Claude Chevallon

Claude Chevallon (1479–1537) was a medieval French printer.

Life

He was born in 1479.[1] He was active as a printer from 1511 to 1537.[2]

In 1520, he married female printer Charlotte Guillard, two years after the death of her first husband Berthold Rembolt,[3] and they worked together to develop the printer-publisher business.[4] Claude Chevallon's printer's mark had been two horses, and he added the sun to this when their shops merged.[5]

When he died in 1537,[1] his widow took over the business, continuing for 20 years until her own death in 1557.[6]

Claude Chevallon had a daughter named Gillette.[7] An illustration in S. Bernardus, Opera omnia, Paris, 1526–27 shows the family group of Chevallon with his wife and daughter; their clothing indicates that they were middle class and quite prosperous.[8]

Bibliography

Some of the notable books printed by him include:[2]

• Legenda Francisci
• Sarum Breviary
• 1516 Destructorium Viciorum by Alexander Carpenter, Paris

References

1. "Claude Chevallon Printer's Device". library.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
2. Duff, E.G. (2011). A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected with It from the Issue of the First Dated Book in 1457 to the Incorporation of the Company of Stationers in 1557. Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781108026765. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
3. Susan Broomhall (2002). Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-century France. Ashgate. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7546-0671-0.
4. Vicki Leon (1 March 1999). Uppity Women of the Renaissance. Red Wheel Weiser. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-57324-127-4.
5. Lois Rather (1970). Women as Printers. Rather Press. p. 8.
6. Susan Broomhall (January 2001). "Re-assessing Female Representation in the Print Trades in Sixteenth-Century France". Parergon. 18 (2): 55–73. doi:10.1353/pgn.2001.0064. S2CID 144990157.
7. T.F. Dibdin (1817). The Bibliographical Decameron. p. 54.
8. Cory Masiak (1989). "On Our Marks – Symbols of early printers adorn Fondren reference room" (PDF). The Flyleaf. 40 (1): 6.

External links

• "Claude Chevallon Printer's Device". library.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
• "Chevallon, Claude". thesaurus.cerl.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
• "Printer's device of Claude Chevallon of Paris". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
• "Chevallon, Claude (1479-1537) - Notice documentaire IdRef". idref.fr. Retrieved 2017-03-04.