Jean-François Royez
Contributions
- Réflexions sur la traité de l'esclavage des nègres, traduites de l'anglais, d'Ottobah Cugoano, Africain, esclave à La Grenade et libre en Angleterre translation publisher
- Traité du gouvernement civil, revue et corrigée exactement, sur la dernière édition de Londres translation publisher
Knows
- Guillaume-Luc Bailly bookseller publisher teacher
- Jean-Henri Castéra diplomat translator writer
- Louis Cellot bookseller publisher
- Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chaussard civil servant freemason journalist jurist pamphleteer poet politician professor translator writer
- Michel de Cubières-Palmézeaux playwright poet writer
- Jacques-Vincent Delacroix jurist professor translator writer
- Antoine-Gilbert Griffet de Labaume abolitionist bookseller civil servant journalist playwright poet publisher translator writer
- Louis-Alexandre Jombert (jeune) bookseller politician publisher
- Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia civil servant diplomat translator
Notes
Son of a haberdasher from Cambrai. Apprenticed to Pierre-Michel Lamy from 1780 and in business from 1784. Suspended for publishing forbidden works in 1787 relating to the Assembly of Notables.His business was taken over by his widow Marie-Madeleine-Esther Philippon in collaboration with Jacques-Joseph Techener (1802–1873) who bought her out in 1828.