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.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- 1951 paper on Fenimore Cooper by Willard Thorp
External links
Wikisource has the text of the Nuttall Encyclopædia article Defauconpret.
- Works by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Auguste Defauconpret at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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