Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 - October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet. Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orleans. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV, who made him his librarian. Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. He was the author of many good translations from the Greek into Latin verse,amongst others, of versions of the Hero and Learner attributed to Musaeus, and of many epigrams from the Anthology. In his translations into French, among which are remarked those of Buchanans Jephth (1567), and of Oppian De Venatione (1575), he is not so happy, being rather to be praised for fi