Roger Bontemps is semi-mythical French figure who personifies a state of leisure and freedom from care.
1457–77, "Rogier Bon Temps" is the only character who refuses to surrender his heart to the God of Love.
He was famous for his jovial personality, and presided over a convivial society at Auxerre, earning the facetious title the "Mad Abbot".
[1] Roger Bontemps appears several times in French literature, such as in a play by André Rivoire.
The figure also appears in a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in his 1852 anthology The Paris Sketchbook.