Bontemps Explained

Bontemps is a surname of French origin, meaning "good time".

Individuals with the name "Bontemps" include:

Artists and writers

• Arna Bontemps, novelist
  • the Bontemps African American Museum, named for him
• Georges Bontemps, artistic glassmaker
• Jongnic Bontemps, film and TV composer
• Pierre Bontemps, 17th-century sculptor

Athletes

• Doriane Bontemps, ice dancer
• Jorge Bontemps, footballer
• Julien Bontemps, Olympic sailor
• Ron Bontemps, Olympic basketball player
• Paul Bontemps, Olympic athlete

Fictional characters

• Roger Bontemps, the personification of leisure time

Others

• Alexandre Bontemps, 17th-century courtier
• Blaise Bontems, 19th-century designer of automata
• Jean Bontemps, privateer
• Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps, colonial governor

See also

• Bon Temps, Louisiana, the fictional setting of the True Blood series on HBO, and of Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels on which it is based
• the phrase Laissez les bons temps rouler, which literally translates to "let the good times roll"