[Bandit hero Cartouche]

[Criminality, banditry 1735] ’t Leven van den weereldberuchten kapitein der moordenaren Louis Dominique de Cartouche, behelsende een verhaal van deezelfs afkomst, opvoeding, ongehoorde gaauwdieveryen, gevangenneming, verwonderens waardige uitbreking der gevankenis, zeldsame verdediging en daar op gevolgde bekering en executie binnen de stad van Parijs. Uit het Fransch vertaalt, 4e- druk, Amsterdam, Johannes de Ruiter en zyn te bekomen by Geertrui de Ruiter, 1735, (6)+116 pp.

19th century half leather binding, illustrated with engraved portrait of the bandit hero Cartouche (Made by A. van Buysen, del. sculp.). 10 anonymous engravings outside the text. Good copy. First edition was published in 1722, this is the fourth edition of 1735. C1161

Louis Dominique Cartouche (Paris 1693-1721) was a French bandit, criminal. He was the son of Jean Garthauszien and changed his name in Gartouse, later Cartouche. He didn’t pass school and became a criminal. He became head of a gang of robbers. He had the nickname l’enfant because he was short, about 1m50. He was acting together with Francois Louis Gurthus de Châtelet, who had the nickname Le Lorrain. They were very succesful together and had a large scene of chambermaids, butlers and informers in order to control the route between Versaille and Paris. In the end Le Lorrain betrayed Cartouche and  Cartouche was taken prison in the Place de Grève. Cartouche and a huge number of the hundred colleague criminals were arrested and/or executed. He was a social bandit, a modern Robin Hood and entered history as a hero that is taking care of the weak in society.

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