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Maurice Leblanc

1864 - 1941

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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Leblanc is the 341st most popular writer (down from 213th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from France (down from 262nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Writer.

Maurice Leblanc is most famous for his detective stories about Arsène Lupin.

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Among writers, Maurice Leblanc ranks 341 out of 7,302. Before him are Saadi Shirazi, Christine de Pizan, Mario Puzo, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ève Curie, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. After him are Arion, Archilochus, Mikhail Lermontov, J. D. Vance, Amos Oz, and Eyvind Johnson.

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Among people born in 1864, Maurice Leblanc ranks 9. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilhelm Wien, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Alois Alzheimer, and Walther Nernst. After him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, Alfred Hermann Fried, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, and Miguel de Unamuno. Among people deceased in 1941, Maurice Leblanc ranks 10. Before him are Henri Bergson, Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, and Emanuel Lasker. After him are Maximilian Kolbe, Paul Sabatier, Émile Bernard, Arthur Evans, James George Frazer, and Robert Delaunay.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Leblanc ranks 395 out of 6,770. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Ève Curie (1904), Marin Mersenne (1588), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Charles Messier (1730), and Jean Buridan (1295). After him are Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Raymond Kopa (1931), Odilon Redon (1840), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), and Gustave Moreau (1826).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Leblanc ranks 62. Before him are François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), and Ève Curie (1904). After him are Paul Valéry (1871), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Théophile Gautier (1811), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), and Auguste Escoffier (1847).

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