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

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