About Guillaume Fichet
Lived 1433 – 1480 (aged 46–47). Guillaume Fichet was a French diplomat, university teacher, theologian, renaissance humanist, printer and humanist.
Guillaume Fichet (; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470.
Biography He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy.
He studied in Paris between 1450 and 1454 and then followed up on his studies in Avignon.
In 1469 he and Heynlin installed the first press ever set up in France. They brought from Basel three printers: Together with Bessarion, he left Paris and went to Rome in 1472.
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French printer (1433–1480)
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Guillaume Fichet was born on 16 September 1433 in Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières.
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Guillaume Fichet died in 1480 in Rome.
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Guillaume Fichet was a diplomat, university teacher, theologian, renaissance humanist, printer and humanist.
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Guillaume Fichet was French.
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