Jean Liebault Explained

Jean Liébault (1535 – 21 June 1596) was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon.

He married Nicole Estienne, who published several writings about marriage, in which she condemned domestic violence and a large age difference between spouses.^[1] His father-in-law was Charles Estienne, author of the Praedieum rusticum.^[2] Liébault substantially altered and extended Estienne's book, resulting in a French text La Maison Rustique (first translated into English by Richard Surflet as "The Countrey Farme" in 1600,^[3] with an expanded edition published in 1616).^[4] He translated or authored the medical textbook Trois Livres appartenans aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes.^[5]

Bibliography

• Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers, 2e édition, 1843-1865 [détail édition]
• Antonio Saltini, Storia delle scienze agrarie, t.I Dalle origini al Rinascimento, Edagricole, Bologna 1984, pp. 257–269

Notes and References

1. Book: Robin . Diana Maury . Larsen . Anne R. . Levin . Carole . Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England . registration . 2007 . ABC-CLIO . 133–134.
2. Book: Liaroutzos, Chantal . Le pays et la mémoire- Pratique et représentations de l'espace français chez Gilles Corrozet et Charles Estienne. 1998 . Honoré Champion .
3. Book: Estienne, Charles . La Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme . 1600 . Edmund Bollifant for Bonham Norton . 1600 . London . Surflet . Richard.
4. Book: Estienne . Charles . Liébault . Jean . Stevens . Charles . Markham . Gervase . Gervase Markham . Surflet . Richard . Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme . 1616 . Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill . 181812843 .
5. Book: Liebault, Jean . Trois Livres appartenans aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes . Lyons . 1597.