This day in history: Émile Gaboriau was born on this day in 1832.

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This day in history: Émile Gaboriau was born on this day in 1832. Gaboriau was a pioneer in detective fiction with his famous sleuth, Monsieur Lecoq. In fact, France seems to be the birthplace of the Detective genre. Voltaire's story of Zadig had powers of marvelous deductions, and Edgar Allan Poe based his three detective stories in France with his detective Auguste Dupin. These french detectives laid the groundwork for Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes."

When Sherlock Holmes was big in England, Arsene Lupin was huge in France.

Adventures of Arsene Lupin (2004) eng subtitles

See also The 19th Century Detective Novel by H. L. Williams 1900
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-19th-century-detective-novel-by-h-l.html

The Germ of the Detective Novel by H. L. Williams 1900
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-germ-of-detective-novel-by-h-l.html

Forerunners of Sherlock Holmes 1906
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2016/01/forerunners-of-sherlock-holmes-1906.html

Online editions of his works
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gaboriau/emile/

Those who came before Sherlock Holmes (1906 Strand Magazine Article)
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2017/08/those-who-came-before-sherlock-holmes.html