In his
Dictionary of the detective story
(Fayard, 2005), Jean Tulard devotes two notices to Honoré de Balzac and his novel
Une ténébreuse d'affaires
(1841). Written with the utmost seriousness, they provide academic and academic support to all those who regard the author of
La Comédie humaine
as the father of the noir novel. In addition to
Une tenebreuse affair
, partly inspired by the kidnapping of Senator Clément de Ris under the Consulate, we think of
Maître Cornelius
,
L'Auberge rouge
,
La Grande Bretèche
and especially
Histoire des Treize
: fictions full of pitfalls, double characters, betrayals, unsolved cases and twists.
To this must be added the "Vautrin trilogy", made up of
Père Goriot
,
Lost Illusions
and
Splendors and Miseries of the Courtesans
.
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As Jean Tulard writes, Vautrin, the escaped convict who became chief of the police, announces the future geniuses of evil and the manipulators of the noir novel.
Perfect connoisseur of mystery fictions, Jean
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