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 Le Febvre, two notorious robbers, ... Translated from the French.
London : printed for J. Roberts,
1725.
"According to John Nichols's Literary anecdotes (1812), i, 161-62, the Narrative was written by Dr. Samuel Jebb"--Furbank and Owens.
"Price 1s.6d".
A reissue of the "Second edition" of 1724.
Drop-head title on p. [1]: 'An account of the Cortoucheans in France'.
Sometimes considered to have been based on French originals, but compiled with adaptations and additions by Daniel Defoe. Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
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Moore,