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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

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);[https://books.google.com/books?id=sHkLAAAAYAAJ&q=The+history+of+the+Roman+emperors+from+Augustus+to+Constantine The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine by J. B. L. Crévier, vol. 9, trans. into English by John Mill, 1814] Histoire de l'Université de Paris, and a Rhétorique française, which enjoyed much popularity.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}