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 [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.
References
Sources
Alexandre Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVI, Paris, 1959.
Canons (priests) French lexicographers French translators Italian–French translators Clergy from Dijon 1493 births 1565 deaths