Jacques Peuchet
Jacques Peuchet was a French jurist, statistician and compiler of archives. A monarchist, he was keeper of the archives of the French police. Karl Marx gave a vivid summary of Peuchet's career:
Life
Trained as a lawyer, Peuchet worked as a secretary to André Morellet in the 1780s. He wrote a 'Discours preliminaire' 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.