Background
After his father"s death in 1564 he was the imprimeur du Roi, printer to the French king.
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After his father"s death in 1564 he was the imprimeur du Roi, printer to the French king.
He was the father of Jean de Tournes (1593–1669). Jean de Tournes was born in 1539. He took over his father"s printing and publishing business in 1564.
In 1567, during the French Wars of Religion, his press was sacked and he was imprisoned for two months.
He was imprisoned again in 1572, but escaped the Saint Bartholemew"s Day Massacre. He began printing there in about 1590.
The emblem of the de Tournes press was two entwined vipers. Their mottoes included Nescit labi virtus.
Son art en Dieu; Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris and Virum de mille unum reperi.
He became a bourgeois in 1596, and a member of the Conseil des Deux Cents in 1604.