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The Robin Hood of France - The Life and Crimes of Legendary Smuggler Louis Mandrin

The Robin Hood of France - The Life and Crimes of Legendary Smuggler Louis Mandrin

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Outlaw’s Digest serves up true crimes from food history in sizzling style, a feast of malfeasance and felony from the pages of the past.

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In the years before the French Revolution, the king allowed a
massive cartel to put French markets in a chokehold. Foods like
coffee and sugar were flooding in from the far reaches of
European colonies, but only the wealthy were enjoying the spoils.

Until the people defied the law and laid the groundwork for a
global underground. A daring smuggler became their champion,
ramming a spoke in the wheels of colonial extraction and making
himself the Robin Hood of France.

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Thanks to Dr. Michael Kwass for joining us on this episode. Check
out his book, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a
Global Underground.

Outlaw’s Digest is a production of KC Hysmith and Good Egg Audio,
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