Cicero, Oratio prô Coelio, Cap. XX.
Pierre Dufour, Histoire de la Prostitution, vol. ii, Chs. XIX-XX. The real author of this well-known history of prostitution, which, though not scholarly in its methods, brings together a great mass of interesting information, is said to be Paul Lacroix.
Rabutaux, in his Histoire de la Prostitution en Europe, describes many attempts to suppress prostitution; cf. Dufour, op. cit., vol. iii.
Dufour, op. cit., vol. vi, Ch. XLI. It was in the reign of the homosexual Henry III that the tolerance of brothels was established.