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Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (1751–1824)
Lacretelle, Pierre Louis de. A French legal and miscellaneous writer; born at Metz, 1751; died on Sept. 5, 1824. Besides several legal works, etc., he wrote ‘Portraits and Pictures’ (2 vols., 1817), containing masterly descriptions of Napoleon I., Mirabeau, and Lafayette. He edited the Mercure de France and the Minerve Française.