Jean-Baptiste Pâris de Meyzieu

Jean-Baptiste Paris de Meyzieu (16 May 1718 – 6 September 1778, Paris) was an 18th-century French bibliophile and a member of the rich family of the

Biography The son of Claude Pâris la Montagne (1670–1745) and Elisabeth de la Roche, he was the penultimate of their children and had four brothers and one sister: Claude Geoffroy Paris (1709-?), Antoine Paris d'Illins (?-?), Pierre Paris de la Tour (1713–1730), Anne-Emilie Paris la Montagne (1716-?) and François Joseph Paris de Moirans (1719–1744). and provided the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert an article related to schools.

To him is attributed le Tremblement de terre de Lisbonne, a play, according to Abbot Laporte, he would have written with Du Coin, his secretary.

A former adviser to Parlement, he had assembled a library whose catalog was printed in Paris in 1779, in-8°. According to Gabriel Peignot, the famous library was auctioned in London in 1791 for 54,000 pounds. The catalog, that he presumably established himself, was published under the title Bibliotheca elegantissima Parisina.

He maintained a friendly relationship with Pierre Beaumarchais.