De Strasbourg à Cambridge, l’itinéraire d’un imprimeur : Rémy Guédon (1546-1553) : Première partie : De Claude Garamont à Martin Bucer, autour de deux lettres de 1549 et 1550

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This article, the first of two, presents various aspects of two major letters that Rémy Guédon, printer and bookseller in Strasbourg, sent from Paris to Conrad Hubert in Strasburg in 1549 and from Frankfurt to Martin Bucer, the reformer, originally from the Strasburg region, now in Cambridge, England, in 1550. Guédon was planning to join Bucer as his printer in Cambridge shortly. These two letters reveal details about networks among printers and booksellers, especially Guédon’s relations with Claude Garamont in Paris, as well as about printers and printing at mid-century. In order to understand the letters, it will be necessary to take a close look at the historical and religious context, both the drastic, political and religious upheavals in Strasburg at the end of the 1540s, and the renewal of the Reformation in England after the death of Henry VIII. It will also include the transcription of both letters in Latin and their French translation, with commentary.