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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External links
- Works by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Auguste Defauconpret at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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- 1767 births
- 1843 deaths
- Musicians from Lille
- 18th-century French novelists
- 19th-century French novelists
- French male essayists
- French male novelists
- 19th-century French male writers
- 18th-century French essayists
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