François-Jacques Guillotte

François-Jacques Guillotte (? Paris – 1766 ?, id.) was an 18th-century French police officer and Encyclopédiste.

Life

When the Diderot family moved at #6 rue Mouffetard in the Parisian parish of Saint-Médard in April 1746, there lived also François-Jacques Guillotte, a police officer in their vicinity. The two men became friends, they united their common interest in philosophy and in the development of the society of the Ancien régime.

François-Jacques Guillotte wrote the article Pont militaire (military bridge) for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.^[1]

Sources

Joseph-Marie Quérard, La France littéraire, t. 5, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1862, 1833, p. 611.

References

^ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 S. 143

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[1] Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 S. 143

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