Jacques Deschamps (March 6, 1697 in Pays de Caux – October 3, 1759, in Dangu) was a French theologian and priest.
His father, Noel Deschamps, was a village laborer remembered as being honest and hardworking, who died when his son Jacques was only four years old.
In 1709, young Jacques was sent to Dieppe to continue the education he had begun in his father's home.
[1] Deschamps was elevated to the priesthood in 1721, taking on a position at Caux that did not accord with his love of study.
[2] Deschamps composed a French translation of the Book of Isaiah,[1] published in 1760, which is noted for being rather more free than literal—even to the point of reordering lines and paragraphs.