# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillaume-rouille
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:24:33.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillaume-rouille"
name: "Guillaume Rouillé"
slug: "guillaume-rouille"
description: "Guillaume Rouillé, also called Roville or Rovillius, was one of the most prominent humanist bookseller-printers in 16th-century Lyon. He invented the pocket book format called the sextodecimo, printed with sixteen leaves to the folio sheet, half the size of the octavo format, and published many works of history and poetry as well as medicine, in addition to his useful compilations and handbooks."
tagline: "French humanist bookseller-printer (c.1504–1589)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Lione%2C_guillaume_rouill%C3%A9%2C_bibbia_vulgata%2C_1566_%2810.B.1.4%29_00.JPG/330px-Lione%2C_guillaume_rouill%C3%A9%2C_bibbia_vulgata%2C_1566_%2810.B.1.4%29_00.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1520"
deathDate: "1589-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.61
  momentum:             4.724409448818897
  historical:           8.756661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Руйе, Гийом"
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    title: "جيوم رويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "גיום רואייה"
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    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Rouill%C3%A9"
    title: "Guillaume Rouillé"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump