During the night of 27 and 28 April 1796, a mail coach was ambushed outside Paris (commune of Vert-Saint-Denis) by several men who stole a large sum of money (7 million livres).
Before his execution, however, Couriol claimed that Lesurques was innocent and was only arrested because he resembled André Dubosq, one of the actual attackers of the coach.
In an episode in the popular 1960's French comic "Le Tour de Gaule d'Asterix", set in 50 B.C.
France, Asterix and Obelix steal a postal service chariot to continue on their journey to Lugdunum, which was the Roman name for Lyon.
The Roman driver, tied up in the back, swears his revenge in a thought-bubble, declaring, "I promise you haven't heard the last of the affair of the courrier of Lugdunum!