La ROUGE Pierre

printer and French engraver (Chablis 14… – Paris 1493)

Pierre La Rouge was a printer, miniaturist and engraver at first settled in Chablis in Burgundy (recorded in 1478), then in Paris where he worked for Vincent Commin and Antoine Vérard, two of the most illustrious publishers of the second half of the 15th century.
In 1488 he received the role of Royal Printer with the task of making the work “Mer des Histoires”, a primitive French version of the book of universal history ‘Rudimentum Novitiorum’, printed in Latin in Lübeck in 1475. La Rouge family was an important lineage of French printers at the end of the 15th century. In addition to Pierre, also the print works of his brother Jaques and his son Giullame, who continued the paternal activity, are remembered.