John, a learned French critic, who lived at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. He distinguished himself by annotations on Lucian, Petronius, and Heliodorus; a Universal History; Commentaries on Juvenal; a Treatise on the Etymology of French words; and several other works which were never published. There was also an Abbé Bourdelot, nephew of John, who changed his name from Peter Michon to oblige his uncle. He was a celebrated physician in Paris, and gained great reputation by a Treatise on the Viper, and other works. He died in 1685.