In the annals of the escape, the case of Latude (1725-1805), represents an amazing model of boasting, of buffoonery and self-denial. This guignolo Jean Paul Belmondo would have been able to incarnate as he did in the bandit of honour Cartridge, went decades during a series of incarcerations and escapes, which could make it a matter of running gag in the films of the silent, where it is rather Buster Keaton who would have taken his features. Judge by yourself.

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He was born march 23, 1725 at Montagnac, in Languedoc, offspring of a daughter-mother of the moye…