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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESTIENNE (or ETIENNE; the French form of the name; anglicized to Stephens, and latinized to Stephanus)  , a French
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family of scholars and printers . The founder of the
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race was
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HENRI ESTIENNE (d . 1520), the
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scion of a noble family of Provence, who came to Paris in 1502, and soon afterwards set up a printing establishment at the top of the rue Saint-
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Jean de
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Beauvais, on the hill of Saint-Genevieve opposite the law school . He died in 1520, and, his three sons being minors, the business was carried on by his foreman Simon de Colines, who in 1521 married his widow .

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