1678-1712.
FRÉDÉRIC LÉONARD II (son of the preceding) succeeded him; 1713-1714.
JEAN DE LA CAILLE, 1644-1673.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COGNARD. Succeeded FOUCAULD; 1687-1737.
COGNARD'S widow, 1737-1760.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COGNARD II (son of Jean-Baptiste), 1717-1752, when he resigned.
JACQUES LANGLOIS, 1660-1678.
JACQUES LANGLOIS II (son of the preceding), 1678-1697.
JEAN-BAPTISTE-ALEXANDRE DELESPINE, 1702-1746(?).
GUILLAUME DESPREZ, 1686-1708.
GUILLAUME DESPREZ II (son of the preceding), 1740-1743, when he resigned.
GUILLAUME-NICOLAS DESPREZ (son of the preceding), 1743-1788. He was at the end the dean of the king's printers.
PIERRE-ALEXANDRE LE PRIEUR, 1747-1785.
CLAUDE-CHARLES THIBOUST, appointed king's printer in 1756, died in 1757.
N. DE MAISONROUGE (widow of the preceding), succeeded him, and held the title of king's printer till 1788.
LAURENT-FRANÇOIS PRAULT, 1780(?).
LOUIS-FRANÇOIS PRAULT (son of LAURENT) succeeded him; 1780-1788.
ANTOINE BOUDET, 1768-1779.
FRANÇOIS LE BRETON; died October 4, 1779.
PHILIPPE-DENIS PIERRES; succeeded LE BRETON by virtue of letters dated October 7, 1779.[529] He was appointed first king's printer in August, 1785.
JACQUES-GABRIEL CLOUSIER, 1788.
AUGUSTE-MARTIN LOTTIN, 1775-1789.
(Demoiselle) HÉRISSANT, 1788.
| NICOLAS NIVELLE, | } | |
| GUILLAUME CHAUDIÈRE, | Printers of the Sacred Union, 1589-1594. | |
| ROLIN THIERRY, |
King's Printers for Greek.[530]
CONRAD NÉOBAR, 1538-1540.
ROBERT ESTIENNE, 1540-1550.
ADRIEN TURNÈBE, 1552-1555.
GUILLAUME MOREL, 1555-1564.
MICHEL DE VASCOSAN, 1560-1576.
ROBERT ESTIENNE II, 1561-1570.
FEDERIC MOREL, 1571-1581.
ÉTIENNE PREVOSTEAU, 1581-1600(?).
PIERRE PAUTONNIER, 1600-1605(?).
Printers of the King's Closet.