Thomas-Marie Royou
Thomas-Marie Royou (25 January 1743 – 21 June 1792), known as Abbé Royou, was a French Roman Catholic priest and professor of philosophy who distinguished himself as a journalist.
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Biography
Thomas-Marie Royou was born in Quimper. He was known before the French Revolution as an opponent of the philosophes within the Année littéraire directed by Élie Fréron, his brother-in-law. In 1776, after the death of Fréron, he took over the direction of the Année Littéraire, which his nephew Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, too young then, could not manage.
Abbé Royou was a journalist for the Journal de Monsieur, which the Academy had to suppress in 1783 because of a disrespectful report of the session.
In 1790, during the Revolution, Royou, with Galart de Montjoie, Julien Louis Geoffroy and Jacques-Corentin Royou, his brother, he founded L'Ami du roi, an ultraroyalist organ — probably the most important one. He wrote articles that were highly appreciated in counter-revolutionary circles.
On May 4, 1792, a decree suppressed the Ami du roi; Abbé Royou was accused of abuse of freedom of the press and brought before the High Court. Ill, the abbot hides and dies shortly afterwards.
References
- Chisick, Harvey (1992). The Production, Distribution Readership of a Conservative Journal of the Early French Revolution: The Ami du Roi of the Abbé Royou. Philadelphie: American Philosophical Society.
Works
- Le monde de verre réduit en poudre ou Analyse et réfutation des Époques de la nature de celle de M. le comte de Buffon (1780)
- Étrennes aux beaux-esprits (1786)
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