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Jacques Peuchet

1758 – 1830

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Lived 1758 – 1830 (aged 72). Jacques Peuchet was a French writer and journalist.

Jacques Peuchet (6 March 1758 – 28 September 1830) was a French jurist, statistician and compiler of archives. A monarchist, he was keeper of the archives of the French police.

Life Trained as a lawyer, Peuchet worked as a secretary to André Morellet in the 1780s. He wrote a (1789) 'Discours préliminaire' on police, etc., for the Encyclopédie Méthodique. He was also employed by Charles Alexandre de Calonne and Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne.

He inherited Morellet's archives, using them for several works on economics and statistics.

Works Dictionnaire universel de la géographie commerçante. 5 vols. Paris: Blanchon, 1793. Vocabulaire des termes de commerce, banque, manufactures, navigation marchande, finance mercantile et statistique, 1801 Statistique élémentaire de la France: contenant les principes de cette science et leur application à l'analyse de la richesse, des forces et de la puissance de l'Empire français: à l'usage des personnes qui se destinent à l'étude de l'administration, 1805 Campaigns of the armies of France, in Prussia, Saxony, and Poland, Boston: Farrand, Mallory, and Co., 1808. Translated by Samuel Mackay from the French Campagne des armées françaises, en Prusse, en Saxe et en Pologne.

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Jacques Peuchet was born on 6 March 1758 in Paris.

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Jacques Peuchet died on 28 September 1830 in Paris.

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Jacques Peuchet was a writer and journalist.

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Jacques Peuchet was French.

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· Wikipedia: Jacques Peuchet

· Wikidata: Q18508326

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