Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier

Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier (1693–1765) was a French author. He was born in Paris, where his father was a printer.^[1]

He studied under Rollin, and held the professorship of rhetoric in the college of Beauvais for twenty years. He completed Rollin's Histoire romaine by the addition of six volumes (1750–1756); he also published two editions of Livy, with notes; L'Histoire des empereurs des Romains, jusqu'à Constantin (1749);^[2] Histoire de l'Université de Paris, and a Rhétorique française, which enjoyed much popularity.^[1]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 432.

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[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-1] Chisholm 1911.

[2] The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine by J. B. L. Crévier, vol. 9, trans. into English by John Mill, 1814

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