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A narrative of the proceedings in France, for discovering and detecting the murderers of the English gentlemen, September 21, 1723, near Calais : with an account of the condemnation and sentence of Joseph Bizeau and Peter LeFebvre, two notorious robbers, who were the principal actors in the said murder, particularly in the killing Mr. Lock : together with their discovery, and manner of perpetrating that execrable murder, and also large memoirs of their behaviour during their torture, and upon the scaffold, their impeaching several other criminals, and a brief history of their past crimes, as well in company with their former captain, the famous Cartouche, as since his execution : in which is a great variety of remarkable incidents, and suprizing circumstances, never yet made publick / translated from the French.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Davison (Autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Account of the Cartoucheans in France.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., 1724.
- Notes:
- Caption title: An account of the Cartoucheans in France.
- Published anonymously. Apparently based on French originals, but attributed to Defoe. Cf. Moore, 465.
- OCLC:
- 16111182
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