François-Jacques Guillotte
François-Jacques Guillotte (? Paris – 1766 ?, id.) was an 18th-century French police officer and Encyclopédiste. Life. When the Diderot family moved at #6 rue Mouffetard in the Parisian parish of Saint-Médard in April 1746, there lived also François-Jacques Guillotte, a police officer in their vicinity. The two men became friends, they united their common interest in philosophy and in the development of the society of the Ancien régime. François-Jacques Guillotte wrote the article "Pont militaire" (military bridge) for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.