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Maurice Leblanc, an Uncommon card
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 51,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Maurice Leblanc quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maurice Leblanc card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July ____.
Answer
1900s. The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. From the Maurice Leblanc article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Françoise Sagan. Françoise Sagan 66 · Maurice Leblanc 63 · Play 60 · Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark 56 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905.
- Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique, which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules, whose main character is a gentleman thief.
- By 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maurice Leblanc article was read about 51,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Maurice Leblanc
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Maurice Leblanc (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henri Manuel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
