Thoinot Arbeau

Thoinot Arbeau
Born
Jehan Tabourot

March 17, 1520
DiedJuly 23, 1595(1595-07-23) (aged 75)
NationalityFrench
OccupationCleric

Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. He was born in Dijon and died in Langres.