Guillaume Fichet

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Guillaume Fichet (French: [fiʃɛ]; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France in 1470.

Biography

He was born in Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. In 1467, he was elected rector of the University of Paris, and he installed in the Sorbonne the first printing press ever set up in France, with the aid of three printers who came from Mainz to assist him in this work. The first book printed was Lettres de Gasparino (1470). Some of Fichet's own books followed, such as Ficheti Guilielmi Artium et Theologiæ Doctoris, Rhetoricorum Libri III. (1470).

References

"Fichet, Guillaume". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. This work in turn cites:
- Phillipe, Guillaume Fichet, sa vie et ses œuvres. Introduction de l'imprimerie à Paris (Annecy, 1892)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 76350813 LCCN: no2004035395 ISNI: 0000 0000 7729 3551 GND: 10094468X SUDOC: 029743702 BNF: cb12130223f

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Name	Fichet, Guillaume
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Date of birth	1433
Place of birth	Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Date of death	c. 1480
Place of death	Rome

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