Jean-Louis-Antoine Reynier

Contributions

1. Le sens-commun. Ouvrage adressé aux Américains, et dans lequel on traite de l’origine et de l’objet du gouvernement, de la constitution anglaise, de la monarchie héréditaire, et de la situation de l’Amérique septentrionale. Traduit de l’anglais de Th. Paine. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée translation publisher
2. Réflexions politiques sur la nouvelle constitution qui se prépare en France, adressées à la République: Par le citoyen ROBERT MERRY, Anglais, auteur d’un poème intitulé, Le laurier de la liberté; et d’une Ode sur l’anniversaire du 14 Juillet etc. etc. translation publisher

Knows

• Nicolas de Bonneville bookseller freemason journalist linguist translator writer
• Antoine-Gilbert Griffet de Labaume abolitionist bookseller civil servant journalist playwright poet publisher translator writer
• François-Xavier Lanthenas abolitionist civil servant physician politician translator writer

Member of

• Confédération des Amis de la Vérité (Cercle Social) political organisation
• Girondists political organisation
• Imprimerie du Cercle Social bookseller publisher

Notes

Son of a doctor, from a Calvinist family originating in the Dauphiné, his younger brother Jean-Louis-Ebenezer Reynier (1771–1814) became a French army general. Trained as a botanist, Reynier moved to Paris from Switzerland after 1789, joined the Cercle Social, and co-edited, with the abbé Tessier, a journal aimed at the peasantry, Journal d'agriculture à l'usage des habitants de la campagne. In January 1791, he was appointed to the editorial board of the Imprimerie Cercle Social, becoming Bonneville's main assistant, and co-investor with Lanthenas.

In 1791, he was granted French citizenship through the new constitution, which guaranteed right of return to descendants of French citizens who had fled the country due to religious persecution under the ancien régime.

After 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794), he published under his own name or as the Imprimerie du Cercle Social, often in collaboration with Griffet de Labaume. In 1798–99 he joined his brother on campaign in Egypt. On his return, he went to work for the new king of Naples, Joseph Bonaparte, as commissioner for posts and forests from 1807–1814.