For example, Dupin explains how an eight-year old boy made a small fortune from his friends at a game called " Odds and Evens.

However, true detective fiction is more often considered in the English-speaking world to have begun in 1841 with the publication of " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " itself, featuring " the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupin ".

Dupin noticed that the paper was chafed as if the stiff paper was first rolled one way and then another.

This attempt failed, but Dupin submitted to circumstances, and, retaining the office of procureur-general, his first act was to decide that justice should henceforth be rendered to the " name of the French people.

Poe created the first fictional detective ( a word unknown at the time ) in the character of C. Auguste Dupin, as the central character of some of his short stories ( which he called " tales of ratiocination ").

Both are derived from Edgar Allan Poe stories, which is appropriate as Poe created detective fiction as well as the first private detective character, C. Auguste Dupin.

In 1699 Louis Ellies Dupin discussed the possibility "... that those two verses beginning with the same words, it was easier for the copiers to omit one by negligence, nothing being more usual than when the same word is in two periods that follow one another, for the copier to pass from the word of the first period to that which follows in the second.

Facsimile of Poe's original manuscript for " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", the first appearance of C. Auguste Dupin

Poe may have gotten the last name " Dupin " from a character in a series of stories first published Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1828 called " Unpublished passages in the Life of Vidocq, the French Minister of Police ".

" Detective fiction, however, had no real precedent and the word detective had not yet been coined when Poe first introduced Dupin.

C. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction.

In the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet ( 1887 ), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to Dupin, to which Holmes replies: " No doubt you think you are complimenting me ...

Dupin had considerable impact on the Agatha Christie character Hercule Poirot, first introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ).

Hatvary writes that Dupin resembles Poe, so much so that several people confuse the two on first sight.

Dupin makes a guest appearance in the first two issues of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I ( 1999 ) comic book, helping to track down and subdue the monstrous Mr Hyde ( who is living secretly in Paris after faking the death described in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ).

In Murder in the Madhouse ( 1935 ), the first of Jonathan Latimer's series of screwball crime novels starring detective William Crane, Crane presents himself in the sanitarium as C. Auguste Dupin.

Dupin makes an appearance, alongside Poe himself, in the novel Edgar Allan Poe on Mars ( 2007 ) by

* The Black Throne by Roger Zelazny & Fred Saberhagen – a novel about Poe which has an appearance by Dupin.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

Poe's early detective fiction tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature.

In Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues.

Nevertheless, the Legrand character is often compared to Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin due to his use of " ratiocination ".

Poe's second Dupin story, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, was filmed in 1942.

This view of Dupin serves as a counterpoint to Poe's concept of perversity, introduced in " The Imp of the Perverse ".

Dupin travels to America to investigate the circumstances of Poe's mysterious death in 1849.

Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others.

Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others.

Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his sidekick the unnamed narrator undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " and " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ".

In " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ," Dupin takes up the case for amusement and refuses a financial reward.

In 1932, Universal Pictures renamed him Pierre Dupin in Murders in the Rue Morgue, an atmospheric horror-mystery starring Bela Lugosi.

In " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", Dupin investigates the murder of a mother and daughter in Paris.

" In fact, in the three stories which star Dupin, Poe created three types of detective fiction which established a model for all future stories: the physical type (" The Murders in the Rue Morgue "), the mental (" The Mystery of Marie Rogêt "), and a balanced version of both (" The Purloined Letter ").

Alluding to an episode in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", where Dupin deduces what his friend is thinking despite their having walked together in silence for a quarter of an hour, Holmes remarks: " That trick of his breaking in on his friend's thoughts with an apropos remark ... is really very showy and superficial ".

A Pierre Dupin appears in Universal Pictures ' 1932 horror-mystery film Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by the story when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which established the modern detective fiction genre.

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Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

By her second marriage with Claude Dupin de Franceuil, Marie Aurore married in 1764 Antoine, comte d ' Horne ( 1735 – 1765 ), an illegitimate son of Louis XV of France by an unknown mother.

), Louis Dupin, A new history of ecclesiastical writers, ( 13 vols.

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin ( February 1, 1783 – November 8, 1865 ), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.

His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin ( 1784 – 1873 ), wrote several geometrical works, treating of descriptive geometry after the manner of Monge, and of the theory of curves.

* Walker, Dorothy, Louis le Brocquy ( Dublin: Ward River Press, 1981 ; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 ), with contributions by John Russell ; Dorothy Walker ; Earnán O ’ Malley ; le Brocquy ‘ A Painter ’ s Notes on his Irishness ’, ‘ Notes on Painting and Awareness ’; Jacques Dupin ‘ The Paintings of 1964-1966 ’; Claude Esteban ‘ Archaeology of the Face: Images of Lorca ’; Seamus Heaney ‘ Louis le Brocquy ’ s heads ’.

* July 1-George Sand ( Lucile Aurore Dupin ), French novelist and memoirist ( died 1876 )

Among his collaborators were Jean Henri Dupin ( 1787 – 1887 ), Germain Delavigne, Delestre-Poirson, Mélésville, Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, Xavier Saintine and Ernest Legouvé.

Writing of Mastronardi in 1986 in the newspaper El País ( Madrid ), Borges said of Mastronardi that " Like Auguste Dupin ... < nowiki > detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe < nowiki ></ nowiki > ... at night he went about the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only can be given by nighttime in a great city.

* Claude Dupin, ( 1686 – 1769 ), the financier and contracted tax-collector ( fermier-général ), at 10, Place Vendôme

Nattier's works have been engraved by Alphonse Leroy, Tardieu, Jean Audran ( 1667 – 1756 ), Dupin and many other noted craftsmen.

* Marie-Aurore de Saxe Dupin de Francueil ( 1748 – 1821 ), daughter of the Maréchal de Saxe, who bought the Nohant estate in 1793.

* Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand ( 1804 – 1876 ), granddaughter of the above, who spent most of her life at Nohant.

In 1884, Hodler met Augustine Dupin ( 1852 – 1909 ), who became his companion and model for the next several years.