Robert Hubert
Books
- Pudding Lane The Great Fire of London, Hour by Hour · Liszt Think
In the early hours of September 2, 1666, a spark in Thomas Farriner’s Pudding Lane bakehouse ignited a catastrophe that consumed medieval London.
- A Baker on Pudding Lane…did not settle the question. Alternative theories circulated immediately. Some blamed Catholic arsonists, a foreign plot, the Dutch enemy. Robert Hubert, the French watchmaker who falsely confessed to starting the fire at Farriner’s bakery, would be hanged at Tyburn on 27 October 1666, his b…
- The Duke's Wager at Pie Corner…uld unfold in the inquiries and recriminations of the months ahead, in the arguments about cause and responsibility that would culminate in Robert Hubert’s false confession and the parliamentary investigation. For now, the immediate task was survival and the first steps toward reconstruction.…
- The Smoldering City…or publish any false and scandalous reports. The denial acknowledged what it could not prevent. That same Friday, a French watchmaker named Robert Hubert, recently arrived in London and wandering the ruins, found himself detained by citizens who took his foreign speech and his presence in the…