, painting, collection
Plantin-Moretus Museum (Antwerp) Beys was born in Paris on 18 June 1575, the son of
Gilles Beys and Magdalena Plantin. In 1583 he was sent to his grandfather, Christopher Plantin, in Antwerp. He was trained as a printer at the
Plantin Press and was educated at the Jesuit college. In May 1595 he succeeded his father as head of the Paris branch of the Plantin office. In 1600 he was sued for debt by his father-in-law, Adrien Périer. On 6 April 1601 he lost his status as a sworn printer. In 1608 he opened a new business in Rennes, where he was to become involved in a
witchcraft case the following year. Via
Dinan he fled to
Saint-Omer, where he worked as a bookbinder for the
English College Press. His wife and his apprentice, Lambert Foncq, joined him there with what had been salvaged of the Rennes printing shop. In 1610 Beys set up shop in
Lille. In 1628 his daughter Georgine married Simon Le Francq, who also became a printer-bookseller in Lille. Beys died in Lille, sick and in poverty, on 7 September 1647. ==Works==