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Henri Rieu (1721–1787), Swiss, army officer, translator

Son of Jean-Louis Rieu (b. c. 1683) and his second wife, Renée née Calandrini (1697-1779); he married Marie Jeanne Guischard (1731–1808) from Guadeloupe; they had three children. He was a captain in the French army, Commander of the French part of St Martin Island in the Caribbean. and later in life a translator from English to French: among his translations are Joseph Baretti's Voyage de Londres à Gênes (1777) and John Moore's Lettres d'un voyageur anglois sur la France, la Suisse et l'Allemagne (1781). He was a friend of Voltaire who bequeathed all his books in english to him. He is the great grand father of Charles Pierre Henri Rieu