 Jean de Sponde

Jean de Sponde (Joanes Ezponda, in Basque, 1557 – 18 March 1595) was a Baroque French poet.Born at Mauléon, in what is now Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean de Sponde was raised in an austere Protestant family in the Basque region of France (some critics believe his family had Spanish roots) with close relations with the royal court of Navarre.