James Paris Du Plessis

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Births: of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong Men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, and Extreme Old Age, &c.", an unpublished manuscript he produced between 1730 and 1733 that is preserved in the British Library in London.