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.