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Of all the heroes who have waged a private and undeclared war upon their neighbours, Louis-Dominique Cartouche was the most generously endowed. It was but his resolute contempt for politics, his unswerving love of plunder for its own sake, that prevented him from seizing a throne or questing after the empire of the world. ... Read more

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an amazing view of a criminal past -- made heroic!
A rundown of the most romantic highwaymen of the English past -- when those who broke the law were as celebrated as those who upheld it -- and how they were taken to the Tyburn Tree. The good bad guys (did we think it was an American invention?)in action and finished at last. ... Read more