Henri Estienne

Henri Estienne (1528 – 1598), also known as "Henricus Stephanus", was a 16th-century Parisian printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of the great Robert Estienne (1503–59). Some sources say Estienne was born in 1531.

Quotes

• Si jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit.
  • If youth knew; if age could.
  • Épigramme 4, Les Prémices, book 4

Attributed

• Pardonez-moy lecteur si ie parle si gras, estant contraint de m'accommoder au propos que ie traite.
  • Quoted as one of several epigraphs to Pisanus Fraxi's Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879), p. [v]

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Henri Estienne on Wikipedia