Etienne Dolet

. This author, bookseller, printer, and publisher was born at Orleans in 1509, and died in Paris in 1546. A “martyr of the Renaissance,” he was compelled for his heresy to carry a bundle of his publications to the market-place, where he and his books were burned together. Dolet was the author of twenty-four separate works. At the stake he uttered the line, Non dolet ipse Dolet, sed pia turba dolet (It is not Dolet who grieves, but a pious crowd). Dolet established his press at Lyons, and printed his first book in 1538.