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 Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...

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 Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding i ...

, 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crevier, Jean-Baptiste Louis 1693 births 1765 deaths 18th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers