"Si jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit."
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Henri Estienne
Henri Estienne (1528 – 1598), also known as "Henricus Stephanus", was a 16th-century Parisian printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of the great Robert Estienne (1503–59). Some sources say Estienne was born in 1531.
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