Paris was Europe’s most important intellectual center in the 15th century, and saw the birth of several printing works.
The first printing works in Paris were founded by two Sorbonne professors, Jean Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet.
The first, Jean Heynlin, born in Stein, had the idea of setting up a printing works in Paris.
The first work printed in this facility was a collection of Gasparin de Pergame’s letters (1470).
At the start of this adventure, these three men and some German workers set up shop in premises at the Sorbonne, then moved their printing works to rue St-Jacques.
Subsequently, two of the workers opened a printing works in Paris on the same street, which gave them considerable competition.
TheParis printing house expanded rapidly.
Then it was the turn of other printing works to spring up in the capital during the last 25 years of the 15th century.
