Marcel Allain
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Raised in a comfortable French household, he pursued legal studies before turning to journalism, where he soon became the assistant of the established writer Pierre Souvestre. Their collaboration yielded the novel Le Rour in 1909 and, at the publisher Arthème Fayard’s request, launched the sensational Fantômas pulp series in early 1911, a venture that achieved immediate and lasting popularity.…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources