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Encyclopedia > Monsieur Lecoq

Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Emile Gaboriau, a 19th French century mystery writer, novelist, and journalist. Monsieur Lecoq is a fictional detective employed by the French Sûreté. The character is one of the pioneers of the genre and a major influence on Sherlock Holmes, laying the ground work for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 - September 28, 1873), a French mystery writer, novelist, and journalist, one of the pioneers of modern detective fiction. ... Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... Sûreté (French; translated as surety but transliterated as security) is a term used in French-speaking countries or regions in the organizational title of a civil police force. ... Vasily Livanov was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the Russian TV series. ...

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Inspiration

The inspiration was Monsieur Lecoq came from a certain Eugène François Vidocq, a real life criminal who had later turned a policeman and became the first director of Sûreté. Eugène François Vidocq (July 23, 1775 – May 11, 1857) was a French criminal who later became a first director of Sûreté Nationale and one of the founders of the modern criminal investigation. ... Sûreté (French; translated as surety but transliterated as security) is a term used in French-speaking countries or regions in the organizational title of a civil police force. ...


Books

Monsieur Lecoq appears in five novels and one short story written by Gaboriau and one by Fortune Du Boisgobey.


French works and their English translations:

1) L’Affaire Lerouge (1866) -The Lerouge Case


2) Le Crime d’Orcival (1867) -The Mystery of Orcival, Crime at Orcival


3) Le Dossier No. 113 (1867) -File No. 113, Dossier No. 113, The Blackmailers


4) Les Esclaves des Paris (1868) -The Slaves of Paris


5) Monsieur Lecoq (1869)


6) “Une Disparition” in Le Petite Vieux des Batingoles (1876) -“A Disappearance” in The Little Old Man of Batignoles


7) Le Vieillesse de Monsieur Lecoq (1878) (by Fortune Du Boisgobey) -The Old Age of Monsieur Lecoq


Other popular culture depictions

Films

  • Monsieur Lecoq (Fr., B&W, 1914)
    • Dir/Wri: Maurice Tourneur.
    • Cast: Maurice de Féraudy, Charles Kraus, Fernande Petit, Henry Roussel.
  • Monsieur Lecoq (US, B&W, 1915)
    • Dir/Wri: Maurice Tourneur.
    • Cast: William Morris (Lecoq), Alphonse Ethier, Florence La Badie, Reginald Barlow.
  • The Family Stain [L'Affaire Lerouge] (US, B&W, 1915)
    • Dir/Wri: Wil S. Davis.
    • Cast: Dixie Compton, Frank Evans, Carl Gerard, Stephen Grattan, Edith Hallor.

Television

  • L'Épingle du Jeu [Needle in a Haystack] (6 January 1962)
    • Episode No. 23 of "Les Cinq Dernières Minutes" [The Last Five Minutes]
    • Dir: Claude Loursais; Wri: André Maheux & Henri Grangé.
    • Regular Cast: Raymond Souplex (Insp. Bourrel), Jean Daurand (Ins. Dupuy).
  • Nina Gypsy [Le Dossier 113] (24 July 1971)
    • Dir: Claude-Jean Bonnardoit.
    • Cast: Catherine Rouvel (Nina), Henri Lambert (Lecoq), François Perrot, Jacques Faber.

External Links

  • THE MONSIEUR LECOQ CHRONOLOGY
  • The French Wold Newton Universe - Monsieur Lecoq

  Results from FactBites:
 
Émile Gaboriau (1198 words)
Lecoq has only to look at the snow-covered ground outside an inn to describe the man who passed by half an hour earlier - he is middle-aged, very tall, wears a shaggy overcoat and is married.
Lecoq's companion in solving crimes, Pére Tabaret, formerly a pawnbroker's clerk, was the central character in L'Affaire Lerouge.
Lecoq had the central role in Le crime d'Orcival (1867), in which the dead body of the charming Countess de Tremorel prompts a murder investigation, Le dossier no. 113 (1867), a story of a bank robbery and false identities, and Monsieur Lecoq.
(70 proof) - book reviews (1496 words)
The Inspector laughs at Lecoq's youthful initiative, but he needs someone to remain with the bodies until the coroner and magistrate can be summoned, so he grants his wish, providing Lecoq his first opportunity at being a real detective.
I mean, the stuff with Lecoq at the crime scene is sensational, but the subsequent investigation, as Lecoq and the authorities attempt to unravel the true identity of the shooter and the motives for his crime, can get rather tedious.
When Lecoq conveys the details of the case to Tabaret, the elder detective commends his prot‚g‚ on his enthusiasm and dogged determination, but quickly points out all the errors he made along the way.
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