Jacques Peuchet (6 March 1758 – 28 September 1830) was a French jurist, statistician and compiler of archives.
Karl Marx gave a vivid summary of Peuchet's career: Jacques Peuchet proceeded from belles lettres to medicine, from medicine to law, from law to administration and the police.
[He] was an adherent of the French Revolution for only a very short time; he very soon turned to the royalist party [...] he wound his way very cleverly through the revolution, sometimes persecuted, sometimes occupied in the Department of Administration and the Police.
[1]Trained as a lawyer, Peuchet worked as a secretary to André Morellet in the 1780s.
[2] He inherited Morellet's archives, using them for several works on economics and statistics.