Jean Robert Tronchin


Jean Robert II Tronchin, also known as Tronchin-Boissier, Attorney General, member of the State Council of Geneva was the son of Jean Tronchin. He busied himself on a friendly basis in Voltaire's interests and maintained a correspondence on artistic subjects with Denis Diderot.
Cabinetmakers of the period gave his name to a species of pretty light reading table with a rack for drawing. He was the first cousin of and Jean Robert I Tronchin, and the distant cousin of Theodore Tronchin, all three of whom were respectively Voltaire's friend, banker and doctor.

Works

  • 1764: Deux discours sur l'esprit de parti prononcés par M. Tronchin dans l'assemblée du Conseil des Deux-Cent de la République de Genève au commencement de l'année 1762 et au commencement de l'année 1764, Neufchâtel.
  • 1765:, Geneva