The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc
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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyles creation Sherlock Holmes.The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that were serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created at editorial request, its possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeaus Les 21 jours dun neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeaus comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.Leblancs house in Étretat, today the museum Le clos Arsène Lupin.By 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more respectable literary ambitions, Leblanc also appeared to have resented Lupins success. Several times he tried to create other characters, such as private eye Jim Barnett, but he eventually merged them with Lupin. He continued to pen Lupin tales well into the 1930s.Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians, and Le Formidable Evènement (1920), in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between England and France.Leblanc was awarded the Légion dHonneur for his services to literature and died in Perpignan in 1941. He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Georgette Leblanc was his sister.Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Ma
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