François Chéron
François Cheron, dit Chéron, (17 June 1764 in Paris -16 January 1829), was a French writer and a senior official. Biography. The son of an « entrepreneur ordinaire des travaux du roi », François Chéron manifested his royalist leanings from the beginning of the French Revolution, he is arrested in 1793 du to his monarchist views. It seems he then turned to the theater, writing anonymously, including a satirical comedy alongside comedian Louis-Benoît Picard. En 1812, he starts publishing the "" by Diderot and Grimm but faces censorship. In 1814 he expressed his antibonapartism, called for freedom of the press , which led to his arrest during the Hundred Days. En 1818, he was appointed government commissioner for the Théâtre français, a position he held until 9 July 1825, the day he was named Knight of the Legion of Honour in recognition of his services. He committed some poems and literary critics hostile to his contemporary romantics. He has written souvenirs in relation to the Bourbon Restoration.