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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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.

ECONOMIST: Lazare Ponticelli