He died at Paris, having survived all his illustrious pupils of the "Pléiade", except Pontus de Tyard. The "Œuvres poétiques" in the vernacular of Jean Daurat were edited in 1875 with biographical notice and bibliography by Charles Marty-Laveaux in his "Pléiade française". Daurat has been credited with the development of the claque in the French theatre, in which professional applauders are paid to ensure the success of (or in other cases, booed to ensure the failure of) certain plays, playwrights, and actors. Daurat is described by Eduard Fraenkel as "the true initiator of the study of Greek poetry in France". His pupils, including Joseph Justus Scaliger, were responsible for circulating the numerous textual conjectures made by Daurat, especially in Aeschylus' "Agamemnon", which Daurat himself left unpublished.