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PAUL LACROIX (1806—1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 54 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL LACROIX (1806—1884)  , French author and journalist, was born in Paris on the 27th of
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April 18o6, the son of a novelist . He is best known under his pseudonym of P . L . Jacob, bibliophile, or " Bibliophile Jacob," suggested by the constant
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interest he took in public
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libraries and books generally . Lacroix was an extremely prolific and varied writer . Over twenty
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historical romances alone came from his pen, and he also wrote a variety of serious historical
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works, including a
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history of
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Napoleon III., and the
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life and times of the
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Tsar Nicholas I. of Russia . He was the joint author with Ferdinand Sere of a five-
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volume
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work, Le Moyen Age et La Renaissance (1847), a standard work on the manners, customs and dress of those times, the chief merit of which lies in the
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great number of illustrations it contains . He also wrote many monographs on phases of the history of culture . Over the signature
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Pierre Dufour was published an exhaustive Histoire de la 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
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Arsenal Library, Paris . He died in Paris on the 16th of
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October 1884 .

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