The people included in Hampstead Parish Churchyard's audio guide, buried over the past 250 years, include a chimney sweep and a body-snatching victim.

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He made his way, at the age of nine, to France to join his two brothers, and worked in Paris as a chimney sweep and paper boy.

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It might explain his fixation with reproductions of the animals endlessly mooning over the creatures he loves but can never touch, like a Victorian chimney sweep looking in through the window of the fancy restaurant.

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He arranged the "purchase" of Eliza Armstrong, the 13-year-old daughter of a chimney sweep, whom he then smuggled away to France in order to prove how easy it might have been to carry off a real abduction.

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Some of his childhood, peacetime memories were perhaps as rare as his wartime ones: catching thrushes by hand in the rocky fields, hand-stitching his own shoes, setting up a chimney-sweep business in Nogent-sur-Marne.

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