Jean Le Fèvre (canon)

Jean Le Fèvre (also Jehan Lefèvre), (1493, Dijon – 1565) was a 16th-century French canon in Langres and Bar-sur-Aube.

To be distinguished from Jean Le Fèvre, bishop of Chartres 1380-1389, Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy and Jean Le Fevre (astronomer) 1420-1435

Works

• 1536: Livret des emblesmes de maistre André Alciat ; mis en rime françoyse [by Jehan Lefèvre]
• 1572: Jean Le Fèvre was the first author of the dictionary of rhymes : Dictionnaire des rymes françoises de feu M. Jean Le Fèvre ; reduict en bon ordre et augmenté d'un grand nombre de vocables, of which a reprint was made in 1587, by his nephew Étienne Tabourot, sieur des Accords, called Tabourot des Accords.
• We also owe him some translations from Italian to French.[1]

References

1. authority control of the BnF.

Sources

• Alexandre Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVI, Paris, 1959.