Brochard, Bonaventuie

Brochard, Bonaventuie a French traveller, lived in the former half of the 16th century. He was a friar of the convent of Bernay, in Normandy, and accompanied Greffin Arfagart of Couteilles on a tour, which he himself describes in a work entitled Hyerusalem et au Mont Sinai, the MS. of which is in the National Library of Paris, No. 10,265. By some he has been confounded with Brocard (q.v.). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.