Was written as the grandson of Arsène Lupin
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Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc 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.
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culture · French writer (1864–1941) · writer · novelist · journalist · also Maurice Leblanc, Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc, Leblanc
Born 11 November 1864 · Died 6 November 1941 · Q314993
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1947· 1 entry
Was reburied on 14 October of the same year at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, alongside his wife Marguerite and other members of his family (notably his step-brother René Renoult)
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-11-06.
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1939· 1 entry
And took refuge in Perpignan, where he died of pneumonia in 1941
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1919· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1919).
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1918· 1 entry
Maurice Leblanc bought a half-timbered Anglo-Norman house in Étretat (which he would name Clos Lupin), where he wrote 19 novels and 39 short stories
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1908· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1908).
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Presented by then Under-Secretary of State for Fine Arts, Étienne Dujardin-Beaumetz
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1905· 1 entry
Pierre Lafitte, the director of the monthly Je sais tout, commissioned a short story from Leblanc, that was to be in the vein of A
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1901· 1 entry
Published L'Enthousiasme, an autobiographical novel
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1893· 1 entry
Was very successful, and was followed by other works, such as Des couples (The Couples), Voici des ailes (Here are wings) and his only play, La pitié, released in 1902, which is a failure, causing him to give up the thea
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1882· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Pierre-Corneille (1875–1882).
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-11-11.
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