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36 HISTORIC FEINTING TYPES. has survived all changes in the French G-overnment. In this school of typography many of the able punch-cutters of France were educated or developed. One of the most Died i56i. eminent was Claude Graramond, who has ever since been known in France as " the father of type-founders." He seems to have been the first type-founder for the trade, not only designing, but cutting and casting types of all kinds to the order of printers. His reputation as a de- signer of types was established at least as early as 1535. At the order of Francis I. he engraved, in 1544, the three kinds of characters which Robert Stephens required for his Greek texts. To him succeeded many able men, who for more than a hundred years maintained the fame of France as the leader in typography. Bom 1525. Guillaume Le Be, equally honored as a designer of let- ters and founder of types, was a pupil of Claude Garamond and of Robert Stephens, for whom he perfected the He- brew types which Stephens used. In 1561 he was firmly established at Paris, .and his type-foundry was the most celebrated in the world. At the request of Philip n., he made the Oriental types for the great Antwerp Polyglot, completed 1573, by Plantin, in eight volumes, folio. He was also called to Venice to cut Hebrew types. His son, Bom 1570 Henri Gruillaume, was printer as well as engraver. The son and grandson of Henri kept up the reputation of the house. Bom 1573. Jacques de Sanlecque was a pupil of Le Be, and was Died 1648. notable for his Roman type. He was also eminent for his