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Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis

1792–1853

A 19th-century French bibliographer and man of letters, he is remembered for careful historical and literary catalogues that helped preserve the printed heritage of northern France. His surviving works point to a scholar deeply interested in books, libraries, and the history surrounding them.

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Dictionnaire des calembours et des jeux de mots, lazzis, coqs-à-l'âne, quolibets, quiproquos, amphigouris, etc.

Dictionnaire des calembours et des jeux de mots, lazzis, coqs-à-l'âne, quolibets, quiproquos, amphigouris, etc.

by Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis, Eugène Le Gai

About the author

Born in 1792 and died in 1853, Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis is documented in library and author records as a French writer and bibliographer. He is especially associated with book-historical and bibliographical work rather than fiction, and modern catalogues still list him through national library and research databases.

Among the works most often connected with him is Bibliographie douaisienne, a historical and annotated catalogue of books printed in Douai. That kind of project shows the sort of author he was: patient, archival, and interested in tracing how local printing, scholarship, and literary culture were built over time.

Because the surviving easily confirmed sources are mostly catalogue and authority records, many personal details are less visible than his publications. Even so, the record that remains presents him as one of those useful scholarly figures whose work continues to help readers, librarians, and historians find their way through older books.