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.

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);[1] Histoire de l'Université de Paris, and a Rhétorique française, which enjoyed much popularity.

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.
  1. 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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