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EAN GROLIER was born at Lyons in 1479, and died at Paris in 1565. His title to fame rests entirely on his passion for beautiful books, the patient investigations of M. Le Roux de Liney disclosing only three or four occasions of his emerging from comparative obscurity: In 1544, in a quarrel with the boasting Benvenuto de Cellini, who does not fail to record in his Memoirs his closing of a discussion with a threat to throw the bibliophile out of the window; in 1558, as director for the Marshal of Montmorency of the Chantilly Art Collections; in 1559, as president of a commission instituted by Henri II. for the recoinage of moneys; in 1561, in a suit for peculation, which resulted in his acquittal. Portio mea, Domine, sit in terra viventium, is the