Géographie des métiers du livre à Paris au xvie siècle et leur aire de diffusion à travers l’activité des Kerver, famille d’imprimeurs-libraires parisiens (1497-1585)

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After having acknowledged the efforts of Philippe Renouard to locate the workshops in Paris where books were produced in the sixteenth century, as evidenced by his Répertoire36, republished in 1965, and having presented the maps on the Garamond internet site on the basis of the so-called Basel map, this contribution is devoted to documenting the geography of the book trade in Paris at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, a crucial period for their establishment. Relying on the works of Judith Kagan on the role as a crucible, played by the cloister of Saint-Benoît-le-bien-tourné in Paris during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she illuminates two personalities of the first order, clergymen originally from Troyes, Pierre Dorigny (d. 1498) and his nephew Nicolas Dorigny (d. 1534), who was a regent at the Sorbonne and Chancellor of Notre-Dame in Paris. Benefactors not only of Josse Bade, but also of Thielman Kerver who could thus abandon the bridge of Saint-Michael, ill-suited to the production of books, for the Rue des Mathurins, they encouraged the physical installation of the book trade in that neighborhood and thus prepared for the supremacy of the Rue Saint-Jacques, where Thielman Kerver settled in 1519. In conjunction with the development of the projects of the Kerver family in Paris in the sixteenth century, a last part is devoted to the diffusion of the Kervers’ products throughout the Kingdom of France.