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Jacques Mallet du Pan
Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749 – 10 May 1800) was a Genevan-French journalist, who took up the Royalist cause during the French Revolution.
Life.
Of an old Huguenot family, Mallet du Pan was born near Geneva, the son of a Protestant minister. He was educated at Geneva, and through the influence of Voltaire obtained a professorship at Cassel. He soon, however, resigned this post, and going to London joined HSN Linguet in the production of his "Annales
Louis Mallet
Sir Louis Mallet CB PC (14 March 1823 – 16 February 1890) was a British civil servant who was an advocate of free trade and served on the Council of India.
Career.
Louis Mallet was born in Hampstead, grandson of Jacques Mallet du Pan and son of John Lewis Mallet who had been Secretary to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts (predecessor of the National Audit Office) since 1806. He was educated privately and at the age of 16 his father found him a place as