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.

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Life

Trained as a lawyer, Peuchet worked as a secretary to André Morellet in the 1780s. He wrote a (1789) 'Discours preliminaire' on police etc. for the ''

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Peuchet, Jacques (1758-1830)
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'' (online). Accessed 19 November 2019. 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''.

References

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