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André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
Edgar Allan Poe may
have turned to one or more real figures as inspirations when creating his
groundbreaking detective character, C. Auguste Dupin. Here is an image of
André Dupin (1783-1865), a well known French attorney and politician and one potential
candidate for the source of Poe's character's acumen and perspicacity.
(Portrait by Émile Lassalle)
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