A Book of Scoundrels
, by Whibley, Charles- ISBN: 9781588278791 | 1588278794
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/2002
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.