BOURBON, Nicolas, one of the best Latin poets France has produced, grand-nephew to the preceding, was born in 1574. He was professor of eloquence in the Royal College, canon of Langres, and one of the forty of the French Academy. At length he retired to the house of the fathers of the Oratory, where he died in 1644. His poems were printed at Paris in 1651, 12mo. His chef d'œuvre is a poem on the assassination of Henri IV., entitled Dira in Parricidam. Modern criticism, however, is not very favourable to it.