Arsène Lupin -- La Demoiselle aux Yeux Verts

Name: Arsène Lupin -- La Demoiselle aux Yeux Verts
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Author: Maurice Leblanc
ISBN: 9788726828689

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Dans les années trente, Raoul de Limesy, alias Arsène Lupin, file, dans les boulevards parisiens, un aristocrate qui lui même file une jolie jeune femme. Mais alors que tous trois arrivent dans une pâtisserie, l'aristocrate s'en prend à une autre: une belle demoiselle aux yeux verts. Qui est-elle? Et pourquoi l'aristocrate lui en veut-il? Arsène Lupin est bien décidé à résoudre le mystère qui plane autour de cette jeune femme... Mais l'amour aveugle-t-il notre gentleman-cambrioleur?
Paru en feuilleton en 1926, «La Demoiselle aux Yeux Verts» mélange intrigue policière et histoire amoureuse en un roman pleins de rebondissements.

Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) est l'auteur de nombreux romans policiers, mais il est surtout le père du fameux Arsène Lupin. Né d'une famille de négociant, il fuit en Ecosse durant la guerre franco-allemande, puis revient étudier à Rouen. Déjà, il fréquente Gustave Flaubert et Guy de Maupassant. Il refuse de faire le travail imposé par son père dans une fabrique de cadres, et s'oriente vers le métier d'écrivain. Avec ses romans-feuilletons («Une femme», en 1893) il attise la curiosité de quelques auteurs célèbres, dont Alphonse Daudet. Mais c'est lorsqu'il publie en 1905 «L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin», sur le modèle de Sherlock Holmes, qu'il connaît un succè

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; French: ; 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. 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 Lupin's 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 d'Honneur for his services to literature, and died in Perpignan in 1941. He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Georgette Leblanc was his sister.