Jean-Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chauvigné dit Jaillot (1710 – 5 April 1780) was a geographer, French cartographer, historian and bookseller in Paris.
[1][2] He was the son of Jean-Baptiste-Urbain Renou, a lawyer in the Paris parlement, and his maternal grandfather was Alexis-Hubert Jaillot.
His sister, Charlotte-Ursule Renou de Varennes, sole heiress, sold off his estate of maps and mapboards at auction in March 1781; part of it was bought by Jean-Claude Dezauche, publisher and dealer in geographical maps.
Jaillot, "one of the most perspicacious and exacting minds of the historiography of the ancien regime,"[4] is particularly known for his work Critical, Historical and Topographic Research on the City of Paris , published in five volumes at From 1772.
[5] One lane in the 5th district of Paris, Passage Jaillot [fr], is named in his memory.