Guillaume Vandive

Guillaume Vandive (1680–1706), Printer and ordinary bookseller of Monseigneur the Dauphin. Guillaume Vandive, was born about 1680, was baptized in the Church of St. Bartholomew, Paris, under his original name Vandivout (Van Dievoet), and died in 1706 after eleven months of marriage.

He was the oldest son of the famous Parisian goldsmith of origin of Brussels Philippe Van Dievoet dit Vandive (1654–1738), adviser of the king, goldsmith of the King and the Dolphin, and the nephew of the famous sculptor of Brussels Peter Van Dievoet (1661–1729).

Guillaume Vandive, printer and publisher of Monseigneur the Dauphin, was accepted as a Master on December 20, 1701, with the recommendation of Monseigneur the Grand Dauphin Louis (who was called Monseigneur, as specified by Lottin), after being trained from April 1697 to April 1701 under Jean Ier Boudot (1651? -1706), ordinary printer of the King and the royal Academy of sciences and director of the Printing works of His Serene Highness the Prince de Dombes with Trévoux. He married in Paris in 1705, Eléonore the Prior. Guillaume and Eléonore had a daughter, Charlotte-Eléonore Vandive.

Nicolas Simart succeeded him after having married his widow on June 15, 1706; he received his Mastership the following July.

It was installed street Saint-Jacob with the sign With the Dolphin crowned, opposite the street of the Parchment factory. It published various catalogs of the books printed at his place into 1701,1704,1706. It points out that it still has other books printed in France or abroad.

It also published a series of works in collaboration with Louis Coignard, established street Saint-Jacob with “the Gold Eagle”, born in the 1680 and deceased on September 27, 1738 with the convent of Meung-sur-Loire where it had been transferred a few months before after being embastillé on December 28, 1737 to be implied in the publication of works Jansenists. He was the brother of Elie Jean-Baptiste Coignart (1667–1735) famous to have published the first edition of the Dictionnaire of the French Academy in 1694 and the son of Jean-Baptiste Ier Coignart, printer-bookseller of the king and the French Academy, born in the 1637 and deceased on September 10, 1686.

The catalog of the books published in collaboration with Louis Coignard was published in 1703 in the last pages of the book, Moiens to join together the protestans with the Roman Church publish by evesque Mr. Camus of Belley under the title of Avoisinement of the protestans towards the Roman Church . New corrected and increased edition remarks, to be used as supplement, by Mr. ***, Paris, 1703, at Louis Coignart with the Eagle of gold, and Guillaume Vandive, with the Crowned Dolphin, street S. Jacques, with approval & privilege of Roy (in 12°). The author of this corrected edition would be large the Richard Simon (1638–1712) itself, according to the annotation written in a writing of time on the title page of the specimen which its family preserves. It acts, like says it the first letter prefaces, of a work which addresses to the communities the new ones and new Catholics, and that nearly twenty years after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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