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Lacroix

PAUL, pseudonym P. L. 27, 1806. Besides actively assisting in ous writer; born in Paris, France, Feb. he wrote romances, plays, books on hismore than one journalistic enterprise, tory, manners and customs, and edited memoirs, biographies, etc. His most valuable productions were a series of works on the habits, manners, customs, costumes, arts, sciences, and intellectual condition of France from the Middle Ages down to the 19th century. He tory of Prostitution," published under wrote two elaborate works on the "Histhe name the name of Pierre Dufour. From 1855 onward Lacroix was custodian of the Arsenal library of Paris, and died in that city Oct. 16, 1884.

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