Jean Behourt

Jean Behourt, born in the first half of the 16th century in Rouen where he died in 1621, was a French grammarian and playwright.

A regent of the collège des Bons Enfants de Rouen from 1586 to 1620, Jean Behourt wrote three tragedies for this collège: Polixène, tragicomedy in three acts, with choirs, derived from the first book of Histoires tragiques by Pierre Boisteau, dedicated to the princess of Montpensier, presented on 7 September 1597, Esaü, ou le chasseur, tragedy in five acts, dédicated to the duke of Montpensier, presented on 2 August 1598, and Hypsicratée ou la Magnanimité, dedicated to Georges de Montigny, tragedy in five acts, presented in the same location.

In 1607, Béhourd also drafted a compendium of Despautère's Latin grammar which, abbreviated in turn, has long been used in colleges under the name Petit Behourt.

Works

 * 1597: Polixène, Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val
 * 1598: Esaü, ou le chasseur, Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val
 * 1604: Hypsicratée ou la Magnanimité, Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val
 * 1603: Sententiæ puriores cum dictis festivioribus in usum pueritiæ ex Ovidio excerptæ ingulis, adjecta est sua epigraphe, Rouen, Jean Osmon
 * 1684: Grammatica Joannis Despauterii, in commodiorem docendi et discendi usum redacta, Lyon, Antoine Thomaz
 * Despauterius minor seu Joannis Despauterii, latinae grammatices epitome, in commodiorem docendi et discendi usum redacta ... Adjectiva est facilioris intelligentiae causa et gallica versuum Despauterii, 8 v., Caen, Guillaume Richard, [s.d.], 514 p.