Guillaume Fichet was a French

France

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 scholar who cooperated with Johann Heynlin

Johann Heynlin

Johann Heynlin Johann Heynlin (variously spelled Heynlein, Henelyn, Henlin, Hélin, Hemlin, Hegelin, Steinlin; and translated as Jean à Lapide, Jean La Pierre (Lapierre, De la Pierre), Johannes Lapideus, Johannes de Lapide) Johann Heynlin (variously spelled Heynlein, Henelyn, Henlin, Hélin, Hemlin,...

 to establish the first printing press

Printing press

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 in France in 1470.

Biography

He was born in Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières

Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières

Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-People:...

, in Savoy

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. In 1467, he was elected rector of the University of Paris, and he installed in the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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 the first printing press

Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium , thereby transferring the ink...

 ever set up in France, with the aid of three printers who came from Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

to assist him in this work. The first book printed was Lettres de Gasparino (1470). Some of Fichet's own books followed, such as Ficheti Guilielmi Artium et Theologiæ Doctoris, Rhetoricorum Libri III. (1470).