James Paris du Plessis
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James Paris du Plessis
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James Paris du Plessis was a servant of the famous 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys and the author of “A Short History of Human Prodigies, and Monstrous Births: of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong Men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, and Extreme Old Age, &c.”, an unpublished manuscript he produced between 1730 and 1733 that is preserved in the British Library in London. Du Plessis' bizarre 320-page manuscript is illustrated with hand-coloured drawings by the author himself. These inclu
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2013-09-06T22:16:42Z
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2024-09-01T22:34:18Z
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