Name Jean-Baptiste Crevier Died 1765 | Role Author | |
Books The Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium ... | ||
Jean-Baptiste Louis Crevier (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'a Constantin (1749); Histoire de l'Universite de Paris, and a Rhetorique francaise, which enjoyed much popularity.
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