François-Jacques Guillotte

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François-Jacques Guillotte (* Paris ; † 1766 ibid) was a French police officer and encyclopaedist .

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When the Diderot family moved in April 1746 to n ° 6 Rue Mouffetard , in the parish of Saint-Médard in Paris, paroisse Saint-Médard à Paris , there was also the apartment of François-Jacques Guillotte, a police officer, officier de police near you. Outside the area of ​​the Maréchaussée de l'Ile-de-France, the two men became friends; they were united by their common interest in philosophy and in the development of the society of the Ancien Régime .

He wrote the article Pont militaire for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

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Individual evidence

  1. Joseph-Marie Quérard: La France littéraire. t. 5, Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1862, 1833, p. 611.
  2. La maréchaussée parisienne de 1667 à 1770 sous les règnes de Louis XIV. Et Louis XV. Report on the living conditions of Denis Diderot and François-Jacques Guillotte in Paris, French, online ( Memento des original of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / perso.numericable.com
  3. Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 p. 143