(French), a term in sculpture. Creux originally signifies a hollow or cavity out of which something has been scooped: hence en creux is applied to that kind of sculpture where the lines and figures are formed by cutting in upon the surface to be ornamented; and thus it stands opposed to relievo.

CREVIER, Jean Baptiste Louis, a celebrated philologist, was born in 1693 at Paris, where his father was a printer. He studied under the celebrated Rollin, and held the professorship of rhetoric in the college of Beauvais for twenty years till his death in 1765. On the death of Rollin in 1741, he undertook to complete his Roman History, and published the last eight volumes of the work. He also published an excellent edition of Livy, with notes, in six vols. 4to, 1748, and afterwards another in six vols. small 8vo; L'Histoire des Empereurs des Romains, jusqu'à Constantin, 1749, 12 vols. 12mo; Histoire de l'Université de Paris, 7 vols. 12mo; Rhetorique Françoise; Observations sur l'Esprit des Loix; Remarques sur le Traité des études de Rollin, Paris, 1780, 12mo.