Jean Tisserand

Jean Tisserand was a French Franciscan friar, preacher, and religious writer active in Paris in the late fifteenth century. His birth date and place are not securely known, but he died in 1494. Historical and hymnological sources describe him as a preacher of the Franciscan Observant tradition and connect him with ministry among penitents in Paris. He founded an institution or community for penitent women, and works associated with that ministry were printed soon after his death.

Tisserand wrote in both Latin and French. Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology identifies him as the author of the Easter hymns "O Filii et Filiae" and "Surrexit hodie," and notes that his sermons were published posthumously in Paris in 1517. His authorship of "O Filii et Filiae" was debated for many years before Amédée Gastoué argued for Tisserand in a 1907 study that became influential in later hymnological reference works.

His surviving reputation rests especially on devotional writing that joined biblical narrative, popular preaching, and congregational or paraliturgical song. Through later translations and musical transmission, his Easter hymnody became part of worship traditions far beyond its original French Franciscan setting.