author
A.-J.-B. (Auguste-Jean-Baptiste) Defauconpret
1767–1843
Best known for bringing English-language fiction to French readers, this prolific writer and translator helped popularize Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper in France. His versions were widely read and influential, even when they took bold liberties with the originals.
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Vijftien dagen te Londen, op het einde van 1815.
by A.-J.-B. (Auguste-Jean-Baptiste) Defauconpret
About the author
Born in Lille in 1767, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret was a French man of letters who first trained in law. He later spent time in England and wrote novels of his own, but he is chiefly remembered for his translation work.
Defauconpret became especially well known for translating English-language novels into French, including works by Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper. Library records show just how extensive his output was, and modern reference sources still single him out as an important mediator of popular fiction between Britain, America, and France.
He died in 1843. Today, his name is most closely tied to the huge wave of French editions that helped nineteenth-century readers discover some of the English-speaking world’s most popular storytellers.