ABONDANCE (ABUNDANCE). JEHAN d’. — It is thought that this was not his real name, but the pseudonym of the famous French dramatic poet who died around 1550 and who often also signed himself Maistre Tyburce, demeurant en la ville de Papetourte... He was one of the most famous lawyers in Paris of his time and a royal notary of Pont-Saint-Esprit.
He wrote many theatrical works, among which we shall mention: Mystère, moralité et figures de la Passion de Notre-Seigneur Jésus Christ; Le Joyeux Mystère des trois roys; Force nouvelle très bonne, très joyeuse, de la Cornette, a farce cited among the finest of the French theatre of that century.
BIBL.: E. Fournier, Le Théâtre Français avant la Renaissance (1450-1550), Parigi 1872, p. 438. Chiara Piva