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When he was young, Gaboriau read Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories in a French translation. This influenced the direction his own writing would take in later years. As a journalist, he worked the French courts and this inspired his creation of Monsieur Lecoq and the invention of the modern detective novel...
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Emile Gaboriau (Saujon 1832 Paris 1873) fut hussard en Afrique, chef d'ecurie et s'engagea dans la cavalerie avant de s installer a Paris. Il y devient le secretaire de Paul Feval qui lui fait decouvrir le journalisme. Il publie son premier roman, "L Affaire Lerouge", en 1866. Le succes est tel qu il est engage comme feuilletoniste au "Petit Journal". Emile Gaboriau est considere comme le pere du roman policier francais.Emile Gaboriau (Saujon 1832 Paris 1873) fut hussard en Afrique, chef d'ecurie et s'engagea dans la cavalerie avant de s installer a Paris. Il y devient le secretaire de Paul Feval qui lui fait decouvrir le journalisme. Il publie son premier roman, "L Affaire Lerouge", en 1866. Le succes est tel qu il est engage comme feuilletoniste au "Petit Journal". Emile Gaboriau est considere comme le pere du roman policier francais.Emile Gaboriau (Saujon 1832 Paris 1873) fut hussard en Afrique, chef d'ecurie et s'engagea dans la cavalerie avant de s installer a Paris. Il y devient le secretaire de Paul Feval qui lui fait decouvrir le journalisme. Il publie son premier roman, "L Affaire Lerouge", en 1866. Le succes est tel qu il est engage comme feuilletoniste au "Petit Journal". Emile Gaboriau est considere comme le pere du roman policier francais.Emile Gaboriau (Saujon 1832 Paris 1873) fut hussard en Afrique, chef d'ecurie et s'engagea dans la cavalerie avant de s installer a Paris. Il y devient le secretaire de Paul Feval qui lui fait decouvrir le journalisme. Il publie son premier roman, "L Affaire Lerouge", en 1866. Le succes est tel qu il est engage comme feuilletoniste au "Petit Journal". Emile Gaboriau est considere comme le pere du roman policier francais.
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- PublisherDover Publications
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0486225704
- ISBN 13 9780486225708
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