Jean Lefèvre

Lefèvre, Jean (c.1320-c.1387). French lawyer and translator of (among other works) the virulently misogynistic Lamentations of Matheolus. His original works are the Respit de la mort (1376), written after a near-mortal illness and cast as a suit in due form for a stay of execution, and Le Livre de Leesce (1380/7), a meticulous rebuttal of the Lamentations. He may also have written the Danse macabré.

[Jane Taylor]