Jean-Louis Taberd (June 18, 1794 - July 31, 1840) was a French missionary active in Vietnam in the early 19th century. Tabard was born in Saint-Étienne, France, and ordained priest in Lyon in 1817. In 1820, he joined the La Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris, who appointed him to Cochinchina - part of modern-day Vietnam. He became the Victor Apostolic of Cochinchina in 1827, in 1830 Bishop of the titular see of Isauropolis (a defunct bishopric in Turkey), and in 1838 the Vicar Apostolic of Bengal. In 1825, the Emperor of Vietnam, Minh Mạng (1791 - 1841) banned all missionaries. Those that remained, mostly French Catholics, were in constant danger. Between 1833 and 1838, no less than seven were sentenced to death. Tabard fled in the early 1830s to Penang, then Calcutta. There, 1838, he published his famous Latin-Vietnamese dictionary, Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum. Tabard died in Calcutta. Although Tabard did not return to Vietnam, in the late 19th century the Catholic college Institut Taberd was founded in Saigon by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and, since 1943, educated the Vietnamese elite.