Paul Robert, born OTD in 1910, is best known for his large "Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/detectives/?s=mb #travel #France #writing
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreLes Flics — Detectives in French Fiction and LifeThe French people are avid readers of American detective fiction. But the concept of a private investigator originated in France. Then Poe wrote of the French investigator Auguste Dupin, and detective literature was born.