WRITER

Maurice Leblanc

1864 - 1941

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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; French: [ləblɑ̃]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Leblanc has received more than 845,166 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Leblanc is the 213th most popular writer (up from 228th in 2019), the 262nd most popular biography from France (up from 267th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Writer.

Maurice Leblanc is most famous for his detective stories about Arsène Lupin.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Leblanc ranks 213 out of 7,302. Before him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, Johanna Spyri, and Sigrid Undset. After him are Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, Quintilian, Pierre Corneille, and Tomas Tranströmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Maurice Leblanc ranks 5. Before him are Max Weber, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Strauss, and Wilhelm Wien. After him are Alois Alzheimer, Camille Claudel, Walther Nernst, Hermann Minkowski, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Among people deceased in 1941, Maurice Leblanc ranks 8. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Bergson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Alfonso XIII of Spain. After him are Maximilian Kolbe, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, Arthur Evans, Robert Delaunay, and James George Frazer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Leblanc ranks 262 out of 6,770. Before him are Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), Michel Platini (1955), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Pope Innocent V (1225), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Philip I of France (1052), Jules Massenet (1842), Henry I of France (1008), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Frédéric Passy (1822), and Charles Gounod (1818).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Leblanc ranks 41. Before him are Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Nicolas Flamel (1330), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), André Breton (1896), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842). After him are Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), and François Mauriac (1885).

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