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Pierre François Lacenaire
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet.
Biography.
Lacenaire was born in Francheville, Rhône, near the city of Lyon in eastern France. His parents were Jean-Baptiste Lacenaire, a bourgeois merchant, and Marguerite Gaillard.
Upon finishing his education with excellent results, he joined the French army, eventually deserting in 1829 at the time of the expedition to Morea. He then became a criminal and was in and
1913 crime in Landerneau)
- "Jean Bart, dieu des mars", adventure novel (based on Jean Bart)
- "Jean Chouan, tome I: La Bataille des cœurs, tome II, La Citoyenne Maryse Fleurus", (1926) adventure novel (based on Jean Chouan)
- "Lacenaire ou le Napoléon des bandits", detective novel (based on Pierre François Lacenaire)
- "Landru", detective novel (based on Henri Désiré Landru)
- "La Loi du Talion