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Maurice Leblanc was a French writer best known for creating Arsène Lupin, a clever gentleman thief who became one of the most popular fictional characters in early 20th-century literature. His works helped establish the detective and adventure fiction genres in France and influenced crime fiction worldwide.
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- human
- Given name
- Émile
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Rouen
- Place of death
- Perpignan
- Sibling
- Georgette Leblanc
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Lycée Pierre-Corneille
- Political party
- Radical-Socialist and Radical Republican Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Genre
- psychological novel
- Image
- Leblanc - Arsène Lupin, nouvelles aventures d'après les romans, 1909 (page 5 crop2).jpg
- Residence
- Étretat
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- Maurice Leblanc
- date of birth
- 1864-12-11
- date of death
- 1941-11-06
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- Svensk uppslagsbok
- birth name
- Marie Émile Maurice Leblanc
- Commons gallery
- Maurice Leblanc
- name in native language
- Maurice Leblanc
- start of work period
- 1890-00-00
- ethnic group
- French
- Commons Creator page
- Maurice Leblanc
- topic's main category
- Category:Maurice Leblanc
- writing language
- French
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (/ləˈblɑːn/; French: [ləblɑ̃]; 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 Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.
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