Jean Robert Tronchin


Jean Robert Tronchin, 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 brother of, Voltaire's friend and the cousin of Theodore Tronchin, his doctor.

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