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Arsène Lupin is a fictional character who appears in a book series
Book series

A book series is a sequence of books with certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....
 of detective fiction
Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective , either professional or amateur, investigate a crime, usually murder. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime fiction....
 / crime fiction
Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their Motive s. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred....
 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
s written by French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 writer Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc

Maurice-Marie-?mile Leblanc was a France novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars?ne Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes....
, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television, stage play and comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
 adaptations.

Overview
A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 in the English-speaking world.

There are twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself, plus five authorized sequels written by the notorious mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac
Boileau-Narcejac

Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac wrote. They were France writers of police stories, some of which became films by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock....
, as well as various pastiche
Pastiche

The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. The word has two competing meanings, meaning either a "wikt:hodgepodge" or an imitation....
s.

The character of Lupin was first introduced in a series of short stories
Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to one of the following.*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , a collection by Liam O'Flaherty*Short Stories *Short Stories , a 1954 collection by O....
 serialized in the magazine Je Sais Tout, starting in No.






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Arsène Lupin is a fictional character who appears in a book series
Book series

A book series is a sequence of books with certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....
 of detective fiction
Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective , either professional or amateur, investigate a crime, usually murder. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime fiction....
 / crime fiction
Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their Motive s. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred....
 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
s written by French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 writer Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc

Maurice-Marie-?mile Leblanc was a France novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars?ne Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes....
, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television, stage play and comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
 adaptations.

Overview


A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 in the English-speaking world.

There are twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself, plus five authorized sequels written by the notorious mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac
Boileau-Narcejac

Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac wrote. They were France writers of police stories, some of which became films by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock....
, as well as various pastiche
Pastiche

The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. The word has two competing meanings, meaning either a "wikt:hodgepodge" or an imitation....
s.

The character of Lupin was first introduced in a series of short stories
Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to one of the following.*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , a collection by Liam O'Flaherty*Short Stories *Short Stories , a 1954 collection by O....
 serialized in the magazine Je Sais Tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. His was initially called Arsène Lopin after a local politician, who protested.

Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail

Pierre Alexis, Viscount of Ponson du Terrail was a France writer. He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy-three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of Rocambole ....
's Rocambole
Rocambole (character)

Rocambole is the creation of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, a 19th century France writer. Rocambole is a fictional adventurer. His importance to the genres of adventure novels and crime fiction cannot be overestimated, as he represents the transition from the old-fashioned Gothic novel to modern heroic fiction....
. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats, always with his characteristic gallic style and panache, are worse villains than he. Lupin is somewhat similar to A.J. Raffles and anticipates characters such as The Saint
Simon Templar

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint, featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963....
.

The character of Arsène Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
 Marius Jacob
Marius Jacob

Alexandre Jacob , known as Marius Jacob, was a French anarchism illegalism. A clever burglar equipped with a sharp sense of humour, capable of great generosity towards his victims, he became one of the models for Maurice Leblanc character Arsene Lupin....
, whose trial made headlines in March 1905, but Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde....
's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.

Bibliography


  1. Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (1907 coll. 9 stories) Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur
  2. Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes (1908 coll. 2 stories) Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès
  3. The Hollow Needle (1909) L'Aiguille creuse
  4. 813 (1910) 813
  5. The Crystal Stopper (1912) Le Bouchon de cristal
  6. The Confessions of Arsene Lupin (1913 coll. 9 stories) Les Confidences d'Arsène Lupin
  7. The Shell Shard (1916) L'Éclat d'obus
  8. The Golden Triangle (1918) Le Triangle d'or
  9. The Island Of Thirty Coffins (1919) L’Île aux trente cercueils
  10. The Teeth Of The Tiger (1921) Les Dents du tigre
  11. The Eight Strokes Of The Clock (1923 coll. 8 stories) Les Huit Coups de l'horloge
  12. The Countess Of Cagliostro (1924) La Comtesse de Cagliostro
  13. The Damsel With Green Eyes (1927) La Demoiselle aux yeux verts
  14. The Barnett & Co. Agency (1928) L'Agence Barnett et Cie.
  15. The Mysterious Mansion (1929) La Demeure mystérieuse
  16. The Mystery of The Green Rubi (1931) La Barre-y-va
  17. The Woman With Two Smiles (1933) La Femme aux deux sourires
  18. Paris-Soir (1933) Victor de la Brigade mondaine
  19. The Revenge Of The Countess Of Cagliostro (1935) La Cagliostro se venge
  20. The Billions Of Arsene Lupin (1939) Les Milliards d'Arsène Lupin
  21. The Last Love of Arsene Lupin (unpublished) Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin
  • Dorothée, Danseuse de Corde (1923) is not an Arsène Lupin novel, but its eponymous heroine solves one of Lupin's four fabulous secrets.


By other writers


  • by Boileau-Narcejac
    Boileau-Narcejac

    Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac wrote. They were France writers of police stories, some of which became films by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock....
    :
    1. Le Secret d’Eunerville (1973)
    2. La Poudrière (1974)
    3. Le Second visage d’Arsène Lupin (1975)
    4. La Justice d’Arsène Lupin (1977)
    5. Le Serment d’Arsène Lupin (1979)


Notable pastiches


  • The Adventure of the Clothes-Line by Carolyn Wells
    Carolyn Wells

    Carolyn Wells was an American author and poet She had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton....
     in The Century (1915)
  • The Silver Hair Crime by Nick Carter
    Nick Carter

    Nick Carter may refer to:...
     in New Magnet Library No. 1282 (1930)
  • Aristide Dupin who appears in Union Jack Nos. 1481, 1483, 1489, 1493 and 1498 (1932) in the Sexton Blake
    Sexton Blake

    Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who appeared in many British comic strips and novels throughout the 20th century, described by Professor Jeffrey Richards on the BBC in 'The Radio Detectives' in 2003 as "the poor man's Sherlock Holmes"....
     collection by Gwyn Evans
    Gwyn Evans

    Gwyn Evans is a former international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions. He played club rugby for Maesteg RFC....
  • La Clé est sous le paillasson by Marcel Aymé
    Marcel Aymé

    Marcel Aym? was a France novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright....
     (1934)
  • Gaspard Zemba who appears in The Shadow
    The Shadow

    The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of Character vigilante The Shadow....
     Magazine     (December 1, 1935) by Walter Gibson
    Walter Gibson

    Walter Gibson may refer to:*Walter B. Gibson , American author and magician*Walter M. Gibson , English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii...
  • Arsène Lupin vs. Colonel Linnaus by Anthony Boucher
    Anthony Boucher

    Anthony Boucher was an United States science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short story. He was particularly influential as an editor....
     in Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen

    File:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpgEllery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write detective fiction....
    ’s Mystery Magazine     Vo. 5, No. 19 (1944)
  • L’Affaire Oliveira by Thomas Narcejac in Confidences dans ma nuit (1946)
  • Le Gentleman en Noir by Claude Ferny (c. 1950) (two novels)
  • International Investigators, Inc. by Edward G. Ashton in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (1952)
  • Le Secret des rois de France ou La Véritable identité d’Arsène Lupin by Valère Catogan (1955)
  • In Compartment 813 by Arthur Porges
    Arthur Porges

    Arthur Porges [p?rd?Is], was an United States author of numerous short stories, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death....
     in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (June 1966)
  • Arsène Lupin, gentleman de la nuit by Jean-Claude Lamy (1983)
  • Auguste Lupa in Son of Holmes (1986) and Rasputin’s Revenge (1987) by John Lescroart
    John Lescroart

    John Lescroart is an United States author best known for two series of legal and crime thrillers featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky....
  • Various stories in Tales of the Shadowmen
    Tales of the Shadowmen

    Tales of the Shadowmen is an annual anthology of short stories edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, published by . As of 2008, four volumes have been released, with a fifth one slated for 2009....
    , Vol. 1, The Modern Babylon    , ed. by Jean-Marc Lofficier
    Jean-Marc Lofficier

    Jean-Marc Lofficier is a France author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays....
     (2005) (ISBN 1932983268)
  • Various stories in Tales of the Shadowmen, Vol. 2, Gentlemen of the Night, ed. by Jean-Marc Lofficier (2006) (ISBN 1932983600)


  • Arsène Lupin is also referred to as the grandfather of Lupin III
    Arsène Lupin III

    is a fictional character introduced by Monkey Punch in Weekly Manga Action on August 10, 1967. According to its creator, Lupin is the grandson of Maurice Leblanc's Ars?ne Lupin....
     in the Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    ese manga
    Manga

    , , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
     and anime
    Anime

    is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
     series of the same name
    Lupin III

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the pen name of "Monkey Punch". The story follows the adventures of a gang of thieves led by Ars?ne Lupin III, the grandson of Ars?ne Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's series of novels....
    .


  • Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes have been the basis for a popular Japanese manga series, Detective Conan. Lupin resembles Kaitou Kid, while Sherlock Holmes represents Conan Edogawa.


  • In the Adventure of The Doraemons
    The Doraemons

    is a manga series, a spin-off of long-running series Doraemon. It is published by Shogakukan and authored by ....
    , the robot cat The Mysterious Thief Dorapent resembles Lupin.


  • A funny animal pastiche of Arsène Lupin is Arpine Lusène
    Arpine Lusène

    Arpin Lus?ne is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck Universe created by Keno Don Rosa.Nicknamed Le Chevalier Noir , he is a France gentleman, and a notorious thief with, naturally, a cheesy French language Accent which other characters have hard time understanding at times, which often leads to clever word play, and which he,...
    , of the Scrooge McDuck Universe
    Scrooge McDuck universe

    The Scrooge McDuck universe is the fictional world where Scrooge McDuck lives. It originally was a subset of the Donald Duck universe, but due to Scrooge McDuck becoming the central figure of their Universe, it is now Donald Duck universe that is considered a subset of the Scrooge McDuck universe....
    .
  • Prípad Grendwal (A Grendwal Case), a play by Pavel Dostál
    Pavel Dostál

    Pavel Dost?l was a Political minister of Culture in the Czech Republic, known for his dynamic personality and his advocacy of social justice....
    , Czech playwright and Minister of Culture


Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes


Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 were bound to meet and, in an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Leblanc introduced Holmes in the short story Sherlock Holmes arrives too late in Je Sais Tout No. 17, 15 June 1906. In it, Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. After legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to "Herlock Sholmes" when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1.

Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, Arsène Lupin contre Sherlock Holmes, and then in a guest-starring role in the prodigious battle for the secret of the Hollow Needle in L'Aiguille creuse.

Sherlock Holmes, this time with his real name and accompanied with familiar characters such as Watson and Lestrade, also confronted Arsène Lupin in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" (European name: "Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsène Lupin"). In this game you play the role of Holmes (and occasionally of other characters such as Watson and Lestrade) in an effort to discover and stop Lupin from stealing five English valuable items. Lupin wants to steal the items in order to "humilliate" England, but he also admires Holmes and thus challenges him to try and stop him.

He is mentioned once in 813.

Fantasy elements


Several Arsène Lupin novels contain some interesting fantasy elements: a radioactive 'god-stone' that cures people and causes mutation
Mutation

In biology, mutations are changes to the nucleotide sequence of the genetic material of an organism. Mutations can be caused by copying errors in the genetic material during cell division, by exposure to ultraviolet or ionizing radiation, chemical mutagens, or virus , or can be induced by the organism, itself, by cellular processes such as s...
s is the object of an epic battle in L’Île aux trente cercueils; the secret of the Fountain of Youth
Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is often said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent associated with the state....
, a mineral water source hidden beneath a lake in the Auvergne, is the goal sought by the protagonists in La Demoiselle aux yeux verts; finally, in La Comtesse de Cagliostro, Lupin’s arch-enemy and lover is none other than Joséphine Balsamo
Josephine Balsamo

Jos?phine Balsamo a.k.a. Countess Cagliosto, is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of Ars?ne Lupin, the notorious gentleman burglar created by Maurice Leblanc....
, the alleged granddaughter of Cagliostro himself.

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