STEPHEN TABOUROT, SEIGNEUR DES, advocate in the parliament of Dijon in France, and king's advocate in the bailiwick and chancery of that city, was born in 1549. He was a man of genius and learning; but too much addicted to trifles, as appears from his piece entitled, "Les Bigarrures," printed at Paris in 1582. This was not his first production, for he had before printed some sonnets. His work entitled Les Touches, was published at Paris in 1585; which is indeed a collection of witty poems, but worked up in a loose manner, according to the licentious taste of Accord that age. His Bigarrures are written in the same Accords 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 M. Begat, 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 in 1595, in the 46th year of his age.