P. (Pierre) Pierrugues

Pierre Pierrugues is generally associated with Glossarium eroticum linguæ latinæ (1826), a learned Latin glossary devoted to erotic vocabulary, mythology, law, and marriage customs in the Roman world. Book and library records consistently connect his name with that work, and also with editions of Erotika biblion and a few other nineteenth-century publications.

Some later sources describe him as a French engineer who drew a plan of Bordeaux, while others call him an advocate and general councillor of the Var. At the same time, bibliographical sources have raised doubts about whether Pierre Pierrugues was firmly established as the true author at all, suggesting the possibility of collaboration or even a partially uncertain identity.

Because the record is so fragmentary, he is best remembered not for a well-documented life story but for the survival of an unusual and scholarly book. That mix of erudition, rarity, and uncertainty has helped keep his name alive for readers interested in classical literature, sexuality studies, and curious corners of publishing history.