Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (born 1767)

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

French geographer, author and translator

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which inspired Mary Shelley and John William Polidori to write…