C. Auguste Dupin to an orangutan that had been on display at the Masonic Hall in Philadelphia in July 1839. In "The Mystery of Mary Rogêt", he used a true story that had become of national interest. C. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction. The character served as the prototype for many that were created later, including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie. Conan Doyle once wrote, "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin "Principia Juris Civilis", 5 vols. (1806); "Mémoires et plaidoyers de 1800 au 1ier janvier 1830", in 20 vols.; and "Mémoires ou souvenirs du barreau", in 4 vols. (1855–1857). His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin, was a mathematician. André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 17838 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly. Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre "département", in France. He was educated by his father, who was a lawyer of eminence, and at an early age