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P. (Pierre) Pierrugues
Best known for a curious Latin glossary on erotic language, this French writer and engineer moved between practical city planning and learned scholarship. His surviving work offers a small but striking window into how 19th-century readers approached classical Roman culture.
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About the author
Pierre-Emmanuel Pierrugues was a French engineer and writer active in the early 19th century. Sources connected with his published work identify him as the author of Glossarium eroticum linguae Latinae (1826), a specialized Latin glossary that explains erotic vocabulary along with Roman customs, marriage laws, and related classical material.
He was not only a man of letters. Historical references also connect him with urban and administrative work in Bordeaux, where he was involved in planning and cadastral projects. That mix of technical training and antiquarian curiosity helps explain the unusual character of his writing: careful, documentary, and deeply interested in the details of the ancient world.
Some biographical details are not consistently documented across the sources available here, so it is safest to present him as a French engineer-scholar whose reputation today rests mainly on Glossarium eroticum and related classical annotations.