WJean Alexis Achard (1807–1884) was a French painter.
WHenri Agasse, was a French publisher and editor, associated with Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
WAntoine Clet (1705–1785) was a French printer, publisher and writer of the 18th century.
WJodocus Badius, also known as Josse Badius, Jodocus van Asche Badius, and Badius Ascensius, was a pioneer of the printing industry, a renowned grammarian, and a pedagogue.
WRichard Breton was a French publisher of illustrated books in collaboration with François Desprez.
WAlfred Cadart (1828–1875) was a French printer, writer and publisher, most notable for his major part in the etching revival in 19th-century France. He played a key role in the revival and sale of etchings in France and beyond. As founder of the French Société des Aquafortistes, he combined strategic understanding with a passion for the artistic qualities of the etching.
WAuguste Clot (1858–1936) was a French printer based in Paris and known for his lithographic work with artists including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin and Edvard Munch.
WSimon de Colines was a Parisian printer and one of the first printers of the French Renaissance. He was active in Paris as a printer and worked exclusively for the University of Paris from 1520 to 1546. In addition to his work as a printer; Colines worked as an editor, publisher, and punchcutter. Over the course of his lifetime, he published over 700 separate editions. Colines used elegant roman and italic types and a Greek type, with accents, that were superior to their predecessors. These are now called French old-style, a style that remained popular for over 200 years and revived in the early 20th century. He used rabbits, satyrs, and philosophers as his pressmark.
WMichel-Antoine David also David l'aîné was an 18th-century French printer, publisher and Encyclopédiste during the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the four printers of the Encyclopédie.
WRichard Breton was a French publisher of illustrated books in collaboration with François Desprez.
WFirmin Didot was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.
WÉtienne Dolet was a French scholar, translator and printer. Dolet was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. His early attacks upon the Inquisition, the city council and other authorities in Toulouse, together with his later publications in Lyon treating of theological subjects, roused the French Inquisition to monitor his activities closely. After being imprisoned several times, he was eventually convicted of heresy, strangled and burned with his books due to the combined efforts of the parlement of Paris, the Inquisition, and the theological faculty of the Sorbonne.
WL'école Estienne is the traditional name of the l'École supérieure des arts et industries graphiques (ESAIG). It is located at 18, Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Butte-aux-Cailles.
WHenri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually take over the Estienne printing firm which his father owned in 1559 when his father died. His most well-known work was the Thesaurus graecae linguae, which was printed in five volumes. The basis of Greek lexicology, no thesaurus would rival that of Estienne's for three hundred years.
WRobert I Estienne, known as Robertus Stephanus in Latin and sometimes referred to as Robert Stephens or Roberti Stephani, was a 16th-century printer and classical scholar in Paris. He was the proprietor of the Estienne print shop after the death of his father Henri Estienne, the founder of the Estienne printing firm. Estienne published and republished many classical texts as well as Greek and Latin translations of the Bible. Known as "Printer to the King" in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, Estienne's most prominent work was the Thesaurus linguae latinae which is considered to be the foundation of modern Latin lexicography. Additionally, he was the first to print the New Testament divided into standard numbered verses.
WGuillaume Fichet was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.
WGilles Corrozet was a French writer and printer-bookseller.
WRobert Granjon was a French type designer and printer. He worked in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and Rome for various printers. He is best known for having introduced the typeface Civilité and for his italic type form, the design of which in modern days is used in Garamond Italic.
WSebastian Gryphius was a German bookseller-printer and humanist.
WCharlotte Guillard was the first woman printer of importance. Guillard worked at the famous Soleil d'Or printing house from 1502 until her death. Annie Parent described her as a "notability of the Rue Saint-Jacques", the street where the shop was located in Paris, France. She became one of the most important printers of the Latin Quarter area in the city of Paris. As a woman, she was officially active with her own imprint during her two widowhood periods, that is to say in 1519–20, and in 1537–57. While she was not the first woman printer, succeeding both Anna Rugerin of Augsburg (1484) and Anna Fabri of Stockholm (1496), she was the first woman printer with a significantly known career.
WJohann Heynlin, variously spelled Heynlein, Henelyn, Henlin, Hélin, Hemlin, Hegelin, Steinlin; and translated as Jean à Lapide, Jean La Pierre , Johannes Lapideus, Johannes Lapidanus, Johannes de Lapide was a German-born scholar, humanist and theologian, who introduced the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.
WNicholas Jenson was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours, and is credited with being the creator of one of the finest early Roman type faces. Nicholas Jenson has been something of an iconic figure among students of early printing since the nineteenth century when the aesthete William Morris praised the beauty and perfection of his roman font. Jenson is an important figure in the early history of printing and a pivotal force in the emergence of Venice as one of the first great centers of the printing press.
WCharles Philibert de Lasteyrie was a French agronomist, lithographer and philanthropist.
WAndré François le Breton was a French publisher. He was one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, along with Michel-Antoine David, Laurent Durand, and Antoine-Claude Briasson. Le Breton contributed some articles to the Encyclopédie, but acted primarily as publisher and editor, often against Diderot's will.
WPatrick Malrieu was a French industrial executive and a Breton music historian.
WGuy Marchant was a printer of books, active in Paris from 1483 to 1505/1506. He had received a university education as a Master of Arts and is recorded as being a priest. He was succeeded by his nephew Jean Marchant (1504–1516).
WAntoine-François Momoro was a French printer, bookseller and politician during the French Revolution. An important figure in the Cordeliers club and in Hébertisme, he is the originator of the phrase ″Unité, Indivisibilité de la République; Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort″, one of the mottoes of the French Republic.
WPieter Mortier, or Pierre Mortier as the publisher of books in French, was the name of three successive generations of booksellers and publishers in the Dutch Republic.
WFrançois-Charles Oberthür was the founder of the French printing group Imprimerie Oberthur (fr). In Strasbourg, François-Charles, an engraver, ran a printing press, with Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography. He moved to Rennes in 1838, qualified as a lithographer in 1842 and then founded a printing company, with a partner. He became the sole owner in 1855, calling his enterprise the Imprimerie Oberthür.
WJean Petit was a printer, publisher and bookseller in Paris. From 1493 to 1530 he printed about one tenth of all publications in Paris, more than ten thousand volumes.
WPhilippe Pigouchet was a French printer and wood engraver who worked for and closely with Simon Vostre, a book keeper and publisher who planned the idea to create the fourth Book of Hours.
WChristophe Plantin was an influential French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher living and working in Antwerp.
WPaul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
WFrançois Regnault was a French printer and publisher active in Paris at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
WNicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif, also known as Rétif or Restif de la Bretonne, was a French novelist. The term retifism for shoe fetishism was named after him.
WEstienne Roger was a francophone printer, bookseller and publisher of sheet music working in the Netherlands.
WGuillaume Rouillé, also called Roville or Rovillius, was one of the most prominent humanist bookseller-printers in 16th-century Lyon. He invented the pocket book format called the sextodecimo, printed with sixteen leaves to the folio sheet, half the size of the octavo format, and published many works of history and poetry as well as medicine, in addition to his useful compilations and handbooks.
WÉdouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
WGeoffroy Tory was born in Bourges around 1480 and died in Paris before 14 October 1533. He was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding accents on letters in French. His life's work has heavily influenced French publishing to this day.
WJean de Tournes was a French printer, book publisher and bookseller, and the founder of a long-lasting family printing business. From 1559 he was the imprimeur du Roi, printer to the French king.
WJean de Tournes was a French author, printer, book publisher and bookseller, and member of the long-lasting family printing business founded by his father Jean de Tournes. After his father's death in 1564 he was the imprimeur du Roi, printer to the French king. He was the father of Jean de Tournes (1593–1669).
WVincenzo Valgrisi, also known under his Latinized name as Vicentius Valgrisius, was a French-born printer active primarily in Venice in the 16th-century.
WGuillaume Vandive (1680–1706) was a French printer and bookseller. He was a master tradesman under the patronage of the Dauphin of France. Vandive's premises was on the rue Saint-Jacques, Paris. His trade mark was the "Crowned Dolphin". Vandive published books in French and Latin on the topics of Jansenist theology, trade and travel. After his death at age 26, Vandive's business was continued by Nicolas Simart who married Vandive's widow. Family discord and legal actions ensued.
WAntoine Vérard was a late 15th-century and early 16th-century French publisher, bookmaker and bookseller.
WPierre Vidoue (c.1490–1543), Parisian printer and bookseller, active from 1516 to 1543; in his Latin books he calls himself Petrus Vidouæus. He was succeeded by his wife Jeanne Garreau in 1544 and 1545; she then married the bookseller Estienne des Hayes.
WAimé Vingtrinier was a French printer, writer, amateur historian, figure of the 19th-century scholar.
WAntoine Vitré (1595–1674) was a French printer of the 17th century. He was the King's printer for Oriental languages.
WAndreas Wechelus was a printer and bookseller active in Paris from 1554 to 1573 and in Frankfurt from 1573 to 1581.