Known as Didot the elder, a printer, publisher and type founder, he was the father of the printers Pierre and Firmin Didot.
In the tree’s words (in French): “Libraire, imprimeur, fondeur en caractères, invente la presse à un coup et le papier vélin type Annonay”. Born: 7 January 1730. Died: 10 July 1804, Paris (75). Ancestor no. 160 of Augustin Cochin, on his father’s side, in the Pierfit collaborative tree on Geneanet.
The man8rove collaborative database gives him as “François Ambroise Didot (1730 - 1804), libraire, imprimeur du Clergé à Paris”.
Brothers and sisters, according to the Pierfit tree: Marie Marguerite, Pierre Ier (1732 – 1795), Marc Antoine (1736 – 1788).
- Parent of
- Firmin Didot (1764 – 1836)
- Married
- Antoinette Voisin