Jean-Baptiste Louis Crevier

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

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1693 - 1765 - French

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

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Rollin - Rhetoric - 1750 - 1756 - Livy - 1749

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