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Antoine Augereau

Antoine Augereau

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Antoine Augereau (1485–1534) was a Renaissance printer, bookseller and punchcutter in Paris. He was one of the first French punchcutters to produce Roman type, at a time where other French printers were mostly using blackletter. He worked for Robert Estienne, who was one of the earliest Parisian printers to print Roman type, in the style of Aldus Manutius.[1][2]

He was a contemporary of other eminent French printers, such as Simon de Colines and Geoffroy Tory, while Claude Garamond, whose roman type became the most influential in Europe, apprenticed with him around the year 1510.[3][4]

Biography

His print-shop located on Rue Saint-Jacques, was only in businesses for three years, between 1532 and 1534.[5]

In 1533 he published anonymously Queen Marguerite de Navarre's Miroir de l'âme pécheresse ("The Mirror of the Sinful Soul"), a work of mystical Christian poetry that was immediately condemned by the Sorbonne's Faculty of Theology and forwarded to the Parliament for censorship. Under orders from King Francis I, Marguerite's brother, the Sorbonne retracted their condemnation of Miroir, alleging that their scrutiny was only due to the anonymous nature of its publication. This emboldened Augereau, who published two more editions of the poem that same yearand with the identity of the author clearly stated. Each successive edition contained more and more Calvinist content, with the third edition also containing a verse translation of Psalm 6 by royal poet Clément Marot, at a time when the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in France opposed the translation of the Bible into Middle French.[6][7]

Already arrested and released in 1533 on suspicion of heresy because of his pro-evangelical publications, Augereau was among the first to be arrested in December 1534 as part of the anti-Huguenot backlash that followed the public humiliation of the King in the Affair of the Placards. On 24 December 1534, Augereau was executed for heresy and publishing anti-Catholic books.[6]

References

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    Bessire, François (2001). L'écrivain éditeur. Travaux de Littérature (in French). Vol. 1: Du Moyen Âge à la fin du XVIII siècle. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz. p. 98. ISBN 9782950734198.
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    "Antoine Augereau « MyFonts". www.myfonts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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    Macmillan, Neil (22 June 2019). An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300111514. Retrieved 22 June 2019 – via Google Books.
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    Morison, Stanley (1973) [1953]. Brooke, Crutchley (ed.). A Tally of Types: With Additions by Several Hands. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press Archive. pp. 64. ISBN 9780521097864. Antoine Augereau.
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    Renouard, Philippe (1898). 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 : leurs adresses, marques, enseignes, dates d'exercice, notes sur leurs familles, leurs alliances et leur descendance, d'après les renseignements biographiques et les documents inédits. Paris, France: Libraire A. Claudin. p. 9.
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    Wursten, Dick (2010). Clément Marot and Religion: A Re-assessment in the Light of his Psalm Paraphrases. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. pp. 30–34. ISBN 9789004193529.
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    Reid, Jonathan (2009). King's Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network. Vol. I. Leiden and Boston, MA: BRILL. p. 428. ISBN 9789047428435.
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