Raffles ; Professor Challenger ; Richard Hannay ; Bulldog Drummond ; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith ; G-8 ; The Shadow ; Sam Spade ; Doc Savage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair ; The Spider ; Nero Wolfe ; Mr. Moto ; The Avenger ; Philip Marlowe ; James Bond ; Lew Archer ; Travis McGee ; Monsieur Lecoq ; and Arsène Lupin.

French author Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq ( 1868 ) laid the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective.

He dramatized Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq, and alone or in collaboration wrote several comedies and many monologues.

* Monsieur de Bismarck ( Herr von Bismarck, 1868 ; English translation, 1869 )

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois ( 1827 ), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot ( 1831 ), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists.

File: David-Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife. jpg | Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife ( 1788 ), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

* 1975 et 1981: 13, rue de l ' amour ( Monsieur Chasse ), by Georges Feydeau, director Basil Langton, US and Australie

A low seventh string was supposedly added in France to the bass viol by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe ( c. 1640 – 1690 ), whose students included the French gamba virtuoso and composer Marin Marais.

In France, the presiding judge of a court are addressed as Monsieur le président / Madame la présidente ), whilst associated judges are addressed as Madame, Monsieur l ' Assesseur.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

But the rank of petit-fils de France being higher than that of premier prince, Philippe did not change his style ; nor did his son or other heirs make use of the Monsieur le Prince style which had been so long associated with the cadet branch of the Princes de Condé that the heads of the House of Orléans preferred to be known at court by their ducal title.

* Peaches for Monsieur le Curé ( May 2012 ) ( US title: Peaches For Father Francis, October 2012 )

Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.

However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d ' Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III ( 1668 – 1710 ) declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc.

In 1932 it was awarded the title The Capital of Swiss Normandy by the Tourism Minister Monsieur Gourdeau.

Under the Ancien Régime, the court title of Monsieur referred to the next living brother of the King of France.

Charles Philippe, who led the ultras during the Bourbon Restoration and became King Charles X in 1824, was the last royal sibling to officially hold the title of Monsieur.

Meilhac and Halévy will be found at their best in light sketches of Parisian life, Les Sonnettes, Madame attend Monsieur, Toto chez Tata and Le Roi Candaule ( the title of the last is derived from the Classical Greek account of the semi-legendary King Candaules ).

Despite succeeding as head of the House of Condé in 1709, he never used that name, preferring the title " Duke of Bourbon ", and was known at court as Monsieur le Duc.

Source of the title of a 2003 documentary, Monsieur about Parizeau.

The title was pawned by Henry IV to the duke of Wūrttemberg, and subsequently it passed to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, by grant of Louis XIII ; to Elizabeth of Orléans, duchess of Guise ; to Charles, duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV ( 1710 ); and to Monsieur ( later Louis XVIII ), brother of Louis XVI.

Despite his commercial success in such parts as the title roles in Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire and Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard, Waller greatly preferred acting in Shakespeare, in which his roles ranged from Romeo to Othello.

He was particularly identified with the title roles in the stage versions of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire and Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard.

At first she meekly accepted Lane's strictures about what would be published by them but by the time of Poirot Investigates Christie insisted that their suggested title of The Grey Cells of Monsieur Poirot was not to her liking and that the book was to be included in the tally of six books within her contract-the Bodley Head opposed this because the stories had already been printed in The Sketch.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi ( Hebrew title: Ha-Kochavim Shel Shlomi הכוכבים של שלומי-Shlomi's Stars ) is a 2003 film written and directed by Shemi Zarhin.

* Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo ' Allo!

* February 25 – Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.

Atkinson cited the earlier comedy character Monsieur Hulot, created by French comedian and director Jacques Tati, as an influence on the character.

With the exception of his first and last films, Tati played the gauche and socially inept lead character, Monsieur Hulot.

De Funès accepts the character of Jérôme Chambon at the entrance of the cabaret and invites him to enter inside by " C ' est par ici Monsieur " (" This way please, Sir ").

Beaucaire ( the name of the character played by Bob Hope in the film Monsieur Beaucaire ), Safra appeared in minor roles in three movies and financed eight Woody Allen films through a production company, Sweetland Films, run with girlfriend Jean Doumanian, who was a dear friend to Allen.

The film centers on the socially awkward yet lovable character of Monsieur Hulot and his quixotic struggle with postwar France's infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and American-style consumerism.

However, Tabanac's mayor, Monsieur Fabre, retired glass artist and engraver, despite suffering from silicosis, continuously opposed the project in order to preserve the Château's character.

It introduced the pipe-smoking, well-meaning but clumsy character of Monsieur Hulot, who appears in Tati's subsequent films, including Mon Oncle ( 1959 ), Playtime ( 1967 ), and Trafic ( 1971 ).

" Monsieur Guise had the figure, the air and the manners of a hero in a novel, and his entire life bore the mark this character.

Monsieur Hulot is a character created and played by French comic Jacques Tati for a series of films in the 1950s and ' 60s, namely Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( 1953 ), Mon Oncle ( 1959 ), Play Time ( 1967 ) and Trafic ( 1971 ).

The name of " Monsieur Hulot " is believed to echo " Charlot ," the French name for Charlie Chaplin ’ s character The Tramp.

Monsieur Roger LeClerc was a fictional character from the British sitcom series ' Allo ' Allo !, played by Jack Haig.

LeClerc's character was already scheduled for Season 6, so in his place came his brother Monsieur Ernest LeClerc.

* Most episodes in Series 3 feature the recurring character " Monsieur Aubergine ", a mime artist who is part Mr Bean and part Marcel Marceau.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, praised the episode for containing " a memorable guest character in the French waiter Monsieur Lacosse, two great slapstick sequences involving the same, and displays Principal Skinner — pursuing Bart across the mountains like ' a non-giving-up school guy ', and confessing that in some ways he's " a small man ; a petty, small man " — in particularly fine form.