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Estienne

American  
[es-tyen] / ɛsˈtjɛn /

noun

  1. Also a family of French printers, book dealers, and scholars, including especially Henri died 1520; his son, Robert 1503?–59; Henri (son of Robert), 1531?–98.

  2. a French printing firm founded by this family.


Estienne British  
/ etjɛn /

noun

  1. a family of French printers, scholars, and dealers in books, including Henri (ɑ̃ri), ?1460–1520, who founded the printing business in Paris, his son Robert (rɔbɛr), 1503–59, and his grandson Henri , 1528–98

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In 2019 he premiered a new play, “Why?,” about experimental Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold, which Mr. Brook wrote and staged with Estienne.

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2022

“The Mahabharata,’' Brook’s epic production created with co-director Marie-Hélène Estienne and dramatist Jean-Claude Carrière, theatricalized for Western audiences the vast Hindu epic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2022

Written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, the play explores themes of crime, justice and compassion.

From New York Times May 9, 2018

Brook and Estienne confer on the proceedings an air of austere dignity, but that air never becomes stale.

From Washington Post Mar. 30, 2017

This scholar-artist, Geoffroi Tory, was a native of Bourges, who had been a professor at several of the Paris colleges and was at one time proof-reader to Henri Estienne.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

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