CREVIER

crevier, jean baptiste louis (1693-1765), french author, was born at 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 francoise_, which enjoyed much popularity.