BOURBON, Nicholas, a Latin poet of the sixteenth century, was a native of Vandevre, near Bar-sur-Aube, and the son of a blacksmith. He was so learned in the belles-lettres, and particularly in Greek, that Margaret de Valois appointed him preceptor to her daughter Jane d'Albret of Navarre, the mother of King Henry IV. After a residence of several years at court he retired to Candé, where he had a benefice, and died about the year 1550. He wrote eight books of Nugæ; a poem on the forge, which he has entitled Ferraria; Padologia, sive de Puerorum moribus Libellus; Tabella Elementarie; and a Dialogue on the death of Francis of Valois and the accession of Henry. Erasmus praises his Nugæ.