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.

References

• 1951 paper on Fenimore Cooper by Willard Thorp

External links

• Works by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Auguste Defauconpret at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) File:Speaker Icon.svg