Jean Liebault

{{short description|French doctor and agronomist}}

Jean Liébault (1535 – 21 June 1596) was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon.

He married Nicole Estienne, who published several writings about marriage, in which she condemned domestic violence and a large age difference between spouses.{{cite book |last1=Robin |first1=Diana Maury |last2=Larsen |first2=Anne R. |last3=Levin |first3=Carole | title=Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England | url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_m4x6 | url-access=registration | year=2007 | publisher=ABC-CLIO |pages=133–134}} His father-in-law was Charles Estienne, author of the Praedieum rusticum.{{cite book |last=Liaroutzos |first=Chantal |title=Le pays et la mémoire- Pratique et représentations de l'espace français chez Gilles Corrozet et Charles Estienne| year=1998 |publisher=Honoré Champion }} Liébault substantially altered and extended Estienne's book, resulting in a French text La Maison Rustique (first translated into English by Richard Surflet as "The Countrey Farme" in 1600,{{Cite book |last=Estienne |first=Charles |title=La Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme |publisher=Edmund Bollifant for Bonham Norton |year=1600 |location=London |translator-last=Surflet |translator-first=Richard}} with an expanded edition published in 1616).{{cite book |last1=Estienne |first1=Charles |last2=Liébault |first2=Jean |last3=Stevens |first3=Charles |last4=Markham |first4=Gervase |author4-link=Gervase Markham |last5=Surflet |first5=Richard |title=Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme |date=1616 |publisher=Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill |oclc=181812843 |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A00419.0001.001?view=toc}} He translated or authored the medical textbook Trois Livres appartenans aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes.{{cite book |last=Liebault |first=Jean |url=http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/27472166&tab=details |title=Trois Livres appartenans aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes |location=Lyons |year=1597}}