Pyramus de Candolle
Pyrame de Candolle (Latin: Pyramus de Candolle; 1566 – 17 September 1626), also known under the pseudonym of Jean Doreau, was a French Calvinist, exiled in the Republic of Geneva and turned printer.
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Biography
Born at Fréjus, France, in 1566 to a Calvinist family, Pyramus de Candolle went into exile in the Republic of Geneva to escape persecution, where he joined his uncle, Bernardin de Candolle. In 1591, he married Anne Vignon, daughter of the printer Eustache Vignon who had died three years earlier, and became a printer in his turn. He was received as a bourgeois of Geneva in 1594 for having distinguished himself by participating in the wars of Savoy against France.
In 1616, he went into exile once again in Yverdon, then in Bernese territory, and acquired the bourgeoisie in 1619. He died in Versoix, then part of France.
Works
Pyramus de Candolle published several works under his name, including in 1595 Harangues militaires et concions des princes, capitaines, ambassadeurs et autres manians tant la guerre que les affaires d'état. Under the pseudonym of Jean Doreau, he published in 1609 the first edition of Montaigne's Essays with a Dutch location, in this case Leiden, to avoid the seizure of the book in France, as well as a work entitled Le tableau des différens de la religion: traictant de l'Eglise, du nom, définition, marques, chefs, propriétés, conditions, foy et doctrines d'icelle...
References
- Desan, Philippe (2007). "Les Éditions des Essais avec des Adresses Néerlandaises." In: Paulus Johannes Smith & Karl A. E. Enenkel, Montaigne and the Low Countries: (1580-1700). Boston & Leiden: Brill, pp. 327–60.
- Galiffe, James A. (1855). "L'Imprimerie Genevoise au XVIIe Siècle (1600 à 1700)", Bulletin de l'Institut National Genevois, Vol. II, No. 7, pp. 211–28.
- Gaullieur, Eusèbe Henri (1855). Études ur la Typographie Genevoise du XVe au XIXe Siècles, et sur les Origines de l'Imprimerie en Suisse. Genève.
