Career
Guillard worked at the famous Soleil d’Or printing house from 1502 until her death. Annie Parent described her as a "notability of the Rue Saint-Jacques", the street where the shop was located in Paris, France. She became one of the most important printers of the Latin Quarter area in the city of Paris.
Guillard was very likely born in the late 1480s in Paris, France.
Her name is sometime spelled Guillart and in Latin books as Carola Guillard. Her parents were Jacques Guillard and Guillemyne Saney.
The family’s exact place of residence is not known. They had many connections with the province of Maine in France.
She could very well have been born there instead of Paris.
Mid life
Guillard showed interest in the printing business as early as 1500 when she was still a teenager. Guillard first married Berthold Rembolt in 1502. Her first husband worked with the earliest French printer Ulrich Gering.
Their printing business went so well that they eventually took over a small hotel that housed their family and employees.
Rembolt died in 1519. Paris businesses and crafts in the sixteenth century were regulated by the guild system.
Guillard took over management of her husband"s print shop after his death. She took on the duties of proofreading the Latin publications.
She was often associated with Guillaume des Boys, her brother-in-law.
Later life and death
In 1520 Guillard married Claude Chevallon, a bookseller who also printed theological books From this time forward, Guillard was known as "Madame Chevallon." Thereafter, Madame Chevallon ran his printing business on her own. She probably died in 1557.
More than 400 different libraries worldwide have books printed by Guillard.
There are over 200 different publications by Guillard available worldwide.
