(Stephen Tabourot, seigneur des), advocate in the parliament of Dijon in France, and king's advocate in the bailiwick and chancery of that city, born in the year 1549. He was a man of genius and learning; but too much addicted to trifles, as appears from his piece, intitled, "Les Bigarrures," printed at Paris in 1582. This was not his first production, for he had before printed some sonnets. His work, intitled, "Les Touches," was published at Paris in 1583; which is indeed a collection of witty poems, but worked up rather in too loose a manner, according to the licentious taste of that age. His Bigarrures are written in the same strain. He was censured for this way of writing, which obliged him to publish an apology. The lordship of Accords is an imaginary fief or title from the device of his ancestors, which was a drum, with the motto, à tous accords, "chiming with all." He had sent a sonnet to a daughter of Mr Barget, the great and learned president of Burgundy, "who (says he) did me the honour to love me:—And inasmuch (continues he), I had subscribed my sonnet with only my device, à tous accords, this lady first nicknamed me, in her answer, Seigneur des Accords; by which title her father also called me several times. For this reason I chose this surname, not only in all my writings composed at that time, but even in these books." He died July 24th 1601, in the 46th year of his age.