Fateful alibi
Subtitle: a Hapsburg scion's strange career
By: Alain Laubreaux ; translated from the French by Gerald Griffin.
Contributors: Laubreaux, Alain.; Griffin, Gerald.
Publisher: Jarrolds limited
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Pécheux, Louis Charles Prosper, 1855-; False personation.
Notes: The autobiography of Philippe Pons, illegitimate grandson of Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, who, mistaken for Charles Pécheux, was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a convict settlement.
"I am contributing nothing of my own to this narrative beyond giving it a slight literary finish and co-ordinating and rearranging certain parts of it so that it may be more intelligible to the reader. In short, my task has been that of a sub-editor of the biography of the ill-starred Pécheux."--Editor's "Introduction."