Éloges funèbres des Athéniens morts pour la patrie: par Périclés, Platon et Lysias. Traduction nouvelle, précédée d'un essai sur le discours funèbre, par F. Roget

Jacques François Roget (1787-1849), jurist, colonial administrator, and politician. Trained in law, Roget worked at the Cour de cassation and was active in Freemasonry before travelling to Senegal in 1819, where he served as public prosecutor and later as governor (1821-1827). During his governorship he sought to promote agriculture and regulate trade following the abolition of the slave trade, though with limited lasting success. Returning to France, he was created a baron in 1824 and, after the July Revolution, pursued a political career as a deputy and later as a member of the Constituent Assembly elected by universal suffrage in 1848. Roger was also active in the Société de Géographie and was a co-founder of the French Society for the Abolition of Slavery. His scholarly and literary works include a grammar of Wolof, a novel set in Senegal, and a collection of Senegalese fables in verse.