Pierre Chompré (Narcy, Haute-Marne 1698 – Paris, 18 August 1760), was a French schoolmaster, the author of educational books, and an editor of Latin sermons.
[1] In Paris, he directed and taught at a boarding school, and he wrote several educational books for the use of his pupils and other young people.
His Dictionnaire abrégé de la Fable, published in 1727, was translated into many languages and reprinted many times until the middle of the nineteenth century.
[1] "Here we have a man named Chompré," wrote his contemporary Baron Grimm, "who possesses a very rare and recognized talent for the instruction of youth.
He saw that the most perfect books we have from antiquity repelled young people through their uselessness, obscurity, or inappropriately high academic level.