Leblanc, Maurice |
| NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER (FRANCE) |
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BORN 11 Dec 1864, Rouen, Seine-Maritime - DIED 6 Nov 1941, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales CAUSE OF DEATH pneumonia GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Cimetière du Montparnasse, 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet (division 10, ligne 2 sud, numéro 1 est) |
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Maurice Leblanc was the son of the ship-owner Émile Leblanc and his wife Mathilde (born Brohy). His younger sister was the actress and soprano Georgette Leblanc. He was sent to Scotland by his father during the Franco-Prussian War. From 1775 to 1882 he was educated at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. He often met Gustave Flaubert and Guy the Maupassant as a teenager. Against the wishes of his father he moved to Paris in 1888 to become a writer. He married Marie-Ernestine Flannel (1865-1941) in 1889, but they divorced in 1895. In Paris he worked as a jornalist before he published his first novel "Une femme" in 1893. It was a success and further novels followed. In 1905 Pierre Lafitte, who directed the magazine "Je sais tout", asked him to write a short story in line with Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. He came up with "L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin" about a gentleman burglar. It was a great success and further short stories as well as novels about Arsène Lupin followed. He married Marguerite Wormser (1865-1950) in 1906. In 1908 he received the Legion of Honor. In 1918 he bought a house in Étretat, Seine-Maritime that he names Clos Lupin. He left it in 1939 shortly before the war with Germany and moved to Perpignan. There he died in 1941. Le Clos Arsène Lupin is now a museum. Related persons • met Maupassant, Guy de |
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 The grave of Maurice Leblanc at the Montparnasse cemetery, Paris. Picture by Androom (01 Nov 2018) |
 The grave of Maurice Leblanc at the Montparnasse cemetery, Paris. Picture by Androom (01 Nov 2018) |
Sources • Maurice Leblanc - Wikipédia (FR) |
