Geoffroy Tory
Geoffroy Tory , born with Bourges towards 1480 and died in Paris before October 14th 1533, is a grammairien and French, creative engraver of the block letters suitable for the transcription of French.
Its life and its work
Tory could study in Bourges thanks to the protection of canons of this city. He studied then with Rome and Bologna, and returned to Paris in 1505. He became regent of several colleges of the university of Paris (college of Plessy, then Collège of Burgundy in 1512, finally Collège of Coqueret), where he taught grammar and philosophy. He worked in parallel as foreman (correct of workshop) and engraver for various printers, among which Simon de Colines and Henri Estienne (the old one).He could gradually get various manuscripts of works in French language, which he wanted to print, at one time when only the books in Latin, thought one, could find purchasing. He invented or “acclimatized” for that of new typographical natures, in particular the accented accentuated letters, the Apostrophe (borrowed from the old Greek ), the “point-hooked one” (our Virgule) and the Cédille. He published his typographical principles in a work called Field-fleury (1529), and his orthographical recommendations for French in another work, Adolescence clementine and Briesve doctrines for deuement escripre (1533).
Its zeal for the French language entered the sights of François Ier, which granted to him the title of printer of the king in 1529, and as bookseller of the university of Paris in 1532 made it admit. It had like apprentice Claude Garamond, who took his succession like printer of the king.
See also
- Orthotypographie
- Punctuation
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