Gilles Corrozet

Gilles Corrozet (4 January 1510 - 4 July 1568, Paris) was a French writer and printer-bookseller.

Corrozet’s printer’s mark was a rose enclosed in a heart, punning on his name (Coeur rosier), and accompanied by the Biblical motto In corde prudentis requiescit sapientia (Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding, Proverbs 14.33).

His first productions date from 1532 and one of his specialities was to make available handy small-scale classical texts and influential illustrated works.

His own poetic work accompanied the illustrations in his emblem book Hecatomographie (1540), which was followed soon after by his versifications of Aesop’s Fables, Les Fables du très ancien Esope, mises en rithme françoise (1542).

Two of his sons followed him into the trade, while his daughter married Nicholas Bonfons from another printer-bookseller dynasty.