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.

[edit] References

• 1951 paper on Fenimore Cooper by Willard Thorp

[edit] External links

• Works by Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret at Project Gutenberg

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