Jacques Peuchet
Jacques Peuchet (1758–1830) 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 (1789) '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.