82-Year-Old Novelist Faces French Trial Over Gold From a Shipwreck Sunk in 1746
Eleanor "Gay" Courter, 82, her husband Philip, 84, and three others will face a criminal court in Brest on 27 May 2027 over gold bars looted from the wreck of Le Prince de Conty, a French trading ship that sank off Brittany in 1746.
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