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Characters in The Three Musketeers (6 P) Pages in category "Fictional French people in literature" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. [3]
They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
Louis Dega (sometimes written Louis Delga III) is the name of a character in Henri Charrière's novel Papillon.In the 1973 film this character was played by Dustin Hoffman and in the 2017 film the role was played by Rami Malek.
Joseph Rouletabille (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ʁultabij]) is a fictional character created by Gaston Leroux, a French writer and journalist.Rouletabille is an amateur sleuth featured in several novels and other works, often presented as a more capable thinker than the police.
Fantômas (French:) is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).. One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death.
Joseph Buquet is a fictional character in The Phantom of the Opera, the 1910 novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. He appears in many film and stage adaptations of the story. He is the chief stagehand for the theatre who claims to have seen the Opera Ghost. In the novel he is the one to first describe Erik, saying, "He is extraordinarily thin ...