Jean-Baptiste Paris de Meyzieu (16 May 1718 – 6 September 1778,[1] Paris) was an 18th-century French bibliophile and a member of the rich family of the Pâris brothers [fr] The son of Claude Pâris la Montagne (1670–1745) and Elisabeth de la Roche, he was the penultimate of their children and had four brothers and one sister: Claude Geoffroy Paris (1709-?
Jean-Baptiste Pâris Meyzieu left the service with the rank of lieutenant colonel and obtained the survival of the post of intendant of the École royale militaire, a position occupied by his uncle Joseph Paris Duverney (one of the instigators of the creation of this establishment in 1751).
He published a Lettre about this institution[2] and provided the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert an article related to schools.
A former adviser to Parlement, he had assembled a library whose catalog was printed in Paris in 1779, in-8°.
According to Gabriel Peignot, the famous library was auctioned in London in 1791 for 54,000 pounds.