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Also Known As Maurice Kahane
Born April 12, 1919 • Paris • France
Died July 3, 1990 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Frog Prince”
Pierre Attaingnant
French music printer
Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Robert Ballard
French printer
François Didot
French printer and bookseller
Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
Hyacinthe-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Pierre Didot
French printer and typesetter
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
French journalist
Girardin, engraving 1881, after a photograph
Émile de Girardin
French journalist
Henri II Estienne
French scholar and printer
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Hubert Beuve-Méry
French publisher and editor
Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532
Robert I Estienne
French scholar and printer
Christophe Plantin
French printer
Jules Renard
Jules Renard
French author
Migne, engraving by E. Tailland
Jacques-Paul Migne
French priest and publisher
Renaudot, detail of an engraving
Théophraste Renaudot
French journalist
Ambroise Vollard
French art dealer
Gaston Gallimard
French publisher
Simon de Colines
French printer