You cannot arrest an Arsène Lupin!

You cannot arrest an Arsène Lupin!

A tribute to Maurice Leblanc’s ‘gentleman thief’, an anarchistic cultural icon ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ On July 15, 1905, the first story featuring the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin was published in the French popular science magazine Je sais tout. Written by French author Maurice Leblanc and inspired by the famous Strand Magazine and its Sherlock Holmes stories, “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin” introduced a new French pulp hero. As a tribute to this in…