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

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, 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

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, with notes; ''L'Histoire des empereurs des Romains, jusqu'à Constantin'' (1749);''The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine'' by J. B. L. Crévier, vol. 9, trans. into English by John Mill, 1814
/ref> ''Histoire de l'Université de Paris'', and a ''Rhétorique française'', which enjoyed much popularity.

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