Pierre-Jean Grosley [SEP] native language
Pierre-Jean Grosley
Pierre-Jean Grosley (Troyes, 18 November 1718 – Troyes, 4 November 1785) was a French man of letters, local historian, travel writer and observer of social mores in the Age of Enlightenment and a contributor to the "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers". 
Grosley was a magistrate in his native Troyes, where he had plenty of opportunity to hear the local dialect, which he described in a paper (1761). At the time of
as Jean-Paul Grosley, and Nikolaus Pevsner repeated this error in the published text of his Reith Lectures, "The Englishness of English Art" (1956).
In Troyes, rue Pierre-Jean-Grosley commemorates his name.
Publications.
- "Londres", Neuchâtel, Société Typographique, 1770–1771, 3 vol; in-12° (reprinted in Lausanne, 1774, 4 vol. in-12°;
- "Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions, Belles-Lettres, Beaux-Arts, etc