title: Jean Royer de Prade
text: # Jean Royer de Prade
  
  Jean Royer de Prade (born 1624) was a French man of letters, known particularly as a historian, and for his Discours du tabac. He also wrote dramas. He was a good friend of Cyrano de Bergerac.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Annibal (1649), drama
  * La victime d'estat ou La mort de Plautius Silvanus préteur romain (1649), tragedy
  * Arsace, Roy de Parthes (1666), tragedy
  * Discours du tabac, ou il est traité particulièrement du tabac en poudre (1671), under the pseudonym Edme Baillard
  * Histoire d'Allemagne (1677)
  