or BONEFONUS, JERAN, a Latin poet, born at Clermont in Auvergne, A.D. 1554. He studied law under Cujas at Bourges; became an advocate in the parliament of Paris; was appointed lieutenant-general of Bar-sur-Seine; and by his poems acquired great but unmerited reputation, especially by his Pancharis, written in the style of Catullus. He died in 1614. He must not be confounded with John Bonnefons, his son another Latin poet, nor with Dom Elia Benedict Bonnefons, a learned Benedictine of the congregation of St Maur, who died in 1702. The most complete edition of Bonnefons' works is that of Amsterdam, 1767, 12mo, entitled Joannis Bonnefoni patriae Arceani Opera Omnia.