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Jean Le Fèvre (canon)

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For other people with similar names, see Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy and Jean Le Fèvre (astronomer).

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

Works

1536: Livret des emblesmes de maistre André Alciat ; mis en rime françoyse
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.

References

authority control of the BnF.

Sources

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