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Stolen gold from 18th-century French shipwreck could lead to charges for U.S. novelist and her husband

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Eleonor "Gay" Courter and her 82-year-old husband accused of helping to sell bullion online for diver who stole it decades ago .

Le Prince de Conty , a French ship trading with Asia , sank off the coast of Brittany in 1746 .

The wreck was looted in 1975 after a gold ingot was discovered during a site survey.

Some of the ship's looted gold bars eventually found their way to an auction in San Francisco .

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