Jean-Henri Fondeville

Jean-Henri Fondeville (Occitan: Joan Enric de Fondevila, IPA: [ʒwan enˈrik ðe fundeˈvilo̞]; c. 1638 – 22 October 1705) was a Béarnese Occitan writer.

Fondeville is author of the la Pastorala deu Paisan and also of the vehemently anti-Calvinist pastoral poem Eglògas.

When Queen Jeanne d'Albret adopted Calvinism, the kingdom became Protestant, keeping Béarnese Occitan as its administrative language, and when Jeanne d'Albret's son, Henry III of Navarre, became Henry IV of France and Navarre, he maintained the kingdom's independence; however, his son, Louis XIII of France, decided to merge the kingdom with France, and to re-establish Catholicism.

During this process, Fondeville's father, a Protestant priest, was offered a lifetime annuity in order to choose Catholicism.

In addition to being a writer, Fondeville also had an illustrious career as a lawyer at the Parliament of Navarre and Béarn, which had its seat in Pau.