Cartouche (actually Louis Dominique Bourguignon; * 1693 in Paris; "† 27 November 1721) was a French robber, murderer and a gang boss even there,

Cartouche pointed already in early years a strong slope to the theft and stepped finally to the point of a large gang, which made the area uncertain around Paris. In its troop Cartouche possessed the absolute right over lives and death. Several years drove it their nuisance, before Cartouche gives in October 1721 in one imprisoned was taken.

On the torture he did not betray its Kumpane. He was condemned to death. Only at the arranging place it called the names of the jointly guilty ones, when it saw itself deceived by it around its hope for release. On 27 November 1721 it was

Still during the process against it ran, brought Marc Antoine Le Grand and Marie Jeanne Riccoboni its life as play on the stage.

Film

• Cartouche the bandit. Direction: Philippe de Broca; Actor: Jean Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort, Odile Versois

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