Geoffroy Tory

Geoffroy Tory,  born 1480 Bourges,France died 1533 a (born c. 1480, Bourges, Fr.- died c. 1533, Paris), publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible for the French Renaissance style of book decoration and who played a leading part in popularizing in France the roman letter as against the prevailing Gothic. His important publications include a number of “Books of Hours” and his famous philological work Champfleury (1529). In this work Tory put forward the idea of accents, the apostrophe, the cedilla, and simple punctuation marks. He was appointed imprimeue du roi (“printer to the king”) by Francis I  in about 1530.