Le Franc, Guillaume (died 1570)

French composer. A Protestant, he fled to Switzerland, and settled in Geneva in 1541. He established a school of music there, becoming master of the children and singer at the cathedral the following year, and edited John Calvin's Genevan Psalter, in which Louis Bourgeois and Clément Marot also had a hand. In 1545 he left for the cathedral of Lausanne, and in 1565 issued a new Psalter there with some tunes of his own.