French physician and poet. Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, c. 1538 - Turin, 5 November 1570. Studied at Paris, where he soon gained a reputation as a poet. Doctor in medicine in 1563. He went to London in 1567, stayed for a while in the Netherlands, before moving finally to Turin, in the service of the duchess of Savoie, sister of King Henry II of France. There he died at the age of about 32 years. Cf. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises publié sous la direction de Mgr. G. Grente. Le seizième siècle, 1951, pages 360-361; A. Cioranesco, Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle, 1959, pages 349-351; L. Pinvert, Jacques Grévin (1538-1570). Etude biographique et littéraire, 1899.
See also: Dialogues, 1567 (no. cp010635); Catullus a.o., 1569 (no. cp012672); Nicander, Les oeuvres, 1567 (no. cp012138); Valverda-Vesalius, Vivae imagines partium corporis humani, 1566 (no. cp012860).