Jean de Meun translated in 1284 the treatise, _De re militari_, of Vegetius into French as _Le livre de Vegèce de l'art de chevalerie_[1] (ed. Ulysse Robert, _Soc. des anciens textes fr._, 1897). He also produced a spirited version, the first in French, of the letters of Abelard and Hèloïse. A 14th-century MS. of this translation in the Bibliothèque Nationale has annotations by Petrarch. His translation of the _De consolatione philosophiae_ of Boëtius is preceded by a letter to Philip IV. in which he enumerates his earlier works, two of which are lost--_De spirituelle amitié_ from the _De spirituali amicitia_ of Aelred of Rievaulx (d. 1166), and the _Livre des merveilles d'Hirlande_ from the _Topographia Hibernica_, or _De Mirabilibus Hiberniae_ of Giraldus Cambrensis (Giraud de Barry). His last poems are doubtless his _Testament_ and _Codicille_. The _Testament_ is written in quatrains in monorime, and contains advice to the different classes of the community. See also Paulin Paris in _Hist. lit. de la France_, xxviii. 391-439, and E. Langlois in _Hist. de la langue et de la lit. française_, ed. L. Petit de Julleville, ii. 125-161 (1896); and editions of the _Roman de la rose_ (q.v.). FOOTNOTE: [1] Jean de Meun's translation formed the basis of a rhymed version (1290) by Jean Priorat of Besançon, _Li abreyance de l'ordre de chevalerie_. JEANNETTE, a borough of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., about 27 m. E. by S. of Pittsburg. Pop. (1890), 3296; (1900), 5865 (1340 foreign-born); (1910), 8077. It is served by the Pennsylvania railroad, and is connected with Pittsburg and Uniontown by electric railway. It is supplied with natural gas and is primarily a manufacturing centre, its principal manufactures being glass, table-ware and rubber goods. Jeannette was founded in 1888, and was incorporated as a borough in 1889. JEANNIN, PIERRE (1540-1622), French statesman, was born at Autun. A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bourges, he was an advocate at Dijon in 1569 and became councillor and then president of the _parlement_ of Burgundy. He opposed in vain the massacre of St Bartholomew in his province. As councillor to the duke of Mayenne he sought to reconcile him with Henry IV. After the victory of Fontaine-Française (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his council and in 1602 named him intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the reign, negotiated the treaty of Lyons with the duke of Savoy (see HENRY IV.), and the defensive alliance between France and the United Netherlands in 1608. As superintendent of finances under Louis XIII., he tried to establish harmony between the king and the queen-mother. See Berger de Xivrey, _Lettres missives de Henri IV._ (in the _Collection inédite pour l'histoire de France_), t. v. (1850); P(ierre) S(aumaise), _Eloge sur la vie de Pierre Janin_ (Dijon, 1623); Sainte-Beuve, _Causeries du lundi_, t. x. (May 1854).