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Yolande Bonhomme

1490 – 1557

French printer and bookseller

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Lived 1490 – 1557 (aged 66–67). Yolande Bonhomme was a French book printer, typographer, printer and publisher.

Colophon of a devotional printed by Bonhomme under her husband's mark in 1539. Yolande Bonhomme (c. 1490 – 1557 ) was a French printer and seller of liturgical and devotional books in Paris. She was among a handful of important female book printers in Paris during this time, including Charlotte Guillard, Françoise Louvain and Marie L'Angelier.

She was the daughter of Pasquier Bonhomme, himself a printer and one of four appointed booksellers of the University of Paris, and the wife of another printer, Thielmann Kerver. She began printing on her own following her husband's death in 1522 in their shop at street level in the Hôtel Unicorn on the Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris. The University of Paris and the Catholic Church were among her patrons. She published a book of hours in 1523 Estimates of her output range from 136 (according to Axel Erdmann) to 200 (according to Beatrice Beech, based on Renouard) publications before her own death in 1557. Because she often used her husband's name on the colophon for early books, her identity as the printer can be difficult to pinpoint.

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Born
1490
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Book printer, typographer, printer, publisher
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Who was Yolande Bonhomme?

French printer and bookseller

When was Yolande Bonhomme born?

Yolande Bonhomme was born in 1490.

When did Yolande Bonhomme die?

Yolande Bonhomme died on 9 July 1557 in Paris.

What was Yolande Bonhomme's occupation?

Yolande Bonhomme was a book printer, typographer, printer and publisher.

What nationality was Yolande Bonhomme?

Yolande Bonhomme was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yolande Bonhomme

· Wikidata: Q57393267

· DBpedia: Yolande Bonhomme

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