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LACROIX, PAUL (1806—1884)

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LACROIX, See also:PAUL (1806—1884) , See also:French author and journalist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:April 18o6, the son of a novelist. He is best known under his See also:pseudonym of P. L. See also:Jacob, bibliophile, or " Bibliophile Jacob," suggested by the See also:constant See also:interest he took in public See also:libraries and books generally. Lacroix was an extremely prolific and varied writer. Over twenty See also:historical romances alone came from his See also:pen, and he also wrote a variety of serious historical See also:works, including a See also:history of See also:Napoleon III., and the See also:life and times of the See also:Tsar See also:Nicholas I. of See also:Russia. He was the See also:joint author with See also:Ferdinand Sere of a five-See also:volume See also:work, Le Moyen See also:Age et La See also:Renaissance (1847), a See also:standard work on the See also:manners, customs and See also:dress of those times, the See also:chief merit of which lies in the See also:great number of illustrations it contains. He also wrote many monographs on phases of the history of culture. Over the See also:signature See also:Pierre See also:Dufour was published an exhaustive Histoire de la See also:Prostitution (1851—1852), which has always been attributed to Lacroix. His works on bibliography were also extremely numerous. In 1885 he was appointed librarian of the See also:Arsenal Library, Paris. He died in Paris on the 16th of See also:October 1884.

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