Auguste Defauconpret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French man of letters
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Place of Birth: Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
About Auguste Defauconpret
- 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.
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