Christophe Beys

Christophe Beys (1575–1647) was a printer in the Kingdom of France and the Spanish Netherlands.[1] He was a grandson of Christophe Plantin.

Christophe Beys
Born18 June 1575
Paris, Kingdom of France
Died7 September 1647(1647-09-07) (aged 72)
Lille, Spanish Netherlands
EducationJesuit College, Antwerp; Plantin Press
Occupationprinter and bookseller
EraBaroque
Parent(s)Gilles Beys, Magdalena Plantin

Life
Portrait of Magdalena Plantin, by Adriaen Thomasz Key, painting, collection Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp)

Beys was born in Paris on 18 June 1575, the son of Gilles Beys and Magdalena Plantin.[2] In 1583 he was sent to his grandfather, Christopher Plantin, in Antwerp. He was trained as a printer at the Plantin Press and was educated at the Jesuit college. In May 1595 he succeeded his father as head of the Paris branch of the Plantin office.

In 1600 he was sued for debt by his father-in-law, Adrien Périer. On 6 April 1601 he lost his status as a sworn printer. In 1608 he opened a new business in Rennes, where he was to become involved in a witchcraft case the following year. Via Dinan he fled to Saint-Omer, where he worked as a bookbinder for the English College Press. His wife and his apprentice, Lambert Foncq, joined him there with what had been salvaged of the Rennes printing shop. In 1610 Beys set up shop in Lille. In 1628 his daughter Georgine married Simon Le Francq, who also became a printer-bookseller in Lille.

Beys died in Lille, sick and in poverty, on 7 September 1647.

Works
gollark: They also gave people custom hardware (micro:bits), which probably isn't great either since people won't realize you can just do programming stuff on a regular home computer or laptop to automate annoying tasks and whatnot.
gollark: But then they only get taught random details about some car components, and then build cars out of paper.
gollark: It's like if someone said "cars are vital to the modern economy, so our children need to learn how to ~~use cars~~ build cars from scratch".
gollark: Not one which needs to be taught in schools over possibly more important things (not that schools teach many important things).
gollark: Not very related, but I am quite annoyed by the government here (UK)'s push to make everyone "code" as if it's the most important thing ever.

References
  1. Jules Houdoy, Les imprimeurs lillois: bibliographie des impressions lilloises, 1595-1700 (Paris, 1879), pp. 51-83.
  2. Christophe Beys (1575-1647), Website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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