Gilles Corrozet (1510 - 1568, Paris) was a French writer and printer-bookseller.

Life and works

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and

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. His own poetic work accompanied the illustrations in his

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''Hecatomographie'' (1540), which was followed soon after by his versifications of Aesop’s Fables, ''Les Fables du très ancien Esope, mises en rithme françoise'' (1542). He was also responsible for several historical and philosophical works. Corrozet was the grandson of the Paris bookseller Pierre Le Brodeur and married as his second wife Catherine Cramoisy from the family of equally notable booksellers. Two of his sons followed him into the trade, while his daughter married Nicholas Bonfons from another printer-bookseller dynasty.

References

Information is drawn from the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Corrozet, Gilles 1510 births 1568 deaths 16th-century French poets French printers