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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
French man of letters
A.K.A.
Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
(Lille)
Death:
(Fontainebleau)
Family:
Children:
Charles Auguste Defauconpret
The details
Biography
Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret (1767, Lille – 1843) was a French man of letters.
Initially a lawyer, Defauconpret relocated to England where he wrote some now forgotten novels. However, he became well known for his translations into French of English-language novels, particularly those of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, although he modified the text of The Last of the Mohicans to be more favorable to the French.