Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (12 June 1760-25 August 1797) was a French Girondin politician during the French Revolution.
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Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray was born in Paris, France in 1760, and he worked as a bookseller's clerk before becoming a novelist. He supported the marriage of priests and the right of divorce, and he advocated for the ideals of the French Revolution in his works. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a Girondin deputy for Loiret in 1791 and shared their deism, humanitarianism, and republicanism. He attacked Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, and the Mountain in his Journal des Debats, accusing the Montagnards of being crypto-Orleanists. Louvet survived the Reign of Terror by fleeing Paris, but, even after the Thermidorian Reaction, he was regarded as a Jacobin for attacking the Muscadins. He later served in the Council of Five Hundred and was appointed consul to Palermo in 1797, but he died before taking up his post.