Jean de La Véprie

Jean de La Véprie is an obscure French author known today mainly through bibliographic records rather than a detailed surviving biography. The Bibliothèque nationale de France identifies him as a writer active in the 15th century, and library records connect his name with Les proverbes communs.

That work is a collection of proverbs, valued as a window into late medieval language, thought, and social habits. Because so little firmly documented personal information appears to survive, it is safest to remember him less as a fully documented historical figure and more as a voice attached to one of the period's proverb collections.

No reliable modern portrait was found in the sources reviewed, which is not unusual for a little-documented medieval author.