Firmin Didot

See also: Didot

Firmin Didot , born the April 14th 1764 and dead the April 24th 1836, is the most famous member of a Dynastie of Imprimeur S, editor S and typographer S French, the Famille Didot, which starts at the beginning of the 18th century and continues nowadays.

It is the second wire of François-Ambroise Didot. He worked, in.liaison.with his brother Pierre Didot, to improve his art, was distinguished especially like engraver and founder, and made, the first, of the editions Stéréotype S in 1797.

Among the editions of the two brothers, one distinguishes: the Camoêns , in Portuguese, 1817; Henriade , 1819, in-4, and the Tables of logarithms of Callet, whose correction became irreproachable.

Firmin Didot cultivated the letters: one owes him of good verse translations of the Bucoliques of Virgile, 1806, of the Idylles of Théocrite, 1833, and a tragedy of Annibal. Elected official appointed in 1827, it defended the advantages of the bookstore and the press. He was in favor of a substantial reform of the orthography and presented his ideas on this subject in his Observation test on the French orthography or ortografie French.

The name of one of the two typographical units (or Not typographical), bears its name, the Point Didot.

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Family Didot

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