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Imprimerie Royale

French printing establishment

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establishment by Louis XIII

  • Morison, Stanley: Times New Roman sample
    In typography: The middle years

    …Cardinal de Richelieu, established the Imprimerie Royale at the Louvre. In 1692 Louis XIV ordered the creation of a commission charged with developing the design of a new type to be composed of letters arrived at on “scientific” principles. The commission, whose deliberations were fully recorded, worked mathematically, drawing and…

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