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Profile of Emile Gaboriau
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Emile Gaboriau |
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9th November 1835 |
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Saujon, France |
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Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), was a French writer, novelist, and journalist, and a pioneer of modern detective fiction.
He was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Martime.
He became a secretary to Paul Féval, and after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur detective. It also introduced a young policeman named Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman, François Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. The book was published in the Pays and at once made his reputation. The story was produced on the stage in 1872.
A long series of novels dealing with the annals of the police court followed, and proved very popular. Among them are:
- Le Crime d'Orcival - (1867)
- Monsieur Lecoq - (1869)
- La Vie infernale - (1870)
- Les Esclaves de Paris - (1869)
- L'Argent des autres - (1874)
Gaboriau gained a huge following, but when Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq's international fame declined.
Gaboriau died in Paris of pulmonary apoplexy on 1873-09-28.
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