CHRESTIEN, FLORENT French satirist and Latin poet, the son of Guillaume Chrestien, a French writer on physiology, was born at Orleans on Jan. 26, 1541. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV., who made him his librarian. Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. He was one of the authors of the Satyre Menippee, the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV., and his works include a Latin version of Hero and Leander and French versions of Buchanan's Jephtlie and Oppian's De Venation. He died at Vendome on Oct. 26, 1596.